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Never more popular and prosperous than to-day, the Magazine of American History opens its nineteenth volume with a wonderfully interesting January number. The opening article, "Thurlow Weed's Home in New York," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the editor of the magazine, is a highly interesting paper richly illustrated with exterior and interior news of the house. The description of the house and its distinguished occupant is very graphic, and Mr. Weed's wonderful experience in France at a critical period during our Civil war is charmingly told. The writer's simple and easy style only serves...
...those who are especially interested in this question or who have studied the subject at all carefully, this able paper will be doubly welcome...
...Yucatan" is a charmingly written sketch by Alice D. Le Plougeon. The writer's treatment of the subject is so natural and easy that one seems to be reading a story rather than a page of history. "The Historical Sketch of Christ Church, New York City," is an interesting paper by William J. Danes. Then follows "The Fundamental Principles of our Government," a sound and able treatment of the subject by Franklin A. Beecher...
That which would be of the chief interest to readers of the Magazine at Harvard, is an admirable paper on the Northwestern Country in 1767, made from extracts from a journal of a United States officer, written in 1767. The number closes with articles on minor topics, and other interesting miscellany. To all who pretend to have any knowledge of American history, and especially to students in the courses in history in Harvard College. this magazine is an imperative necessity. It is only necessary to look over one number to see how valuable it is and to realize what...
...will hold its annual meeting in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, Jan, 4. Mr. J. B. Harrison, agent of the Indian Rights Association of Philadelphia. will speak on the present condition of the Indians located on twenty different reservations recently visited by him. Professor James B. Thayer will read a paper on the "Dawes Severalty Bill." The meeting is open to all members of the University and the public...