April 1862

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Articles

• Letter to a Young Contributor

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• 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."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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

  H. Biglow

• The Sisters, Inisfail, and Other Poems

• A Book About Doctors

• John Brent

• Foreign Literature

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