Essays reprintd from the Atlantic monthly Dogs and men, by H.C. Merwin.--Jungle night, by W. Beebe.--The devil baby at Hull-house, by Jane Addams.--Every man's natural desire to be somebody else, by S.M. Crothers.--The temple's difficult door, by R.M. Gay.--Exile and postman, by Jean K. Mackenzie.--The life of adventure, by E.J. Goodspeed.--An indictment of intercollegiate athletics, by W.T. Foster.--Car-window botany, by Lida F. Baldwin.--Studies in solitude, by Fannie S. Gifford.--The Greek genius, by J.J. Chapman.--In praise of old ladies, by Lucy M. Donnelly.--A memory of old gentlemen, by Sharlot M. Hall,-Viole's lovers, by R.B. Kimball.--Haunted lives, by Laura S. Porter.--The Acropolis and Golgotha, by Anne C.E. Allinson.--The baptizing of the baby, by Elizabeth Taylor.--Biographical notes