December 1890

Articles

• The United States Looking Outward

  “Our self-imposed isolation in the matter of markets ... [has] coincided singularly with an actual remoteness of this continent from the life of the rest of the world.”

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

• The New Departure in Parisian Art

  “The first annual exhibition of the Société Nationale [des Beaux Arts] was opened upon the 15th of May, 1890. Everything about it was new and original.”

  Birge Harrison

• But One Talent

  A poem

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The House of Martha

  Frank R. Stockton

• On the Translation of Faust

  William P. Andrews

• Non Sine Dolore

  R. W. Gilder

• The Wife of Mr. Secretary Pepys

  Margaret Christine Whiting

• Song

  Thomas William Parsons

• Felicia

  Fanny N. D. Murfree

• Sir Walter Raleigh of Youghal in the County of Cork

  Louise Imogen Guiney

• The Encounter

  Helen Gray Cone

• From King's Mountain to Yorktown

  John Fiske

• Heimweh

  Sophia Kirk

• Pan the Fallen

  William Wilfred Campbell

• Carriage Horses and Cobs

  Henry Childs Merwin

• Cardinal Newman

• Ancient Athens for Modern Readers

• Two Books of Verse

• Mr. Woodberry's Criticism

• Thou Spell Avaunt!

• Iambic Prose and Cons

• On First Looking Into Chapman's Dante

• Would Goethe Have Accepted Taylor?

• Ibsen, a Hard Nut to Crack

• Books of the Month

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