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America

How Shall We Elect Our Presidents? by George Ticknor Curtis

Phases of State Legislation, by Theodore Roosevelt

America: States & Regions

The Claims of Chicago, by George M. Higginson

The Kalispel Country, by Eugene V. Smalley

From Puget Sound to the Upper Columbia, by Eugene V. Smalley

The Making of a Museum, by Ernest Ingersoll

Architecture

Recent Architecture in America 4: Churches, by M.G. Van Rensselaer

The British Isles

Dublin City, by Edward Dowden

Business, Law & Government

Topics of the Time (Editorials); Open Letters

Civil War

Albert Sidney Johnston and the Shiloh Campaign, by William Preston Johnston

The Battle of Bull Run, by G.T. Beauregard

The Battle of Shiloh by U.S. Grant

The Capture of Fort Donelson

Confederate Forces at Bull Run, by Thomas Jordan

The First Fight of the Ironclads, by John Taylor Wood

In the "Monitor" Turret, by S.D. Greene, Commander, US Navy

Memoranda of the Civil War

Names of Western Gunboats

New Orleans Before the Capture, by George W. Cable

Notes of a Confederate Staff Officer at Shiloh, by Thomas Jordan

The Offer of Union Command to General A.S. Johnston, by Fitz John Porter

The Opening of the Lower Mississippi, by David D. Porter

Operations of the Western Flotilla, by Henry Walke

Recollections of a Private, by Warren Goss

Recollections of Foote and the Gunboats, by James B. Eads

Watching the "Merrimac," by R.E. Colston

Health

[Cholera] An Undesired Guest

History & Folklore

The Colonists at Home, by Edward Eggleston

How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs, by John Vance Cheney

Life

The Trouble with the Stage, by J. Rankin Touse

Nature

Winter [Bird] Neighbors, by John Burroughs

People

BANCROFT, Hubert Howe - A Great Historical Enterprise, by Noah Brooks

HALE, Edward Everett, by William Sloane Kennedy

HEINE, Christian Johann Heinrich, the Poet, by Emma Lazarus

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, by Edmund C. Steadman

O'CONOR, Charles, by John Bigelow

READE, Charles, an Acquaintance With, by Annie Fields

SHAKSPERE, the Worship of, by O.B. Frothingham

WEBSTER, Daniel, Reminiscences of, by Stephen M. Allen

American Painters in Pastel, by M.G. Van Rensselaer

Recreation

Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat, by William A. Baillie-Grohman

Religion

The Bible in the Sunday School

Christianity and Popular Amusements, by Washington Gladden

Our Church Club, by Julia Dorr

A Phase of Social Science, by Henry C. Potter

Science & Technology

Natural Gas Wells, by J.D. Daugherty

The New Astronomy, by S.P. Langley

The Principles and Practice of House-Drainage, by George E. Waring Jr.

Recent Electrical Progress, by Charles Barnard

The World's Exposition at New Orleans, by Richard Nixon

Social Issues & Causes

Economic Mistakes of the Poor

Work

Lawyers' Morals

World Travel & Cultures

Canada as a Winter Resort, by W. George Beers

The Chinese Theater, by Henry Burden McDowell

A Florentine Mosaic, by W.D. Howells

The Land of the False Prophet, by Gen. R.E. Colston

FICTION

The Bostonians, by Henry James (continued in 1885B and 1886A)

Excerpts from Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

Orpiment & Gamboge, by Ivory Black

A Tale of Negative Gravity, by Frank Stockton