February 1867

Articles

• Reviews and Literary Notices

  A review by William Dean Howells of Herman Melville's "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War"

  William Dean Howells

• Glacial Phenomena in Maine (Part I)

  Observations from a geologist’s journey around the state

  Louis Agassiz

• Comic Journalism

  “‘Of artists—considered as artists—we have a terrible surplus; but humor is a much rarer commodity.’”

  Charles Dawson Shanly

• The Guardian Angel

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Mona

  Alice Cary

• Characteristics of the Elizabethan Literature

  E. P. Whipple

• George Bedillion's Knight: A Story in Two Parts. Part I

  R. B. Davis

• Elizabeth's Chamber

  A. West

• Katharine Morne: Part Iv

• A Drift-Wood Fire

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Real Estate

  John Trowbridge

• How Mr. Frye Would Have Preached It

  Edward Everett Hale

• Forza Maggiore

  William Dean Howells

• The Guerdon

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Recollections of John Vanderlyn, the Artist

  Bishop Kip

• The Republican Alliance

  Joseph Mazzini

• The Stand-Point of the Boarding-House

  J. Dana Howard

• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

• Superstition and Force. Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

• Life and Letters of John Winthrop, From His Embarkation for New England in 1630, With the Charter and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to His Death in 1649

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