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Plowing the Field

From How to Grow Old, by Marcus Tullius Cicero. The work was written in 44 b.c. and was published in a new edition this month by Princeton University Press. Translated…

He and she (the sickness unto death)

Art by R.B. Kitaj,

Reports

by William Dean Howells,

Where youth survives

Longevity

by Tony Jones,

Ah, to be young while old . . .

The splendid old

by Gabriel Fielding,

The peppermint years

by Sarah Comstock,

On being young

by Frances Taylor Patterson,

Commencement, longevity, the great Fourth

by Edward Sandford Martin,

Youth and old age

by L.S. P.,

Editor’s easy chair

by William Dean Howells,

To an old apple-tree

by Harper’s Staff,