Harper's Magazine: August 1897

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August 1897

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326-336	Article A sergeant of the orphan troop By Frederic Remington SEE ALSO: Johnson, Carter; Frontier and pioneer life; Military leadership; Nebraska; Non-commissioned officers PDF IMAGES
336	Poem The heroine By Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster SEE ALSO: Heroines in literature PDF IMAGES
337-355	Article The inauguration By Richard Harding Davis SEE ALSO: Inauguration; Inauguration Day; 1897-1901; McKinley, William PDF IMAGES
355-356	Fiction A fable for maidens By Alice Duer Miller SEE ALSO: Devil; Fantastic fiction PDF IMAGES
357	Poem In midsummer By Charles H. (Charles Henry) Crandall SEE ALSO: Delusions; Summer; Time PDF IMAGES Fiction The Kentuckians (part second) By John Fox SEE ALSO: Mountain whites (Southern States); Unrequited love; Vendetta PDF IMAGES
374	Poem Not peace, but strife By Hildegarde Hawthorne SEE ALSO: Work PDF IMAGES Fiction In the rip By Bliss Perry SEE ALSO: Adjoining landowners; Kennebec County; Legal stories; Long Island Sound; Obstinacy; Sea stories; Tides; Trials (Trespass) PDF IMAGES
380-398	Fiction The great stone of Sardis (chaps. X-XIV) By Frank Richard Stockton SEE ALSO: American; Arctic regions; Diamonds; Earth; Internal structure; Origin; Physical scientists; Submarines (Ships) PDF IMAGES
398-413	Article The Hungarian Millennium By Francis Hopkinson Smith SEE ALSO: Budapest (Hungary) PDF IMAGES
414-421	Fiction The cobbler in the Devil's Kitchen By Mary Hartwell Catherwood SEE ALSO: Indian women; Interracial marriage; Mackinac Island; Shoemakers; Western stories PDF IMAGES
421-432	Article White man's Africa. Part X.—British and Boer government By Poultney Bigelow SEE ALSO: Africa; Afrikaners; Colonies; English-Afrikaner relations; Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896; 1880-1910; South Africa; Transvaal (South Africa); War of 1880-1881 PDF IMAGES
432-439	Fiction The marrying of Esther By Mary M. (Mary Martha) Mears SEE ALSO: Weddings PDF IMAGES
439-447	Article The century's progress in physics. Part II.—The ether and ponderable matter By Henry Smith Williams SEE ALSO: Electromagnetic waves; Ether (Space); Physicists; Physics PDF IMAGES
447-457	Fiction Sharon's choice By Owen Wister SEE ALSO: Competitions; Literature; Orphans; Western stories PDF IMAGES
458-465	Article A state in arms against a caterpillar By Fletcher Osgood SEE ALSO: Control; Diseases and pests; Insect pests; Trees PDF IMAGES
466-469	Fiction A fashionable hero By Mary Berri Chapman SEE ALSO: Dandies PDF IMAGES
470-472	Editor's study/Article — (I) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Beef; Electrification; Quality; Spring PDF IMAGES
472-474	Editor's study/Review — (II) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Antiquities; Egyptian influences; Dubois, Félix; Mali; Timbuctoo the mysterious (Book); Western influences PDF IMAGES
475-483	Editor's drawer/Drama A prearranged accident. Comedy By Albert Lee SEE ALSO: Comedy; Cycling accidents; Journalists; Long Island; Women's colleges PDF IMAGES
483	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Inferior articles SEE ALSO: Shoes PDF IMAGES
484	Editor's drawer/Poem A golf problem. Is it proper to putt with a billiard cue? By Carlyle Smith SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; Golf PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Medical amenities SEE ALSO: Supply and demand; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Fiction He kept the mutton By William S[elden] Gidley SEE ALSO: Destruction and pillage; Military life; Pillage; War stories PDF IMAGES
485	Editor's drawer/Cartoon On the veranda SEE ALSO: Marriage proposals; Sports for women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke What he made SEE ALSO: Swedish Americans PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke A parson's story SEE ALSO: Bible; Circuit riders PDF IMAGES
486	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Merely a suggestion SEE ALSO: Horsemen and horsewomen; Marriage proposals; Sisters PDF IMAGES
487-488	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Death and burial; English fiction; Du Maurier, George; Novelists, English; Supernatural; The Martian; a novel (Book) PDF IMAGES
488	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Eye spy: afield with nature among flowers and animate things (Book); Naturalists; Nature study; Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: “Bobbo,” and other fancies (Book); Death and burial; Weguelin, J.R. (John Reinhard); Short stories, American; Wharton, Thomas Isaac; Smedley, W.T. (William Thomas) PDF IMAGES
489	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin; Georgia scenes (Book) PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; American essays; Appreciation; Criticism and interpretation; Burke, Edmund; Washington, George; Mere literature, and other essays (Book); Statesmen; Wilson, Woodrow PDF IMAGES
490	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Warner, Charles Dudley; Friends and associates; 16th century; The people for whom Shakespeare wrote (Book); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES