# Scribner's Monthly/Volume 12

Copyright by Scribner & Co., 1876.
Francis Hart & Co. Printers and Stationers, 63 & 65 Murray Street, NEW YORK.
* Number 1 (May 1876; pages 1–144)
* Number 2 (June 1876; pages 145–288)
* Number 3 (July 1876; pages 289–448)
* Number 4 (August 1876; pages 449–608)
* Number 5 (September 1876; pages 609–768)
* Number 6 (October 1876; pages 769–916)
CONTENTS VOL. XII.
Articles marked thus * are illustrated.
| | | PAGE. |
| America was Named, How * | | 222 |
| Audubon, Reminiscences of | Miss Audubon | 333 |
| Autumn Tides | John Burroughs | 873 |
| Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks. * | Clarence Cook | 168, 796 |
| Bird Medley, A * | John Burroughs | 479 |
| Birds, Something about * | Ernest Ingersoll | 689 |
| Bowdoin College * | George Thomas Packard | 47 |
| Brown, Oliver Madox | Philip Bourke Marston | 425 |
| California Housekeepers and Chinese Servants | Sarah E. Henshaw | 736 |
| Call, A Neighborly | Gail Hamilton | 553 |
| Centennial Lady, A Little * | Constance Gary Harrison | 301 |
| Chinaman, John, in San Francisco | Thomas J. Vivian | 862 |
| Collins, Two Poems of | E. S. Nadal | 219 |
| Co-operation, Some Experiments in | Charles Barnard | 99, 242 |
| Crawford's Consistency | Henry James, Jr. | 569 |
| Cushman, Charlotte | John D. Stockton | 262 |
| Defoe Family in America, The * | Mary E. Ireland | 61 |
| Fair, In and about the | Donald G. Mitchell | 742, 889 |
| Fox Hunt at Pau, A | Fanny Barrow | 661 |
| Gabriel Conroy. Chapters XXXIII–LVI. (Concluded) | Bret Harte | 29, 188, 312, 512 |
| Ghostly Rental, The | Henry James, Jr. | 664 |
| Gutenberg, John * | Theodore L. DeVinne | 73 |
| Harvard University * | Horace E. Scudder | 337 |
| Hearing with the Eyes * | James Richardson | 65 |
| Hide-and-Seek Town * | H. H. | 449 |
| Insanity and its Treatment * | Charles D. Robinson | 634 |
| Le Coureur des Bois | Annie T. Howells | 108 |
| Love of a Hundred Years, The | George Parsons Lathrop | 249 |
| Man who lost his Name, The * | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen | 808 |
| Massachusetts Agricultural College * | E. H. Libby | 836 |
| Mosel, The River, and its old Roman Poet | Charles T. Brooks | 379 |
| Mummy, The Living | Ivan Tourguéneff | 563 |
| Niagara * | George W. Holley | 462 |
| On the Iron Trail | A. C. Wheeler | 529 |
| Penn, William, Portraiture of * | Frank M. Etting | 1 |
| Philadelphia, Old Landmarks in * | Rebecca Harding Davis | 145 |
| Philip Nolan's Friends. * Chapters XII–XXXII | Edward Everett Hale | 16, 176, 400, 499, 708, 877 |
| Pilgrims and Puritans | Tryon Edwards | 212 |
| Pocahontas, The true * | | 7 |
| Princess Ilse. * From the German of Marie Petersen | Elizabeth McClellan | 609 |
| Protestant Vaticanism | Augustus Blauvelt | 721 |
| Providence, A | Edward Bellamy | 374 |
| Revolutionary Letters: Fifth Paper | John Vance Cheney | 94 |
| Rhine, the Bride of the * | George E. Waring, Jr. | 384, 490, 694, 849 |
| Salmon-fishing, Notes on * | A. G. Wilkinson | 769 |
| Sh-k-sp-r-'s Name? How shall we spell | J. H. Gilmore | 13 |
| Signing, the Story of the * | T. W. Higginson | 289 |
| That Lass o' Lowrie's. * Chapters I–VIII | Fanny Hodgson Burnett | 544, 624, 827 |
| Union College * | William Wells | 229 |
| Voyage of the "America," The | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 680 |
| Wagner at Bayreuth * | J. L. G. | 361 |
| Washington, The Stuart Portraits of * | Jane Stuart | 367 |
| Webster, Daniel, and the Compromise Measures of 1850 | William C. Wilkinson | 411 ​ |
| Wedding at Ogden Farm, The | George E. Waring, Jr. | 85 |
