February 1876

Articles

• The Currency Conflict

  “Coin of ascertained weight and fineness, duly stamped and authenticated by the government, is the only safe standard of money; and … no form of credit-currency is safe unless it be convertible into coin at the will of the holder.”

  James A. Garfield

• Boston

  A poem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Confession of St. Augustine

  E. Stuart Phelps

• Under Moon and Stars

  John Trowbridge

• Manmat'ha

  Charles A. De Kay

• Phidias to Pericles

  William Wetmore Story

• Jacques Jasmin's Franconette

  Harriet W. Preston

• To-Morrow

  Edgar Fawcett

• A Literary Nightmare

  Mark Twain

• The Unseen World

  John Fiske

• Private Theatricals

  William Dean Howells

• Old Woman's Gossip

  Frances Anne Kemble

• The Railroad Death-Rate

  Charles Francis Adams Jr.

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Education

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