September 1866

Articles

• The Johnson Party

  “[President Andrew Johnson] has been the great stirrer-up of disaffection at the South, and the virtual leader of the Southern reactionary party.”

  E. P. Whipple

• On Translating the Divina Commedia (Part III)

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

  Personal musings from the renowned American author

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Surgeon's Assistant

  Caroline Cheselro

• Woman's Work in the Middle Ages

  Robert Cassie Waterston

• University Reform: An Address to the Alumni of Harvard, at Their Triennial Festival, July 19, 1866

  Frederic Henry Hedge

• The Voice

  Forceythe Willson

• Life Assurance

• A Distinguished Character

• The Bobolinks

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• Griffith Gaunt; Or, Jealousy

  Charles Reade

• The Chimney-Corner for 1866: Ix. How Shall We Be Amused?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• An Italian Rain-Storm

  Mary Cowden Clarke

• Incidents of the Portland Fire

• My Little Boy

  M. L. Moody

• Lake Champlain

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

• Yesterday

  Harriet Prescott Spafford

• Armadale

• Four Years in the Saddle

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