July 1866

In This Issue
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Articles
The Death of Slavery
A year after the close of the Civil War, William Cullen Bryant, longtime editor of the New York Evening Post and the first American poet to attain international prominence, hailed the demise of slavery's "cruel reign."
The Case of George Dedlow
The bizarre Civil War-era short story by a physician, which many readers erroneously mistook for fact
On Translating the Divina Commedia (Part II)
A poem
Passages From Hawthorne’s Note-Books (Part VII)
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Indian Medicine
The Great Doctor: A Story in Two Parts: Part I
Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ
The Masquerade and Other Poems
The Giant Cities of Bashan; And Syria's Holy Places
Life of Benjamin Silliman, m.d., ll.d., Late Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in Yale College
Fifteen Days
The Retreat From Lenoir's and the Siege of Knoxville
Released
Friedrich Rückert
To J. B.: On Sending Me a Seven-Pound Trout
Physical History of the Valley of the Amazons: I
A Bundle of Bones
An Englishman in Normandy
Aunt Judy
The Chimney-Corner for 1866: Vii. Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health
Griffith Gaunt; Or, Jealousy
