February 1863

Articles

• Boston Hymn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Jane Austen

  “While the English language is read, the world will always be provided with souls who can enjoy the rare excellence of that rich legacy left to them by her genius.”

  Mrs. R. C. Waterston

• Sovereigns and Sons

• Under the Pear-Tree: In Two Parts. Part I

  Thomas Hopkinson

• Threnody

• The Utility and the Futility of Aphorisms

  William Rounseville Alger

• Shelley

  Thornton Hunt

• The Test

  Bayard Taylor

• The Preacher's Trial

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol

• The Ghost of Little Jacques

• The Siege of Cincinnati

  Thomas Buchanan Read

• The Proclamation

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Law of Costs

  D.A. Wasson

• The Chasseurs À Pied

  William John Rose

• Latest Views of Mr. Biglow: Preliminary Note

  James Russell Lowell

• Slavery and Secession in America, Historical and Economical; Together With a Practical Scheme of Emancipation

  Thomas Ellison

• A Treatise on Military Law and the Practice of Courts-Martial

  S. V. Benét

• Lectures on Moral Science

  Mark Hopkins

• The National Almanac and Annual Record for 1863

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