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May 1897

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820-838	Article 'Cross-country riding By Caspar Whitney SEE ALSO: Country clubs; East (U.S.); Foxhounds; Hunt riding; Hunters (Horses); 1865-1918 PDF IMAGES
838	Poem “Where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt” By Rosamund Marriott Watson SEE ALSO: Memory; Mother and child PDF IMAGES
839-860	Fiction The Martian (part VIII) By George Du Maurier SEE ALSO: Extraterrestrial influences; Human-alien encounters; Martians; Paris (France) PDF IMAGES
860	Poem Benedicite By Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett SEE ALSO: Blessing and cursing PDF IMAGES
861-880	Article A few native orchids and their insect sponsors By W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson SEE ALSO: Evolution; Fertilization of plants by insects; Nature study; Orchids PDF IMAGES
880-896	Article White man's Africa. Part VII.—The white man's black man By Poultney Bigelow SEE ALSO: Blacks; Folklore; Liquor laws; South Africa PDF IMAGES
896-907	Article Two undescribed portraits of Shakspere By John Corbin SEE ALSO: Expertising; 16th century; Portraits; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
907-920	Article Geological progress of the century By Henry Smith Williams SEE ALSO: Sedgwick, Adam; Collection and preservation; Fossils; Geologists; Geology, Stratigraphic; Scrope, George Poulett; Historical geology; Dana, James Dwight; Knowledge—Geology; Knowledge—Stratigraphic geology; Agassiz, Louis; Paleontology; Portraits; Lyell, Charles, Sir; Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir; Smith, William PDF IMAGES
920-926	Fiction The captured dream By Octave Thanet SEE ALSO: Artists' models; Farmers' spouses; Iowa; Love in old age PDF IMAGES
926-933	Article English country-house life By George W. (George Washburn) Smalley SEE ALSO: Entertaining; Tipping PDF IMAGES
934-940	Fiction The education of Bob By Rebecca Harding Davis SEE ALSO: Brothers; Gas wells PDF IMAGES
941-956	Fiction A guardian angel By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford SEE ALSO: African American women; Sexual harassment of women PDF IMAGES
956-962	Article The hundred years' campaign By Francis Newton Thorpe SEE ALSO: Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798; Political parties; State rights; Jefferson, Thomas; Views on state rights PDF IMAGES
963	Poem Compensation By Katharine L. Ferris SEE ALSO: Compensation (Psychology); Life PDF IMAGES Fiction The lion-tamer By Henry Gallup Paine SEE ALSO: Animal trainers; Romanticism PDF IMAGES
968-970	Editor's study/Drama — (I) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Comedy; Influenza; Tonics (Medicinal preparations) PDF IMAGES
970-971	Editor's study/Article — (II) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Newspaper reading; Objectivity PDF IMAGES
971-972	Editor's study/Article — (III) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Spring PDF IMAGES
972	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
973-976	Editor's drawer/Fiction The upset at Johnnycake Hill By James Buckham SEE ALSO: Sleighing PDF IMAGES
976	Editor's drawer/Fiction He knew his own value By John W. Gebhart SEE ALSO: Abolitionists; Cab and omnibus service; Emancipation; New Orleans; Slaves PDF IMAGES
977	Editor's drawer/Poem The contemporary suitor By Edward Sandford Martin PDF IMAGES
978	Editor's drawer/Fiction A supposititious joke SEE ALSO: Joking PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke His honesty By Robert D. Lucas SEE ALSO: Honesty; Janitors PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Fiction A musical expedient SEE ALSO: Music box; Smuggling; Wagers PDF IMAGES
979	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Among confidantes PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem The music cure By John Kendrick Bangs SEE ALSO: Music; Physiological effect PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Explained SEE ALSO: Discipline of children PDF IMAGES
980	Editor's drawer/Cartoon The development of an American aristocrat—four generations SEE ALSO: Immigrants PDF IMAGES
981-982	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship “Fram” 1893-96 (Book); Nansen, Fridtjof; Journeys—Arctic regions PDF IMAGES
982	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); Twain, Mark; Reprints (Publications); The American claimant, and other stories and sketches (Book); Tom Sawyer abroad, Tom Sawyer, detective, and other stories, etc. (Book) PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Clark, Frederick Thickstun; Mentally ill women; Ranch life; The mistress of the ranch; a novel (Book) PDF IMAGES
983	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Wood, Katherine Bontecou; Quotations for occasions (Book) PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: English fiction; The well-beloved (Book); Hardy, Thomas; Wessex PDF IMAGES
984	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Easter; Easter bells; poems (Book); Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: American essays; Book and heart (Book); Literature; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth PDF IMAGES

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