Harper's Magazine: December 1871

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December 1871

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

1-19	Article The Eternal City By Lyman Abbott SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Roman Forum (Rome, Italy); Rome (Italy) PDF IMAGES
19	Poem An autumn memory By N.G. Shepherd SEE ALSO: Autumn PDF IMAGES
22-30	Article The haunted lake By Constance Fenimore Woolson SEE ALSO: Homes and haunts; Cooper, James Fenimore; Literary journeys; Novelists, American; Otsego Lake PDF IMAGES
30-44	Article French royal châteaux By Adelaide Ladley SEE ALSO: Château de Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau, France); Fontainebleau, Forest of (France) PDF IMAGES
44	Poem Witnesses By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford SEE ALSO: Biblical teaching; Witnesses PDF IMAGES
45-54	Fiction A good investment (chaps. I-III) By W.J. (William Joseph) Flagg SEE ALSO: Reconstruction PDF IMAGES
54-60	Fiction Johnny Mingo By D.R. Castleton SEE ALSO: African American agricultural laborers PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article The first American exploring expedition By A.E. Carrell SEE ALSO: American; Career in navigation; Discoveries in geography; Reynolds, James N.; 1815-1861; Scientific expeditions; Sea-power PDF IMAGES
65-77	Article The old Norse colonies of Greenland By I.I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes SEE ALSO: Greenland; Hayes, I.I. (Isaac Israel); The land of desolation: being a personal narrative of observation and adventure in Greenland (Book) PDF IMAGES
77-86	Fiction The American baron (chaps. XXXVII-XXXIX) By James De Mille PDF IMAGES
86-96	Article Henry Brougham By A.R. Macdonough SEE ALSO: Antislavery movements; Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron; Career in politics; Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain; Legislative bodies; Reform; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
96-104	Fiction The darkness and the dawn By Rosamond Dale Owen SEE ALSO: Christmas stories; Sisters PDF IMAGES
105-113	Article The arithmetic of God By Samuel Osgood SEE ALSO: Population; Sex distribution (Demography); -Statistics; War and society PDF IMAGES
113-118	Fiction Bella's beginnings By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford PDF IMAGES
118	Poem Not to-day! By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: Joy PDF IMAGES Article Apian psychology and sociology By M.E. Lazarus SEE ALSO: Insect societies; Observations PDF IMAGES
123-132	Fiction In the heart of a hill By James Payn SEE ALSO: Adventure stories; Caves; Missing persons; Yorkshire PDF IMAGES
132	Poem Last days By Elizabeth Stoddard SEE ALSO: Autumn PDF IMAGES
133	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Chicago (Ill.); Disaster relief; Fire, 1871 PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Pragmatism PDF IMAGES
134-136	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES
136-137	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Brontë, Charlotte; Jenkins, Edward; Ginx's baby: his birth and other misfortunes (Book); Governesses; Jane Eyre (Book) PDF IMAGES
137-138	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Women's rights PDF IMAGES
138-143	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A harmony of the four Gospels in English, according to the authorized version, corrected by the best critical editions of the original (Book); A harmony of the four Gospels in Greek, according to the text of Tischendorf; with a collation of the textus receptus (Book); White, Alexina B.; Warner, Anna Bartlett; At last: a Christmas in the West Indies (Book); Kingsley, Charles; David Lloyd's last will (Book); Diatessaron. The life of our Lord (Book); Gardiner, Frederic; Grandfather's faith (Book); Heart-life (Book); Spencer, Herbert; Stretton, Hesba; Illustrated almanac (Book); Jessie's parrot (Book); Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe); Miller, Joaquin; Bascom, John; Mathews, Julia A.; Lily Norris' enemy (Book); Little-folk songs (Book); Porter, Noah; Parables of our Lord (Book); Mackenzie, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton); Science, philosophy and religion. Lectures delivered before the Lowell institute, Boston (Book); Shakespeare's comedy of The tempest (Book); Sir Walter Scott: the story of his life (Book); Songs of the Sierras (Book); Stories of Vinegar Hill (Book); The elements of intellectual science (Book); The Odyssey of Homer (Book); The rise and fall of the Paris commune in 1871; with a full account of the bombardment, capture, and burning of the city (Book); Cuyler, Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard); Nast, Thomas; Rolfe, W.J. (William James); Fetridge, W. Pembroke (William Pembroke); Arnot, William; Bryant, William Cullen; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
143-152	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: Appointment, call, and election PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Emperors; Sunday PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Church charities; Moncrief, Henry; Humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Human-animal relationships; Sheep dogs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Evolution (Biology); Humor; Carlyle, Thomas PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Causes; Jury PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Career in politics—Humor; Donnelly, Ignatius; Minnesota; Political oratory; Republicans PDF IMAGES
156	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American Sunday-School Union; Christian education of children; Growth; Sunday schools PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Remarriage; Widows PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Husbands PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Classified; Surgeons; Violinists PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bankruptcy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Succession PDF IMAGES
157	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Divorced men; Ex-church members PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Autograph verse; Autographs; Autographs—Humor; Physicists; Brewster, David, Sir PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Revivals PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alien labor, Chinese; Bishops; Jenkins, Edward; Ginx's baby: his birth and other misfortunes (Book); Guyana; Voyages and travels PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French; Emperors; Family—Humor; Family relationships PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Episcopal Church; Peasantry PDF IMAGES
158	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American women; Boxing matches; Churches; Editors; Errata; Humor; Lightning; Railroad accidents; Reporters and reporting; Colfax, Schuyler; Tornadoes; Undertakers and undertaking; Vice-Presidents PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Wayne County PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baptists; Career in ministry; Barber, Edward PDF IMAGES
159	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baptists PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Lake steamers; Ontario; Ontario, Lake; Passenger accommodation; Toothbrushes; Travelers PDF IMAGES
160	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Coffee habit; Table etiquette PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: C.O.D. shipments; Postal service PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bowery (New York, New York : Street); German Americans PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Malapropisms PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Danville; Presbyterian Church PDF IMAGES