September 1886

Articles

• The Law's Partiality to Married Women

  “Gradually have the statutes transferred from the husband to the wife the control, the responsibility, and the ownership of her separate property, breaking up the former unity of property between them, and recognizing in the wife a distinct legal existence and capacity.”

  Francis Gaylord Cook

• The Golden Justice

  William Henry Bishop

• The Shell and the World

  Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

• French and English: Second Paper

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

• Mademoiselle Joan

  Rebecca Harding Davis

• Confessions of a Bird's-Nest Hunter

  Bradford Torrey

• Edwin Percy Whipple

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• The Princess Casamassima

  Henry James

• The Links of Chance

  Andrew Hedbrooke

• The Paper Money Craze of 1786 and the Shays Rebellion

  John Fiske

• In the Clouds

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• The Saloon in Politics

  George Frederic Parsons

• Schuyler's American Diplomacy

• Grant's Memoirs: Second Volume

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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