Harper's Magazine: December 1860

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December 1860

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1-17	Article A peep at Washoe ([first paper]) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Nevada; Silver miners; Silver mines and mining PDF IMAGES
18-30	Article The Croton Aqueduct By T. Addison (Thomas Addison) Richards SEE ALSO: Croton Aqueduct (New York) PDF IMAGES
30-46	Article Unwelcome guests By Charlotte Taylor SEE ALSO: Anatomy; Ants; Bedbugs; Cockroaches; Insects; Moths PDF IMAGES
46-52	Fiction How the course of true love ran smooth By George Arnold SEE ALSO: Recluses PDF IMAGES
52-67	Fiction The M.C.'s Christmas dream, and the lobby member's happy New-Year By A. Oakey (Abraham Oakey) Hall SEE ALSO: Christmas stories PDF IMAGES
67-72	Article Thomas Olivers, “cobbler,” poet, and Methodist hero By Abel Stevens SEE ALSO: Hymns; Methodist Church; Methodists; Olivers, Thomas PDF IMAGES
72-81	Fiction John Owen's appeal By Lillie Devereux Blake SEE ALSO: Abduction; Horror tales; Murder PDF IMAGES
81	Poem Out in the storm By William Winter SEE ALSO: Homelessness PDF IMAGES Fiction A struggle for life By Charles Nordhoff PDF IMAGES
87-96	Fiction Pomp By D.R. Castleton SEE ALSO: African American families; Free African Americans; Racism; Religious fiction PDF IMAGES
96-98	Fiction If I were only in heaven By T.S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur SEE ALSO: Charity; Didactic fiction; Religious fiction PDF IMAGES
99-110	Article “Unto this last.” IV.—Ad valorem By John Ruskin SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Ricardo, David; Economics; Ruskin, John; Mill, John Stuart; Overpopulation; Political and social views; Value; Views on David Ricardo; Views on economics; Views on John Stuart Mill PDF IMAGES
110-111	Fiction A man's repentance By Louise Chandler Moulton SEE ALSO: Betrayal; Repentance; Women and death PDF IMAGES
111-113	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
113-116	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Bowman, Anne; Curiosities of natural history (Book); Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan); Claiborne, J.F.H. (John Francis Hamtramck); Life and correspondence of John A. Quitman, major-general, U. S. A., and governor of the state of Mississippi (Book); Reid, Mayne; Odd people. Being a popular description of singular races of man (Book); The adventures of James Capen Adams: mountaineer and grizzly bear hunter of California (Book); The kangaroo hunters; or, adventures in the bush (Book); Hittell, Theodore Henry PDF IMAGES
117-121	Editor's table/Article Our American dignity By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Dignity; Edward VII, King of Great Britain; Royal visitors; Visit to United States, 1860; Visits of state PDF IMAGES
122	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: “The four Georges” (Poem); Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Sala, George Augustus; Views on William Hogarth; Hogarth, William PDF IMAGES
123	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Art collections; Art museums; Jarves, James Jackson; Painting, Italian PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Review Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Evan Harrington: a novel (Book); Meredith, George PDF IMAGES
124-125	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties); Edward VII, King of Great Britain; Visit to New York, 1860 PDF IMAGES
125-126	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Balls (Parties); Dickens, Charles PDF IMAGES
126	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Edward VII, King of Great Britain; Snobs and snobbishness; Visit to United States, 1860 PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; George L. Brown; New York (New York) in art PDF IMAGES
127-128	Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Garibaldi, Giuseppe; 1849-1870; War of 1860-1861 PDF IMAGES
128-129	Our foreign bureau/Review Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: History of Friedrich the Second, called Frederick the Great (Book); Carlyle, Thomas PDF IMAGES
129-131	Our foreign bureau/Review Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Abdul Mejid, 1839-1861; Druze and Maronite Conflict, 1860; Foreign intervention, 1857-1861; Lebanon; 1516-1918; Syria; Turkey PDF IMAGES
131	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc. PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
132	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nebraska; Statutes PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Allegheny Mountains PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Sunday schools PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Sunday school superintendents PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
133	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Plantation life; Slaves PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: River steamers PDF IMAGES
134	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Mayors; Visitors, Foreign PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Horse-drawn omnibuses PDF IMAGES
135	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Public speaking PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Letter writing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Horses; Judging PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Signs and signboards; Storefronts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mexican War, 1846-1848 PDF IMAGES
136	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mexican War, 1846-1848 PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mexican War, 1846-1848 PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Motion sickness; Ocean travel PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mexican War, 1846-1848 PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Insurance, Surety and fidelity; Marriage licenses PDF IMAGES
137	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem In memoriam PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alcoholism PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
138	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Clay, Henry; Toasts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: 1840 PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Campaign debates PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Woodbury PDF IMAGES
139	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Woodbury PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Agriculture PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Curiosities in our drawer SEE ALSO: “Editor's drawer” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Temperance PDF IMAGES
140	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Faro; Mississippi River; Mistaken identity; River boats PDF IMAGES
141-142	Cartoon A leaf from the diary of an unlucky man setting forth how he had a day's pleasure(?) and what it cost him! SEE ALSO: Fate and fatalism; Fortune PDF IMAGES
143-144	Fashions for December/Department Fashions for December PDF IMAGES