March 1879

Articles

• The Natural History of Politics

  “Peculiarities of place, which have served so great a need in offering a choice to the selective forces that have elevated man, are still of invaluable use in giving the variety of characteristics that are required in the endless adaptations necessary in the making and keeping of a nation.”

  N. S. Shaler

• The Chamber Over the Gate

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A Roman Holiday Twenty Years Ago

  William Wetmore Story

• The Ballad of Christopher Aske: (Catholic Rebellion of 1536)

  Rose Terry Cooke

• Ghost Stories

  H. B. K.

• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn

  Mark Twain

• Faint Heart

  Lucy Lee Pleasants

• Rosamond and the Conductor

  Katharine Carrington

• Our Land Policy

  George W. Julian

• Bayard Taylor

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Lady of the Aroostook

  William Dean Howells

• Presidential Electioneering in the Senate

• The Landmarks

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Americanisms

  Richard Grant White

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

• The New York Catholic Cathedral: Correspondence

  Jno. R. G. Hassard and Clarence Cook

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