June 1867

Articles

• Negro Spirituals

  “These quaint religious songs were to the men more than a source of relaxation; they were a stimulus to courage and a tie to heaven.”

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• The Guardian Angel

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The City of St. Louis

  James Parton

• The Red School-House

  Lucy Larcom

• A Venetian Experience

• Poor Richard: A Story in Three Parts. Part I

  Henry James Jr.

• G. L. S

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Golden Chains

  Jane G. Austin

• Shakespeare, the Man and the Dramatist

  E. P. Whipple

• The Founders of Montreal

  F. Parkman

• Russian America

  J. H. A. Bone

• Among the Comedians

  Lemuel Clarke Davis

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