March 1872

In This Issue
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Articles
Politics
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.”
The Baron of St. Castine
A poem
Septimius Felton; Or, the Elixir of Life: Iii
The Watch of Boon Island
Diversions of the Echo Club: Night the Third
A Comedy of Terrors
Out of the Window
Babá and Bibí: Maiden, Wife, and Mother, in Hindostan
Milking-Time: A Florida Pastoral
King Volmer and Elsie: After the Danish of Christian Winter
Thomas Jefferson a Virginia Lawyer
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table: Iii
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar
Spiritualism New and Old
Recent Literature
Art
Music
Science
