October 1868

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Articles

• Inebriate Asylums, and a Visit to One

  “This institution is in fact, as in appearance, a rationally conducted hotel or Temporary Home and resting-place for men diseased by the excessive use of alcoholic drinks.”

  James Parton

• Petroleum in Burmah

  J. W. Palmer

• The Man and Brother: Ii

  John William De Forest

• The Two Rabbis

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Kings' Crowns and Fools' Caps

  Jane G. Austin

• St. Michael's Night

  Agnes Harrison

• Edmund Brook

• The Face in the Glass

• Love's Queen

  William Winter

• Bacon: I

  E. P. Whipple

• Free Produce Among the Quakers

  Wendell Phillips Garrison

• The Finances of the United States

  Elias Hasket Derby

• Pandora

  Bayard Taylor

• The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

• Hans Breitmann's Party. With Other Ballads

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