March 1858

Articles

• The Grindwell Governing Machine

  “Every American voter or votress is allowed to keep his or her little intellectual wind-mill, coffee-mill, pepper-mill, loom, steam-engine, hand-organ, or whatever moral manufacturing or grinding apparatus he or she likes. Each one may be his own Church or his own State, and yet be none the less a good and useful citizen, and the union of the States be in none the more danger. But it is not so in Grindwell.”

• The Catacombs of Rome

• The Nest

• Eben Jackson

• Amours De Voyage: Ii

• A Welsh Musical Festival

• Cornucopia

• My Journal to My Cousin Mary

• Thy Psyche

• Dr. Wichern and His Pupils

• Beauty

• Saints, and Their Bodies

• By the Dead

• Aaron Burr

  “Mr. Barton has done a good service in recalling a character which had well-nigh passed out of popular thought, though not entirely out of popular recollection. As to the manner in which this service has been performed, it is impossible to speak very highly.”

• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Child-Life by the Ganges

• Music

• Biography of Elisha Kent Kane

• Beatrice Cenci: A Historical Novel of the Sixteenth Century

• The Elements of Drawing; In Three Letters to Beginners

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