January 1870

Articles

• What to Do With the Surplus

  “Few would believe that the people of this country pay in duties on sardines and anchovies as much as a quarter of a million. For what earthly reason, since the treasury does not need the money?”

  Francis A. Walker

• The Cathedral

  James Russell Lowell

• Under the Midnight Sun

  Isaac Israel Hayes

• The Descent of Neptune to Aid the Greeks: From the Thirteenth Book of the Iliad

  William Cullen Bryant

• By Horse-Car to Boston

  William Dean Howells

• The Discovery of the Great West

• The Story of a Bad Boy

• The Identification of the Artisan and the Artist

• Catalogue of the Collection of Engravings Bequeathed to Harvard College by Francis Calley Gray

• Among the Isles of Shoals: II

  Celia Thaxter

• Joseph and His Friend

  Bayard Taylor

• Il Guido Rospigliosi

  Thomas William Parsons

• The Study of History: A Lecture Delivered Before the Cornell University

  Goldwin Smith

• Americanism in Literature

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Nauhaught, the Deacon

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Woman Thou Gavest With Me

  Henry James

• Nearing the Snow-Line

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Was He Dead?

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