March 1871

Articles

• Active Glaciers Within the United States

  “How and why these glaciers should have perished while the climate is yet cold enough for their existence has become one of the most interesting questions of the finishing-up period of Western geology.”

  Clarence King

• Woman's Rights in Ancient Athens

  B. W. Ball

• Looking for Pearls: An Oriental Legend

• Ups and Downs of the Bonapartes and Bourbons

  J. A.

• Kate Beaumont

  John William De Forest

• John Wesley

  G. A. E.

• Marguerite: Massachusetts Bay, 1760

  John Greenleaf Whittier

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

  Henry W. Williams

• Shoddy

  E. P. Whipple

• Prelude to the Second Part of Faust: A Pleasant Landscape

  Bayard Taylor

• A Passionate Pilgrim: In Two Parts: Part First

  Henry James Jr.

• The Mulberries

  William Dean Howells

• Our Whispering Gallery: Iii

• Poems

• Words and Their Uses, Past and Present. A Study of the English Language

• Frederick S. Cozzens's Works. "The Sparrowgrass Papers." "Acadia: A Month With the Blue Noses." "The Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men"

• Art in the Netherlands

• My Summer in a Garden

• Art in the Mountains. The Story of the Passion Play

• The History of Paraguay, With Notes of Personal Observations, and Reminiscences of Diplomacy Under Difficulties

• Verses

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