July 1876

Articles

• From Jaffa to Jerusalem

  “Perhaps … it is best not to have a decent road to the Holy City of the world. It would make going there easy … it would make the pilgrimage too much a luxury, in these days of pilgrimages by rail, and of little faith, or rather of a sort of lacquer of faith which is only credulity.”

  Charles Dudley Warner

• Contrast

  Celia Thaxter

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Education

• The Night-Wind

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The American

  Henry James Jr.

• July

  H. H.

• Old Woman's Gossip

  Frances Anne Kemble

• How the Old Horse Won the Bet: Dedicated by a Contributor to the Collegian, 1830, to the Editors of the Harvard Advocate, 1866-1876; Read at Their Decennial Dinner, May 11, 1876

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg, June and July, 1863

  Oliver Otis Howard

• The King's Memento Mori

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• The State and the Railroads

  Charles Francis Adams Jr.

• Characteristics of the International Fair

• Before the Prime

  Kate Putnam Osgood

• A Sennight of the Centennial

  William Dean Howells

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