January 1868

Articles

• George Silverman’s Explanation

  A short story

  Charles Dickens

• 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"  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• 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.”

  James Parton

• Our Second Girl

  “I could not help recurring to the idea of a lady in disguise.”

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Aspects of Culture

  Address read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, July, 1867

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Wife: An Idyl of Bearcamp Water

• The Old Masters in the Louvre, and Modern Art

  Eugene Benson

• 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

  Isaac Israel Hayes

• The Combat of Diomed and Mars: From Homer's Iliad, Book V

  William Cullen Bryant

• Oldport Wharves

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• The Late President Wayland

  Jeremiah Lewis Diman

• Flotsam and Jetsam: Part I

  Harriet Prescott Spafford

• By-Ways of Europe: A Visit to the Balearic Islands. Ii

  Bayard Taylor

• In the Twilight

  James Russell Lowell

• Mrs. Johnson

  William Dean Howells

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