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Literature, Science, Art, and Politics 
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August, 1892 
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Ariel. In Memory of Percy'Bysshe 'Shelley. 
Edmund Clarence Stedman . . . . -145 
A New England Boyhood. L, II. Edward 
Everett Hale .■.148 
Townsend Harris, First American Min- . ■ 
ISTER IN Japan. William Elliot Griffis . . i6l 
A Florentine Episode. In Two Parts. 
Part Second. EJlen Olney kirk .... 173 
'he Passing of the Birds. Bradford 
Torrey . 190 
Don Orsino. XVI.-XVIII. F. Marion Craw¬ 
ford .' 9 ’ 
The Benediction. . 
Quatrains of August. I. August. 11. 
Corn. III. Dormant Bulbs. Charles 
Washington Coleman . 
The Persians of .Eschylos. William 
Cranston Lawton . 
The Revival of Art. W. J. Stillman . . 
The Prometheus Unbound of Shelley. II. 
Vida D.'Scudder . 
Furness’s The Tempest. 
Matilde Serao’s II Paese di Cuccagna . 
CoM^iENT ON New Books. 
The Contributors’ Ci.ub. 
The Passing of the Butterflies. — Snails and Car- 
* nations.—At a New Zealand Dredging-Station.— 
A Correction, — Anger — “ with a Difference.” 
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