August 1885

Articles

• Should a College Educate?

  “The calculus, or the Antigone, might never be of any ‘use’ to the man, in the superficial sense of the word, yet they might have been the very meat and drink of his intellectual growth.”

  E. R. Sill

• To the Poets Who Only Listen

  A poem

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The New Portfolio

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Port Royal of Mère Angélique

  Maria Ellery Mackaye

• A Country Gentleman

  M. O. W. Oliphant

• A Nocturn

  Edith M. Thomas

• On Horseback

  Charles Dudley Warner

• Hermione

  Andrew Hedbrook

• A Stranger in the City

  P. Deming

• An Interlude: An "Imaginary Conversation," Supposed to Be Found Among the Unpublished Papers of Walter Savage Landor

  A. S.

• Miss Ingelow and Mrs. Walford

  Harriet Waters Preston

• The Constant Friend

  Kathleen Wright

• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• The Story of San Tszon

  Wong Chin Foo

• Two Anniversary After-Dinner Poems

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Ormsby's Don Quixote

• Stepniak and Russia

• Marius the Epicurean

• Literary London

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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