July 1862

Articles

• Chiefly About War Matters

  The author of The Scarlett Letter traveled from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., to interview civil and military leaders during the Civil War.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Poet to His Readers

  A poem

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Lyrics of the Street (Part II)

  A poem

  Julia Ward Howe

• Fantine, by Victor Hugo

  "Few who take the book up will leave it until they have read it through."

  E. P. Whipple

• Some Soldier-Poetry

  John Weiss

• Taxation No Burden

  Edward Atkinson

• The Children's Cities

• Les Misérables, Fantine/the Same

• Christ the Spirit

• The Pearl of Orr's Island

• Froude's Henry the Eighth

  Charles Creighton Hazewell

• Why Their Creeds Differed

• Presence

  S. M. Davis

• The Minute-Guns

• Originality

  D. A. Wesson

• Ericsson and His Inventions

  Epes Sargent

• Moving

  Gail Hamilton

• Methods of Study in Natural History

  Louis Agassiz

• Friend Eli's Daughter

  Bayard Taylor

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