Harper's Magazine: January 1872

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January 1872

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161-165	Poem The legend of the mistletoe By Mary T. (Mary Theresa) Waggaman SEE ALSO: Mistletoes PDF IMAGES
165-182	Article Holland and the Hollanders (first paper) By Junius Henri Browne SEE ALSO: Amsterdam (Netherlands); Canal-boats; Contamination; Drinking water; Dutch; Netherlands; William I, Prince of Orange; Tomb PDF IMAGES
182-184	Poem A stranger in the pew By Mary Mapes Dodge SEE ALSO: Pews and pew rights PDF IMAGES
184-195	Article From a barn to Drury Lane By S.S. Conant SEE ALSO: Actresses; Family; Friends and associates; Kemble, John Philip; Kemble, Roger; Johnson, Samuel; Siddons, Sarah; Reynolds, Joshua, Sir; Kemble, Stephen; Tragic muse (Painting) PDF IMAGES
196-203	Article The Danish West Indies By Hynes SEE ALSO: Alien labor; Virgin Islands of the United States PDF IMAGES
203	Poem The singer and the song By Hannah R. Hudson SEE ALSO: Singers PDF IMAGES
204-214	Article A visit to a Greenland glacier By I.I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes SEE ALSO: Glaciers; Greenland; Hayes, I.I. (Isaac Israel); The land of desolation: being a personal narrative of observation and adventure in Greenland (Book) PDF IMAGES
214-221	Fiction The mysterious case of my friend Browne By Julian Hawthorne SEE ALSO: Ghost stories; Ghosts PDF IMAGES
221-230	Fiction A good investment (chaps. IV-VI) By W.J. (William Joseph) Flagg SEE ALSO: Reconstruction PDF IMAGES
231-236	Fiction A merry Christmas By Constance Fenimore Woolson SEE ALSO: Christmas stories PDF IMAGES
237-244	Article A cup of coffee By M. (Maximilian) Schele de Vere SEE ALSO: Coffee PDF IMAGES
244-252	Fiction The snow-bird By D.R. Castleton SEE ALSO: Kidnapping, Parental PDF IMAGES
252-257	Article Is Alaska a paying investment? By William Healey Dall SEE ALSO: Acquisition of territory; Alaska ; Annexation to the United States; Cession to the United States, 1819; Costs; New Mexico; To 1848 PDF IMAGES
258-273	Article The poetry of the Zodiac By Benson John Lossing PDF IMAGES
273-277	Fiction The Reverend Sampson's Christmas gift By M'Carthy SEE ALSO: Christmas stories PDF IMAGES
277-280	Article Quiet life in some Danish towns By Clemens Christoffer Mathias Petersen SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Denmark PDF IMAGES
280	Poem Miserere. A sonnet By John Godfrey Saxe PDF IMAGES
281-288	Fiction The little saints By Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin SEE ALSO: Azores; Ghost stories; Murder victims PDF IMAGES
288-291	Article The growth of our theories of the weather By Edward Howland SEE ALSO: Meteorology; Observations PDF IMAGES
291	Poem The winter wedding By Marian Douglas SEE ALSO: Female friendship PDF IMAGES
292	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: City planning; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
294-295	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
295-296	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Career in sculpture; Washington, George; Greenough, Horatio; Statues; Statues—Washington (D.C.) PDF IMAGES
296-301	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: Richardson, Abby Sage; Around the world: sketches of travels through many lands and over many seas (Book); August and Elvie (Book); Aunt Jane's hero (Book); Farjeon, B.L. (Benjamin Leopold); Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron; Bending willow; a tale of missionary life in the Northwest (Book); Harte, Bret; Burns's poems (Book); Dickens, Charles; Rossetti, Christina Georgina; Corals and coral islands (Book); Defoe, Daniel; Craik, Dinah Marie Muloch; Dogs and their doings (Book); Prime, E.D.G. (Edward Dorr Griffin); Prentiss, E. (Elizabeth); Abbott, Edward; Bickersteth, Edward Henry; Reclus, Elisée; Morris, F.O. (Francis Orpen); Falstaff and his companions. Twenty-one illustrations in silhouette (Book); Darley, Felix Octavius Carr; Festival of song (Book); Saunders, Frederick; Gentle measures in the management and training of the young (Book); Turner, Godfrey Wordswoth; Gulliver's travels (Book); Hannah (Book); Kingsley, Henry; Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Homely scenes from great painters (Book); Abbott, Jacob; Froude, James Anthony; Dana, James Dwight; Fuller, Jane Gay; Bunyan, John; Swift, Jonathan; Joshua Marvel (Book); Little Lucy's wonderful globe (Book); Frölich, Lorenz; Harris, Miriam Coles; Moonshine. Fairy stories (Book); Retzsch, Moritz; Sanford, D.P., Mrs.; Muskingum legends, with other sketches and papers descriptive of the young men of Germany and the old boys of America (Book); Goldsmith, Oliver; Outline illustrations to Shakespeare (Book); Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni); Konewka, Paul; Hamerton, Philip Gilbert; Pilgrim's progress (Book); Poems (Book); Puss and robin (Book); Richard Vandermarck. A novel (Book); Burns, Robert; Robinson Crusoe (Book); Sam Slick (Book); Science for the young: water and land (Book); Short studies on great subjects (Book); Powers, Stephen; Stories from Old English poetry (Book); The baby's things: a story in verse for Christmas Eve (Book); The catastrophe of the hall (Book); The country of the dwarfs (Book); “The deserted village” (Poem); The earth: a descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the globe (Book); The life of John Pendleton Kennedy (Book); The lost child (Book); The Rosedale books (Book); The unknown river (Book); The works of Thomas Hood (Book); Hood, Thomas; Johnson, Virginia W. (Virginia Wales); What the world made them (Book); Bryant, William Cullen; Works of Charles Dickens (Book); Yesterday, to-day, and forever. A poem, in twelve books, with notes (Book) PDF IMAGES
302-312	Editor's scientific record/Article Editor's scientific record PDF IMAGES
312-314	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
315	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cumberland, Richard; Written works PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Grahame SEE ALSO: New Year PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Coronation; Piazzi, Giuseppe; Charles II, King of England; New Year; Tell, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Sedgwick, Catharine Maria; Christianity; Financial crises; Gambling; Washington, George; Life and letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick (Book); Providence and government of God PDF IMAGES
316-317	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan; Anecdotes; Biography; Selwyn, George Auguestus; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley; Rogers, Samuel; Siddons, Sarah; Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir; The literary life of the Rev. William Harness, Vicar of All Saints, Knightsbridge, and Prebendary of St. Paul's (Book); Hook, Theodore Edward; Hope, Thomas; Harness, William PDF IMAGES
317	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield; Humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kingston; Summons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Church of England; Oxford PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Begging PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Names; Nicknames; States PDF IMAGES
318	Editor's drawer/Poem A Chancery suit By George, Sir Rose SEE ALSO: Eldon, John Scott, Earl of; Poem PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Webb, Charles Henry; Humor; Race discrimination; Shooters of firearms; Speech disorders PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Fasts and feasts; Irish American women; Toasts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Railroad accidents; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
319	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Trials PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Humor; Booth, Newton PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Hotel management; Pakistan PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Circuit courts PDF IMAGES
320	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Discipline; Presbyterian Church PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Appointment, call, and election; Edinburgh; Presbyterian Church PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Absent-mindedness PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Milford PDF IMAGES