January 1886

Articles

• The Free Negroes of North Carolina

  “The war ended, a radically new era began. Life and thought, with a sharp wrench, assumed new lines. The social kaleidoscope, shaken by the rude hand of war, shivered, and was recast into strangely new forms.”

  David Dodge

• In the Clouds

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Stedman's Poets of America

• l'Art

• The Contributors' Club

• Books of the Month

• Two Bites at a Cherry

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Glaucus

  Edith M. Thomas

• Political Consequences in England of Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown

  John Fiske

• The Princess Casamassima: Book Second

  Henry James

• Barter

  Julie K. Wetherill

• The New Portfolio: A Cry From the Study

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Sesames

  Helen Jackson

• A Country Gentleman

  M. O. W. Oliphant

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