January 1868

In This Issue
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Articles
George Silverman’s Explanation
A short story
Hawthorne in the Boston Custom-House
"I have been measuring coal all day on board of a black little British schooner, in a dismal dock at the north-end of the city"
Pittsburg
“Pittsburg … is densely packed with marvels. Go where you will, you find something of the most particular interest, that demands to be examined, and most richly rewards examination.”
Our Second Girl
“I could not help recurring to the idea of a lady in disguise.”
Aspects of Culture
Address read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, July, 1867
The Wife: An Idyl of Bearcamp Water
The Old Masters in the Louvre, and Modern Art
Origin and History of the Books of the Bible, Both the Canonical and the Apocryphal. Designed to Show What the Bible Is Not, What It Is, and How to Use It
Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American Revolution, and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga
Condensed Novels, and Other Papers
Doctor Molke's Friends
The Combat of Diomed and Mars: From Homer's Iliad, Book V
Oldport Wharves
The Late President Wayland
Flotsam and Jetsam: Part I
By-Ways of Europe: A Visit to the Balearic Islands. Ii
In the Twilight
Mrs. Johnson
