May 1875

Articles

• The Virginia Campaign of John Brown (Part V)

  The fifth 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 V)

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

  Mark Twain

• Amalfi

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Roderick Hudson

  Henry James Jr.

• The Pine and the Walnut: (Newcastle, 1862)

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Alfieri

  William Dean Howells

• The Northwestern Mule and His Driver

  Samuel J. Barrows

• Sonnet: To F. A

  James Russell Lowell

• What Is an American?

• Lexington: 1775

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Merely a Mirror

  William M. Baker

• Together

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• The Fastidious Goblin

  John William De Forest

• A Memorable Murder

  Celia Thaxter

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Education

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