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1886

January	Selected Articles Winter in Devonshire By Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie Hunting a mythical pall-bearer By Moncure Daniel Conway Fiction East Angels (chaps. XXI-XXIII) By Constance Fenimore Woolson “Sis” By Mary Tucker Magill Poetry Lament By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford In the marshes By Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr
February	Selected Articles The British navy By Edward J. (Edward James), Sir Reed The blue-grass region of Kentucky By James Lane Allen Fiction East Angels (chaps. XXIV-XXV) By Constance Fenimore Woolson “For Looly” By Kate Upson Clark Poetry Your coming By D.H.R. (Dora Hill Read) Goodale A bruisèd rose By Charles Washington Coleman
March	Selected Articles Cape Breton folk By Charles Haight Farnham An iron city beside the Ruhr By Moncure Daniel Conway Fiction East Angels (chaps. XXVI-XXVIII) By Constance Fenimore Woolson Brief—as woman's love By Brander Matthews Poetry A rose of Jericho By Frances L. (Frances Parker Laughton) Mace The dingy sod house of Dakota By Joel Benton
April	Selected Articles Going down to the sea in ships By Phil Robinson The home acre. II. By Edward Payson Roe Fiction Springhaven (chaps. I-V) By R.D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore Their pilgrimage (chaps. I-II) By Charles Dudley Warner Poetry A birthday By Jenny Poultney Bigelow “Cut, cut behind!” By Charles Follen Adams
May	Selected Articles Portraits of our Saviour By William Harrison Ingersoll Sap bewitched By W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson Fiction Springhaven (chaps. VI-X) By R.D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore Their pilgrimage (chap. III) By Charles Dudley Warner Poetry Return By Juliet C. Marsh Face to face By Paul Hamilton Hayne
June	Selected Articles The death of Pope Alexander VI By Thomas Frederick Crane The United States Navy. In transition By Edward Simpson Fiction Their pilgrimage (chap. IV) By Charles Dudley Warner King Arthur. Not a love story (chaps. VII-VIII) By Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poetry The city of Is By Minot Judson Savage The archer's prayer By John William De Forest
July	Selected Articles The New York Produce Exchange By Richard Wheatley A night-monkey in the house By Olive Thorne Miller Fiction Their pilgrimage (chaps. V-VII) By Charles Dudley Warner Dirt pies By Mary Spear Tiernan Poetry Ros Solis By Annie Fields
August	Selected Articles Joseph Jefferson By William Winter The city of the Strait By James R. (James Roberts) Gilmore Fiction De Barbadoesa's little hour By Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie Springhaven (chaps. XIX-XXII) By R.D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore Poetry An elective course. Lines found among the papers of a Harvard undergraduate By Thomas Bailey Aldrich An invitation By Annie Fields
September	Selected Articles Ferdinand Barbedienne. Artistic bronze By Theodore Child Working-men in the British Parliament By Edward Brown Fiction Their pilgrimage (chaps. XI-XIII) By Charles Dudley Warner Brother Angelan By Harold Frederic Poetry Places of worship By William Wordsworth Der Deutscher's maxim By Charles Follen Adams
October	Selected Articles Autumn in England By Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie The national home for disabled volunteer soldiers By Maria Barrett Butler Fiction Their pilgrimage (chaps. XIV-XV) By Charles Dudley Warner Ole 'Stracted By Thomas Nelson Page Poetry Persicos odi. Horace's odes, I., 38 By Horace Grass of Parnassus By Andrew Lang
November	Selected Articles The literary movement in New York By George Parsons Lathrop Halloween: A threefold chronicle By William Sharp Fiction The tragic story of Binns By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Springhaven (chaps. XXXII-XXXV) By R.D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore Poetry Love's deserted palace By Philip Bourke Marston Harvest noon By Charles Washington Coleman
December	Selected Articles Fiction The king of Folly Island By Sarah Orne Jewett Blind Willy By B.L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon Poetry The cup of death By Louise Chandler Moulton Coquetry's argument By C.H. Thayer

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