Harper's Magazine: April 1877

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April 1877

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633-655	Article Furniture and its decoration in the Renaissance By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford PDF IMAGES
655	Poem Raphael's St. Cecilia By M.G.V. R. SEE ALSO: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia (Painting); Raphael PDF IMAGES
656-663	Article Our familiar birds (first paper) By Mary Treat SEE ALSO: Birds PDF IMAGES
664-676	Article A summer cruise among the Atlantic islands. III.—The Canaries. IV.—The Cape Verds By Albert Leary Gihon SEE ALSO: Canary Islands; Teide, Pico de (Tenerife, Canary Islands) PDF IMAGES
676	Poem A song of the garden By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps SEE ALSO: Lilies PDF IMAGES
677-686	Fiction Old Wiley By John Esten Cooke PDF IMAGES
686-694	Fiction The chimera of the coach (the coach of '76) By A.P. C. SEE ALSO: Driving of horse-drawn vehicles PDF IMAGES
695-696	Article Liberal education for women By Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett SEE ALSO: Education, Higher PDF IMAGES
697-705	Article Shoe-maker and naturalist By S.S. Conant SEE ALSO: Career as naturalist; Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward, associate of the Linnaean society (Book); Naturalists; Smiles, Samuel; Edward, Thomas PDF IMAGES
706-710	Fiction Uncle Zeke's conscience By T.L. M'Cready PDF IMAGES
710	Poem The rain. Suggested by one of Chopin's preludes By Ellis Gray SEE ALSO: Chopin, Frédéric; Poem; Rain and rainfall PDF IMAGES
711-722	Fiction A woman-hater (chaps. XX-XXI) By Charles Reade SEE ALSO: Misogyny PDF IMAGES
722-730	Article The public libraries of the United States By Edward Howland SEE ALSO: Franklin, Benjamin; Career in bookselling; Usher, Hezekiah; Knowledge—Libraries; Public libraries PDF IMAGES
730	Poem Vain waiting By Philip Bourke Marston SEE ALSO: Waiting (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES Fiction Married people By Rebecca Harding Davis SEE ALSO: Quacks and quackery PDF IMAGES
735-740	Fiction Garth. A novel (chap. XX, continued; chap. XXI) By Julian Hawthorne SEE ALSO: Miscegenation PDF IMAGES
740-750	Article Popular exposition of some scientific experiments. Part II.—About flame and the combustion of substances By John William Draper SEE ALSO: Plant physiology PDF IMAGES
750	Poem Vittoria Colonna By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SEE ALSO: Early modern, 1500-1700; Poem; Poets, Italian; Colonna, Vittoria PDF IMAGES
751-762	Fiction Erema; or, my father's sin (chaps. XXII-XXV) By R.D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore PDF IMAGES
762-763	Poem Teneriffe By S.G.W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin SEE ALSO: Teide, Pico de (Tenerife, Canary Islands) PDF IMAGES
763-764	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Blitz, Antonio; Conjuring; Death and burial; Magicians PDF IMAGES
764-765	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Administration; Asia; Assumption of title of Empress of India, 1876; British occupation, 1765-1947; Career as viceroy of India; Career in administration of India; Colonies; Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield; Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain; Role in assumption by Queen Victoria of title of Empress of India, 1876; Hastings, Warren PDF IMAGES
765-766	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: 1783-1865; Partisanship; United States. Constitution PDF IMAGES
766-767	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Generals; Montgomery, Richard PDF IMAGES
767-768	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Liability (Law); Steamboat disasters PDF IMAGES
768-772	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A mad world and its inhabitants (Book); Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Chaillé-Long, C. (Charles); Central Africa: naked truths of naked people. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, west of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile) (Book); Tegnér, Esaias; Burnaby, Fred; Frithiofs saga (Book); Fleming, George; Harold; a drama (Book); Minot, Henry Davis; Jehovah-Jesus: the oneness of God: the true Trinity (Book); Service, John; Joshua Haggard's daughter (Book); Alberdi, Juan Bautista; Verne, Jules; Chambers, Julius; Kismet (Book); Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth); Madcap Violet (Book); Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon; Michael Strogoff (Book); Peter, the apostle (Book); Hamerton, Philip Gilbert; Anderson, Rasmus Björn; Dodge, Richard Irving; Ride to Khiva: travels and adventures in central Asia (Book); Weekes, Robert Dodd; Salvation here and hereafter. Sermons and essays (Book); Selections (Book); Arnold, R. Arthur, Sir; Chambers, Talbot W. (Talbot Wilson); The judgment of Jerusalem predicted in Scripture, fulfilled in history (Book); The land birds and game birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes (Book); The life and industrial labors of William Wheelwright in South America (Book); The plains of the great West and their inhabitants (Book); The Psalter (Book); Holcomb, Thomas Addis Emmett; Through Persia by caravan (Book); Viking tales of the North. The sagas of Thorstein, Viking's son, and Fridthjof the Bold (Book); Wenderholme; a story of Lancashire and Yorkshire (Book); Black, William; Taylor, William M. (William Mackergo); Patton, William PDF IMAGES
773-778	Editor's scientific record/Article Editor's scientific record PDF IMAGES
779	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
780	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Neaves, Lord; Wit and humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Easter service; Millinery PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: France. Armée; Military discipline; Military life; Pardon PDF IMAGES
781-782	Editor's drawer/Poem Diamond cut diamond SEE ALSO: Misers PDF IMAGES
782	Editor's drawer/Cartoon “Betsy and I are out” PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Travel etiquette; Women travelers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Admirals; After-dinner speeches; Capture, 1862; Career in Navy—Humor; New Orleans (La.); Bailey, Theodorus PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Admirals; Career in Navy—Humor; Perjury; Bailey, Theodorus; Witnesses PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Admirals; Career in Navy—Humor; Christian sects; Portsmouth; Sunday school teachers; Bailey, Theodorus PDF IMAGES
783	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Trying it on SEE ALSO: African American girls PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Partiality SEE ALSO: African American children; Dating (Social customs) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fathers; Justices of the peace; Telegraph PDF IMAGES
784	Editor's drawer/Poem Why Biddy and Pat married SEE ALSO: Remarriage PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Birdsongs; Parodies, imitations, etc.; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES