Harper's Monthly February 1873, Harem, Mont-de-Piété: Diamonds in South Africa, Quack Medicines

Harpers Monthly, 1873. soft. Good. 6.5"" X 10"". ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: Harper Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: February, 1873 Volume XLVI, Number CCLXXIII Size and Page Count: 6.5 X 10 Tall, 172 pages

Condition: Good+ , binding good, foxing, pages with untrimmed edges are browing on edge. Illustrations Information: 43 woodcut illustrations ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Articles and Information:

• Life in the diamond fields -By Albert Evander Coleman (South Africa)
• Poem: Robin's-egg Blue- By Mary E. Nutting
• The Mont-de-Piété -By Herbert Tuttle (Mount of Piety was first developed in 15th-century Italian cities as an early form of organized charity/pawnshop)
• Poem: Song of the palm -By Tracy Robinson
• Mary Queen of Scots -By Lyman Abbott
• The life of an Eastern Woman (Turkey Harem)-By Edwin De Leon
• Poem: Sub Rosa -By Rose Terry Cooke
• The great fairs and markets of Europe -By R.H. (Richard H.) Horne
• Delusions of Medicine. Charms, talismans, amulets, astrology, and mesmerism -By Henry Draper
• Old Kensington (chaps. XXXVII-XL) -By Anne Thackeray Ritchie
• A Waif and Estray -By D.R. Castleton
• A Simpleton. A story of the day (chaps. VIII-IX) -By Charles Reade
• Recollections of an Old Stager
• One quiet Episode -By Fannie E. Hodgson (A bookish, absent-minded man falls in his first love with a pleasant young schoolteacher whom he admires from afar and courts in his imagination, oblivious that she is faithfully engaged. This story has a painful ending.)
• Poem: My queen. A sonnet -By John Godfrey Saxe
• The new Magdalen (chaps. XVI-XIX) -By Wilkie Collins
• Poem: My lady's choice -By Nelly M. Hutchinson
• Poem: Valentines for my two -By Rose Terry Cooke
• Editor's easy chair -By George William Curtis
• Editor's literary record
• Editor's scientific record
• Editor's historical record
• Editor's drawer/Article Our London scrap-book. The Temple Editor's drawer