January 1879

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Aspects of American Life
“There is a notion … that there is an ‘American way’ for everything, and that it is the best way.”
Charles Dudley Warner
A Student's Sea Story
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Contributors' Club
Recent Literature
The Latest Songs of Chivalry
Harriet W. Preston
The Lady of the Aroostook
William Dean Howells
Round the World at the Paris Exposition
The Pines of Eden
George Parsons Lathrop
A Birthday
Harriet Prescott Spafford
Workingmen's Wives
Is Universal Suffrage a Failure? A Lecture Delivered Before the Citizens of Ithaca, New York, October 17, 1878
Goldwin Smith
The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk: Chota Nagpoor
John Greenleaf Whittier
Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Americanisms
Richard Grant White
Ancestors: (On Reading a Family History)
John Trowbridge
An Artist's Model
Kate Putnam Osgood
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January 1879

In This Issue

Articles

Aspects of American Life

A Student's Sea Story

The Contributors' Club

Recent Literature

The Latest Songs of Chivalry

The Lady of the Aroostook

Round the World at the Paris Exposition

The Pines of Eden

A Birthday

Workingmen's Wives

Is Universal Suffrage a Failure? A Lecture Delivered Before the Citizens of Ithaca, New York, October 17, 1878

The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk: Chota Nagpoor

Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog

Americanisms

Ancestors: (On Reading a Family History)

An Artist's Model

Contents

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