December 1872

Articles

• The Fight of a Man With a Railroad

  “The comfort and tranquillity of peaceful passengers are rudely broken in upon and their lives endangered by a brutal assault upon an offender in a car. Pistols are sometimes drawn in the scuffle, and innocent people are as liable to be shot as the combatants; ladies in delicate health may be put in sudden peril through fright; but the barbarism of the railroad must be carried out, and none but juries seem to recognize the impropriety of the proceedings in a court of law.”

  John A. Coleman

• Meeting of Jefferson and Hamilton

  “Naturally, the man of executive force and the man of high qualities of mind regard one another with even an exaggerated respect.”

  James Parton

• Common Ornament

  Charles Akers

• Forest Pictures: Morning

  Paul H. Hayne

• A Comedy of Terrors

  James DeMille

• An Inspired Lobbyist

  John William De Forest

• Before the Wedding

  Marian Douglass

• Jesuits' Mission of Onondaga in 1654

  F. Parkman

• The Shadow of Doom

  Celia Thaxter

• Empty

  Edgar Fawcett

• The Poet at the Breakfast-Table: Xii

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Shaker John

  E. B. Raffensperger

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Science

• Politics

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