Harper's Magazine: December 1889

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December 1889

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2-19	Article The comedies of Shakespeare. I. Merry Wives of Windsor By Andrew Lang SEE ALSO: Art patronage; English drama (Comedy); Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character); 16th century; Elizabeth I, Queen of England; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
20-43	Fiction The first countess of Wessex By Thomas Hardy SEE ALSO: Child marriage; Marriages of royalty and nobility PDF IMAGES
44-59	Article The flight into Egypt By Henry Van Dyke SEE ALSO: Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban; Christian art and symbolism; Flight into Egypt; Giotto; In the shadow of Isis (Painting); Jesus Christ; Legends; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Medieval, 500-1500; Modern period, 1500-; Merson, Olivier i.e. Luc Olivier; The flight into Egypt (Painting); The triumph of the innocents (Painting); Hunt, William Holman PDF IMAGES
60-75	Fiction A golden wedding By Ruth McEnery Stuart SEE ALSO: Christmas stories; Freedmen; New Orleans; Wedding anniversaries PDF IMAGES
76-97	Article Modern Russian art By Theodore Child SEE ALSO: Art collections; Art, Russian; Criticism and interpretation; Répine, Elias Efimovitch; Ivan IV, Emperor of Russia; Siemiradzki, Henryk; Life everywhere (Painting); Antocolski, Marc; Mephistopheles (Legendary character); Moscow; Yarochenko, N.A.; Swertchkoff, Nicolas; Trétiakoff, P.; Portraits; Realism in art; Return of the exile from Siberia (Painting); Sculptors; Statues; Vasnetzoff, V.M.; Vereshchagin, Vasilii Vasil'evich PDF IMAGES
97-108	Fiction The twelfth guest By Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman SEE ALSO: Christmas stories; Strangers PDF IMAGES
109-115	Article Oratorio and drama. A new departure By H.R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis SEE ALSO: Oberammergau (Germany); Passion-plays; Presentation, etc.; Religious life and customs; Wagner, Richard PDF IMAGES
115-116	Poem Ode for a mariner ashore By Louise Imogen Guiney SEE ALSO: Seafaring life PDF IMAGES
116-119	Article A ghost By Lafcadio Hearn SEE ALSO: Autobiographical memory; Dreams; Nomads PDF IMAGES
119-130	Fiction The song of the opal By M.E.M. (Mollie Evelyn Moore) Davis SEE ALSO: Folklore; Opals; Texans; Western stories PDF IMAGES
130-135	Fiction Medusa's head By Francis Davis Millet SEE ALSO: Artists' studios; Medusa (Greek mythology) PDF IMAGES
136-140	Poem Buscombe; or, a Michaelmas goose By R.D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore SEE ALSO: First loves PDF IMAGES
141-151	Fiction The taking of Captain Ball By Sarah Orne Jewett SEE ALSO: Gossip; Housekeepers; Ship captains PDF IMAGES
152-154	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Brotherliness PDF IMAGES
154-155	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; Press and politics PDF IMAGES
155-159	Editor's study/Article — (I-V) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American literature; Christmas in literature; Periodicals; Thanksgiving Day PDF IMAGES
159-160	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Brotherliness; Gifts; Progress PDF IMAGES
160-161	Editor's drawer/Article A very free translation By David Ker SEE ALSO: Chinese language; Greek language; Latin language; Translating and interpreting; Translating into English PDF IMAGES
161	Editor's drawer/Poem A presage By Bissell Clinton SEE ALSO: Marriage proposals PDF IMAGES
162	Editor's drawer/Article An hour with a Queenstown jehu By John Kendrick Bangs SEE ALSO: Driving of horse-drawn vehicles; Irish wit and humor; Queenstown PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article On a Christmas card SEE ALSO: Christmas cards PDF IMAGES
163	Editor's drawer/Cartoon His rich uncle SEE ALSO: Inheritance and succession; Last letters before death; Uncles PDF IMAGES
164-165	Editor's drawer/Poem Caleb's courtship, and what came of it By E.T. (Elizabeth T.) Corbett SEE ALSO: Intergenerational relations PDF IMAGES
166	Illustration The tables turned By George Du Maurier SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties) PDF IMAGES
167-168	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Algeria; Bridgman, Frederick Arthur; Travel writing; Winters in Algeria (Book) PDF IMAGES
168-169	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Maupassant, Guy de; James, Henry; Sturges, Jonathan; Short stories, French; The odd number; thirteen tales (Book) PDF IMAGES
169	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Artists' illustrated books; Christmas in art; Santa Claus; Nast, Thomas; Thomas Nast's Christmas drawings for the human race (Book) PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Children's literature, American; Dorymates; a tale of the fishing banks (Book); Fishers; Munroe, Kirk; Work ethic PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Artists' illustrated books; Jerrold, Blanchard; Doré, Gustave; London, a pilgrimage (Book) PDF IMAGES
170	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Coffin, Charles Carleton; Journalists; Redeeming the republic; the third period of the war of the rebellion in the year 1864 (Book) PDF IMAGES