December 1877

Articles

• The Contributor's Club: Whitman

  "Some magician's touch is needed to evoke the melody and beauty now surely latent alike in the water-driven saw-mill and the big Corliss engine. Will he be the man?"

• Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

  Part III. "We walked several miles that afternoon in the bewildering glare of the sun, the white roads, and the white buildings."  

  Mark Twain

• Wapentake

  A poem for Alfred Tennyson

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Can Herculaneum Be Excavated?

  Robert A. McLeod

• Anticipation

• Washington Society

• Portugal and the Portuguese

  Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin

• Beneath Her Window

  Charles H. Shinn

• Modern Shoemaking

  T. A. D.

• What They Said

  Mary A. King

• The Sermon

  Frank Sewall

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• The San Francisco Vigilance Committee

  Thomas G. Cary

• Asters

  Edgar Fawcett

• Three Boston Painters

• How to Change the North American Climate

  N. S. Shaler

• Detmold: A Romance: Part I

  William Henry Bishop

• Recent Literature

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