February 1878

Articles

• The Public Service and the Public

  “It should be comprehended at the outset that to raise the civil service of the United States as high as it may be raised is the great labor and duty of a generation.”

  Dorman B. Eaton

• Song

  A poem

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Cradle of the Human Race

• The Patent Office, and How to Repair Its Losses

  W. H. Babcock

• Jamaica

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Trials and Errors of Joseph Primrose

  C. M. Town

• Recording

  Thomas S. Collier

• Edmond and Jules Goncourt

  Elie Reclus

• Meteors

  Edgar Fawcett

• Detmold: A Romance: Part Iii

  William Henry Bishop

• Venice and St. Mark’s

  “No city in the world appeals more strongly to the poetic imagination than Venice.”

  Charles Eliot Norton

• The Quaker Grave-Yard

  Silas Weir Mitchell

• The Adirondacks Verified

  Charles Dudley Warner

• Appledore

  J. W.

• Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition

  Edward H. Knight

• Open Letters From New York

  Raymond Westbrook

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

• To Old Friends and New

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