August 1882

Articles

• Across Africa

  “No sooner does one land in Africa than he passes into a sphere of tranquillity, and enjoys a state of rest and calm to which all parts of Europe are strangers. The haste and flurry of life fall off, like an irksome garment shed on a hot day; time is of no more account; and worry is impossible amidst a population which moves with dignified slowness, and defers all unnecessary exertion till to-morrow.”

  Charles Dudley Warner

• The Atlantic Monthly Supplement: The Birthday Garden Party to Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Two on a Tower

  Thomas Hardy

• At the Summit

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Some Account of Thomas Tucker

  Rose Terry Cooke

• The Weather-Vane

  Edith M. Thomas

• Studies in the South

• New Faiths

  S. W. Weitzel

• Doctor Zay

  E. Stuart Phelps

• A Study in Sociology

  M. A. Hardaker

• The Gods Said Love Is Blind

  H. H.

• The House of a Merchant Prince

  William Henry Bishop

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  W. T. Harris

• London Pictures and London Plays

• Harte's Sketches and Stories

• Von Holst's Calhoun

• A Note on Flaubert

• Bancroft's History of the Constitution

• Mr. Wheeler's Handbooks

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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