March 1867

Articles

• Mr. Hardhack on the Derivation of Man from the Monkey

  “If I had been Chief justice of England when that high priest of ‘natural selection’ first tried to oust me out of the fee-simple of my species, I would have given him an illustration of ‘the struggle for existence’ he wouldn't have relished.”

  E. P. Whipple

• Glacial Phenomena in Maine (Part II)

  Observations from a geologist’s journey around the state

  Louis Agassiz

• Out on Picket

  “It was always fascinating to be on those forbidden waters by night, stealing out with muffled oars through the creeks and reeds, our eyes always strained for other voyagers, our ears listening breathlessly to all the marsh sounds.”

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• The Guardian Angel

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The River

  Harriet Prescott Spafford

• George Bedillion, Knight: A Story in Two Parts. Part Ii

  R. B. Davis

• Katharine Morne: Part V

• All Here: 1829-1867

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Chicago

  James Parton

• Labor

  A. West

• My Friend Bingham

  Henry James Jr.

• On a Marble by Dubois

  H. B. Sargent

• A Glimpse of Genoa

  William Dean Howells

• Rags

  Jane G. Austin

• The True Problem

  Carl Schurz

• The Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, From the German of Adolf Stahr

• Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East

• The Life and Times of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket

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