Harper's Magazine: December 1883

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December 1883

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2-16	Article Christmas By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Religious life and customs PDF IMAGES
16-18	Poem The Supper of St. Gregory By John Greenleaf Whittier SEE ALSO: Charity; Legends—Poetry; Presence of God; Gregory, Saint PDF IMAGES
20-41	Article Alfred Tennyson By Anne Thackeray Ritchie SEE ALSO: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron; Tennyson, Emily Sellwood Tennyson, Baroness; Biography; Family; Homes and haunts; Tennyson, Lionel; Portraits PDF IMAGES
42-59	Fiction Nature's serial story (I) By Edward Payson Roe SEE ALSO: Hudson Highlands; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES
59-70	Fiction A gossip about the West Highlands By William Black SEE ALSO: Highlands (Scotland) PDF IMAGES
70-86	Drama The register By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Eavesdropping; Farces PDF IMAGES
86	Poem Mistletoe By John B. (John Banister) Tabb SEE ALSO: Mistletoes PDF IMAGES
88-95	Fiction The kissing bridge. A legend of Albany By George Henry Boughton SEE ALSO: Albany; Kissing; Tall tales; Young adults PDF IMAGES
95-97	Poem The kingdom of the child By Frances L. (Frances Parker Laughton) Mace PDF IMAGES
98-107	Article The nest-builders of the sea By Charles Frederick Holder SEE ALSO: Fishes; Nests PDF IMAGES
108-109	Poem The milkmaid. A new song to an old tune By Austin Dobson SEE ALSO: Dairy workers PDF IMAGES
110-121	Fiction A Virginia visit By Phoebe Yates Pember SEE ALSO: Children and death; Horror tales PDF IMAGES
122-130	Poem The quiet life By Alexander Pope SEE ALSO: Simplicity PDF IMAGES
131-141	Fiction “There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip” By Charles Reade SEE ALSO: Unworthiness of heirs; Widowers PDF IMAGES
141	Poem The guest By Julia C.R. (Julia Caroline Ripley) Dorr PDF IMAGES
142	Song The hunger of the heart By R.J. (Rafael J.) De Cordova and Joseph Mosenthal SEE ALSO: Songs and music; Unrequited love PDF IMAGES
143-149	Fiction Colonel Ingham's journey By Edward Everett Hale SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Adventure stories; Arctic regions; Experiments; Sleep; Tall tales PDF IMAGES
149-150	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: American literature; Boston (Mass.) PDF IMAGES
150-151	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Etiquette PDF IMAGES
151-152	Editor's easy chair/Review Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Fields, Annie; Charity organization; How to help the poor (Book) PDF IMAGES
152-153	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Originality in literature; Plagiarism PDF IMAGES
153-154	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Abolitionists; Assembly, Right of; Freedom of speech PDF IMAGES
154-161	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A bag of stories (Book); A Newport aquarelle (Book); A struggle for fame. A novel (Book); A woman of honor (Book); A woman's reason, a novel (Book); Abraham Lincoln, the backwoods boy (Book); Adventures of two youths in a journey through Africa (Book); Aldersyde (Book); Among the lakes (Book); Warner, Anna Bartlett; Swan, Annie S.; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Harte, Bret; Donal Grant (Book); Poe, Edgar Allan; Eggleston, Edward; “Elegy written in a country church-yard” (Poem); Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth; Four little friends; or, papa's daughters in town (Book); Saunders, Frederick; MacDonald, George; Godfrey Morgan: a Californian mystery (Book); Doré, Gustave; Bunner, H.C. (Henry Cuyler); Campbell, Helen; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Scudder, Horace Elisha; Alger, Horatio; In the Carquinez woods (Book); Baldwin, James; Jingles and joys for wee girls and boys (Book); Jock Halliday (Book); Verne, Jules; Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor (Book); Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth); Elliot, Madge; Brine, Mary D. (Mary Dow); Elliott, Maud Howe; Miss Prudence (Book); Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.; Riddell, J.H., Mrs.; Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona (Book); Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Our young folk's Plutarch (Book); Pages from an old volume of life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 (Book); Phantom fortune (Book); Plutarch; Blackmore, R.D. (Richard Doddridge); Emerson, Ralph Waldo; White, Richard Grant; Hardy, Robina F.; Kaufman, Rosalie; Williams, S. Wells(Samuel Wells); Salad for the solitary and the social (Book); Stephen, M.D. (Book); Warner, Susan; “The Ball of the Vegetables,” and other stories, in prose and verse (Book); The English Bodley family (Book); The Hoosier school-boy (Book); The Middle kingdom. A survey of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts, and history of the Chinese empire and its inhabitants (Book); The princess, a medley (Poem); The raven (Poem); The story of Roland (Book); Gray, Thomas; Knox, Thomas Wallace; Twenty poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Book); Uncle Lawrence; Bishop, W.H. (William Henry); Howells, William Dean; Stoddard, William Osborn; Shakespeare, William; Works. 1883 (Book); Young folks' whys and wherefores (Book) PDF IMAGES
162	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
163	Editor's drawer/Cartoon A Christmas dream SEE ALSO: Christmas cookery; Turkey; Turks PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: December PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Humor—Quotations; Keese, John; John Keese, wit and littérateur. A biographical memoir (Book); Keese, William L. (William Linn) PDF IMAGES
164	Editor's drawer/Cartoon The way of the transgressor SEE ALSO: Cats PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Beauty contestants; Face perception; Humor; Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nutrition PDF IMAGES
165	Editor's drawer/Cartoon A modern Marley: A sermon in five heads PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Etiquette; Humor—Quotations; Bledsoe, Jesse PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mistaken identity PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Ali Aref (Poem); Poe, Edgar Allan PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Poe, Edgar Allan; Psychology PDF IMAGES
166	Editor's drawer/Poem Katie's kisses By C.H. Thayer SEE ALSO: Kissing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article The puzzled captain By C.K. B. SEE ALSO: Ship captains PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Journeys—Virginia—Humor; Lee, Mary; Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton; Errors, Popular; Humor PDF IMAGES
167	Editor's drawer/Poem The old Brevoort farm By Gideon J. (Gideon John) Tucker SEE ALSO: Brevoort, Henry; Land use; Trials, litigation, etc.—Poetry PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article An old Negro in love SEE ALSO: Aged men; Mulattoes; Unrequited love PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Binghamton; Freedmen; Slaves; Theft PDF IMAGES
168	Editor's drawer/Cartoon “A length ahead” SEE ALSO: Falls (Accidents); Skating PDF IMAGES