May 1863

Articles

• Up the Thames

  “It seems … as if the heart of London had been cleft open for the mere purpose of showing how rotten and drearily mean it had become.”

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Charles Lamb's Uncollected Writings: I

  J. E. Babson

• Dark Ways

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott

• After "Taps"

  H. B. Sargent

• The Human Wheel, Its Spokes and Felloes

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Paul Blecker: Part I

• The Fern Forests of the Carboniferous Period

  Louis Agassiz

• To E. W

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Countess

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Gala-Days: I

  Gail Hamilton

• Give

  A. West

• Only an Irish Girl!

• Shall We Compromise?

  D.A. Wasson

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