July 1863

Articles

• Reviews and Literary Notices

  An assessment of Charles Lyell's The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on the Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation

• Our General

  In defense of Union General Benjamin Butler

  Alfred F. Puffer

• Outside Glimpses of English Poverty

  “How difficult to believe that anything so precious as a germ of immortal growth can have been buried under this dirt-heap, plunged into this cesspool of misery and vice!”

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Wraith of Odin

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Doings of the Sunbeam

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Claims to Service or Labor

  Robert Dale Owen

• Substance and Shadow: Or, Morality and Religion in Their Relation to Life

  Henry James

• The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation

  Charles Lyell

• Spurgeon's Sermons

  Charles H. Spurgeon

• A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

  Emory Washburn

• The Astronomy of the Bible

  Ormsby M. Mitchel

• Gala-Days: Ii

  Gail Hamilton

• The Fleur-De-Lis at Port Royal

  F. Parkman

• Her Epitaph

  Thomas William Parsons

• Paul Blecker: Part Iii

• By the River

  John Trowbridge

• The Growth of Continents

  Louis Agassiz

• The Musician

  L. Hale

• English Naval Power and English Colonies

  G. Reynolds

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