June 1885

Articles

• Our Political Delusion

  “The election of a President, in truth, determines little more than whether one or the other of the principal candidates shall control the appointments to office.”

  James Laurence Laughlin

• The New Portfolio

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Mrs. Oliphant

  Harriet Waters Preston

• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Within and Without

  Celia Thaxter

• Dime Museums: From a Naturalist's Point of View

  J. G. Wood

• Modern Vandalism

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• A Marsh Island

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Dawn and Dusk

  Frank Dempster Sherman

• Six Months at Astrakhan

  Edmund Noble

• A Country Gentleman

  M. O. W. Oliphant

• Contrast

  R. K. Munkittrick

• The Quoddy Hermit

  Kate Gannett Wells

• The Forests and the Census

  F. Parkman

• The Ring

  John B. Tabb

• The Religious Aspect of Philosophy

• The Huguenot Emigration to America

• Four Novels

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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