An American album: one hundred and fifty years of Harper's magazine

Town-Ho's Story / Herman Melville 2

Editor's Table: Union Saving 12

Uttoxeter / Nathaniel Hawthorne 17

Siege of Fort Atkinson 20

Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority / Stephen A. Douglas 29

Battle of Antietam / George F. Noyes 42

Psyche / Hans Christian Andersen 47

Fortunes of War / Robert Tomes 53

March to the Sea / Herman Melville 57

Freedman's Story / M. Schele de Vere 59

Plains, As I Crossed Them Ten Years Ago / Horace Greeley 68

Editor's Easy Chair: Charles Dickens / George William Curtis 72

Down the Mississippi / George Ward Nichols 74

Editor's Easy Chair: Political Life in America / George William Curtis 81

Little Laborers of New York City / C. L. Brace 84

Panic in Wall Street 87

Song of the Redwood-Tree / Walt Whitman 93

A Song / Christina Rossetti 97

Editor's Easy Chair: Boss Tweed / George William Curtis 98

Washington Square / Henry James 102

Editor's Easy Chair: Women's Rights / George William 106

Our Public Land Policy / Veeder B. Paine 108

Editor's Easy Chair: Ulysses S. Grant / George William Curtis 113

Editor's Easy Chair: Strikes and Anarchy / George William Curtis 115

His Ship / James Russell Lowell 118

Fame's Little Day / Sarah Orne Jewett 120

St. Clair's Defeat / Theodore Roosevelt 125

With the Fifth Corps / Frederic Remington 133

Angel Child / Stephen Crane 140

Extracts from Adam's Diary and Eve's Diary / Mark Twain 146

Quicksand / Edith Wharton 158

Integrity of American Character / Grover Cleveland 166

Sun-dog Trail / Jack London 168

Feeding the Mind / Lewis Carroll 175

Informer / Joseph Conrad 178

Enchanted Bluff / Willa Sibert Cather 189

Night in a Suburb / Thomas Hardy 196

Rabbit-pen / Sherwood Anderson 197

Country Newspaper / William Allen White 201

My Plunge into the Slums / M. E. Ravage 205

Country Doctor / Theodore Dreiser 210

Lion's Mouth: Mother Goose, Propagandist / Don Marquis 217

Eighty Years and After / William Dean Howells 219

Gods of the Copybook Maxims / Rudyard Kipling 226

Fire and Ice / Robert Frost 228

To the Ghost of John Milton / Carl Sandburg 229

Crime and the Alarmists / Clarence S. Darrow 230

In Praise of Freedom / Will Durant 235

Editor's Easy Chair: Re-discovering Europe / Edward S. Martin 241

Aimee Semple McPherson / Sarah Comstock 243

My Countryside, Then and Now / Malcolm Cowley 251

Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments / Archibald MacLeish 256

Lady in the Looking-Glass / Virginia Woolf 257

Peculiar Weakness of Mr. Hoover / Walter Lippmann 262

Sonnet / Edna St. Vincent Millay 267

"Listen to This, Dear" / James Thurber 268

A Death in the Country / Stephen Vincent Benet 270

What Hitler Wants / Leon Trotsky 280

Was My Life Worth Living? / Emma Goldman 285

Future of English / H. L. Mencken 290

Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck 295

Solitude / Rainer Maria Rilke 301

America's Medieval Women / Pearl S. Buck 302

One Man's Meat: Walden Pond / E. B. White 308

Since Yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen 312

Who Goes Nazi? / Dorothy Thompson 316

Wide Net / Eudora Welty 321

What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You / Richard Wright 332

People at War / John Dos Passos 336

Going Home / Alfred Kazin 343

Iwo Jima Before H-Hour / John P. Marquand 346

Our Worst Wartime Mistake / Eugene V. Rostow 352

Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb / Henry L. Stimson 359

Gertrude Stein: A Self-Portrait / Katherine Anne Porter 365

Anywhere in Europe / Anne Morrow Lindbergh 372

Art for Art's Sake / E. M. Forster 375

Vega / John Cheever 379

Century / Bernard DeVoto 388

Evangelist / Joyce Cary 393

Silent Generation / Thornton Wilder 396

Lamb to thes Slaughter / Roald Dahl 399

Great Wall Street Crash / John Kenneth Galbraith 404

Sound of Moorish Laughter / Harold Brodkey 408

On Fear: The South in Labor / William Faulkner 414

Farmer's Wife / Anne Sexton 417

Recollections from Beyond the Last Rope / Philip Roth 418

Mushrooms / Sylvia 426

Vermont / John Updike 427

Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King / James Baldwin 428

Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton 438

Paranoid Style in American Politics / Richard Hofstadter 445

Mississippi: The Fallen Paradise / Walker Percy 452

Long View: Negro / Langston Hughes 458

Celebration / James Dickey 459

History by the Ounce / Barbara W. Tuchman 461

Silences: When Writers Don't Write / Tillie Olsen 465

Player Piano / Randall Jarrell 472

Miami Beach and Chicago / Norman Mailer 473

Editor's Easy Chair: Survival U / John Fischer 478

My Lai 4 / Seymour M. Hersh 484

Is There a Place for Morality in Foreign Affairs? / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 509

Everyday Use / Alice Walker 515

Death of Salvador Allende / Gabriel Garcia Marquez 520

Sound of Tinkling Brass / Murray Kempton 526

Innocence in the Galapagos / Annie Dillard 530

To the Disney Station / Michael Harrington 537

Liberty Under Siege / Walter Karp 546

Soccer War / Ryszard Kapuscinski 558

Moment Before the Gun Went Off / Nadine Gordimer 568

Untime of the Imam / Salman Rushdie 571

When You're a Crip (Or a Blood) 577

Users, Like Me / Gail Regier 586

Reassurance / Allan Gurganus 590

Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast / Tom Wolfe 595

Chronicle of a Debacle Foretold / L. J. Davis 606

Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez 620

Ladies and Gentlemen / Joyce Carol Oates 628

Rake / David Mamet 632

400-Pound CEO / George Saunders 635

Last Shot / Darcy Frey 643

On Not Being a Victim / Mary Gaitskill 657

Notebook: Morte De Nixon / Lewis H. Lapham 663

Ticket to the Fair / David Foster Wallace 668

Where Worlds Collide / Pico Iyer 683

Beyond Belief / Fenton Johnson 690

Notebook: Exorcism / Lewis H. Lapham 699.