Harper's Magazine: December 1870

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December 1870

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1-13	Article The Brooklyn Navy-yard By William Franklin Gore Shanks SEE ALSO: Armored vessels; New York Naval Shipyard; Operational readiness; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES
14-30	Article Pio Nono and his councilors By Lyman Abbott SEE ALSO: Councils and synods, Ecumenical; Infallibility; Pius IX, Pope; Popes PDF IMAGES
30-40	Article Life in Brittany. II.—Breton peasants—their traditions and customs By George M. (George Makepeace) Towle SEE ALSO: Bretons; Brittany; Brittany (France); Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Marriage customs and rites PDF IMAGES
40	Poem A vigil By S.S. Conant SEE ALSO: Wakefulness PDF IMAGES
41-55	Article Frederick the Great. XIII.—The seven years' war; its commencement By John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Frederick II, 1740-1786; History, Military; Frederick II, King of Prussia; Wilhelmine, Margravine, consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth; Military leadership; Prussia (Germany); Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 PDF IMAGES
55-65	Fiction The rock of the Legion of Honor. In two parts (part II) By Berthold Auerbach SEE ALSO: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) PDF IMAGES
65	Poem The statue SEE ALSO: Greece; Sculpture PDF IMAGES
66-75	Article Bombay and the Parsees By A.G. (Archibald George) Constable SEE ALSO: Bombay (India); Caves; Parsees; Jejeebhoy, Jamsetje, Sir PDF IMAGES
76-77	Poem Song of fire By Thomas Dunn English SEE ALSO: Fire PDF IMAGES
78-80	Article Inveigling Nature into a disclosure of her secrets By Jacob Abbott SEE ALSO: Light; Observations; Speed PDF IMAGES
80-87	Fiction Anteros (chaps. XXV-XXVII) By George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence PDF IMAGES
87-95	Article The sacred flora (part III) By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Botany in literature; Flowers; Folklore; Herbs; Mythology; Natural history; Roses PDF IMAGES
95	Poem Under the rose By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford SEE ALSO: Roses PDF IMAGES
96-105	Fiction Collected by a valetudinarian By Elizabeth Stoddard SEE ALSO: Women authors PDF IMAGES
105-108	Article Blockade-running By W.R. Hooper SEE ALSO: Blockade; Blockades PDF IMAGES
109-117	Fiction What did Miss Darrington see? By Emma B. Cobb SEE ALSO: Ghost stories; Governesses PDF IMAGES
117-120	Article Matches By Laura M. Doolittle SEE ALSO: Match industry PDF IMAGES
120-123	Fiction Orange blossoms and night-shade By Justin McCarthy SEE ALSO: Poisoning PDF IMAGES
123-135	Fiction Anne Furness (chaps. XVI-XIX) By Frances Eleanor Trenan Trollope PDF IMAGES
135-137	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Political ethics; Political participation PDF IMAGES
137-139	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Alien labor, Chinese; Chinese American families; North Adams; Shoe industry PDF IMAGES
139-140	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Ludlow, Fitz Hugh; Opium habit PDF IMAGES
141-146	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A commentary on the Holy Scriptures (Book); A condensed etymology of the English language for common schools (Book); A manual of composition and rhetoric (Book); A school history of the United States, from the discovery of America to the year 1870 (Book); Clark, Alexander; Blaikie; Chambers's encyclopedia (Book); Dickens, Charles; Scott, D. (David B.); Elementary treatise on mechanics: for the use of colleges and schools of science (Book); Geology and revelation (Book); Sand, George; Molloy, Gerald; Aguilar, Grace; Heir expectant (Book); Heroes of Hebrew history (Book); Hitchock's new and complete analysis of the Holy Bible: or, the whole of the Old and New Testaments arranged according to subjects in twenty-seven books (Book); Bonar, Horatius; French, J.H. (John Homer); Lange, Johann Peter; Smith, John Hyatt; Hart, John S. (John Seely); Tappan, Lewis; Life of George Washington (Book); Life of the Rev. John Milne of Perth (Book); Literary selections for the students of the Normal college for young ladies, of the city of New York (Book); Willson, Marcius; Mental arithmetic; combining a complete system of rapid computations, with correct logic of the solutions of problems, and the analyses of processes (Book); Monsieur Sylvestre; a novel (Book); Neil, Ross; Hitchcock, Roswell D. (Roswell Dwight); Benjamin, S.G.W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler); Schmucker, S.S. (Samuel Simon); Wilberforce, Samuel; Saving knowledge (Book); The choice of Paris; a romance of the Troad (Book); The history of Rome (Book); The life of Arthur Tappan (Book); The life of Christ (Book); The mystery of Edwin Drood (Book); The open door (Book); The school and family primer: introductory to the series of school and family readers (Book); The true unity of Christ's church: being a renewed appeal to the friends of the Redeemer, on primitive Christian union, and the history of its corruption (Book); The women of Israel (Book); Mommsen, Theodor; Guthrie, Thomas; Hunter, Thomas; Irving, Washington; Peck, William G. (William Guy); Hanna, William; Dickson, William P. (William Purdie); Smith, William W.; Willson's new speller and analyzer (Book); Work-day Christianity (Book) PDF IMAGES
146-153	Editor's scientific record/Article Editor's scientific record PDF IMAGES
153-154	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
155	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: “Editor's drawer” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Women in the Bible PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Ramsay, E.B. (Edward Bannerman); Gaelic language; Reminiscences of Scottish life and character (Book) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Ward, Artemus; Crimean War, 1853-1856; Humor; Panoramas; Theater and the war PDF IMAGES
156	Editor's drawer/Poem Song of shoulder-straps PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Card players; Conduct of court proceedings PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Oaths; Tobacco chewing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Egypt; Mummies PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Coaching; Prayers for rain PDF IMAGES
157	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Abstention; Free schools; Malapropisms; Voting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Classified; Pork industry and trade PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kidnapping, Parental PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bible; Moses (Biblical leader) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Hospitality PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Credit ratings; Honesty PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American women; Heaven; Smoking PDF IMAGES
158	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Pilots and pilotage PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Chinese Americans; Hairstyles; Oregon; Race discrimination PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Dialects; Methodist Church; Sedan chairs; Sermons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Street-railroads; Travel etiquette; Women's rights PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cookery (Lobsters) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Asses; Hingston, Edward P. (Edward Peron); Taxation; The genial showman (Book) PDF IMAGES
159	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bishops PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Burr-Hamilton Duel, Weehawken, N.J., 1804; Influence; Edwards, Jonathan; Beecher, Lyman; Views on dueling PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Printers; Societies, etc.; Temperance; Young Men's Christian associations PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kissing; War work PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Adventists; Property PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Gesture; Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew); Oratory; Public speaking PDF IMAGES
160	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Geese; Theft PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Functional literacy; South Carolina; Sunday school superintendents PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Rising and setting; Sun PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Signaling; Spelling ability PDF IMAGES