August 1860

Articles

• Tobacco

  "Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases! a good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken and medicinally used. But as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health: hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul!" —BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy.

  David William Cheever

• The Carnival of the Romantic

• A Legend of Maryland: "An Owre True Tale"

• Prince Adeb

• Eleusinia

• Victor and Jacqueline

• Midsummer

• Shakspeare Done Into French

• The Poet's Singing

• A Journey in Sicily

• The Professor's Story

  Bernard C. Langdon

• Anno Domini, 1860

• Darwin on the Origin of Species

  Asa Gray

• Modern Painters

• Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb

• The Law of the Territories

• A Dictionary of English Etymology

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