February 1865

Articles

• Roger B. Taney and the Leviathan of Slavery

  “He fully realized that, in repudiating the promise made for those seven hundred thousand, a pledge made with the most solemn appeal to man and to God, he utterly destroyed the rights and hopes of four million men.”

  Charles M. Ellis

• Our First Great Painter, and His Works

  Sarah Clarke

• Doctor Johns

  Donald G. Mitchell

• Roger Brooke Taney

• The Mantle of St. John De Matha: A Legend of "The Red, White, and Blue," A. D. 1154-1864

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Needle and Garden: The Story of a Seamstress Who Laid Down Her Needle and Became a Strawberry-Girl

• Notes of a Pianist: I

  Louis M. Gottschalk

• Garnaut Hall

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Pleiades of Connecticut

  F. Sheldon

• Ice and Esquimaux

  D.A. Wasson

• The Old House

  Alice Cary

• Memories of Authors: A Series of Portraits From Personal Acquaintance. Coleridge

• The Chimney-Corner: Ii. Little Foxes

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Pro Patria: L. M. S., Jun., Sepult. Dec. 21, 1864

  Epes Sargent

• A Fortnight With the Sanitary

  G. Reynolds

• Art: Harriet Hosmer's Zenobia

  Fitz-Hugh Ludlow

• Patriotism in Poetry and Prose

• Philosophy as Absolute Science, Founded in the Universal Laws of Being, and Including Ontology, Theology, and Psychology Made One, as Spirit, Soul, and Body

• Looking Toward Sunset

• The Autobiography of a New England Farm-House

• Lowell Lectures. The Problem of Human Destiny; Or, the End of Providence in the World and Man

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