September 1883

Articles

• Our Nominating Machines

  “What chance has an honorable man … against men whose business is to ‘fix’ primaries and ‘pack’ conventions by stuffing ballot boxes and ejecting duly elected delegates?”

  George Walton Greene

• A Roman Singer

  F. Marion Crawford

• En Province

  Henry James

• King's Chapel

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Poets and Birds: A Criticism

  Harriet C. W. Stanton

• Newport

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Glints in Auld Reekie

  H. H.

• Chrysalides

  A. F.

• Annexed by the Tsar

  William O. Stoddard

• Along an Inland Beach

  Edith M. Thomas

• Mérimée in His Letters

  Maria Louise Henry

• Character in Feathers

  Bradford Torrey

• Lily of Strath-Farrar

  Thomas William Parsons

• The Civil War in America

• Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi

• The Spanish Peninsula in Travel

• Two Journalists

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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