January 1902

Articles

• Recent Progress in Astronomy

  In 1902, three years before Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity would reshape the notions of time and space, astronomer T.J.J. See reported on binary stars, Doppler shifts, and the "luminiferous ether."

  T. J. J. See

• On Reading the Atlantic Cheerfully

  B. P.

• Divination by Statistics

  Winthrop More Daniels

• The Curl

  Ethel Wheeler

• The Causes of Pennsylvania's Ills

• Inheritance

  Grace Ellery Channing

• Mr. Hewlett's Canterbury Tales

  Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

• Nature and Human Nature

  H. W. Boynton

• Lying by Implication

• The Letters of J. R. Green

• Too Much Parent

• The Short-Comings of Breadth

• The Outgoing of the Tide

  John Buchan

• What Is the Real Emancipation of Woman?

  William M. Salter

• A Toast to Our Native Land

  Robert Bridges

• Some Southey Letters

  Harold Spencer Scott

• Recollections of the Twentieth Century

  John Bates Clark

• Audrey

  Mary Johnston

• England in 1901

  R. Brimley Johnson

• The Passage

  George Cabot Lodge

• New Powers of the National Committee

  Rollo Ogden

• The Purification of Cornbury

  Rowland E. Robinson

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