February 1878

Articles

• The Public Service and the Public

  “It is the common cause of the people, aided by all good officers on one side, against all that is corrupt in office and all that is venal and vicious in partisan politics on the other side.”

  Dorman B. Eaton

• Song

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Cradle of the Human Race

• The Patent Office, and How to Repair Its Losses

  W. H. Babcock

• Jamaica

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Trials and Errors of Joseph Primrose

  C. M. Town

• Recording

  Thomas S. Collier

• Edmond and Jules Goncourt

  Elie Reclus

• Meteors

  Edgar Fawcett

• Detmold: A Romance: Part Iii

  William Henry Bishop

• Venice and St. Mark's

  Charles Eliot Norton

• The Quaker Grave-Yard

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• The Adirondacks Verified

  Charles Dudley Warner

• Appledore

  J. W.

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• Open Letters From New York

  Raymond Westbrook

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

• To Old Friends and New

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