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Courts and courtiers

Back to school

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Versailles on the Potomac

by Lewis H. Lapham,

A solution

by Harper’s Staff,

Losing a king

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

The empress of Austria

by Harper’s Staff,

Athelwold

by Amélie Rives,

Social life in Russia (first paper)

by Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé,

Elizabeth’s gracious clemency

by John Kendrick Bangs,

The czar’s book

by Harper’s Staff,

Pauline Pavlovna

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich,