July 1872

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Articles

• John Brown and His Friends

  How a coterie of New Englanders—including the author—secretly funded John Brown's raid

  Franklin Sanborn

• Why Semmes of the Alabama Was Not Tried (Part I)

  The legal fate of a Confederate “pirate”

  John A. Bolles

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

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Science

• Politics

• The Song of Rorek

  John W. Weidemeyer

• The New Wrinkle at Sweetbrier; Or, the Drama in Colleges

  James Kendall Hosmer

• Jefferson a Reformer of Old Virginia

  James Parton

• Youth and Age

  Anna Boynton Averill

• Counsel

  Edgar Fawcett

• A Comedy of Terrors

  James DeMille

• How Long?

  Louise Chandler Moulton

• Diversions of the Echo Club: Night the Seventh

• The Poet at the Breakfast-Table: Vii

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

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