January 1858

Articles

• Akin by Marriage (Part III)

  A short story about New England life

• The President’s Message

  “The doctrine, in our estimation, is, on the most essential point, atrocious, and the objects which are sought to be compassed are unworthy of the man, the office, thee country, and the age.”

• Notes on Domestic Architecture

• Maya, the Princess

• Catawba Wine

• The Winds and the Weather

• Spartacus

• Who Paid for the Prima Donna?

• Two Rivers

• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Agassiz's Natural History

• Tacking Ship Off Shore

• Mamoul: Through the Cossitollah Kaleidoscope

• Books

• The Diamond Lens

• The Sculptor's Funeral

• The Wedding Veil

• The Spanish Conquest in America, and Its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies

• Handbook of Railroad Construction, for the Use of American Engineers. Containing the Necessary Rules, Tables, and Formulœ for the Location, Construction, Equipment, and Management of Railroads, as Built in the United States

• The Life of Handel

• Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London. Third Series

• Roumania: The Border Land of The, Christian and the Turk. Comprising Adventures of Travel in Eastern Europe and Western Asia

• Dante's Hell

• City Poems

• Der Reichspostreiter in Ludwigsburg, Novelle Auf Geschichtlichem Hintergrunde

• Une Eté Dans Le Sahara

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