December 1879

Articles

• Three Interviews With Old John Brown

  “He looked upon passing political movements as mere preliminaries or adjuncts to more important events in the future. With him men were nothing, principles everything.”

  William A. Phillips

• Thirty-Seven Hundred and Fifty-Eight: In Two Parts. Part I

• A Wall Between: A Dying Woman Speaks

• Kansas Farmers and Illinois Dairymen

• Some of Us: A Southwestern Sketch

• The National Board of Health

  Col. George E. Waring Jr.

• The Conductor and Rosamond

  Katharine Carrington

• The Greatest Novelist's Work for Freedom

  Clara Barnes Martin

• Reminiscences of George Grote

  George Washington Greene

• English Manners

  Richard Grant White

• The Man Who Was to Have Assassinated Napoleon

• The Contributors' Club

• Recent Literature

• Education

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