Harper's Magazine: December 1872

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December 1872

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1-19	Article Marco Polo and his book By O.M. Spencer SEE ALSO: Asia, Central; Christianity; Journeys—China; Kublai Khan; Polo, Marco; 13th century; Yule, Henry, Sir PDF IMAGES
19	Poem Contrast By William C. (William Carey) Richards SEE ALSO: Contrast (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
20-37	Article The dome of the continent By Verplanck Colvin SEE ALSO: Central City; Colorado; Gold mines and mining; Mountaineering PDF IMAGES
37-40	Article Malta By Herbert Bright SEE ALSO: Malta PDF IMAGES
40	Poem Disarmed By Howard Glyndon PDF IMAGES
41-50	Article The Library of Congress By Benjamin Perley Poore SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Capture by the British, 1814; Collection development (Libraries); Fires; Marshall, John; Library buildings PDF IMAGES
50-63	Fiction A madrigal By Frances Mary Peard SEE ALSO: Class consciousness PDF IMAGES
63-65	Article The astronomical year By N.S. (Nathaniel Shatswell) Dodge SEE ALSO: Leap year PDF IMAGES
65	Poem In the seed By Kate Putnam Osgood PDF IMAGES
66-79	Fiction The old Romans at home (letter I) By Benson John Lossing SEE ALSO: Romans PDF IMAGES
79-91	Fiction Old Kensington (chaps. XXVIII-XXXI) By Anne Thackeray Ritchie PDF IMAGES
91	Poem Reprieve By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford PDF IMAGES
92-97	Article Recollections of an old stager ([IV]) SEE ALSO: Career in civil service; Civil service; Family relationships; Gambling; Payne, John Howard; 1815-1861; Patronage, Political; Term of office; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
97	Poem Improvisations.—V By Bayard Taylor SEE ALSO: Reality PDF IMAGES
98-103	Fiction A simpleton. A story of the day (chap. VI, continued) By Charles Reade SEE ALSO: Physicians' spouses PDF IMAGES
103-116	Article The Scottish Covenanters By Eugene Lawrence SEE ALSO: Church history; Covenanters; Death and burial; Cargill, Donald; Exile; Imprisonment; Weir, Isabel; Renwick, James; Blackadder, John; Brown, John; Welch, John; Marriage; Cameron, Richard PDF IMAGES
116	Poem Hope By Kate Hillard SEE ALSO: Hope PDF IMAGES
117-126	Fiction The new Magdalen (chaps. IX-XI) By Wilkie Collins SEE ALSO: Mistaken identity PDF IMAGES
126-132	Fiction A picturesque transformation By Julian Hawthorne PDF IMAGES
132	Poem A flower's epitaph By Nelly M. Hutchinson SEE ALSO: Violets PDF IMAGES
133-135	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Diplomats; Fane, Julian Henry Charles, Hon. PDF IMAGES
135-136	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Office PDF IMAGES
136-137	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties); Children's parties; Parenting PDF IMAGES
137	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Lectures and lecturing; Lyceums PDF IMAGES Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: American historical record, and repertory of notes and queries concerning the history and antiquities of American and biography of Americans (Book); Warner, Anna Bartlett; Trollope, Anthony; Lossing, Benson John; California: for health, pleasure, and residence. A book for travellers and settlers (Book); Nordhoff, Charles; Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock; Drops of water: peoms (Book); Eggleston, Edward; Whymper, Edward; Pollard, Eliza F.; Wilcox, Ella Wheeler; Foster, Elon; Gardening by myself (Book); MacDonald, George; History of New York city from the discovery to the present day (Book); Hope deferred (Book); Hours of exercise in the Alps (Book); Is it true? (Book); Gladstone, J.H. (John Hall); Lincoln, Jeanie Gould; Tyndall, John; Merriwether, Lide; Marjorie's quest (Book); Michael Faraday (Book); New cyclopedia of poetical illustrations (Book); Principles of geology; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology (Book); Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-'69 (Book); Lyell, Charles, Sir; Soundings (Book); The adventures of a brownie as told to my child (Book); The end of the world (Book); The Eustace diamonds. A novel (Book); The vicar's daughter, an autobiographical story (Book); Stone, William Leete PDF IMAGES
142-148	Editor's scientific record/Article Editor's scientific record PDF IMAGES
149-154	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
155-156	Editor's drawer/Article Our London scrap-book. Introduction PDF IMAGES
156	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Winter PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Frontier and pioneer life; Nevada; Violent deaths PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Canandaigua; Trials (Larceny) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Collecting of accounts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Divorce; Idaho PDF IMAGES
157	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Death and burial; German Americans; Methodist Church; Cartwright, Peter PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Assaults against; Cartwright, Peter PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Baptists; Cartwright, Peter PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Congregational churches; Beecher, Henry Ward PDF IMAGES
158	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Camp-meetings; Church discipline PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Barbers; Catholic Church; Concord PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American Sunday-School Union; Church discipline; Humor; Paxson, Stephen; Paxson, William PDF IMAGES
159	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Public meetings; Richmond; Speech errors PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem A Cockney wail PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Greeley, Horace; Humor; Spiritualists PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Boys' clothing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Adam (Biblical figure) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Flagg, Azariah C. (Azariah Cutting); Insomnia; Knowledge—Investments; Sleep and its derangements (Book); Stockholders; Hammond, William Alexander PDF IMAGES
160	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Humor; Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war; Vicksburg; Vicksburg (Miss.); Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Classified; Kansas; Topeka PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Humor; Davies, Lucy Clementina Drummond, Lady; Clanricarde, Ulick John De-Burgh, Marquis of; Recollections of society in France and England (Book) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Contempt of court; Elmira; Law students PDF IMAGES