| Wesleyan University * | William North Rice | 648 |
| POETRY. |||
| Alpine Picture, An | T. B. Aldrich | 511 |
| "A Wounded One will Read my Rhyme" | John Vance Cheney | 688 |
| Bird, The Flown | Richard Henry Stoddard | 897 |
| Centennial Bells * | Benjamin F. Taylor | 360 |
| Choice and Chance | Paul H. Hayne | 720 |
| Courage! | George Houghton | 241 |
| Fantasy, A | Mary S. Withington | 623 |
| Flood of Years, The | William Cullen Bryant | 560 |
| Greetings, The Two | Bayard Taylor | 118 |
| His Messenger | Mary E. Bradley | 399 |
| Hospes Civitatis | Richard Henry Stoddard | 584 |
| "If Love and Life were One" | John G. Saxe | 46 |
| In Loneliness | R. C. Meyers | 872 |
| Louise | Mary L. Ritter | 93 |
| My Birthright | Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt | 119 |
| My Nasturtiums | H. H. | 266 |
| Mysteries, The Two | Mary Mapes Dodge | 888 |
| Nightfall | W. W. Ellsworth | 336 |
| On a Miniature | Henry A. Beers | 633 |
| Renunciation | Charles Carroll | 187 |
| Rosenlied | Alice Williams | 498 |
| Shadows | Anna C. Green | 679 |
| "Silence Is Golden" | Sara H. Browne | 211 |
| Singing Robes | Margaret J. Preston | 15 |
| Song | Celia Thaxter | 663 |
| Song | Celia Thaxter | 478 |
| Song of the Future, A | Sidney Lanier | 543 |
| Song of the Gloaming | John Vance Cheney | 221 |
| Summons, The | George Wurts | 428 |
| Three Friends | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 261 |
| To Dora | Mary Mapes Dodge | 332 |
| Truant Madge | Kate Putnam Osgood | 167 |
| Visionary Face, The | Paul H. Hayne | 28 |
| EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT |||
| Topics of the Time. The Remedy is with the People—Double Crimes and One-Sided Laws—Cheap Opinions—Is it Poetry? 120; Advertising Shame—The Literary Class—A New Departure, 267; The Centennial—The May Conference—From Humility to Excellence—Great Shop-keepers, 429; The Manufacture of Doctors—The Social Evil—The Dead-Beat Nuisance, 590; Harvard Examinations for Women—Village Improvement Societies, 749; The Civil Service—Suspected Duties—English and American Copyright, 898. |||
| The Old Cabinet. "What is a Sonnet?"—Obscurity in Verse—"Dante and his Circle"—Criticism—The Poet—Telegraph Wires, 125; Reading and Writing—The Academy Exhibition, 269; A Centennial Reflection—Two Classes of Conversers—"A Spanish Anecdote"—Science and Poetry, 433; "A Song of the Early Summer"—Style—"Song"—A Letter to a Contributor—"A Midsummer Song"—Dr. McClintock, 593; The "Literary Feller"—A Crumb of Comfort, 752;—Silly through Theory—A Phenomenon of Dullness—A Discouraging Experience—Criticism—Hawthorne, 901. |||
| Home and Society. Home Uses of the Exposition—In Moving-Times—Rural Topics: Evergreens, Pears, Grapes and Vegetables, 127; How to see New York—Rural Topics: Flowers, Shrubs, Strawberries, etc.—The Uses of Change, 272; Paris Fashions—Rural Topics: Thinning Fruit; Summer Pruning; Planting Celery; Tree-Peddlers—The Exhibition as a School, 435; Midsummer Holidays: Short Excursions from New York—The Rules of Croquet—Paris Fashions—Common Flowers, 595; Practical Hints about the Exhibition—Rural Topics: Budding, Spinach, Gathering Pears, Seedling Trees, Planting Strawberries in September—Girls' Names—Paris Fashions, 753; Paris Fashions—Rural Topics: Fall Planting of Fruits and Berries; Shrubs; Field-Mice; Tree-Peddlers, again; Hyacinths—The Rules of Croquet: II., 904. |||
| Culture and Progress | Culture and Progress | 130, 276, 439, 599, 757, 907 |
| The World's Work | The World's Work | 137, 283, 443, 603, 763, 911 |
| Bric-à-Brac * | Bric-à-Brac * | 141, 286, 446, 606, 765, 914 |