October 1863

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Articles

• Barbara Frietchie

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Voluntaries

  Emerson pays poetic tribute to the Union's military volunteers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Life Without Principle

  “The poet … must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planning-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.”

  Henry David Thoreau

• Charles Lamb's Uncollected Writings: Second Paper

  J. E. Babson

• My Palace

  A. West

• The Deacon's Holocaust

  J. P. Quincy

• The United States Armory

  G. B. Prescott

• The Pewee

  John Trowbridge

• Mrs. Lewis: A Story in Three Parts. Part Ii

  C. A. Hopkinson

• The Conquest of Cuba

  Charles Creighton Hazewell

• Equinoctial

  Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney

• The Legend of Monte Del Diablo

  Bret Harte

• A Letter to Thomas Carlyle

  D.A. Wasson

• Our Domestic Relations; Or, How to Treat the Rebel States

  Charles Sumner

• The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus

  George Long

• Levana; Or, the Doctrine of Education

  Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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