July 1869

Articles

• Three Years as a Negro Minstrel

  “I had begun to doubt whether a great negro minstrel was a more enviable man than a great senator or author ... The novelty and excitement of this odd life, indeed, were wearing away.”

  Ralph Keeler

• The Drummer Ghost

  John William De Forest

• Our Inebriates, Harbored and Helped

• French and English Art-Writers

  Eugene Benson

• Recollections of Men and Things at Washington During the Third of a Century

• The Ingham Papers. Some Memorials of the Life of Captain Frederic Ingham, U. S. N. Sometime Pastor of the First Sandemanian Church in Naguadavick, and Major-General by Brevet in the Patriot Service in Italy

• Birch Browsings

  John Burroughs

• A Statue

  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

• The Foe in the Household

  Caroline Chesebro

• Thomas Crawford: A Eulogy

  G.S. Hillard

• Gabrielle De Bergerac: Part I

  Henry James Jr.

• The Restored Picture

  John Trowbridge

• Marrying a Pickpocket

  George B. Woods

• The Greek Goddesses

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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