February 1868

Articles

• The Encyclopedists

  An author assesses the importance of the landmark Encyclopédie and the three men who created it

  Morris Markey

• George Silverman's Explanation (Part two)

  A short story

  Charles Dickens

• Does It Pay to Smoke?

  By an old smoker

  James Parton

• The Destructive Democracy

  “There never yet existed a conservative party which did not turn out to be as thoroughly devoted to destruction as if it had been animated by the sentiments of barbarians moving through a civilized country.”

• Characteristics of Genius

  Frederic Henry Hedge

• Orion

• A Week in Sybaris

  Edward Everett Hale

• The Victim

  Alfred Tennyson

• Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, and Ford

  E. P. Whipple

• Flotsam and Jetsam: Part Ii

  Harriet Prescott Spafford

• Doctor Molke's Friends

• The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

  Henry James Jr.

• The Meeting

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Four Months on the Stage

• Lessing's Nathan the Wise

• Ohio in the War; Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers

• Four Years Among Spanish Americans

• Book of the Artists. American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America

• Y^e Legende of St. Gwendoline

• The Turk and the Greek; Or Creeds, Races, Society, and Scenery in Turkey, Greece, and the Isles of Greece

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