Harper's Magazine: December 1874

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December 1874

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1-25	Fiction The ancient city. In two parts (part I) By Constance Fenimore Woolson SEE ALSO: Saint Augustine (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
25-35	Article The coming transit of Venus By Simon Newcomb SEE ALSO: 1874; Venus (Planet), Transit of PDF IMAGES
35-49	Article Decorative art and architecture in England (third paper) By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Architecture; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture, Victorian; Career in architecture; Detail; Homes and haunts; Ruskin, John; Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, Sir; Views on architecture; Scott, William Bell; Morris, William PDF IMAGES
50-53	Poem The ballad of Breakneck By M.C. Pike PDF IMAGES
53-66	Fiction Rape of the gamp (chaps. XII-XIV) By Julian Croskey PDF IMAGES
66	Poem Pine-barrens By Constance Fenimore Woolson PDF IMAGES
67-92	Article The first century of the republic. (Second paper.) Mechanical progress.—I By Edward Henry Knight SEE ALSO: Agricultural machinery; Cotton manufacture; Mechanical engineering; Steam locomotives; Steam-navigation PDF IMAGES
92-97	Fiction A character mask By Justin McCarthy SEE ALSO: Actors PDF IMAGES
97-105	Article The republican movement in Europe. (Fourteenth paper.) III.—The Germanic peoples.—(Continued.) By Emilio Castelar SEE ALSO: Defoe, Daniel; Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich; Republicanism; Robinson Crusoe (Book); Views on education PDF IMAGES
105-111	Fiction “On the circuit” By Frances Hodgson Burnett PDF IMAGES
111-124	Fiction The survival of the fittest By William M. (William Mumford) Baker PDF IMAGES
124-131	Article The genesis of the New England churches By Eugene Lawrence SEE ALSO: Church history; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Bacon, Leonard; Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony); Puritans; The genesis of the New England churches (Book) PDF IMAGES
131-132	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Conformity PDF IMAGES
132-134	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Higher education and state PDF IMAGES
134-135	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Etiquette; Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary); Nichols; Views on etiquette PDF IMAGES
135	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: College graduates; Political participation PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Dueling; Military life; Prussia; Prussia (Germany). Army PDF IMAGES
136-140	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A sack of gold. A novel (Book); Trafton, Adeline; Campaigning on the Oxus, and the fall of Khiva (Book); Adams, Charles Francis; Castleton, D.R.; Wordsworth, Dorothy; Roe, Edward Payson; Extracts of the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius (Book); March, Francis Andrew; May, Georgiana Marion Craik; Holden with the cords (Book); MacGahan, J.A. (Januarius Aloysius); Parton, James; Katherine Earle (Book); Latin hymns, with English notes (Book); Bacon, Leonard; Life of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States (Book); Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, comprising portions of his diary from 1795 to 1848 (Book); Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret); Opening a chestnut burr (Book); Recollections of a tour made in Scotland A.D. 1803 (Book); Salem (Book); Squire Arden. A novel (Book); Sylvia's choice (Book); The genesis of the New England churches (Book); Johnson, Virginia W. (Virginia Wales); Jay, W.M.L. PDF IMAGES
140-146	Editor's scientific record/Article Editor's scientific record PDF IMAGES
147	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
148	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Eberhard, Alfred; Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents; a memorial (Book); Philogelos, Hieroclis et Philagrii facetiae (Book); Physician and patient; Constable, Thomas PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Democratic Party (New York); Fasts and feasts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cincinnati; Life insurance agents PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Driving of horse-drawn vehicles PDF IMAGES
149	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: German American families; Rochester; Weddings PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Walt Whitman SEE ALSO: Patronage, Political PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Family size; Humor; Immigrants; Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem A genius By Matthias Claudius SEE ALSO: Asses PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Freedmen PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Epigram by La Moyne By La Moyne SEE ALSO: Asses; Fools and jesters PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Electricity; Exorcism; Humor; Priestley, Joseph; Leeds; Physiological effect PDF IMAGES
150	Editor's drawer/Poem Didactic ode SEE ALSO: Comte, Auguste; Darwin, Charles; Spencer, Herbert; Humor—Poetry; Carlyle, Thomas PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Fiction The adventures of Mick Callighin, M.P. SEE ALSO: Blessing and cursing; Priests PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Family relationships; Presbyterian Church PDF IMAGES
151	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Children of clergy; Cookery (Turkey) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Donegal; Eagles; Northern Ireland PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Agreement PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mothers; Mourning etiquette PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Northern Ireland; Priests; Purgatory; Ulster PDF IMAGES
152	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bankruptcy; Malapropisms PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Whiskey industry PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Northern Ireland; Presbyterian Church; Ulster PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Cupid crying SEE ALSO: Cupid (Roman deity) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Pronunciation PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Hamlet's soliloquy, as delivered at the Theatre Royal, Jeddo By Chin-yow SEE ALSO: Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES