February 1875

Articles

• The Virginia Campaign of John Brown (Part II)

  The second installment in a six-part series about the abolitionist rebel, written by one of the New Englanders who secretly funded his efforts and featuring excerpts of his own writings

  F. B. Sanborn

• Old Times on the Mississippi (Part II)

  The second installment in a seven-part series about the author’s youthful training as a riverboat pilot

  Mark Twain

• Monte Cassino

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Two Travelers

  William Cullen Bryant

• The Hessian Mercenaries of Our Revolution

  George Washington Greene

• Residue

  Kate Putnam Osgood

• Roderick Hudson

  Henry James Jr.

• Bancroft's Native Races of the Pacific States

  Clarence King

• The Old Burying-Ground

  John Trowbridge

• A Carnival of Venice

• The Skull in the Gold Drift

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Two Girls That Tried Farming

  D. A. Shepherd

• A Waif

  Celia Thaxter

• Recent Literature

• Education

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