September 1868

Articles

• On the Modern Methods of Studying Poisons

  “Just as heat may, according to amount, warm your hands, cook your meats, or burn your house down, so arsenic is in minute dose an efficient tonic, in larger dose a powerful alterative, and in still greater amount a horrible poison.”

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• No News

  E. Stuart Phelps

• Expectation

  Celia Thaxter

• Siberian Exiles

  Thomas W. Knox

• St. Michael's Night

  Agnes Harrison

• In Vacation

• Sidney and Raleigh

  E. P. Whipple

• Bill and Joe

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Impossibility of Chance

  Charles J. Sprague

• The Face in the Glass

• The Island of Maddalena: With a Distant View of Caprera

  Bayard Taylor

• The Man and Brother: I

  John William De Forest

• American Diplomacy

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

• The Genius of Hawthorne

• Life in the Argentine Republic; Or, Civilization and Barbarism

• The History of the Navy During the Rebellion

• The Spanish Gypsy. A Poem

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