December 1896 Issue [Article] Oliver Wendell Holmes Download PDF Adjust Share by William Dean Howells, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 19th century American authors Biography Boston Boston (Mass.) Intellectual life Massachusetts Oliver Wendell Holmes More from William Dean Howells The Good Citizen “I have just had a gratifying illustration of the conscientious perfection of the American people in enacting and enforcing a law when they are agreed that it is really for… Eighty years and after Reports Where youth survives Adjust Share