December 1866

Articles

• Reconstruction

  “No republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them.”

  Frederick Douglass

• My Garden

  A poem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Passages From Hawthorne’s Note-Books (Part XII)

  Personal musings from the renowned American author

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• John Pierpont

  John Neal

• Borneo and Rajah Brooke

  G. Reynolds

• Katharine Morne: Part Ii

• The Sword of Bolivar

  John Trowbridge

• Through Broadway

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

• My Heathen at Home

  J. W. Palmer

• A Friend

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

• The Singing-School Romance

  H. H. Weld

• Autumn Song

  Forceythe Willson

• The Fall of Austria

  Charles Creighton Hazewell

• History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent

• Griffith Gaunt; Or, Jealousy

• Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie/Maud Muller/the Vision of Sir Launfal..

• An American Family in Germany

• Charles Lamb. A Memoir

• Character and Characteristic Men

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