February 1870

Articles

• The Pressure Upon Congress

  “No one knows how far Congress will go, and this uncertainty lures to the capital many an expensive lobby, who wear out their hearts in waiting, and who waste at Washington the money and the energy that might have started their enterprise.”

  James Parton

• Joseph and His Friend

  Bayard Taylor

• Rhyme Slayeth Shame

  William Morris

• Quaff: His Capers, Contradictions, and Pure Cussednesses

  J. W. Palmer

• Winter Woods

  George Cooper

• The Value of Accident

  Charles Collins

• Father Mériel's Bell

  James Kendall Hosmer

• Risk

  Charlotte Fiske Bates

• The Street-Cries of New York

  Charles Dawson Shanly

• Among the Isles of Shoals: III

  Celia Thaxter

• The Way to Sing

  Helen Hunt

• Life in the Brick Moon

  Edward Everett Hale

• Wo Lee, and His Kinsfolk

  Sidney Andrews

• Edwin M. Stanton

  Henry Wilson

• Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

• Miscellanies [Five Volumes.]/Catherine; A Story

• Memoirs and Letters and Journals of Major-General Riedesel, During His Residence in America

• The Holy Grail, and Other Poems

• Discourses on Various Occasions

• The Elements of Tachygraphy

• Memoir and Writings of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

• Art-Thoughts. The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe

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