October 1873

Articles

• The Germans in the West

  “Un-American in language, un-American in education, to some extent un-American in their views; socially, and in a degree commercially, isolated from the native-born population, yet endowed with all the rights of American citizens; Americans de jure but not, in a sense, de facto, — they present an object of study, political and social, second to none that can engage the attention of the American patriot or statesman.”

  J. J. Lalor

• Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski: A Piece of Club Gossip

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Old Surprise

  Eunice E. Comstock

• Thomas Jefferson's Last Years

  James Parton

• Solomon

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

• Golden Dell

  Paul H. Hayne

• Gunnar: A Norse Romance: Part Iv

  Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

• The American Pantheon

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• Honest John Vane: Part Iv

  John William De Forest

• Frances Wright, General Lafayette, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A Chapter of Autobiography

  Robert Dale Owen

• Daniel Treadwell, Inventor

  Morrill Wyman

• Some Objections to the Sea

  Charles Dawson Shanly

• Our Population in 1900

  Francis A. Walker

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Science

• Politics

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