May 1873

Articles

• My Railroad Fight In and Out of Court

  “The basis of my suit was not the denial of my rights as a traveller. I sued the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, demanding damages for its wrongful act in beating and maiming me, — for an assault, in fact.”

  John A. Coleman

• Scanderbeg

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Two Letters

  Lucretia P. Hale

• A Legend

  M. A. T.

• Child-Life at the Isles of Shoals

  Celia Thaxter

• The Trodden Path

  B. W.

• The Presidential Campaign of 1796

  James Parton

• The Goal of Spring

  James F. Colman

• A Chance Acquaintance

  William Dean Howells

• A Prayer in Weakness

  M. B. C.

• A Cruise Through the Galapagos

  Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz

• Emanuel Von Fellenberg and His Self-Governing College: A Chapter of Autobiography

  Robert Dale Owen

• Specie Resumption

  Sam. R. Reed

• Henry Howard Brownell

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Recent Literature

• Art

• Music

• Science

• Politics

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