Harper's Magazine: January 1886

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January 1886

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170-281	Drama She stoops to conquer; or, the mistakes of a night.—A comedy (act third) By Oliver Goldsmith PDF IMAGES
171-188	Article Winter in Devonshire By Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Exeter (England); William III, King of England; Landing at Torquay (England), 1688; Seaside resorts; Torquay (England); West Country; West Country (England) PDF IMAGES
188-210	Fiction East Angels (chaps. XXI-XXIII) By Constance Fenimore Woolson PDF IMAGES
210	Poem Lament By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford PDF IMAGES
211-216	Article Hunting a mythical pall-bearer By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Cemeteries; Death and burial; Helder, Edmond; Investigative reporting; Sepulchral monuments; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
217-234	Article Domestic and court customs of Persia By S.G.W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin SEE ALSO: Iran; Public baths; Teheran PDF IMAGES
235-257	Article A lampful of oil By George Rutledge Gibson SEE ALSO: Azerbaijan; Baku; Career in oil drilling; Drake, E.L.; Oil well drilling; Petroleum; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum products; Petroleum refineries; Prices; Prospecting PDF IMAGES
257-263	Fiction “Sis” By Mary Tucker Magill SEE ALSO: Mammies PDF IMAGES
263-274	Article Christmas-tide with the Germans before Paris By Archibald Forbes SEE ALSO: Forbes, Archibald; Career as war correspondent; Germany. Army; Journalists; Military life; Occupation and evacuation, 1871-1873; War correspondents PDF IMAGES
281-282	Poem In the marshes By Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr SEE ALSO: Marshes PDF IMAGES
283-293	Fiction Indian summer (XX) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Florence; Midlife crisis PDF IMAGES
294-303	Article The militia and the army By George Brinton McClellan SEE ALSO: Defenses; Military readiness; Militia; National Guard PDF IMAGES
304-315	Fiction “Unc' Edinburg's drowndin.” A plantation echo By Thomas Nelson Page SEE ALSO: Slaves PDF IMAGES
315-316	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: “Editor's study” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
316-317	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: André, John; Journeys—United States; Monuments; —Monuments—New York (State); Stanley; Traitors PDF IMAGES
317-318	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Americanisms; Foreign public opinion, English; National characteristics, English; Political oratory PDF IMAGES
318-319	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Criticism; Helping behavior; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Riley, James Whitcomb; Last years; Periodical editors PDF IMAGES
319-320	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Payne, Abraham; Federal government; Regionalism; Reminiscences of the Rhode Island bar (Book); Statehood (American politics) PDF IMAGES
320	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Parnell, Charles Stewart; Irish question PDF IMAGES
321	Editor's study/Article — (I) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: “Editor's study” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES Editor's study/Review — (II) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: A wheel of fire (Book); Bates, Arlo; In war time (Book); Murfree, Mary Noailles; Mental illness; Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir); The prophet of the Great Smoky mountains (Book) PDF IMAGES
323-324	Editor's study/Article — (III) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: A mission flower; an American novel (Book); A New England conscience (Book); Greene, Belle C.; Fawcett, Edgar; Picard, George H. (George Henry); Social silhouettes (being the impressions of Mr. Mark Manhattan (Book) PDF IMAGES
324-325	Editor's study/Article — (IV) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Aleardi; Daudet, Alphonse; Dialect literature, American; French language; Quotations; Views on French language PDF IMAGES
325-326	Editor's study/Review — (V) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron; Childe Harold's pilgrimage (Book); De Amicis, Edmondo; Abbey, Edwin Austin; Kingsley, Elbridge; Favorite poems (Book); Smith, Francis Hopkinson; Boughton, George Henry; Edwards, George Wharton; Pyle, Howard; Illustrated books; Ingelow, Jean; Whittier, John Greenleaf; Pennell, Joseph; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Paris in old and present times (Book); Pepper & salt (Book); Hamerton, Philip Gilbert; Poems of nature (Book); Sketching rambles in Holland (Book); Spain and the Spaniards (Book); The last leaf (Book); Tuscan cities (Book); Howells, William Dean PDF IMAGES
326-327	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
327-328	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
328-329	Editor's drawer/Article Humors of the bar SEE ALSO: Deaf; Jurors; Overweight persons; Sailors PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Passenger ships; Wales PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Humor; Billings, Josh PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Grocers; Signs and signboards PDF IMAGES
329	Editor's drawer/Poem Beyond the gate By Katharine McDowell Rice PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Anecdotes of Tayler Lewis By N.C. G. SEE ALSO: Career in teaching; Greek language; Lewis, Tayler; Translating into English PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Court chaplains PDF IMAGES
330	Editor's drawer/Poem A modern Bas bleu By Ada Sturges SEE ALSO: Women intellectuals PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article That sausage SEE ALSO: Funeral rites and ceremonies PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Children of military personnel; New Mexico; United States. Army. Infantry PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Correction Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Chess sets; Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley; Puzzles; Smith, S. Decatur PDF IMAGES