December 1868

Articles

• Classic Review: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

  “That such a book should find an enduring place in the affectionate admiration of mankind is an inevitable result of the highest moral and mental excellence.”

• Our Painters: I

  John Neal

• Autumnal

• Caleb's Lark

  Jane G. Austin

• The Face in the Glass

• Hooker

  E. P. Whipple

• Co-Operative Housekeeping: Ii

• A Watch in the Night

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• A Day at a Consulate

• A Gothic Capital

  Theodore Bacon

• Our Paris Letter

  Eleanor Moran

• The First and the Last

  Edward Everett Hale

• Our Branch and Its Tributaries; Being a History of the Work of the N. W. Sanitary Commission

• The Tragedian; An Essay on the Histrionic Genius of Junius Brutus Booth

• On the Stratification of Language. Sir Robert Rede's Lecture, Delivered in the Senate House, Before the University of Cambridge, on Friday, May 29, 1868

• Tablets

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