Harper's Magazine: August 1886

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August 1886

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326-397	Article Joseph Jefferson By William Winter SEE ALSO: Actors; Career in acting; Characters—Rip Van Winkle; Jefferson, Joseph; Portraits; Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character); Irving, Washington PDF IMAGES
327-347	Article The city of the Strait By James R. (James Roberts) Gilmore SEE ALSO: Cadillac, Antoine Laumet de Lamothe; De Peyster, Arent Schuyler; Lewis, C.B. (Charles Betrand); Career in English military; Career in journalism; Career in philanthropy; Career in U.S. Army; Detroit Free Press; Detroit (Mich.); Founding of Detroit (Mich.), 1701; Clark, George Rogers; Gladwin, Henry; Martin, Nancy; Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765; Harper, Walter PDF IMAGES
348-363	Article Orchids By F.W. (Frederick William) Burbidge SEE ALSO: Floriculturists; Orchids; South America PDF IMAGES
363	Poem An elective course. Lines found among the papers of a Harvard undergraduate By Thomas Bailey Aldrich SEE ALSO: Harvard University PDF IMAGES
364-374	Fiction De Barbadoesa's little hour By Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Impostors and imposture PDF IMAGES
375-391	Article The transatlantic captains By Charles Algernon Dougherty SEE ALSO: D'Hauterive, Alphonse P.M. Perier; Gleadell, Benjamin; Judkins, C.H.E.; Career as ship captain; Leist, Christoph; Frangeul, E.; Lott, E.G.; Freeth, E.H.; Traub, Edouard G.; Land, Francis S.; Watkins, Frederick; de Kersabiec, G.A.M.S.; Murray, George S.; Perry, Hamilton; Condron, Henry; Price, James; Sumner, James; Barre, Julius; Urquhart, Patrick; Irving, Peter J.; Portaits; Portraits; Munro, R.D.; Sargent, Redford Webster; Bussius, Richard; Santelli, S.; Brooks, Samuel; Ship captains; Cook, Thomas; Transatlantic voyages; Randle, W.G.; Haines, W.H.P.; McMickan, W.; Willigerod, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES
397	Poem An invitation By Annie Fields SEE ALSO: Nature; Summer PDF IMAGES
398-399	Poem Veronica. A Roman legend By Dinah Maria Mulock Craik SEE ALSO: Nuns; Poem; Rome; Saint Cecilia PDF IMAGES
400-414	Fiction Springhaven (chaps. XIX-XXII) By R.D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore SEE ALSO: History, Naval; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 PDF IMAGES
415-416	Drama Epilogue to “She stoops to conquer” By Oliver Goldsmith PDF IMAGES
416-443	Fiction Their pilgrimage (chaps. VIII-X) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Northeastern States; Summer resorts PDF IMAGES
443-450	Article The home acre. VI.—The currant By Edward Payson Roe SEE ALSO: Fruit-culture; Landscape gardening PDF IMAGES
450-457	Article Social studies. II.—The economic evils in American railway methods By Richard Theodore Ely SEE ALSO: Competition, Unfair; Freight; 1865-1918; Rates; Speculation PDF IMAGES
457-461	Fiction The penalties of authorship By John Habberton PDF IMAGES
461-469	Article Some French mineral springs By T.M. (Titus Munson) Coan SEE ALSO: Health resorts; Homeopathic physicians; Jura Mountains (France and Switzerland); Mineral waters PDF IMAGES
470-471	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Civic leaders; Russell, John Russell, Earl; Editors; Helping behavior; Maiden aunts PDF IMAGES
471-472	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Hospitality; Poets, American; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Views on hospitality PDF IMAGES
472-473	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Cleveland, Grover; Marriage; Marriage service; Presidents' spouses PDF IMAGES
473-474	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Dance; Dutch Americans; Staten Island (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
474-475	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Gossip in mass media; Cleveland, Grover; Journalistic ethics; Marriage; Presidents' spouses; Reporters and reporting PDF IMAGES
475-476	Editor's study/Article — (I) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Canon (Literature); Criticism; 1865-1918 PDF IMAGES
476-477	Editor's study/Review — (II) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Greely, A.W. (Adolphus Washington); Biography as a literary form; Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant (Book); Three years of Arctic service; an account of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition of 1881-84, and the attainment of the farthest north (Book); Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) PDF IMAGES
477-478	Editor's study/Review — (III) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Woolson, Constance Fenimore; Constance of Acadia (Book); Tenney, E.P.(Edward Payson); East Angels, a novel (Book) PDF IMAGES
478-480	Editor's study/Review — (IV) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: California, from the conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco; a study of American character (Book); History in literature; Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth; Royce, Josiah; Norwegian fiction; The story of Norway (Book); To 1846 PDF IMAGES
480-481	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
481-482	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Gossip in mass media; Cleveland, Grover; Journalistic ethics; Marriage; Presidents' spouses; Reporters and reporting PDF IMAGES
482	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baltimore; German Americans; Remarriage; Tombs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Scott, Margaret; Tomb—Poetry PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bankers; Shoplifting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American women; Christmas cards; Female nude in art; Venus de Milo (Sculpture) PDF IMAGES
483	Editor's drawer/Poem Epitaph PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Anything for quiet By Archibald SEE ALSO: Discipline of children; Quietude PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article A dinner with a chorus By M. SEE ALSO: Discipline of children; Humor; Davis, Jefferson; Richmond; Southerners PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Fiction “Trouble, Brudder Alligator, trouble” SEE ALSO: American alligator; Folklore; Rabbits PDF IMAGES
484-485	Editor's drawer/Article The translating machine By A.C. L. SEE ALSO: Business etiquette; Jews; Practical jokes; Typewriters PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Coeducation; Translating into French PDF IMAGES
485	Editor's drawer/Article A pair of them SEE ALSO: Art exhibition audiences; Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.); Statues PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Circuit riders; Methodist Episcopal Church PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Grandmothers; Irish American women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Dentures; Irish American women PDF IMAGES
486	Editor's drawer/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Discipline of children PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Irish American women; Suicide victims PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baltimore; Death notices PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bath; Cross-examination; Trials (Assault and battery) PDF IMAGES