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Old age

Plowing the Field

By Philip Freeman,

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,

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August 1890

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Old age

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Plowing the Field

He and she (the sickness unto death)

Reports

Longevity

The splendid old

The peppermint years

On being young

Commencement, longevity, the great Fourth

Youth and old age

Editor’s easy chair

To an old apple-tree

August 1890