January 1878

Articles

• The Result in South Carolina

  An anonymous contributor described mounting racial tensions in the aftermath of Reconstruction.

  A South Carolinian

• Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

  Part IV. "We never met a man, or woman, or child anywhere in this sunny island who seemed to be unprosperous, or discontented, or sorry about anything. This sort of monotony became very tiresome presently"  

  Mark Twain

• The Leap of Roushan Beg

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Mars as a Neighbor

  Arthur Searle

• My Aviary

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• An Episode in the Life of an Artist

  William F. Apthorp

• The Gentle Fire-Eater: Sub-Historic

  Clarence Gordon

• The Adirondacks Verified

  Charles Dudley Warner

• A Little Tour in France

  Henry James Jr.

• Detmold: A Romance: Part Ii

  William Henry Bishop

• The Seeking of the Waterfall

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Open Letters From New York

  Raymond Westbrook

• Edward Gibbon

  William Dean Howells

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