September 1861

Articles

• Tom Brown at Oxford

  A review

• The Advantages of Defeat

  "Our defeat at Bull Run was in no true sense a disaster; we not only deserved it, but needed it. It should give us new confidence in our cause, in our strength, in our final success." Soon after the start of the Civil War, Charles Eliot Norton urged the Union Army to toughen its resolve.

  Charles Eliot Norton

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

  A book review

• Bread and the Newspaper

  In the early months of the Civil War, Holmes captured the anxious mood on the home front

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Shakespeare Mystery

• The Bath

• Saccharissa Mellasys

• My Odd Adventure With Junius Brutus Booth

• My Out-Door Study

• A Sermon in a Stone

• Agnes of Sorrento

• The Aquarium

• The Young Repealer

• Under the Cloud and Through the Sea

• Journal of a Privateersman

• Ode to Happiness

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Edwin of Deira

• History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph

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