November 1877

Articles

• Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

  Part II. Away across the sunny waves one saw a faint dark stripe stretched along under the horizon,—or pretended to see it, for the credit of his eye-sight  

  Mark Twain

• The Queen of Sheba

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Survival of the Fittest

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• The American Iron-Master's Work

  R. W. Raymond

• The Sailing of King Olaf

  Alice Williams Brotherton

• Portugal and the Portuguese

  Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin

• Ah, Chasms and Cliffs of Snow

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• Kathern

  Feärn Gray

• Some Aspects of De Quincey

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Autumnal Poems

  Edgar Fawcett, C. L. Cleaveland, and Mary Townley

• Fictitious Lives of Chaucer

  Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

• Carlo Goldoni

  William Dean Howells

• In the Old South Church: Boston, 1677

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

• Education

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