August 1871

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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.”

  John Fiske

• My Father's Shipwreck

• A Quiet Life

  E. D. Rice

• Their Wedding Journey

  William Dean Howells

• Nicholas Ferrar

  G. A. E.

• Gladioli

  Emily E. Ford

• Kate Beaumont

  John William De Forest

• Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: Iv. The Descent of Mount Tyndall

  Clarence King

• Encyclicals of a Traveller: Ii

  H. H.

• The Singer

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Our Whispering Gallery: Viii

• Watch and Ward: In Five Parts: Part First

  Henry James Jr.

• A Miller's Madrigal

  Hiram Rich

• 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

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