This is the
15 March 1873 number of the weekly Boston
Living Age, here neatly rescued by me from an old damaged bound volume waiting in a line to experience its physical extinction.
63 pages (complete).
Some highlights I find include:
A 23 page opening essay by Abraham Hayward on the life and works of the great 17th Century French letter-writer, Madame de Sevigne.
Part XI of German novelist Fritz Reuter's serial novel, here first translated into English for the weekly, His Little Serene Highness.
James Hannay's essay on the life and works of the great English novelist of sea adventures, Captain Marryat. It was the last work to come from Hannay's pen.
"Passages in the Life of A Bachelor," by "M.C."
A shorter, delightful, portrait (from "Notes and Queries") demonstrating the use of the "Palindrome." Wow!
Another short piece on the cobras, vipers and other poisonous snakes that were killing 20,000 people a year in India.
Alexander Schwartz pens an essay on the German Church cultures of "Wittenberg and Cologne."
Some author identifications above are drawn from the Wellesley Index.