September 1896

Articles

• The Awakening of the Negro

  “It is through the dairy farm, the truck garden, the trades, and commercial life, largely, that the negro is to find his way to the enjoyment of all his rights.”

  Booker T. Washington

• Out of the Street: Japanese Folk-Songs

  Lafcadio Hearn

• The Problem of the West

  “It has been, and is, preëminently a region of ideals, mistaken or not.”

  Frederick J. Turner

• The Election of the President

  “Were the fathers right in their belief that the people were not fit to be entrusted with this high duty?”

  John B. McMaster

• Marm Lisa

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

• The Story of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  “To be sure, she was on fire with a moral purpose, but she had the dramatic instinct, and she felt that her object would not be reached by writing an abolition tract.”

  Charles Dudley Warner

• On the Threshold

  Arthur S. Hardy

• The Spirit of an Illinois Town: In Three Parts. Part Two

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood

• The Country of the Pointed Firs

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• A Day's Drive in Three States

  Bradford Torrey

• The Old Things

  Henry James

• Girls in a Factory Valley

  Lillie B. Chace Wyman

• Niagara

  John B. Tabb

• Athénaïse: A Story of a Temperament: In Two Parts. Part Two

  Kate Chopin

• Teaching the Spirit of Literature

  W. P. Trent

• Some Yorkshire Good Cheer

  Eugenia Skelding

• Comment on New Books

• In Defense of the Traveler's Note-Book

• Dante and St. Louis

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