March 1872

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Articles

• Politics

  The Editors

• Our Consular Service

  “It must be confessed that the large majority of consuls are appointed simply and purely for party reasons, and with little regard to their individual qualifications for their official or social duties.”

  George M. Towle

• The Baron of St. Castine

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Septimius Felton; Or, the Elixir of Life: Iii

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Watch of Boon Island

  Celia Thaxter

• Diversions of the Echo Club: Night the Third

• A Comedy of Terrors

  James DeMille

• Out of the Window

  Nora Perry

• Babá and Bibí: Maiden, Wife, and Mother, in Hindostan

  J. W. Palmer

• Milking-Time: A Florida Pastoral

  Will Wallace Harney

• King Volmer and Elsie: After the Danish of Christian Winter

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Thomas Jefferson a Virginia Lawyer

  James Parton

• The Poet at the Breakfast-Table: Iii

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar

  Bret Harte

• Spiritualism New and Old

  Henry James

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Science

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