Harper's Magazine: January 1861

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January 1861

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145-162	Article A peep at Washoe (second paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Gold mines and mining; Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Nevada; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Silver mines and mining; Virginia City (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
163-166	Poem The Battle of the Cowpens: January 18, 1781 By Thomas Dunn English SEE ALSO: Cowpens, Battle of, 1781 PDF IMAGES
166-181	Article Cast-away in Jamaica By W.E. Sewell SEE ALSO: Jamaica; Journeys—Jamaica; Kingston (Jamaica); Sewell, W.E. PDF IMAGES
182-186	Fiction No. 10 Blank Street By Louise Chandler Moulton SEE ALSO: Boardinghouses PDF IMAGES
186-198	Fiction How Charlie came home By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford SEE ALSO: Housekeepers PDF IMAGES
198-209	Article The new route through Chiriqui By Thomas Francis Meagher SEE ALSO: Journeys—Panama; Panama; Meagher, Thomas Francis PDF IMAGES
209-210	Poem The birthday of Robert Burns. January 25 By Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman SEE ALSO: Poem; Poets, Scottish; Burns, Robert PDF IMAGES
210-218	Fiction Mellicent's malady By Nora Perry SEE ALSO: Diseases PDF IMAGES
218-222	Article My uncle By Frank H. (Frank Henry) Norton SEE ALSO: Pawnbrokers; Pawnbroking PDF IMAGES
222-228	Fiction Story of a gray shawl By Kate Neely Festetits SEE ALSO: Railroad stories; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
228-231	Article An interview with Martin Luther By Bayard Taylor SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Luther, Martin; Reformation PDF IMAGES
231-236	Article Gossip about a great painter By Charles Nordhoff SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Turner, J.M.W. (Joseph Mallord William) PDF IMAGES
236-237	Poem The sleighers By N.G. Shepherd SEE ALSO: Nightmares; Sleighing PDF IMAGES
237-239	Article About Thomas Hood By William Makepeace Thackeray SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Death and burial; Hood, Thomas PDF IMAGES
240	Poem Watching and wishing By Charlotte Brontë PDF IMAGES Article The history of a fable. An episode from the history of literature SEE ALSO: Fables PDF IMAGES
246-252	Article Success SEE ALSO: Power (Philosophy); Success PDF IMAGES
252-254	Poem A dream of the cavaliers By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Byrd, Evelyn; Smith, John; Pioneers; Pocahontas; Poem; Raleigh, Walter, Sir; Berkeley, William; Byrd, William; Women pioneers PDF IMAGES
254-259	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
259-260	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Tefft, B.F. (Benjamin Franklin); Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron; Dickens, Charles; Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern (Book); Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock; Essays (Book); Evan Harrington: a novel (Book); Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke; Meredith, George; Homer; Parton, James; Life of Andrew Jackson (Book); Little folks (Book); Methodism successful and the internal causes of its success (Book); Willis, Nathaniel Parker; Poems (Book); Studies from life (Book); The Odyssey of Homer, with the hymns, epigrams, and battle of the frogs and mice. Literally translated, with explanatory notes (Book); Buckley, Theodore Alois; Atkinson, Thomas Witlam; Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor, and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China (Book); Prime, William Cowper PDF IMAGES
261-266	Editor's table/Article National life By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Nationalism; Patriotism; Political participation PDF IMAGES
266	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Ethics; Progress PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Lecturers; Newspaper editors; Travelers PDF IMAGES
267-268	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Art collections; Art museums; Jarves, James Jackson PDF IMAGES
268-269	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Christian ethics; Christianity PDF IMAGES
269-270	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Artists; Bohemianism; Palmer, Erastus Dow PDF IMAGES
270-273	Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Rossini, Gioacchino; Journeys—Andes; 1815-1871; Marcoy, Paul; War of 1860-1861 PDF IMAGES
273-274	Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Alba; Death and burial; Richmond, Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of; Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of; 1837-1901; Philanthropists; Smith, Harry George Wakelyn, Sir; Tories, English; Brown, William PDF IMAGES
274-275	Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Battleships PDF IMAGES
275-276	Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Mudie, Charles Edward; Ruskin, John; Library; Views on economics PDF IMAGES
276-277	Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Execution; Executions and executioners; Ludovico; Leo XII, Pope PDF IMAGES
277	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: “Editor's drawer” (Harper's); New Year PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Jews; Postal service; Postmasters PDF IMAGES
278	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fourth of July celebrations PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Peddlers and peddling; Signs and signboards PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Women consumers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alcoholics PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Irish American women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Dublin PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
279	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Jurors PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Courts; Officials and employees; Widowers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Examinations; Medical students PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alliteration PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bee hunting; Political candidates PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Affray; Violence PDF IMAGES
280	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Danville; Organs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Funeral rites and ceremonies PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Debates and debating PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Jurors; Little Rock PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Debtor and creditor; Political candidates PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Booksellers and bookselling; Colportage, subscription trade, etc. PDF IMAGES
281	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Names, Geographical PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Prayer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cincinnati; Literacy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American wit and humor; Cincinnati PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American Party; Citizenship PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Citizenship PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Buchanan, James PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Lawrence; Universalism; Witnesses PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Universalism PDF IMAGES
282	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Long Island PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Charms; Superstition PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Irish-American wit and humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Irish-American wit and humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mississippi River; Slavery PDF IMAGES
283	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Trials; Witnesses PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
284	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Florence PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Widowers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Panama PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Prayer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Hawaii; Witnesses PDF IMAGES
285-286	Cartoon An animated alphabet SEE ALSO: Alphabet PDF IMAGES
287-288	Fashions for January/Department Fashions for January PDF IMAGES