June 1877

Articles

• South Carolina Society

  “My principles now lead me to abhor slavery and rejoice at its abolition. Yet sometimes, in the midst of the heat and toil of the struggle for existence, the thought involuntarily steals over me that we have seen better days.”

  A South Carolinian

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• The First Fan: Read at a Meeting of the Boston Bric-À-Brac Club, February 21, 1877

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Wa-Ha-Toy-A; Or, Before the Graders

  H. H.

• Peach-Blossom

  Bayard Taylor

• Rose Daniels

  Marian Douglass

• The May-Pole of Merrymount

  Charles Francis Adams Jr.

• The Ward of the Three Guardians

  A. G. Browne Jr.

• Companions

  Richard Henry Stoddard

• Fitz-Greene Halleck

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Mr. Edward Fitzgerald's Translations

  Thomas Sergeant Perry

• The Contributors' Club

• A Dream

  William Wetmore Story

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Education

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