January 1876

Articles

• Lincoln's Plans of Reconstruction

  “Here were no humiliating terms of submission imposed on a brave people: no amnesty qualifications exacted; no banishment or confiscation laws; no test-oaths, to incite to perjury or foster the resentments of war.”

  Allan B. Magruder

• Private Theatricals

  William Dean Howells

• A Familiar Letter: (To Several Correspondents)

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Four New Books of Poetry

  W. D. H.

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Education

• A Painted Fan

  Louise Chandler Moulton

• The Dead Connoisseur's Friends

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• Going South

  E. Stuart Phelps

• Jacques Jasmin

  Harriet W. Preston

• Aoede

  Maurice Thompson

• One of the Thirty Pieces

  William Henry Bishop

• Sunset on the Bearcamp

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Mafiusi of Sicily

  Luigi Monti

• Old Woman's Gossip

  Frances Anne Kemble

• Sonnets

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Revere Catastrophe

  Charles Francis Adams Jr.

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