February 1891

Articles

• An Object Lesson in Civil Service Reform

  “We have been able to show clearly to the country at large that people can and do get appointments in the departmental service entirely without regard to politics.”

  Theodore Roosevelt

• Some Unpublished Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb

  William Carew Hazlitt

• Two Philosophers of the Paradoxical: Second Paper: Schopenhauer

  Josiah Royce

• The Ride to the Lady

  Helen Gray Cone

• Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan

  Percival Lowell

• The New England Meeting-House

  Alice Morse Earle

• The House of Martha

  Frank R. Stockton

• The Next Stage in the Development of Public Parks

  Alpheus Hyatt

• Hesternæ Rosæ

  Graham R. Tomson

• John Rutledge

  Frank Gaylord Cook

• Felicia

  Fanny N. D. Murfree

• A Long-Unpaid Debt

  William Everett

• Richard Henry Dana

• Sir Walter Scott by His Own Hand

• Comment on New Books

• A Custom-House Comédienne

• An Apology for the Fallow Field

• Longevity and Fame

• The Oldest English Lyric

• Is the Taste for Nature Acquired?

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