The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886: Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by the Bay State Monthly Company , in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved. Typography by J. S. Cushing & Co., Boston. Presswork by Berwick & Smith, Boston. Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article. This issue has the Table of Contents for all of Volume IV. It also seems to be a volume in transition. On the first page of the issue, there is a note that states that it is VOL. IV. NO. 1. of the Old Series, and VOL. I. NO. 1. of the New Series. The full page portrait of M. R. Waite, Chief-Justice of the U. S. listed in the table of contents as facing page 1 did not appear in the scans. CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. Abbot Academy. Six Illust. by Frank A. Bicknell and others Annie Sawyer Downs 136 Along the Kennebec, (Illust.) Henry S. Bicknell 197 Andover, An Illustrious Town, (Illust.) Rev. F. B. Makepeace 301 Art in Book Illustration Charles E. Hurd 37 Illustrations: The Christ Child—Forest of Ardennes—Stamboul—Ianthe—Tower of the Mengia—The Lady of the Lake—"How they Carried the Good News"—Evening by the Lakeside—Maternity—"The Swanherds where the sedges are"—The Silent Christmas. Attleboro, Mass. An historical and descriptive sketch C. M. Barrows 27 Barnard, Henry, The American Educator The late Hon. John D. Philbrick 445 Bennett, Hon. Edmund Hatch 225 Boston University School of Law Benjamin R. Curtis 218 Brown University, (Illust.) Reuben A. Guild, LL.D. 1 Cape Ann, A Trip Around Elizabeth Porter Gould 268 Child, Lydia Maria Olive E. Dana 533 Daughter of the Puritans, A Anna B. Bensel 452 Dorris's Hero.—A Romance of the Olden Time Marjorie Daw 463 Editor's Table 87 , 177, 279, 378, 475, 557 Magazine Literature—Georgia versus New England Prohibition—German "Housekeeping Schools"—The Historic Spirit—The old New England Magazine and its successor —Notes—An Historical Parallel—Archdeacon Farrar's Eulogy on the Founders of New England—The Presidential Message—A Note of Peace in Turbulent Times—Society sacrificing its Ornaments—Fall of the Salisbury Government—Bostonian Society—Webster Historical Society—Literary Labors of Miss Cleveland—Socialism in America and Europe—The Chinese Problem—A Short History of Napoleon the First—The Century on International Copyright—Christian Charity and Freedom—Comparative Marriage Statistics—Neither Caste, Class, nor Sect in the late Civil War—Free Education System—The Convict's Family—A Representative American—Train-Wrecking—The