Harper's Monthly December 1897 Christmas Edition by Various - 1897

1897 ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: Harper & Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: December, 1897 Volume XCVI, Number DLXXI Size and Page Count: 6.5 X 10 Tall, approx. 220 pages

Condition: Good, binding good, cover has some tears, light soiling on covers, foxing

Illustrations Information:approx. 40 engravings and many pages of vintage advertisements!! ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Articles and Information:

• Poem:The wooing of Malkatoon -By Lew Wallace
• The Queen's jubilee -By Richard Harding Davis
• Poem: Happiness. (A butterfly) By Sarah M.B. (Sarah Morgan Bryan) Piatt
• A bird's egg -By Ernest Ingersoll
• Poem: To a new-born baby -By Alice Archer Sewall James
• Destiny at Drybone -By Owen Wister
• Poem: Annunciation -By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
• Puppets, ancient and modern -By Francis Joseph Ziegler
• Poem: City and prophet -By Alfred H. Louis
• Marianson -By Mary Hartwell Catherwood
• Reindeer of the Jotunheim -By Joseph Hamblen Sears
• Spanish John (IV) -By William McLennan
• An act of charity -By Charles Dudley Warner
• My fifth in Mammy -By William Ludwell Sheppard
• Mr. Willie's wedding-veil -By Mary Tracy Earle
• George William Curtis at Concord -By George Willis Cooke
• Poem: The lover. (Japanese) -By Richard Henry Stoddard
• Editor's study/Article -By Charles Dudley Warner
• Editor's drawer/Fiction Apollo Belvedere. A Christmas episode of the plantation -By Ruth McEnery Stuart Editor's drawer/Cartoon: His fear Editor's drawer/Poem: Something to wear. With apologies to the author of Nothing to Wear By John Kendrick Bangs
• A dark Christmas morn -By Hayden Carruth
• Editor's drawer/Cartoon: Should auld acquaintance be forgot? A runaway Christmas tree Editor's drawer/Poem: Another victim Editor's drawer/Cartoon: Ripples Editor's drawer/Joke: Not his day for being whipped Editor's drawer/Joke: What they thought of him A Petersburg Christmas present -By William S[elden] Gidley Editor's drawer/Cartoon:Cartoon Editor's drawer/Poem: Artian sonnet: Immolation -By Edward Prime-Stevenson
• Literary notes -By Laurence Hutton