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Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. "L'Ore, The Slave of a Siamese Queen"" by Mrs. Leonowens. Author, after whom the fictional Anna and the King of Siam was written, describes a striking encounter with a woman who was a Muslim slave to the Siamese Queen. ""Jefferson American Minister in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1871. 16 x 25 cm. Twin Love by Bayard Taylor; Learning by H.B. Hudson; American Life in France, V, by M.L.P.; A Greyport Legend by Bret Harte; Kate Beaumont, IX, by J.W. DeForest; our Whispering Gallery--Dickens; The Romance of Modroño Hollow by Bret Harte; In the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. In Politics commentary, the writer notes that with the Presidential election over, ""the nation breathes freer in the security of its delivery from Mr. Greeley and his galvanized democracy."" ""Common Ornamen"", a comment on Americans' love for ornamentation in 1872; ""Meeting of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. "Red Reminiscences of the Southwest"" by William M. Baker-- author discusses the peculiar habit of hangings;"" The Launch of the Valkyries"" by Wm. W. Young; Little Guinever, by A.W.; ""Simples and Simplers"" by Wilson Flagg. ""Jefferson in the Continental Congress"" by James Parton.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1871. 16 x 25 cm. Edmund C. Stedman writes about the new liberal trend in schools and universities in his erudite ""Tennyson and Theocritus"". ""A Thanksgiving"" poem by Celia Thaxter; W. Goodell, M.D. has lived many years among the Turks, and now writes about Oriental insanity, including the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. "Jefferson in the Service of Revolutionary Virginia"" by James Parton, tells fascinating tales about Jefferson's part in the Revolution. Gov. Dunsmore's cowardly attempt using negro slaves to rob the Williamsburg magazine, just as General Gage in Boston was calculating his losses from Lexington… Saber más sobre este artículo