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December 1886

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2-63	Poem Sally in our alley By Henry Carey PDF IMAGES
3-18	Fiction The boyhood of Christ By Lew Wallace SEE ALSO: Childhood; Christmas stories; Jesus Christ PDF IMAGES
18-22	Poem The legend of Saint Nicholas By Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer SEE ALSO: Florence; Legends; Middle Ages; Poem; Nikolaos, Saint; Santa Claus PDF IMAGES
23-34	Article La Mère Venus. An out-door study By George Henry Boughton SEE ALSO: Artists' models; Palissy, Bernard; Biography; Career as potter; Boughton, George Henry PDF IMAGES
34-36	Poem “Inasmuch” By Wallace Bruce SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Charity; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
37-52	Fiction Polly. A Christmas recollection By Thomas Nelson Page SEE ALSO: Christmas stories; Grandparent and child PDF IMAGES
64-75	Drama The mouse-trap. A farce By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Control; Farces; Mice; Women's rights PDF IMAGES
76-88	Fiction The white garden By Harriet Lewis Bradley SEE ALSO: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) PDF IMAGES
88-93	Poem The legend of Frey Bernardo By Richard Henry Stoddard SEE ALSO: Bernardo; Children and death; Epidemics; Monasteries; 16th century; Poem; Portugal PDF IMAGES
94-102	Article Wood notes By W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson SEE ALSO: Birds; Bumblebees; Crows; Human-animal relationships; Insect-plant relationships; Nature study PDF IMAGES
102-116	Fiction The king of Folly Island By Sarah Orne Jewett SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Islands PDF IMAGES
116-117	Poem The cup of death By Louise Chandler Moulton PDF IMAGES
119-132	Fiction Blind Willy By B.L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon SEE ALSO: Adventure stories; Valets PDF IMAGES
133-151	Fiction Beryl's happy thought. A Thanksgiving story By Blanche Willis Howard SEE ALSO: Honeymoon; Thanksgiving Day PDF IMAGES
151-152	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Consumer behavior; Santa Claus PDF IMAGES
152-153	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Courtesy; Mavourneen, Lady; Travel etiquette; Views on travel etiquette; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
153-155	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Creative ability; Cable, George Washington; Marketing; Periodical editors; Periodicals, Publishing of; Written works PDF IMAGES
155-156	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Cycling; Newport; Newport (R.I.); Rhode Island PDF IMAGES
156-157	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Deerfield; Deerfield (Mass.); Local history materials PDF IMAGES
157-158	Editor's study/Review — (I) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Career as ship captain; Cleveland, H.W.S. (Horace William Shaler); Cleveland, Richard J. (Richard Jeffrey); Salem; Ship captains; Voyages of a merchant navigator of the days that are past (Book) PDF IMAGES
158-159	Editor's study/Review — (II) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Biography; Biography as a literary form; Court and courtiers; Gosse, Edmund; Explorers; 16th century; Raleigh (Book); Raleigh, Walter, Sir PDF IMAGES
159-160	Editor's study/Review — (III) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Capture by the British, 1814; Madison, Dolley; Friends and associates; Memoirs and letters of Dolly Madison (Book); Presidents' spouses; Jefferson, Thomas PDF IMAGES
160-161	Editor's study/Review — (IV) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Snobs and snobbishness; The evolution of the snob (Book); Perry, Thomas Sergeant; Views on snobs; Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES
161-162	Editor's study/Review — (V) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Criticism; Gateley; Literature, Comparative; Perry, Thomas Sergeant; World's progress (Book) PDF IMAGES
162	Correction [Untitled Correction] By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: Butler, Maria Barrett; Soldiers' homes PDF IMAGES Editor's study/Article — (VI) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Booksellers and bookselling; Colportage, subscription trade, etc. PDF IMAGES
163	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kissing; Marriage service PDF IMAGES
164	Editor's drawer/Poem Coquetry's argument By C.H. Thayer SEE ALSO: Flirting; Flowers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Sitting down with a preacher By Pet R. O'leum SEE ALSO: Christian giving; Church finance; Gambling PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Buttons; Career in ministry; Christian giving; Hartford; Hawes, Joel PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Rhyme of a — By Archibald SEE ALSO: Fools and jesters PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Slang PDF IMAGES
165	Editor's drawer/Article Homesick horses SEE ALSO: Homesickness; Horses; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article An editor's mistake SEE ALSO: Anonymous writings; Hale, Edward Everett; Periodical editors PDF IMAGES
166	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Gloves PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Governor Randolph By John S.(John Shelton) Patton SEE ALSO: Burglars; Governors; Horse trading; Humor; Teamsters; Randolph, Thomas M.(Thomas Mann); Trousers PDF IMAGES
167	Editor's drawer/Poem Der oak und der vine By Charles Follen Adams SEE ALSO: German Americans; Women's rights PDF IMAGES
168	Illustration Precedence at Bonnebouche Hall during the holidays By George Du Maurier PDF IMAGES
169	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Atlantic Ocean; From the forecastle to the cabin (Book); Newburyport; Samuels, Samuel; Seafaring life; Ship captains PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Stokes, Alfred C.(Alfred Cheatham); Identification; Microorganisms; Microscopy; Microscopy for beginners, or, Common objects from the ponds and ditches (Book); Technique PDF IMAGES
170	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Davis, George B. (George Breckenridge); International law; Interpretation and construction; Outlines of international law, with an account of its origin and sources and of its historical development (Book) PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Earth; Origin; Religion and science; Dawson, John William, Sir; The origin of the world, according to Revelation and science (Book); The story of the earth and man (Book) PDF IMAGES
171	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Heard, Albert F.; Church history; Orthodox Eastern Church; The Russian church and Russian dissent: comprising orthodoxy, dissent, and erratic sects (Book) PDF IMAGES Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson); Haifa; or, Life in modern Palestine (Book); Oliphant, Laurence; Palestine; Religious life and customs PDF IMAGES
172	Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Local history materials; Farmer, Silas; The history of Detroit and Michigan: or, the metropolis illustrated (Book) PDF IMAGES