April 1877

Articles

• Dickens's American Notes

  E. P. Whipple

• A Century of Congress

  A year after the national centennial, a long-time member of the House of Representatives and future president of the United States reflected on the development of the American legislature.

  James A. Garfield

• A Ballad of the French Fleet

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A British Officer in Boston in 1775: In Two Parts. Part I

• The Races of the Danube

  John Fiske

• The Dying Rose to the Nightingale

  Alice Williams Brotherton

• The American

  Henry James Jr.

• Wratislaw

  Richard Henry Stoddard

• Old Woman's Gossip

  Frances Anne Kemble

• Out of the Question: Comedy

  William Dean Howells

• April

  H. H.

• South Carolina Morals

• A Mechanical Dictionary

• The Happier Gift

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• The Contributors' Club

• Creole Lover's Song: For Baritone or Contralto

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

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