December 1862

Articles

• My Hunt After the Captain

  Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War-torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Cumberland

  Longfellow's poetic tribute to a once mighty, now obsolete ship—done in by Confederate "ironclads"

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• About Warwick

  “Along the smooth gleam and shadow of the quiet stream, through a vista of willows that droop on either side into the water, we behold the gray magnificence of Warwick Castle, uplifting itself among stately trees, and rearing its turrets high above their loftiest branches.”

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Lyrics of the Street (Part III)

  A poem

  Julia Ward Howe

• The Procession of the Flowers

• One of My Clients

• The Fossil Man

• Life in the Open Air

• A Woman

• Mr. Axtell: Part V

• Waiting

• Eyes and Ears

• History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France From A. D. 1807 to A. D. 1814

• The Patience of Hope

• Jenkins's Vest-Pocket Lexicon

• A Practical Guide to the Study of the Diseases of the Eye: Their Medical and Surgical Treatment

• Country Living and Country Thinking

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