Harper's Magazine: January 1881

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January 1881

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161-177	Article The English lakes and their genii (II) By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Homes and haunts; Journeys—England—Lake District; Lake District; Lake District (England); Arnold, Matthew; Conway, Moncure Daniel; Portraits PDF IMAGES
177	Poem The fame of the city By John Boyle O'Reilly SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Fame; Poets PDF IMAGES
178-190	Article Old-time life in a Quaker town By Howard Pyle SEE ALSO: Delaware; Quakers; Wilmington; Wilmington (Del.) PDF IMAGES
191-208	Article The old New York Volunteer Fire Department ([first paper]) By George William Sheldon SEE ALSO: Career in New York Volunteer Fire Department; Forrester, Charles; Fire fighters; Fires; New York Volunteer Fire Department; Portraits; Mills, Zophar PDF IMAGES
209-210	Poem From exile: Paris, September 3, 1879 By Julia C.R. (Julia Caroline Ripley) Dorr SEE ALSO: Exiles; Reunions; Third Republic, 1870-1940 PDF IMAGES
211-218	Article Down the Thames in a birch-bark canoe By James S. Whitman SEE ALSO: Canoes and canoeing; Whitman, James S.; Journeys—England—Thames River; Thames River; Thames River (England) PDF IMAGES
218-238	Fiction Anne (chaps. III-IV) By Constance Fenimore Woolson SEE ALSO: Midwesterners PDF IMAGES
238-247	Article Some great violins By Barnet Phillips SEE ALSO: Collectors and collecting; Construction; Knowledge—Violin; Bull, Ole; Portraits; Violin PDF IMAGES
248-250	Poem Patient Mercy Jones By James Thomas Fields SEE ALSO: Fuelwood; Patience PDF IMAGES
250	Poem Mercedes By James Russell Lowell SEE ALSO: Alfonso XII, 1875-1885; Death—Poetry; María de las Mercedes, Queen, consort of Alfonso XII, King of Spain; Queens PDF IMAGES Poem The prison of Cervantes By James Russell Lowell SEE ALSO: Imagination; Imprisonment, 1597—Poetry; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de PDF IMAGES Collection Two sonnets By James Russell Lowell PDF IMAGES
251	Poem Christmasse eve—a ceremonie By Robert Herrick PDF IMAGES
252-273	Article James Russell Lowell By Francis Henry Underwood SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Lowell, James Russell; Poets, American; Portraits; Views on politics PDF IMAGES
273-279	Article Does life-insurance insure? By T.M. (Titus Munson) Coan SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Insurance, Life PDF IMAGES
279-288	Fiction Our nearest neighbors By Alice Perry SEE ALSO: Neighborliness PDF IMAGES
289-303	Fiction A Laodicean. Book the first.—George Somerset (chaps. I-IV) By Thomas Hardy SEE ALSO: Architects; Castles; Conservation and restoration PDF IMAGES
303-305	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Periodicals, Publishing of PDF IMAGES
305-306	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Opera PDF IMAGES
306-307	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Performances—New York (State)—New York—19th century; Bernhardt, Sarah PDF IMAGES
307	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Autonomy and independence movements; Parnell, Charles Stewart; Speeches PDF IMAGES
308-309	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Appreciation—United States; Austen, Jane; Popular literature; Realism in literature PDF IMAGES
310-315	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A day of fate (Book); A dream of fair women (Book); MacLeod, Alexander Benjamin; Kinglake, Alexander William; An Egyptian princess (Book); Hodge, Archibald Alexander; Curteis, Arthur M. (Arthur Mapletoft); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Coffin, Charles Carleton; Drifting (Book); Eggleston, Edward; Roe, Edward Payson; English men of letters (Book series); Ingersoll, Ernest; Oswald, Felix L. (Felix Leopold); Friends worth knowing: glimpses of American natural history (Book); Ebers, Georg; Towle, George M. (George Makepeace); Schliemann, Heinrich; James, Henry; Ilios. The city and country of the Trojans (Book); Jack and Jill: a village story (Book); Morley, John; Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty; Winsor, Justin; Jackson, Catherine Charlotte, Lady; Alcott, Louisa May; Moulton, Louise Chandler; Marco Polo; his travels and adventures (Book); Montezuma and the conquest of Mexico (Book); Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.; New bed-time stories (Book); Brooks, Noah; Old Paris, its court and literary salons (Book); Old times in the colonies (Book); Parables from nature (Book); Pastoral days; or, Memories of a New England year (Book); Palmer, Ray; Rise of the Macedonian empire (Book); Lanier, Sidney; Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir; Summerland sketches, or rambles in the backwoods of Mexico and Central America (Book); Warner, Susan; The boy's King Arthur; being Sir Thomas Malory's history of King Arthur and his knights of the Round table (Book); The early history of Charles James Fox (Book); The end of a coil (Book); The Fairport nine (Book); The gentle heart (Book); The life of Charles Hodge ... professor in the Theological seminary, Princeton, N.J. (Book); The memorial history of Boston, including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880 (Book); The moral pirates (Book); Aldrich, Thomas Bailey; Read, Thomas Buchanan; Voices of hope and gladness (Book); Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton); Alden, W.L. (William Livingston); Washington Square (Book); XXXVI lyrics and XII sonnets; selected from Cloth of gold and Flower and thorn (Book) PDF IMAGES
316	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
317	Editor's drawer/Fiction Troubles of a country sexton SEE ALSO: Burial; Sextons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Impostors and imposture; Journeys—France—Paris—Humor; Woods, Leonard; Tomb—Humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Wake services PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Doughnuts; Poor men PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Christians; Grace at meals PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Poverty PDF IMAGES
318	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Joseph Capen SEE ALSO: Death—Poetry; Foster, John; Printers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Megalomania; Psychiatric hospital patients PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Psychiatric hospital patients PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Stock exchanges; Storytelling; Stuttering; Travers, William Riggin PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Chinese Americans PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Blizzards; Gannet, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles); Rescues; Unitarian Universalist churches PDF IMAGES
319	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Diseases; Invalids; Risk PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Parents; Ten commandments PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Deacons; Horses PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Epitaphs; Reed, Isaac PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Veterans PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baptists; Broadus; Christian sects; Horses; Housing; Humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Smoking PDF IMAGES
320	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Charles Kingsley PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Joke Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell); Funeral rites and ceremonies; Humor—Quotations PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Humor—Quotations; Clifford, Nathan PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Congregational churches; Gettysburg PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Humor—Quotations; Sermons, American; Taylor, William M. (William Mackergo) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Christian sects PDF IMAGES