May 1895

Articles

• Mars (Part I)

  The first in a four-part series about the planet’s physical conditions—and its possible habitation.

  Percival Lowell

• Christmas Shopping at Assuan

  “Rows and rows of beads, amber and glass, were strung around our necks, as the least troublesome method of carrying them. Swords and spears were brandished in triumph, and absurd little drums of black clay were beaten joyously with narrow strips of leather.”

  Agnes Repplier

• The Seats of the Mighty: Being the Memoirs of Captain Robert Stobo, Sometime an Officer in the Virginia Regiment, and Afterwards of Amherst's Regiment

  Gilbert Parker

• Isolation

  Josephine Preston Peabody

• A Week on Walden's Ridge

  Bradford Torrey

• A Faithful Failure

  Eliza Orne White

• The Political Depravity of the Fathers

  John Bach Mcmaster

• Dr. Rush and General Washington

  Paul Leicester Ford

• A Singular Life

  E. Stuart Phelps

• New Figures in Literature and Art: Ii. Richard Harding Davis

• Tramps With an Enthusiast

  Olive Thorne Miller

• A Talk Over Autographs: Second Paper

  George Birkbeck Hill

• A Standard Theatre

  T. R. Sullivan

• Some Notes on the Art of John La Farge

  Cecilia Waern

• Leconte De Lisle

  Paul T. Lafleur

• The American College

• Comment on New Books

• The Modernity Hospital

• A Negro Witch Story

• Boz and Don

• A Descendant of Clovis

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