Harper's Magazine: December 1881

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December 1881

CONTENTS
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1	Poem Upon Sappho By Robert Herrick SEE ALSO: Lyric poetry; Poem; Sappho PDF IMAGES
3-29	Article The Bernadottes By Zadel Barnes Buddington Gustafson SEE ALSO: Franz Gustav Oscar, Duke of Upland; Beauharnais, Eugène de; Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway; Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway; Eugénie, Princess, daughter of Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway; Joséphine, Queen, consort of Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway; Gustav V, King of Sweden; Oscar I, King of Sweden; Oscar II, King of Sweden; Portraits; Eugen, Prince of Sweden; Oscar Carl August, Prince; Oscar Carl Wilhelm, Prince; Augusta, Princess; Victoria, Princess of Baden; Sophia Wilhelmina, Queen of Sweden; Sweden PDF IMAGES
30	Poem Prescience By Thomas Bailey Aldrich SEE ALSO: Betrothal; Precognition PDF IMAGES
31-45	Article Journalistic London (third paper) By Joseph Hatton SEE ALSO: Borthwick, Algernon; Scott, Clement; English newspapers; Greenwood, Frederick; Sala, George Augustus; Morley, John; Johnstone; Journalists; Newspaper editors; Portraits; Mudford, W.H. PDF IMAGES
46-60	Fiction Anne (chaps. XXIV-XXV) By Constance Fenimore Woolson SEE ALSO: Midwesterners PDF IMAGES
60-62	Poem The hat SEE ALSO: Hats; Recitations PDF IMAGES
62-64	Article A day in the House of Commons By John C. (John Calvin) Stockbridge SEE ALSO: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; Voting PDF IMAGES
65-82	Article Among our foot-prints By W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson SEE ALSO: Insects; Meadows; Wildlife watching PDF IMAGES
82	Poem The linnet's echo song By W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson SEE ALSO: Dresden; Loneliness PDF IMAGES
83-87	Article The grave of William Penn By Alfred Thomas Story SEE ALSO: Cemeteries; Monuments—England—Jordans; Quaker church buildings; Penn, William PDF IMAGES
88-95	Article Autumn sketches in the Pennsylvania highlands By Howard Pyle SEE ALSO: Autumn; Delaware River Valley (New York-Del. and N.J.); Pyle, Howard; Journeys—Pennsylvania—Delaware River Valley PDF IMAGES
96-97	Poem The Garden of the Gods By William Allen Butler SEE ALSO: Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.) PDF IMAGES
97-106	Article Monsters By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Curiosities and wonders; Impostors and imposture PDF IMAGES
106-110	Fiction Sam Sperry's pension By Sarah Pratt McLean Green SEE ALSO: Betrothal; Pensions; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
111-119	Article How America came to be discovered By John Fiske SEE ALSO: America; 11th century; 15th century; Portuguese PDF IMAGES
119-123	Fiction A crisis By Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney SEE ALSO: Infants; Matchmaking; Mistaken identity PDF IMAGES
123-128	Article Economy in dress By M.O. (Maria Oakey) Dewing SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress; Dress accessories; Saving and thrift PDF IMAGES
128	Poem The two gates By S.S. Conant SEE ALSO: Future life PDF IMAGES
129-141	Fiction A Laodicean. Book the fifth.—De Stancy and Paula (chaps. XI-XIV) By Thomas Hardy SEE ALSO: Architects; Castles; Conservation and restoration PDF IMAGES
142	Poem Foreshadowings By Hannah R. Hudson SEE ALSO: Nature (Aesthetics) PDF IMAGES
143-144	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Centennial celebrations, etc.; Yorktown (Va.) PDF IMAGES
144-145	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Assassination; Garfield, James A. (James Abram) PDF IMAGES
145-146	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Authorship; Colton, Calvin PDF IMAGES
146-147	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Niagara Falls; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
147-148	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Holland, J.G. (Josiah Gilbert) PDF IMAGES
148-156	Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: Hervey, A.B. (Alpheus Baker); A doctor's suggestions to the community; being a series of papers upon various subjects from a physician's standpoint (Book); A selection from the letters of Madame de Rémusat to her husband and son, from 1804 to 1813 (Book); Appendix to Initia græca (Book); Buxton, B.H. (Bertha H.); Hathaway, Benjamin; Lossing, Benson John; Bible. N.T.; Boston town (Book); Darwin, Charles; Roosa, D.B. St. John (Daniel Bennett St. John); Damen's ghost (Book); Early spring in Massachusetts (Book); Bynner, Edwin Lassetter; Cook, F.C. (Frederic Charles); Hoey, Frances Cashel; Merrill, George E. (George Edmands); MacDonald, George; Thoreau, Henry David; Clapp, Herbert C. (Herbert Codman); History of the reformation of the sixteenth century (Book); Scudder, Horace Elisha; Is consumption contagious? (Book); Merle d'Aubigné, J.H. (Jean Henri); Gray, James Comper; Grant, James; De Forest, John William; Rémusat, Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes); Phaeton Rogers; a novel of boy life (Book); Schaff, Philip; Johnson, Rossiter; Sabine's falsehood (Book); Robbins, Sarah Stuart; Sceptre and ring (Book); Sea mosses (Book); Smith, William, Sir; The Biblical museum (Book); The bloody chasm. A novel (Book); The Cameronians. A novel (Book); The international revision commentary on the New Testament (Book); The league of the Iroquois, and other poems (Book); The Light of the home: or, Mabel's story (Book); The power of movement in plants (Book); The quartet (Book); The story of the manuscripts (Book); Versions; Warlock o' Glenwarlock. A homely romance (Book); Smith, William George; Stoddard, William Osborn; Stearns, Winfrid Alden; Cantacuzène-Altiéri, Olga, principessa PDF IMAGES
156	Editor's historical record/Department Editor's historical record By Henry Wolf PDF IMAGES
157	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Dialects PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Indian Territory; Solar eclipses PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bonds; Bridges PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baptists; Arthur, Chester Alan; Family—Anecdotes; Troy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Vanity fair (Book); Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American poetry; Obituaries PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Fiction Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fences; Irish; Landlord and tenant PDF IMAGES
158-159	Editor's drawer/Cartoon A canine comedy SEE ALSO: Dog breeds; Dogfighting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American men; Anecdotes; Settle, Josiah Thomas PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Appointment, call, and election; Horses; Prime, Samuel Irenæus PDF IMAGES
159-160	Editor's drawer/Article Ulster humor SEE ALSO: Orangeman wit and humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Funeral rites and ceremonies PDF IMAGES