This gives a total of one hundred and nine leading articles, in that one year, on political and social affairs. In the same year she wrote to the Boston _Anti-Slavery Standard_ as much matter as would have made about forty-five "leaders;" and during the same period she regularly contributed to _Once a Week_[23] a fortnightly article on some current topic, and also a series of biographical sketches entitled "Representative Men." These _Once a Week_ articles were all much longer than "leaders;" the year's aggregate of space filled, in 1861, is two hundred and eighty-one of the closely printed columns of _Once a Week_; and this would be equivalent to at least one hundred and forty leading articles in the usual "leaded" type. I need not give a complete list of titles of the year's _Once a Week_ articles; but a few may be cited to show what class of subjects she selected: "Our Peasantry in Progress," "Ireland and her Queen," "The Harvest," "The Domestic Service Question," "What Women are Educated for," "American Soldiering," "Deaths by Fire," "The Sheffield Outrages," "Education and the Racing Season." [23] Most of these papers are signed "From the Mountain." Such was Harriet Martineau's work for the year 1861; and thus could she, confined to her house, comprehend and care for the condition of mankind. It will be noticed that she had written on Domestic Servants both in the _Daily News_ and _Once a Week_; but still she had not said all that she wished to say about the subject, and early in the next year she wrote a long article on it, which appeared in the _Edinburgh_ for April, 1862. It is a capital article, distinguished alike by common-sense, and by wide-reaching sympathy; _womanly_ in the best sense--in its domestic knowledge, and its feeling for women in their perplexities and troubles, whether as servants or mistresses,--and yet philosophical in its calmness, its power of tracing from causes to effects, and its practical wisdom in forestalling future difficulties. In this year she began to write historical stories, "Historiettes," as she called them, for _Once a Week_. As fictions, they are not equal to her best productions of that class; but their special value was less in this direction, or even in the detailed historical knowledge that they displayed, than in the insight into the philosophy of political history which the reader gained. They were illustrated by Millais, and proved so attractive that they were continued during the next two years. One, dealing with the constitutional struggle in the reign of Charles I., and called "The Hampdens," has been re-published so recently as 1880.