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The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, Mass.) The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 86 No. 518 (December 1900)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09887.05 Author/Creator: The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, Mass.) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Magazine Date: December 1900 Pagination: 106 p. : 146 p. : , 13 p. : , Height: 25 cm, Width: 16 cm Order a Copy

One issue of the Atlantic Monthly dated December 1900. The Atlantic monthly is a literary journal that publishes assorted writings on a wide range of topics and authors. The articles included in this issue are; "Verses" by James Russell Lowell, "The Story of a New England Town" by John Fiske, "War as a Moral Medicine" by Goldwin Smith, "The Tory Lover" by Sarah Orne Jewett, "The Dominance of the Crowd" by Gerald Stanley Lee, "The Bird of Passage: An Ode to Instrumental Music" by Owen Wister, "Washington: The City of Leisure" by A. Maurice Low, "The Mist" by John B. Tabb, "Penelope's Irish Experiences" by Kate Douglas Wiggin, "An Alpine Christmas Play" by E. Martinengo-Cesaresco, "The Watcher by the Threshold" by John Buchan, "Sunrise" by Stuart Sterne, "Art in Language" by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, "A Little Christ at Swanson's" by Florence Wilkinson, "The Maintenance of a Poet' by F. B. Sanborn, "The Day of the Child" by Ellen Boyd Findlay, "New Ideals in Musical Education" by Waldo S. Pratt, " A little Change" by Eliza Orne White, "You Leave No Room To Mourn" by Hildegarde Hawthorne, "The Best Isthmian Canal" by Henry L Abbot, "William Henry Seward" by Walter Allen, "The Letters of Thomas Edward Brown," and "The Contributers' Club." There is also an index of the Atlantic for Volume 86 for the year of 1900. Also advertisements at both the beginning and end of the periodical.

Abbot, Henry Larcom, 1831-1927
Allen, Walter, fl. 1900
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Douglas Wiggin, Kate, 1856-1923
Findlay, Ellen Boyd, fl. 1900
Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Hawthorne, Hildegarde, 1871-1952
Ide Wheeler, Benjamin, 1854-1927
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Low, A. Maurice, 1860-1929
Lowell, James Russell, fl. 1900
Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, 1852-1931
Orne White, Eliza, 1856-1947
Pratt, Waldo S., 1857-1939
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917
Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910
Stanley Lee, Gerald, 1862-1944
Sterne, Stuart, fl. 1900
Tabb, John B. (John Banister), 1845-1909
Wilkinson, Florence, fl. 1900
Wister, Owen, 1860-1939

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