July 1871
In This Issue
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Articles
Can a Bird Reason?
An American naturalist argued that it can.
How We Met John Brown
“It would have been past belief, had we been told that … this man should be thought to have imperilled the slave empire in America, and added a new danger to the stability of the Union!”
Sappho
“It is something to be able to record that, twenty-five centuries ago, in that remote nook among the Grecian Isles, a woman’s genius could play such a part in moulding the great literature that has moulded the world.”
The Boy and the Brook
An Armenian popular song from the prose version of Alishan
Our Whispering Gallery: Vii
The Poet of Sierra Flat
The Life of Major John André, Adjutant-General of the British Army in America
William Winston Seaton, of the "National Intelligencer." a Biographical Sketch. With Passing Notices of His Associates and Friends
Faust: A Tragedy
Oration on the Life and Character of General George H. Thomas. Delivered Before the Society of the Army of the Cumberland/Memorial of the Life of J. Johnston Pettigrew, Brig.-Gen. Of the Confederate States Army/in Memoriam. General Steven Elliott
The Foe in the Household
Thoughts About Art
Among My Books
Castilian Days: V. Tauromachy
Their Wedding Journey
The Vision of the Faithful
Kate Beaumont
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: Iii. The Ascent of Mount Tyndall
How I Got My Overcoat: (Circumstantially True)
From Generation to Generation: Part Ii
Transfigured
Armgart
