February 1871

Articles

• The Origins of Folk-Lore

  “We define a myth as, in its origin, an explanation, by the uncivilized mind, of some natural phenomenon.”

  John Fiske

• A Chapter of Modern Astrology

  “The success which had attended his calculations was a subject utterly inexplicable even to himself; and he was half induced to believe that there must have been an evil superintending agency in the premises.”

  William L. Stone

• To Fanny

  William Douglas O'Connor

• The Friend of My Youth

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Our Eyes, and How to Take Care of Them: Ii

  Henry W. Williams

• Kate Beaumont

  John William De Forest

• The Story of a Famous Book

  Samuel Greene

• Castilian Days: Ii. Spanish Living and Dying

  John Milton Hay

• Kittery Annie's Dream

  Celia Thaxter

• The Red Hand

  William M. Baker

• Ii.--American Life in France: 1851

  M. L. P.

• Wanted: An Heir

  E. F. Terry

• Our Whispering Gallery: Ii

• Faust: A Tragedy

• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

• The Children's Crusade. An Episode of the Thirteenth Century

• The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, K. G., G. C. B., Etc., With Selections From His Diaries and Correspondence

• Tausend Seelen. Roman in Vier Theilen/Aus Dem Russischen Übertragen

• Plutarch's Morals

• The Naturalist's Guide in Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History. With a Complete Catalogue of the Birds of Eastern Massachusetts

• Winter Poems by Favorite American Poets/a Child's Dream of a Star/the Sunnyside Book..

• The Origin and Development of Religious Belief. Part Ii. Christianity

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