December 1870

Articles

• Resemblances Between the Buddhist and Roman Catholic Religions

  The Tibetan lama listened respectfully to the Jesuit priest and replied, "Your religion is the same as ours."

  Lydia Maria Child

• Black Christmas at Dix Cove

  “When the English occupied Dix Cove, the yearly recurrence of the holy day was recognized by very boisterous mirth, — dinner-parties and hard drinking.”

• Confessions of a Patent-Medicine Man

  Ralph Keeler

• The Prayer-Seeker

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Oldtown Fireside Stories: The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Joseph and His Friend

  Bayard Taylor

• A Strip of Blue

  Lucy Larcom

• Travelling Companions: Ii

  Henry James Jr.

• A Plea for Silence

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

• Afoot on Colorado Desert

  Stephen Powers

• Father Blumhardt's Prayerful Hotel

• Rudolph: A Monograph

  Barnet Phillips

• Indian Summer

  Frances Lee Pratt

• The Miracle Play of 1870, in Bethlehem, New Hampshire

  H. H.

• Flitting

  William Dean Howells

• A Virginian in New England Thirty-Five Years Ago: Iv

• John Bull at Feed

  William James Stillman

• The Life and Times of David Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and Apostle of the Indians

• Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

• Vagabond Adventures

• Monsieur Sylvestre

• Companions of My Solitude

• Valerie Aylmer

• Thayer Expedition.--Scientific Results of a Journey in Brazil/Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil

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