October 1899

Articles

• The Flaw in Our Democracy

  “It is not in elections that the quality and character of our government are determined. That is done in party nominations.”

  J. N. Larned

• Recent Changes in Secondary Education

  Charles W. Eliot

• The United States and Rome

  H. D. Sedgwick Jr.

• Quatrain

  Albert Phelps

• Language as Interpreter of Life

  Benjamin Ide Wheeler

• To Have and to Hold

  Mary Johnston

• The Novels of George Meredith

  Paul Elmer More

• Letting in the Light

  Jacob A. Riis

• His Letter

  Martha Gilbert Dickinson

• Through Old-Rose Glasses

  Mary Tracy Earle

• The Road to England

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• An Old Virginia Correspondence

  E. J. A., Eliza Jaquelin Ambler Carrington, E. J. A. B., and M. S.

• The Louisiana Expansion in Its World Aspect

  Charles M. Harvey

• The Apotheosis of P'tit Jean

  Helen Choate Prince

• The Autobiography of Mrs. Oliphant

  Harriet Waters Preston

• A Century of Indian Epigrams

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