Harper's Magazine: December 1877

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December 1877

CONTENTS
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1-7	Poem Milton's hymn on the nativity By John Milton SEE ALSO: Jesus Christ; Milton, John; Nativity; On the morning of Christ's Nativity (Poem) PDF IMAGES
8-18	Fiction “Many leaves and few grapes.” A Christmas story By Virginia W. (Virginia Wales) Johnson SEE ALSO: Christmas stories; Dwarfs; Florence; Women artists PDF IMAGES
18-33	Article Elizabethan and later English furniture By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford SEE ALSO: Decorative arts; Furniture PDF IMAGES
34-42	Fiction Back to back. A story of to-day (part II, chaps. VIII-XII) By Edward Everett Hale SEE ALSO: Cooperation; Industrialists; 1865-1918; Rhode Island; Wool industry PDF IMAGES
42	Poem A memory By Augustus Julian Requier SEE ALSO: Memory PDF IMAGES
43-59	Article The metropolitan newspaper By William H. (William Henry) Rideing SEE ALSO: Career in journalism; Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson); Stone, David M.(David Marvin); Jones, George; Hastings, Hugh; Bundy, J.M. (Jonas Mills); Bennett, James Gordon; Newspaper publishing; Ottendorfer, Oswald; Portraits; Reid, Whitelaw; Bryant, William Cullen; Hurlbert, William Henry PDF IMAGES
59	Poem Monmouth By James Thomas Fields SEE ALSO: Monmouth County Courthouse (Manalapan, N.J.) PDF IMAGES
60-64	Fiction Master Robby's romance By Henrietta H. Holdich SEE ALSO: Brothers and sisters PDF IMAGES
64	Poem To a friend who slept ill By Edgar Fawcett SEE ALSO: Insomnia; Sleep PDF IMAGES
65-78	Poem Kéramos By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SEE ALSO: Nature (Aesthetics); Potters PDF IMAGES
79-84	Fiction The man in the cage By Rebecca Harding Davis SEE ALSO: Death row inmates; Spouses of clergy PDF IMAGES
84-96	Article A year of American travel (continued) By Jessie Benton Fremont SEE ALSO: California, Northern; Gold discoveries; Fremont, Jessie Benton; Fremont, John Charles; Journeys—California; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
96-104	Fiction My uncle's heiress By Charles De Kay SEE ALSO: Rich people; Socialites PDF IMAGES
104-109	Article Jamrach's By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Career in wild animal collecting; Curiosities and wonders; Jamrach; Museums PDF IMAGES
109-119	Fiction The daily advertiser By Horace Elisha Scudder SEE ALSO: Advertisers PDF IMAGES
119-130	Fiction Da capo (chaps. I-V) By Anne Thackeray Ritchie SEE ALSO: Rich people; Swiss Alps; Switzerland PDF IMAGES
130-137	Fiction Was it love, or blindness? By A.P. C. SEE ALSO: Blind women; Blindness; Lace and lace making PDF IMAGES
137-140	Article The cosmogony of “Paradise Lost” By Ehrman Syme Nadal SEE ALSO: Cosmogony; Criticism and interpretation; Early modern, 1500-1700; English poetry; Milton, John; Paradise lost (Poem) PDF IMAGES
140-142	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Hadley (Mass.); King Philip's War, 1675-1676; Legends; 1600-1750; Wars; Goffe, William PDF IMAGES
142-143	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: 1775-1865; Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 PDF IMAGES
143-144	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: 1837-1901; Public opinion; Sentimentalism; Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart) PDF IMAGES
144-145	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Career in crime; Criminals; Morton; Gilman, Winthrop Sargent PDF IMAGES
145-149	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: Alcohol and the state; a discussion of the problem of law as applied to the liquor traffic (Book); Biology, with preludes on current events (Book); Adams, Charles Francis; Contemporary art in Europe (Book); Cyclopædia of Biblical, theological and ecclesiastical literature (Book); Domestic explosives (Book); Roe, Edward Payson; Tullidge, Edward W.(Edward William); Hamlet (Book); Hamlet (Play); Furness, Horace Howard; McClintock, John; Adams, John Quincy; Cook, Joseph; Lectures on preaching, delivered before the Divinity school of Yale college in January and February, 1877 (Book); Brooks, Phillips; Dugdale, R.L. (Richard Louis); Pitman, Robert C.(Robert Carter); Benjamin, S.G.W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler); The children's songs (Book); “The Jukes”; a study in crime, pauperism, disease and heredity; also further studies of criminals (Book); The knight of the nineteenth century (Book); The women of Mormondom (Book); Transcendentalism, with preludes on current events (Book); Alden, W.L. (William Livingston); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
149-154	Editor's scientific record/Article Editor's scientific record PDF IMAGES
155	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record PDF IMAGES
156	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; Anecdotes; Ugliness PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Funeral rites and ceremonies PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Furniture; Generals PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Colorado; Denver PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Chaplains, Military PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Sheriffs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Two reasons SEE ALSO: Kissing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Columbus, Christopher; Humor; Italians PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American women; Explosions PDF IMAGES
157	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bengal; English newspapers; Humor; Campbell, George, Sir PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Prisoners; Ely, Smith PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Fiction Editor's drawer By James M. (James Montgomery) Bailey SEE ALSO: Husband and wife; Bailey, James M. (James Montgomery); They all do it (Book) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Horse-drawn vehicles PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Eulogies; Sermons PDF IMAGES
158	Editor's drawer/Poem Thanksgiving-day SEE ALSO: Thanksgiving Day PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Horses PDF IMAGES
159	Editor's drawer/Poem Shonny Schwartz By Charles Follen Adams SEE ALSO: German Americans PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Reginald Heber SEE ALSO: Yew PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bible stories; Joking PDF IMAGES
160	Editor's drawer/Poem A “sea-change” SEE ALSO: Mermaids PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem The meerschaum PDF IMAGES