January 1873

Articles

• The Cabinet of President Washington

  A look back at the nation’s first administration

  James Parton

• Among the Ruins

  “At present Franklin Street and Congress Street and Summer Street and Winthrop Square have less to show for their former splendor than the Street of Plenty in Pompeii.”

  William Dean Howells

• A Chapter of Autobiography

  Robert Dale Owen

• An Untimely Thought

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Science

• Politics

• A Wish

  Marshal Oliver

• A Chance Acquaintance

  William Dean Howells

• Song

  Celia Thaxter

• A Faded Leaf of History

  Rebecca Harding Davis

• The Voice in the Pines

  Paul H. Hayne

• Barbara's Duty

  Caroline Chesebro

• The Bethnal Green Museum

  Henry James Jr.

• One Day Solitary

  John Trowbridge

• The Kitchen Common-Sense

  J. E. Babson

• Sylvia

  Lucy Larcom

• In the Straits of Magellan

  Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz

• After the Fire

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

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