[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Union Candidates – 1-3
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5-6
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church – 7-10
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, the Housekeeper’s Narrative concluded; the Narrative of Hester Pinhorn, Cook in the Service of Count Posco; the Narrative of the Doctor; the Narrative of Jane Gould; the Narrative of the Tombstone; the Narrative of Walter Hartright, Resumed – 10-14
Domestic Intelligence – 14-15
Foreign News – 15
The Republicans in Nominating Convention, in Their Wigwam at Chicago, May, 1860 – 16
Taken by Storm – 17-19
The Uncommercial Traveler, No. VIII, by Charles Dickens – 19-20
Our Japanese Visitors – 21-23
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XV – 22-25
Pleasing Proposal - 26

[BroJoeK]

I highly recommend to all the editorial on page 3 titled:

"Our Dirty Lenin Aired Abroad"

It is a full-throated defense of Americans against typical criticisms of that day, and indeed, some of our day too.
Item #3 includes a line from my boyhood -- it says that our representatives abroad, far from being (we would say) "Ugly Americans", rather they "roar as gently as any suckling dove".

As a boy I was obliged to learn & present that line, for comedic effect: Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, scene 2, Bottom is hoping to play the part of a lion, whose only line is to roar, but not toooo fiercely:

"I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us.
But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove.
I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale."

Our representatives abroad "roar... as gently as any sucking dove," and this was in the days even before presidential apology tours!

Well worth the time to read it.