1874-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents 1874/12 — The Ancient City — Part 1 of 2 The Coming Transit of Venus Decorative Art and Architecture in New England — Third Paper — by M.D. Conway The Ballad of Breakneck Rape of the Gamp — Chapters 12-14 of a Serialized Story – by C. Welsh Mason The First Century of the Republic — Second Paper A Character Mask The Republican Movement in Europe — Fourteenth Paper — by Emilio Castelar “On the Circuit” The Survival of the Fittest Genesis of the New England Churches Editor’s Easy Chair Editor’s Literary Record Editor’s Scientific Record Editor’s Historical Record Editor’s Drawer