April 1884

Articles

• Presidential Nominations

  “The people are passive spectators of the intrigues and cabals of the [political] convention.”

  Oliver T. Morton

• The Red Sunsets

  “When this volcanic dust ceases to glorify our skies at dawn and eve, we shall part with what has probably been the most remarkable and picturesque accident to the earth's physical life that has been known with the limits of recorded history.”

  N. S. Shaler

• Drifting Down Lost Creek

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Haroun Al Raschid

  Helen Gray Cone

• A Roman Singer

  F. Marion Crawford

• In War Time

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• Night in New York

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Madame De Longueville: An Outline Portrait

  Maria Louise Henry

• The Return of a Native

  Edith M. Thomas

• En Province

  Henry James

• Phillida and Coridon

  Bradford Torrey

• Annina

  Charles Dunning

• The Champs Elysées: From a Sick-Room

• General Beauregard

• Julian's Political Recollections

• Recent Travel

• The Latest of "The Virgilians"

• The Contributors' Club

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