May 1859

Articles

• The Gymnasium

  "Education among the Greeks was peculiarly calculated for the development of the mind and the body in common. It is from this point of view that we wish to show the nature and preeminence of gymnastics in their times as compared with our own."

  David William Cheever

• The Utah Expedition (Part III)

  Its causes and consequences

• Why Did the Governess Faint?

• Two Years After

• A Bundle of Old Letters

• In the Pines

• The Last Bird

• Bulls and Bears

• Inscription: For an Alms-Chest Made of Camphor-Wood

• A Trip to Cuba

• The Professor at the Breakfast-Table: What He Said, What He Heard, and What He Saw

• The Minister's Wooing

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• The Walker of the Snow

• A New History of the Conquest of Mexico

• Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing

• Street Thoughts

• The Mathematical Monthly

• Memoir and Letters of the Late Thomas Seddon, Artist

• Passages From My Autobiography

• Bitter-Sweet. A Poem

• The Mustee; Or, Love and Liberty

• Rowse's Portrait of Emerson/Durand's Portrait of Bryant/Barry's Portrait of Whittier

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