October 1876

Articles

• Neighborhoods of Jerusalem

  “There is a certain melancholy pleasure to be derived from roaming about outside the walls, enveloped in a historic illusion that colors and clothes the nakedness of the landscape.”

  Charles Dudley Warner

• A Librarian’s Work

  “For everybody except the librarian, his position is rather a tantalizing one. In the midst of the great ocean of books, it is ‘water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.’”

  John Fiske

• The Battles About Atlanta

  Oliver Otis Howard

• Fable

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Thorsdale Telegraphs

• Giving Up the World

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• October

  H. H.

• Old Woman's Gossip

  Frances Anne Kemble

• Incantation

  George Parsons Lathrop

• George Sand

  Thomas Sergeant Perry

• The Songs of the Troubadours

  Harriet W. Preston

• The American

  Henry James Jr.

• Oliver Twist

  E. P. Whipple

• Characteristics of the International Fair

• Recent Literature

• Education

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