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Abolition of Poverty, The Alfred B. Mason . 602

Americanisms, VI., VII., VIII. Richard Grant White 88, 379, 656

Art in Engraving on Wood W. J. Linton . 705

Aspects of American Life .... Charles Dudley Warner 1

Buying a Horse W. D. Howells . 741

Capitalist, The Career of a .... 129

Catholic Cathedral in New York, The New Clarence Cook 173

Catholic Cathedral, The New York : Correspondence 415, 552

Dana, Richard Henry Julius H. Ward 518

Dobson’s Proverbs in Porcelain . Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 774

Easter Hymns from Old Cloisters . Frank Foxcroft . 417

English Civil Service Reform George William Brown 580

Europeans, The, and Other Novels 167

Faïence Violin, The W. H. Bishop 609

Florida Plantation, Our Harriet Beecher Stowe 641

George’s Little Girl M. E. W. S. 619

Ghost Stories ..... H. B. K. . 286

Great French Duel, The Recent . Mark Twain . 177

Great Revolution in Pitcairn, The Mark Twain 295

Indian Territory, The Theodora R. Jenness 444

International Copyright by Judicial Decision Arthur G. Sedgwick 217

Irene the Missionary, I.-V., VI.-IX., X.-XIII. 426, 587, 759

Labor and the Natural Forces Charles Carleton Coffin 426, 587, 553 759

Lady of the Aroostook, The, XI.-XIV., XV.-XXI., XXII - XXVII . W. D.Howells . 193, 338

Land Policy, Our ..... George W. Julian . . 325

Latest Songs of Chivalry, The Harriet W. Preston 12

Leadville, To. H. H. 567

Limited Sovereignty in the United States 184

Living in London . . . Richard Grant White 506

London Streets Richard Grant White 230

Miss Annie Porter . 797

Modern Martyrdom of St. Perpetua, The Harriet Beecher Stowe 154

Monumental Art, Now Dispensation of, The Henry Van Brunt 633

Musicians and Music-Lovers , William F. Apthorp . 145 Natural

Natural History of Politics, The N. S. Shaler . 302

Neighbors at Ponkapog, Our New . Thomas Bailey Aldrich 85

New England Factory Town, Study of a . 689

New York Exhibitions, The Two . 777

New York Theatres. 452

Old Masters, New Lives of the Henry Van Brunt 490

Paris Exhibition, Round the World at the 41

Pension Beaurepas, The Henry James, Jr. 460

People for whom Shakespeare wrote, The, I Charles Dudley Warner 729

Physical Future of the American People George M. Beard 718

Pines of Eden, The .... G. P. Lathrop 48 Presidential

Presidential Electioneering in the Senate 369

Puritanism and Manners F. G. Ireland 159

Recent American Novels 751

Return of the Native, The, and Other Novels . 500

Roman Holiday Twenty Years Ago, A, I., II. W. W. Story 135, . 273

Rosamond and the Conductor Katharine Carrington 311

Student’s Sea Story, A . Harriet Beecher Stowe 100

Sunday on the Thames, A . Richard Grant White 787

Sword and Awl. H. A. Huntington 164

Taylor, Bayard, Reminiscences of R. H Stoddard 242

Universal Suffrage a Failure? Is ... Goldwin Smith . 71

Washington Monument, The, and Mr. Story’s Design An Architect . . 524

Workingman’s Word on Over Production, A Frank Richards . . 497 Workingmen’s Wives

Workingmen’s Wives ... 59

Zola, Emile, as a Critic .... Clara Barnes Martin 650

POETRY.

Ancestors, J. T. Trowbridge ... 9

April, Emily E. Ford ..... 715

Archery, Susan E. Wallace . . . . 717

Artist’s Model, An, Kate Putnam Osgood . 99

Avril, Louis H. Frechette .... 715

Bayard Taylor, John Greenleaf Whittier . 337

Be Like the Sun, Caroline A. Mason . . 717

Betrothal, Edgar Fawcett .... 716

Birthday, A, Harriet Prescott Spofford . 58

Burial of the Poet, The, Henry W. Longfellow 517

Chamber over the Gate, The, Henry W. Longfellow .368

Christopher Aske, The Ballad of, Rose Terry Cooke.283

Daisy’s Fortune-Telling, E. M Bacon . . 715

Day in Colorado, A, Mary Mopes Dodge 488

Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk, The, John Greenleaf Whittier.83

Defiance, A.W. 192

Faint Heart, Lucy Lee Pleasants . . 310

Fancy, A.586

Fleeting Youth, Sylvester Baxter . . .716

Fool’s Prayer, The . . 443

Good-Morrow and Good-Night, John Boit . 716

Landmarks, The, John Greenleaf Whittier . 376

Loves, Juliet C. Marsh 716

Mystery, The, Albert Laighton . , . 153

Prairie-Nest, A, Lucy Larcom . . 144

Presentiment ... ... 716

Rhymes in Many Moods . . • 7l5

Saga of the Quern-Stones, The, Alice Williams Brotherton 458

Second Place, The, Susan Marr Spalding . 216

Seven Wonders of the World, C. P. Cranch 616

Ship from France, The, C. L. Cleaveland . 601

Three Songs, Sallie M. B. Piatt . 183

Two Views of It, C. P. Cranch . . . 717

Witchwork, Harriet Prescott Spofford . 566

CONTRIBUTORS’ CLUB.

