April 1862

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Articles
Letter to a Young Contributor
American Civilization
As the Civil War ground on, Ralph Waldo Emerson argued vehemently for a federal emancipation of the slaves. Above all else, he asserted, "morality is the object of government."
John Lamar
Mountain Pictures: Ii. Monadnock From Wachuset
Individuality
The German Burns
The Forester
Methods of Study in Natural History
The Strasburg Clock
Arthur Hugh Clough
What Shall We Do With Them?
Agnes of Sorrento
Exodus
Then and Now in the Old Dominion
Compensation
A Message of Jeff Davis in Secret Session
The Sisters, Inisfail, and Other Poems
A Book About Doctors
John Brent
Foreign Literature
