November 1907

Articles

• Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship

  The magazine was already established in its traditions when I came to it, and when I left it fifteen years later it seemed to me that if I had done any good it was little more than to fix it more firmly in them.

  William Dean Howells

• The Launching of the Magazine

  Charles Eliot Norton

• Politics (1857-1907)

  “The process by which a nation was created and unified came at last to an end, and a still more fateful process began which was to determine its place and example in the general history of the world.”

  Woodrow Wilson

• Literature (1857-1907)

  “The time will come when all men will wonder, not that Americans attached so much importance to their national development at this period, but that they appreciated it so little.”

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Science (1857-1907)

  “Modern life to-day is on a different plane from that of fifty years ago by reason of applied science alone. Whether this has added to the joy of living, and to the general happiness of mankind, is another question.”

  Henry S. Pritchett

• Verses

  James Russell Lowell

• An Early Contributor's Recollections

  John Townsend Trowbridge

• Art (1857-1907)

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

• Atlantic Dinners and Diners

  Arthur Gilman

• The Editor Who Was Never the Editor

  Bliss Perry

• Unbound Old Atlantics

  Lida F. Baldwin

• The Writer and the University

  Walter H. Page

• Rose Macleod

  Alice Brown

• A Letter From Dr. Holmes

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Ticknor and Fields and the Old South Clock

• The Atlantic's Pleasant Days in Tremont Street

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