November 1863

Articles

• The Brothers

  Set in a wartime hospital, and narrated by a Civil War nurse, Louisa May Alcott's 1863 short story is a tale of siblings—one black, one white.

  Louisa May Alcott

• Something Left Undone

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Weariness

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Night and Moonlight

  “I shall be a benefactor, if I conquer some realms from the night, — if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that season worthy of their attention, if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep, — if I add to the domains of poetry.”

  Henry David Thoreau

• The Spaniard and the Heretic

  F. Parkman

• Mrs. Lewis: Story in Three Parts. Part Iii

  C. A. Hopkinson

• The Formation of Glaciers

  Louis Agassiz

• Two Scenes From the Life of Blondel

  James Russell Lowell

• Andante: Beethoven's Sixth Symphony

  A. West

• The Sam Adams Regiments in the Town of Boston.--Concluded

  Richard Frothingham

• Wet-Weather Work: Iv

  Donald G. Mitchell

• The French Struggle for Naval and Colonial Power

  G. Reynolds

• The Great Instrument

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The King's Wine

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Monograph From an Old Note-Book; With a Postscript: "Eripuit Cœlo Fulmen, Sceptrumque Tyrannis"

  Charles Sumner

• History of Spanish Literature

  George Ticknor

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