December 1883

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Articles

• Recollections of Rome During the Italian Revolution (Part III)

  The third in a three-part series of reflections on religion and governance in the papal city

  William Chauncy Langdon

• Mary Moody Emerson

  “What a subject is her mind and life for the finest novel! When I read Dante, the other day, and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A Roman Singer

  F. Marion Crawford

• The Initiate

  A. F.

• O-Be-Joyful Creek and Poverty Gulch

  H. H.

• The World Well Lost

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Newport

  George Parsons Lathrop

• Bermudian Days

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• Some Alleged Americanisms

  Richard Grant White

• Luther and His Work

  Frederic Henry Hedge

• Social Washington

  Henry Loomis Nelson

• Mr. Longfellow and the Artists

• Foreign Lands

• Recollections of a Naval Officer

• Recent Poetry

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

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