March 1875

Articles

• Is Marriage Holy?

  “What attitude of mind does a perception of the inward holiness or religious sanctity of marriage enjoin upon those who suffer from any of the offenses included in the violation of the outward bond? — a vindictive attitude or a forgiving one?”

  Henry James Sr.

• The Virginia Campaign of John Brown (Part III)

  The third installment in a six-part series about the abolitionist rebel, written by one of the New Englanders who secretly funded his efforts and featuring excerpts of his own writings

  F. B. Sanborn

• Old Times on the Mississippi (Part III)

  The third installment in a seven-part series about the author’s youthful training as a riverboat pilot

  Mark Twain

• Historical Portraits Lately Exhibited in Paris

  William J. Hoppin

• Penna's Daughter: A Cornish Legend

  Rose Terry Cooke

• Brother Christopher

  E. S. Thayer

• Fancy's Masquerade

  Kate Hillard

• Hilda

  John Vance Cheney

• Origin of the Name America

  Jules Marcou

• Delay

  Louisa Bushnell

• Roderick Hudson

  Henry James Jr.

• By the Dead

  Albert Laighton

• Taxation Without Jurisdiction Unconstitutional

  David A. Wells

• After the Tornado

  Paul H. Hayne

• Forceythe Willson

  J. J. Piatt

• Asathor's Vengeance; Or, the Mountain-Taken Maid

  Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

• A State Survey for Massachusetts

  N. S. Shaler

• Beyond Recall

  Mary E. Bradley

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Education

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