August 1871

In This Issue
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Articles
Werewolves and Swan-maidens
“The mediæval belief in werewolves is especially adapted to illustrate the complicated manner in which divers mythical conceptions and misunderstood natural occurrences will combine to generate a long-enduring superstition.”
My Father's Shipwreck
A Quiet Life
Their Wedding Journey
Nicholas Ferrar
Gladioli
Kate Beaumont
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: Iv. The Descent of Mount Tyndall
Encyclicals of a Traveller: Ii
The Singer
Our Whispering Gallery: Viii
Watch and Ward: In Five Parts: Part First
A Miller's Madrigal
Around a Spring
The Journal of John Woolman
Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
Wake-Robin
Ina
[Ohio Valley Series.] Pioneer Biography. Sketches of the Lives of Some of the Early Settlers of Butler County Ohio/Miscellanies. A Tour in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Territory in 1805/Two Western Campaigns in the War of 1812..
Condensed Novels
