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1881

January	Selected Articles The English lakes and their genii (II) By Moncure Daniel Conway Old-time life in a Quaker town By Howard Pyle Fiction Anne (chaps. III-IV) By Constance Fenimore Woolson Our nearest neighbors By Alice Perry Poetry The fame of the city By John Boyle O'Reilly From exile: Paris, September 3, 1879 By Julia C.R. (Julia Caroline Ripley) Dorr
February	Selected Articles The gospel history in Italian painting By Henry J. Vandyke The English lakes and their genii (III) By Moncure Daniel Conway Fiction Anne (chaps. V-VI) By Constance Fenimore Woolson The fire-fly By Margaret S. McLean Poetry Asleep By Rose Terry Cooke Beau By T.H. Robertson
March	Selected Articles Bedford Park By Moncure Daniel Conway The University of Leiden By Waterman Thomas Hewett Fiction Anne (chaps. VII-VIII) By Constance Fenimore Woolson Hands off By Edward Everett Hale Poetry Richard Henry Stoddard By Henry Ripley Dorr The grave-digger By Robert Herrick
April	Selected Articles The Green Mountains in sugar-time By William H. (William Henry) Rideing An English cathedral By Arthur Gilman Fiction Anne (chap. IX) By Constance Fenimore Woolson Two storms By Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell Poetry Patrolling Barnegat By Walt Whitman The Indian camp By J.T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
May	Selected Articles Music and musicians in New York By Frederick Nast Athens By Merrill Edwards Gates Fiction Anne (chaps. X-XI) By Constance Fenimore Woolson The return message By Edward Everett Hale Poetry “I held love's head” By Robert Herrick The Indian girl. A picture by Walter Shirlaw By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
June	Selected Articles The White Mountains (part I) By Samuel Adams Drake Kentucky farms By Edward Atkinson Fiction Mrs. Millington and her librarian. A love story By Helen Hunt Jackson A Laodicean. Book the second.—Dare and Havill (chap. VII, continued; chap. VIII). Book the third.—De Stancy (chaps. I-III) By Thomas Hardy Poetry The dead child and the mocking-bird By Paul Hamilton Hayne The mad mayde's song By Robert Herrick
July	Selected Articles A neglected corner of Europe. II.—A glass of Port By Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney Old Dutch masters. VI.—Gerard Douw. VII.—Gabriel Metzu. VIII.—Franz Mieris, the Elder By E. Mason Fiction Anne (chaps. XIV-XV) By Constance Fenimore Woolson That faded braid. A railway phantasy By Arthur Hastings Poetry A kiss By B.D. Fowlkes The parson's daughter By Julia C.R. (Julia Caroline Ripley) Dorr
August	Selected Articles The surrender of Cornwallis By Henry Phelps Johnston A day in Africa (part second) By Thomas Bailey Aldrich Fiction Anne (chaps. XVI-XVII) By Constance Fenimore Woolson The various languages of Billy Moon By Richard Malcolm Johnston Poetry Almond blossom By Margaret Veley The Parcæ, or, three daintie destinies—the armelet By Robert Herrick
September	Selected Articles The English at the sea-side By William H. (William Henry) Rideing Summering among the Thousand Isles By E.H. Ropes Fiction The girls' sketching camp By Olive Thorne Miller Anne (chaps. XVIII-XIX) By Constance Fenimore Woolson Poetry A dialogue betwixt himselfe & Mistresse Eliza Wheeler under the name of Amarillis By Robert Herrick The little kings and queens By Helen Hunt Jackson
October	Selected Articles A Berkshire road By W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson Journalistic London (first paper) By Joseph Hatton Fiction Anne (chaps. XX-XXI) By Constance Fenimore Woolson “Raldy.” A story of the Wisconsin River By Kate Upson Clark Poetry For the soldiers By Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
November	Selected Articles In Cornwall with an umbrella By William H. (William Henry) Rideing A week in a dug-out By William W., Jun. Thomas Fiction The sumac-gatherers By John Esten Cooke Anne (chaps. XXII-XXIII) By Constance Fenimore Woolson Poetry Tilghman's ride from Yorktown to Philadelphia By Howard Pyle By the river By Lucy Larcom
December	Selected Articles How America came to be discovered By John Fiske Economy in dress By M.O. (Maria Oakey) Dewing Fiction Sam Sperry's pension By Sarah Pratt McLean Green A crisis By Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney Poetry Upon Sappho By Robert Herrick The two gates By S.S. Conant

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