Contents

Artist's Dream, An T. W. Higginson 100

Autobiography of a Qnack, The. I. II. 466, 586

Bornoo, A Native of 485

Bowery at Night, The Charles Dazes on Shanly 602

By-Ways of Europe. From Perpignan to Montserrat. Bayard Taylor 495

“ “ A Visit to the Balearic Islands. I. Bayard Taylor 686

Busy Brains Avstin Abbott 570

Canadian Woods and Waters Charles Dawson Shanly 311

Cincinnati Juntos Barton 229

Conspiracy at Washington, The 633

Cretan Days Wm. J . Stillman 533

Dinner Speaking Edward Everett Hale 507

Doctor Molke Dr. I. I. Hayes 43

Edisto, Up the T. W. Higginson 157

Fostre, Stephen C., and Nergo Minstrelsy Robert P. Nevin 608

Fugitives from Labor F. Sheldon 370

Grandmother's Story : The Great Snow 716

Gray Goth, In the Miss E. Stuart Phelps 559

Great Public Character, A James Russell Lowell 618

Growth, Limitations, and Toleration of Shakespeare’s Genius E. P. Whipple 178

Guardian Angel, The . VII., VIII,, IX., X., XI., XII. Oliver Wendell Holmes 1, 129, 385, 513, 641

Hospital Meomories I., II, Miss Eudora Clark 144, 344

International Copyright James Parton 430

Jesuits in North America, The George E. Ellis 302

Jonson, Ben E. P. Whipple 403

Longfellow's Translation of Dante's Divina Commedia 138

Lilliput Province, W. W. Winwood Reade 247

Literature as an Art T. W. Higginson 745

Little Land of Appenzell, The Bayard Taylor 213

Minor Elizabethan Dramatists E. P. Whipple 692

Minor Italian Travels W. D. Howells 337

Mysterious Personage, A. John Neal 658

Opinions of the late Dr. Nott, respecting Books, Studie and Orators E. D. Sanborn 527

Pacific Railroads, Our J. K. Medbery 704

Padua, At W. D. Howells 25

Passage from Hawthorne's English Note-Books, A 15

Piano in the United States, The James Parton 82

Poor Richard, II., III. Henry James Jr, 32, 166

Prophetic Voices about America. A Monograph Charles Summer 275

Religious Side of the Italian Question, The Joseph Mazzini 108

Rose Rollins, The. I., II. Alice Cary 420, 545

Sunshine and Petrarch T. W. Higginson 307

Struggle for Life, A T. B. Aldrich 56

" The Lie " C. J. Sprague 998

Throne of the Golden Foot, The J. W. Palmer 453

T. Adolphus Trollope, Writings of H. T. Tuckerman 476

Tour in the Dark, A 670

Unchariatableness 415

Visit to Sybaris, My Edward Everett Hale 63

Week’s Riding, A 200

What we Feel C. J . Sprague 740

Wife by Wager, A E. H. House 350

Workers in Silver, Among the James Parton 729

Young Desperado, T. B. Aldrich 755

POETRY.

Are the Children at Home ? Mrs. M. E. M. Sangster 557

Autumn Song, An Edgar Fawcett 679

Blue and the Gray, The F. M. Finch 369

Chanson without Music Oliver Wendell Holmes 543

Dirge for a Sailor George H. Boker 157

Ember-Picture, An Jmaes Rusell Lowell 99

Feast oF Harvest, The E. C. Stedman 616

Flight of the Goddess, The T. B. Aldrich 452

Freedom in Brazil John G. Whittier 62

Lost Genius, The J. J. Piatt 228

Mona's Mother Alice Cary 22

Mystery of Nature, The Theodore Tilton 349

Nightngale in the Study, The James Rusell Lowell 323

Sonnet George H. Boker 744

Themistocles William Everett 398

The Old Story Alice Cary 199

Toujours Amour E. C. Stedman 728

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICIES.

Browne's Land of Thor 256

Charlevoix's History of New France 125

Codman's Ten Months in Brazil 383

Cozzens's Sayings of Doctor Bushwhacker and other Learned Men 512

Critical and Social Essays, from the New York "Nation" 384

Dall's (Mrs.) The College, the Market, and the Court 255

Du Chaillu's Journey to Ashango-Land 122

Emerson’s May-Day and Other Pieces 376

Half-Tints 256

Holland’s Kathrina 762

Hoppin’s Old England 127

Hymns by Harriet McEwen Kimball 128

Jean Ingelow’s Story of Doom, and other Poems 383

Lea's Historical Skotch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church 378

Literary Life of James K. Paulding, The 124

Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Récamier 127

Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty 120

Morris's Life and Death of Jason 640

Morse on the Poem “ Rock me to Sleep, Mother” 251

Norton’s Translation of The New Life of Dante 638

Parsons’s Deus Homo 512

Parsons’s Translation of the Inferno 759

Paulding’s The Bulls and the Jonathans 639

Purnell’s Literature and its Professors 254

Richmond during the War 762

Ritter’s Comparative Geography of Palestine 125

Samuels’s Ornithology and Oölogy of New England 761

Thackeray ’s Early and Late Papers 252

Tomes’s Champagne Country 511

Webb’s Liffith Lank, or Lunacy, and St. Twel’mo 123