January 1863

Articles

• A Reply

  The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin urges the women of England to action against slavery

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Recollections of a Gifted Woman

  “I believe that I can form a more sensible and vivid idea of Shakspeare as a flesh-and-blood individual now that I have stood on the kitchen-hearth and in the birth-chamber.”

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Lyrics of the Street (Part IV)

  A poem

  Julia Ward Howe

• Happiest Days

  Gail Hamilton

• The Promise of the Dawn: A Christmas Story

• The Soldiers' Rally

  E. J. Cutler

• Overtures From Richmond: A New Lilliburlero

  Francis James Child

• Titan: A Romance

• The Works of Rufus Choate, With a Memoir of His Life

  Samuel Gilman Brown

• The Story of the Guard, a Chronicle of the War

  Jessie Benton Fremont

• Seven Little People and Their Friends

• In the Half-Way House

  James Russell Lowell

• Mr. Buckle as a Thinker

  D.A. Wasson

• Mr. Axtell: Part Vi

• My Friend the Watch

  George William Curtis

• Benjamin Banneker, the Negro Astronomer

  M.D. Conway

• The Sleeping Sentinel

• Iron-Clad Ships and Heavy Ordnance

  Alexander L. Holley

• Andrew Rykman's Prayer

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Strathsays

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott

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