May 1879

Articles

• Our Florida Plantation

  “Our brave captains who had come safe through many battles were defeated and routed on this field by an army which came by night, without banner or band of music.”

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Labor and the Natural Forces

  Charles Carleton Coffin

• Witchwork

  Harriet Prescott Spafford

• To Leadville

  H. H.

• English Civil Service Reform

  George Willard Brown

• A Fancy

• Irene the Missionary

• The Ship From France: Quebec, 167-

  C. L. Cleaveland

• The Abolition of Poverty

  Alfred B. Mason

• The Faïence Violin

  William Henry Bishop

• Seven Wonders of the World

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• George's Little Girl

  M. E. W. S.

• The New Dispensation of Monumental Art: The Decoration of Trinity Church in Boston, and of the New Assembly Chamber at Albany

  Henry Van Brunt

• Emile Zola as a Critic

  Clara Barnes Martin

• Americanisms

  Richard Grant White

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

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