July 1866

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."

  William Cullen Bryant

• The Case of George Dedlow

  The bizarre Civil War-era short story by a physician, which many readers erroneously mistook for fact

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• On Translating the Divina Commedia (Part II)

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

  Personal musings from the renowned American author

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Indian Medicine

  John Mason Browne

• The Great Doctor: A Story in Two Parts: Part I

  Alice Cary

• 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

  Henry Sweetser Burrage

• Released

  Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney

• Friedrich Rückert

  Bayard Taylor

• To J. B.: On Sending Me a Seven-Pound Trout

  James Russell Lowell

• Physical History of the Valley of the Amazons: I

  Louis Agassiz

• A Bundle of Bones

  Charles J. Sprague

• An Englishman in Normandy

  Goldwin Smith

• Aunt Judy

  J. W. Palmer

• The Chimney-Corner for 1866: Vii. Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Griffith Gaunt; Or, Jealousy

  Charles Reade

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