April 1875

Articles

• The Virginia Campaign of John Brown (Part IV)

  The fourth 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 IV)

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

  Mark Twain

• Crime and Automatism

  “Savage instincts, barbarous usages, ancient beliefs, will all find themselves confronted with a new order of facts.”

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• A Midnight Fantasy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Calling the Dead

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• Campaigning With Max

  Col. George E. Waring Jr.

• Immortelles

  Edgar Fawcett

• The Thing Which Hath Been Shall Be

  John Wyllys, Rose Terry Cooke, H. Wyllys, D. Gray, Helena W., and M. W.

• Diana

  James Maurice Thompson

• Roderick Hudson

  Mary Garland and Henry James Jr.

• Urvasi

  Helen Barron Bostwick

• A Piece of Secret History: President Lincoln and the Virginia Convention of 1861

  Allan B. Magruder

• Across the Street

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Two Angels

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• William Blake

  Thomas Sergeant Perry

• Our Comrades

  M. B. C.

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Education

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