Harper's Magazine: December 1878

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December 1878

CONTENTS
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1-2	Poem Hymn on the nativity By Ben Johnson SEE ALSO: Jesus Christ; Nativity PDF IMAGES Collection Merry Christmas! PDF IMAGES
2	Poem Christmas-day By George Wither SEE ALSO: Jesus Christ; Nativity PDF IMAGES Poem A Christmas carol By Samuel Taylor Coleridge SEE ALSO: Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Motherhood; Nativity; Shepherds PDF IMAGES
4-6	Poem Mercy's appeal to God for man By Giles Fletcher SEE ALSO: Bible stories; Jesus Christ; Nativity PDF IMAGES
6-16	Fiction Two hundred and two By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; First loves; Growth; Single people PDF IMAGES
17-36	Article England's great university By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Jowett, Benjamin; College buildings; Education, Higher; Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max); Faculty; Liddon, Henry Parry; Oxford; Portraits; University of Oxford PDF IMAGES
37-47	Fiction Knoware By Rose Terry Cooke SEE ALSO: Democracy; Dystopias; Utopias PDF IMAGES
47	Poem After dark By Will Wallace Harney SEE ALSO: Night PDF IMAGES Article The Red River Colony By Augustus L. (Augustus Louis) Chetlain SEE ALSO: Chetlain, Augustus L. (Augustus Louis); Manitoba; Rindesbacher, Peter; Schirmer, Philip; Portraits; Red River Settlement (Manitoba) PDF IMAGES
55	Poem Urania By Frances L. (Frances Parker Laughton) Mace PDF IMAGES
56-75	Article Mendelssohn and Moscheles By Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie SEE ALSO: Austria; Weber, Carl Maria von; Schumann, Clara; Composers; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Friendship with Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Friendship with Ignaz Moscheles; Handel, George Frideric; Moscheles, Ignaz; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Portraits; Schumann, Robert; Thalberg, Sigismond; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
75-82	Article Silver By Charles Barnard SEE ALSO: North America; Silver; Silver mines and mining PDF IMAGES
82	Poem The children! By Paul Hamilton Hayne PDF IMAGES
83-95	Fiction The return of the native (book V, chaps. V-VIII) By Thomas Hardy PDF IMAGES
95-97	Article The mariners' “cautionary signal” By Edward Henry Knight SEE ALSO: Aids to navigation; Signals and signaling PDF IMAGES
97-106	Fiction Helen By Alice Perry SEE ALSO: Foundlings; Single women; Sisters PDF IMAGES
106-109	Article Crime and tramps By Horatio Seymour SEE ALSO: Crime; Crime prevention; Criminal law; Imprisonment; Punishment; Tramps PDF IMAGES
109	Poem Joseph, the Nez Percé By William Henry Babcock SEE ALSO: Joseph, Nez Percé Chief; Poem PDF IMAGES
110-126	Fiction Macleod of Dare (chaps. XL-XLIII) By William Black SEE ALSO: Actresses; Nobility; Scots PDF IMAGES
126-130	Article Some peculiarities of yellow jack By T.M. (Titus Munson) Coan SEE ALSO: Epidemics; Yellow fever PDF IMAGES
131-135	Article The first railroad in China By Augustus Allen Hayes SEE ALSO: Business enterprises, Foreign; Shanghai PDF IMAGES
135	Poem Expectation By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps SEE ALSO: Rising and setting; Sun PDF IMAGES
136-140	Fiction A rescue from cannibals By M'Carthy SEE ALSO: Brothers and sisters; Single women PDF IMAGES
140-141	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Biography as a literary form PDF IMAGES
141-142	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Temperance PDF IMAGES
142-143	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Hazing; Young men PDF IMAGES
143-144	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Athletics; Québec (Province); Rowing; Sports betting PDF IMAGES
144-145	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Commerce; Competition, International; Quotations; Views on international competition; Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart) PDF IMAGES
145-151	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A history of Roman literature from the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius (Book); A primer of German literature (Book); A rebel's recollections (Book); Wilson, Alexander; American ornithology; or the natural history of birds of the United States (Book); American ornithology; or the natural history of the birds of the United States (Book); Hodge, Archibald Alexander; Behind blue glasses (Book); Bonaparte, Charles Lucian; Cruttwell, Charles Thomas; Cousin Polly's gold mine, a novel (Book); Early Rome, from the foundation of the city to its destruction by the Gauls (Book); Eggleston, Edward; English literature primers (Book); Lawrence, Eugene; Cook, F.C. (Frederic Charles); Hackländer, F.W. (Friedrich Wilhelm); Eggleston, George Cary; Harper's half-hour series (Book series); Jackson, Helen Hunt; Conant, Helen S. (Helen Stevens); Taine, Hippolyte; Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classical (Book); Merle d'Aubigné, J.H. (Jean Henri); Kent, James; Young, Jennie J.; Sparkes, John C.L. (John Charles Lewis); Quackenbos, John D. (John Duncan); Durand, John; Whittier, John Greenleaf; Draper, John William; McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner; Lectures on medieval church history (Book); Life of Alexander H. Stephens (Book); Like unto like; a novel (Book); Literary essays (Book); Arnold, Matthew; Dix, Morgan; Porter, Lydia Ann (Emerson), Mrs.; Foster, Myles Birket; Nelly's silver mine. A story of Colorado life (Book); Outlines of theology (Book); Brooks, Phillips; Trench, Richard Chenevix; Johnston, Richard Malcolm; Roxy (Book); Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy (Book); Selected poems of Matthew Arnold (Book); Sermons (Book); Sermons, doctrinal and practical (Book); Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark (Book); Sibyl Spencer (Book); Thanatopsis (Poem); The ceramic art (Book); The French Revolution (Book); The vision of Echard, and other poems (Book); Ihne, W. (Wilhelm); Linton, W.J. (William James); Rolfe, W.J. (William James); Cowper, William; Bryant, William Cullen; Shedd, William Greenough Thayer; Browne, William Hand; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
151-156	Editor's scientific record/Article Editor's scientific record PDF IMAGES
156	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
157	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Gambling; Horse racing; Teachers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Stevens, Thaddeus; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Stevens, Thaddeus PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Galloway; Sunday schools PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Aged men; Galloway PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Galloway; Unitarians PDF IMAGES
158	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: New Boston PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Church fund raising; Mitchell, Daniel Patrick; El Dorado; Kansas; Methodist Church PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Tom's little star; or, the art and the woman SEE ALSO: Acting; Husband and wife PDF IMAGES