January 1869

Articles

• Consumption in America (Part I)

  The first installment in a three-part series about the wasting disease now known as tuberculosis

  H. I. Bowditch, M. D.

• Review: What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson

  “It is not easy to tell how far expediency may carry us towards justice, but there is a great deal to be hoped from human selfishness, fortunately.”

  William Dean Howells

• Malbone: An Oldport Romance

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Cinders From the Ashes

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Sunshine of the Gods

  Bayard Taylor

• Moral Significance of the Republican Triumph

• A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Late Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of His Majesty Frederick William Iv. At the Court of St. James

• Sketches Abroad With Pen and Pencil

• The New England Tragedies. I. John Endicott. Ii. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms

• The Civil Service

• Poems

• A Literary Gourmand

  Eugene Benson

• The Good-Natured Pendulum

  Edward Everett Hale and F. Ingham

• The Flying Dutchman

  James Russell Lowell

• Co-Operative Housekeeping: Iii

  C. F. Peirce

• In the Teutoburger Forest

  Bayard Taylor

• After Election

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Mean Yankees at Home

  James Parton

• Dante

  William Cullen Bryant

• On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners

  James Russell Lowell

• Gnadenhütten

  William Dean Howells

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