1889-09 North American Review Contents for September 1889

1889/09 – Contents as taken from the front cover and contents page inside are as follows:

The Elixir of Life by Dr. William A. Hammond

Common-Sense and Civil-Service Reform by General John Pope

An English View of the Civil War — Part 4 by Viscount Wolseley

The Coming Congress by Henry Cabot Lodge, M.C.

Why I Am an Episcopalian by Canon Farrar

The Value of International Exhibitions by Senator Joseph R. Hawley

Capital Punishment by Electricity by Elbridge T. Gerry – 5 pages total

The Transformation of Paris by Frederic Harrison

Are Public Libraries Public Blessings? by James M. Hubbard

The Real Rights of Women by Rose Terry Cooke

Nurseries of Crime by Inspector Byrnes

Can the Mosquito Be Exterminated? by Dr. Henry C. McCook

Minsters’ Wives by Marion Harland

Notes and Comments:

Friends in South America by William Eleroy Curtis

What Makes the Actor? by Julian Magnus

If? by William Mathews, LL.D.

The Slayer of John Wilkes Booth by R.B. Hoover – just about a single full page of text, though smaller print than the main part of the issue

An Emergency that Demands a Word by Kingdon Meredith