March 1878

Articles

• The Staff of the United States Army

  "Our army presents the only known example of a business or profession, either public or private, in which incompetency and want of zeal bring the same substantial rewards as energy, capacity, and active attention to duty."

  R. Williams,

• The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton

  “‘None that have gone before me knew what love was, none that come after me will ever know what happiness is.’”

  Mark Twain

• The White Czar

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Another Rosary of Sonnets

  Three poems

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Detmold: A Romance: Part Iv

  William Henry Bishop

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• Good Times

  George Parsons Lathrop

• A Lost Lover

  Sarah Orne Jewett

• Mr. Stedman's Poetry

  J. J. Piatt

• William Francis Bartlett

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• A French Poet of the Old Régime

  William Dean Howells

• The Adirondacks Verified

  Charles Dudley Warner

• Winter

  C. L. Cleaveland

• The Story of a Swiss Ring-Politician

  Arthur Venner

• Open Letters From New York

  Raymond Westbrook

• Victor Emmanuel's Political Work

  William Chauncy Langdon

• The Opposition to Lincoln in 1864

  Gideon Welles

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

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