September 1865

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Articles

• Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865

  James Russell Lowell

• Our Future Militia System

  “The solution of the problem suggests itself, in part at least, almost as soon as the problem itself is stated. Train the schoolboys.”

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Coupon Bonds: Part I

  John Trowbridge

• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  D.A. Wasson

• Twilight

  Celia Thaxter

• Needle and Garden: The Story of a Seamstress Who Laid Down Her Needle and Became a Strawberry-Girl

• Scientific Farming

  Gail Hamilton

• Doctor Johns

  Donald G. Mitchell

• Natural History of the Peacock

• Up the St. John's River

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• A New Art Critic

  Eugene Benson

• The Luck of Abel Steadman

• At Bay Ridge, Long Island

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• "Running at the Heads": Being an Authentic Account of the Capture of Jefferson Davis

• The Chimney-Corner: Ix. Little Foxes.--Part Vii

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• A Visit to the Edgeworths

  John Farrar

• On a Pair of Old Shoes

  Charles J. Sprague

• What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands

• Life and Times of Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Social Statics; Or the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed

• Reason in Religion

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