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1861

January	Selected Articles A peep at Washoe (second paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne Cast-away in Jamaica By W.E. Sewell Fiction No. 10 Blank Street By Louise Chandler Moulton How Charlie came home By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Poetry The Battle of the Cowpens: January 18, 1781 By Thomas Dunn English The birthday of Robert Burns. January 25 By Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman
February	Selected Articles A peep at Washoe (third paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne To Red River and beyond (third paper) By Manton Marble Fiction Saint Barbara By T.S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur Cousin Maurice By Mary E. (Mary Emily) Bradley Poetry The skaters By Fitz James O'Brien Introspection By George Arnold
March	Selected Articles Pontiac: Or the Siege of Detroit By Joel Tyler Headley Fishing adventures on the Newfoundland banks By William V. (William Vincent) Wells Fiction “The other family” By Alice B. (Alice Bradley) Haven Biggs boards By J.W. Watson Poetry The ballad of the shamrock By Fitz James O'Brien A story for a child By Bayard Taylor
April	Selected Articles Three months in Labrador (first paper) By Charles Hallock A dish of Capon By Edward C. Bruce Fiction Twelve years of my life By Louise Chandler Moulton Lost on a railway By Rose Terry Cooke Poetry Music at night By Thomas Bailey Aldrich The legend of Easter eggs By Fitz James O'Brien
May	Selected Articles A summer in New England (fourth paper) By David Hunter Strother Three months in Labrador (concluded) By Charles Hallock Fiction The debatable baby By D.R. Castleton Orley Farm (chaps. I-IV) By Anthony Trollope Poetry The old love and the new By Edmund Clarence Stedman
June	Selected Articles The Coast Rangers. A chronicle of events in California. I.—The association By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne Audience of the queen of Spain By Maunsell B. (Maunsell Bradhurst) Field Fiction Captain Alicant By Fitz James O'Brien Grace and I By Katherine Williams Poetry Recrimination By George Arnold Apple-blossoms By Nora Perry
July	Selected Articles A summer in New England (fifth paper, concluded) By David Hunter Strother New York circumnavigated By T. Addison (Thomas Addison) Richards Fiction Thrown together By Fitz Hugh Ludlow Orley Farm (chaps. IX-XII) By Anthony Trollope Poetry Love's messengers By George Arnold Little Mattie By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
August	Selected Articles The Central Park By T. Addison (Thomas Addison) Richards The Coast Rangers. A chronicle of events in California. II.—The Indian reservations By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne Fiction Orley Farm (chaps. XIII-XVI) By Anthony Trollope The seed pearl By Caroline Chesebro' Poetry The fight at Oriskany. August 5, 1777 By Thomas Dunn English Sunset after a shower By N.G. Shepherd
September	Selected Articles Stratford-upon-Avon By James Grant Wilson The capital of the Canadas By M.J. Hickey Fiction Vallandigham By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Orley Farm (chaps. XVII-XX) By Anthony Trollope Poetry The three Tells By Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel The havelock By Fitz James O'Brien
October	Selected Articles Bouquet's expedition By Joel Tyler Headley The Coast Rangers. A chronicle of events in California. III.—Hunting adventures By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne Fiction Orley Farm (chaps. XXI-XXIV) By Anthony Trollope “Marrying a baby” By Kate Neely Festetits Poetry Of loss By Fitz James O'Brien Edwin of Deira By Alexander Smith
November	Selected Articles Benedict Arnold By Benson John Lossing Making money. I.—The Assay Office, New York By Waldo Abbott Fiction Olly Dolly By Jane M. Austin Cause and effect By Mary E. (Mary Emily) Bradley Poetry The tenement house By Fitz James O'Brien The women of Weinsburg By Berger
December	Selected Articles The Coast Rangers. A chronicle of events in California. IV.—The grizzly By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne Colonel Baker By John Hay Fiction Blue yarn stockings By T.S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur The first record of corporal punishment By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey Poetry Still unknown By Elizabeth Stoddard A psalm of the union By William Ross Wallace

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