June 1876

Articles

• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut

  I said to myself, 'I am thoroughly happy and content, now. If my most pitiless enemy could appear before me at this moment, I would freely right any wrong I may have done him'"

  Mark Twain

• Sonnet

  Paul H. Hayne

• The American

  Henry James Jr.

• Unsung

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• A Prophet of the People

  Felix Adler

• Ma Blonde Aux Yeux Noirs

  Adelaide Alling

• The State and the Railroads

  Charles Francis Adams Jr.

• A Shaker Village

  William Dean Howells

• Perplexed

  Celeste M. A. Winslow

• Old Woman's Gossip

  Frances Anne Kemble

• Affinities

  Edgar Fawcett

• The Quaintness of "The Judicious Hooker"

  Caroline D. Swan

• The Early Dead

  B. W. Ball

• In the Quantick Stage

  S. F. Hopkins

• Hymn: Written for the Opening of the International Exhibition, Philadelphia, May 10, 1876

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Recent Literature

• Art

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