March 1866

Articles

• The Freedman’s Story (Continued)

  An escaped slave tells his story—including his account of his violent showdown with slave-catchers in Pennsylvania

  William Parker

• Passages From Hawthorne’s Note-Books (Part III)

  Personal musings from the renowned American author

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• An Old Man's Idyl

  Richard Realf

• A Ramble Through the Market

  B. W. Ball

• Nantucket

• The Snow-Walkers

  John Burroughs

• To Hersa

• An Amazonian Picnic

• Doctor Johns

  Donald G. Mitchell

• Communication With the Pacific

  Charles Carleton Coffin

• In the Sea

  Hiram Rich

• The Chimney-Corner for 1866: Iii. Is Woman a Worker?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Poor Chloe: A True Story of Massachusetts in the Olden Time

  Lydia Maria Child

• Snow

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Griffith Gaunt; Or, Jealousy

  Charles Reade

• Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

• Lives of Boulton and Watt

• Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived in

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