January 1901

Articles

• The Reconstruction of the Southern States

  “The civil war had given leave to one set of revolutionary forces; Reconstruction gave leave to another still more formidable. The effects of the first were temporary ... the effects of the second were permanent, and struck to the very centre of our forms of government.”

  Woodrow Wilson

• In the Last Days of the Confederacy

  Sara Matthews Handy

• The Esmeralda Herders

  Elia W. Peattie

• Rowland Robinson

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• The Child in the Library

  Edith Lanigan

• Sky-Children

  Jefferson Fletcher

• The Final Quest

  Alice Brown

• Mrs. Ward's Later Novels

• Tommy and Grizel

• The Haworth Brontë

• Stockton's Novels and Stories

• Two Lives of Cromwell

  Rollo Ogden

• Cant in Criticism

• A Back Number

• Sine Qua Non

• Dilemma of the Modern Poet

• The Time-Spirit of the Twentieth Century

  Elizabeth Bisland

• The Empress Dowager

  R. Van Bergen

• Penelope's Irish Experiences

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

• The Growth of Public Expenditures

  Charles A. Conant

• A Letter From England

  R. Brimley Johnson

• A Gap in Education

  H. D. Sedgwick Jr.

• The Difficult Minute

  R. E. Young

• A Glimpse of Pittsburg

  William Lucien Scaife

• The Brute

  William Vaughn Moody

• The Tory Lover

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Contents

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