A European Journalist’s Experience, 667 ; A Letter to Alexander Hamilton, 112 ; Americanisms, 109 ; A Modern Eden, 106; An American Diplomatist, 537; An English Idiotism, 812 ; A New German Poet, 530 : A Poem of the Future, 671 : A Poor Man taxed out of House and Home, 108 ; A Rest for the Sunflower desired, 814 ; A Royal Road to Learning, 536 : A Southern Woman, 811 : A Thirteen-Hat Boy, 254: Avis and Daisy Miller, 258 ; Baby-Worship, 674 ; Beefsteak of Old England, 254, 813 ; Business Condition of the South, 113 ; Cherbuliez’s Last Book, 252 ; Christian Morality, 532, Classic Metres in English, 533 ; Communal Property in Land, 110 ; Crocker’s Saving versus Spending, 256 ; Domestic Touches in Fiction, 396; Failure of a Good Play, 814; French Quotations, 812 ; Girlhood on the American Plan, 399; Grimness of Country Life, 257 ; Hoarding and Saving versus Spending, 398 ; Immorality of Violin Collecting, 397 ; Is the best lost in Literature !402; James’s Last Story, 106 ; James’s Method, 259 : Horace on Violin Collecting, 814 ; How does America mark us for her own ! 394 ; How do Professional Authors work ? 401; Led Horses,402 ; Luxurious Starvation, 401 ; Magazine Contributors, 528; Maryland Country Life not “grim,” 535; Misconceiving Shakespeare, 116 ;New England Village Life, Real and Imaginary, 806 ; No-Sex Series, 397 ; Offers, 392; One ’s Good things Anticipated, 676 ; Origin of some Nursery Songs, 403; Owning and Owing for a House, 814 ; Owning a Thing and Owing for it, 256 ; Pity the Spring Poets, 809 : Poetry and Moral of Samuel Bass, 110 ; Poverty of New England Geographical Names, 813; Professional Authorship, 809 ; Prose and Poetry, 672 . Reforming the Hyphen, 114 ; Rosamond’s Risk, 812; Shakespeare versus Harvey, 812 ; Slaughter of the Cheyennes, 529; Sun-Myths and Moon Hoaxes, 676; Superstition about Literary Men, 255; The American Girl in Europe, 810; The Descent of Man, 815 ; The Duty of a Reviewer, 534 ; The End of Macleod, 259 : The Rite of Pulse and Brawn, 675; They, Singular Number, 258; Thomas Hardy, 260 : Uncle Sam himself a Cheat, 805 ; Uses of Prosperity, 113 ; Wanted : A Non-Smoking Hero, 536 ; Which Society ? 670 ; “ Young Abraham Cupid,” 673.

EDITORIAL.

RECENT LITERATURE Adams’s Railroads: Their Origin and Problems, 269: Aldrich’s Bédollierre’s The Story of a Cat, 124 ; Allen’s The Blessed Bees, 126 ; Arnold’s Poems, 410 ; Berlioz’s Correspondance Anglo-Saxon Law, 263 : FeulUet’s La Journal d'un Femme, 686 ; Frechette’s POle-Mele Funtaisies et Souvenirs Poetiques, 127 : Gardner’s Grounds and Buildings of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876,548; Gilder’s The Poet and his Master, and other Poems, 409 ; Gill’s (Mrs.) Six Months in Ascension, Ascension 688: 683 ; Goluuean’s Gobineau’s La La Renaissance: Renaissance: fccenes Scènes Historiques, 271; 271; Goodale’s (Elaine and Dora) Apple-Blossoms, ’ 409; Goodrich’s (Elizabeth P) The Young Folks' Opera, 124; Gréville’s (Henri) Marier sa Fille, 549 ; Hamerton’s Modern Frenchmen, 678 ; Harland’s (Marion) The Dinner Year Book, 684 : Heyse’s Das Ding an sich und andere, 649 ; Hillebrand’s Zeiten, Völker, , und Menschen, 126 ; llitehler’s Work, A History ; Toplady’s of American ’s Rock Literature, OI Ages, 119 405 , Uchnrd’s L'Etoile de Jean, 549 ; Ulbach Simple Amour, 548; White’s Schmidt’s An Introduction to the Rhythmic and Metric of the Classical Languages, 266; Whitman’s (Sarah Helen) Poems, 403; Whitney’s (A. D. T.) Just How: A. Key to the CookBooks, 684 ; Winter’s The Trip to England, 547 ; Winthrop’s Addresses and Speeches, 1869-1879, 681 , Young’s (Jennie J.)The Ceramic Art: A Compendium of the History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain, 544.

EDUCATION. The New Plan for Women’s Instruction at Harvard, 550.