1872-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents 1872/12 — Marco Polo and His Book by O. M. Spencer Contrast by William C. Richards The Dome of the Continent by Verplanck Colvin Malta by Herbert Bright Disarmed by Laura C. Redden The Library of Congress by Ben Perley Poore A Madrigal by Frances M. Peard The Astronomical Year by N. S. Dodge In the Seed by Kate Putnam Osgood The Old Romans At Home — Part 1 — by Benson J. Lossing Old Kensington — Chapters 28-31 — by Miss Thackeray Reprieve by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Recollections of an Old Stager Improvisations — Part 5 — by Bayard Taylor A Simpleton by Charles Reade The Scottish Covenanters by Eugene Lawrence Hope by Kate Hillard The New Magdalen — Chapters 9-11 — by Wilkie Collins A Picturesque Transformation by Julian Hawthorne A Flower’s Epitaph by Nelly M. Hutchinson Editor’s Easy Chair Editor’s Literary Record Editor’s Scientific Record Editor’s Historical Record Editor’s Drawer