March 1860
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In This Issue
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Articles
Love and Self-Love
A short story
The Progress of the Electric Telegraph
“It has made possible, on this continent, a wide-spread, yet closely linked, empire of States, such as our fathers never imagined.”
Is the Religious Want of the Age Met?
“Our age is an age of great devotion to secular affairs, — of men who are great in the conduct of such affairs, — in every department in life. To counterbalance this, our ministry mist be filled with an equally earnest devotion to God and salvation.”
The French Character
The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties; And What Came of It
Implora Pace
To the Muse
Screw-Propulsion: Its Rise and Progress
White Mice
For Christie's Sake
The Nursery Blarney-Stone
The Professor's Story
Ludwig Van Beethoven. Leben and Schaffen
Reminiscences of Rufus Choate, the Great American Advocate
A History of the Whig Party
The West Indies and the Spanish Main
The Public Life of Captain John Brown
Poems
A Good Fight, and Other Tales
The Undergraduate
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