CONTENTS.
| Page | |||
| Abyssinia and King Theodore | G. Reynolds | 701 | |
| A most Extraordinary Case | Henry James, Jr. | 461 | |
| Aspects of Culture | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 87 | |
| Beauty of Trees | Wilson Flagg | 642 | |
| Beaumont and Fletcher, etc. | E. P. Whipple | 176 | |
| By-Ways of Europe. II., III., IV., V., VI | Bayard Taylor | 73, 284, 414, 614, 740 | |
| Castle of Indolence, A | S. Adams Hill | 726 | |
| Characteristics of Genius | F. H. Hedge | 150 | |
| Conversation on the Stage, A | Kate Field | 270 | |
| Cretan Days. III. | Wm. J. Stillman | 326 | |
| Destructive Democracy, The | 233 | ||
| Did he take the Prince to Ride? | Edward Everett Hale | 603 | |
| Discovery of Etherization, The | 718 | ||
| Doctor Molke's Friends. I., II., III. | Dr. I. I. Hayes | 36, 198, 485 | |
| Does it Pay to Smoke? | James Parton | 129 | |
| Encyclopedists, The | John G. Rosengarten | 246 | |
| European House-Sparrow, The | T. M. Brewer | 583 | |
| Flotsam and Jetsam. I., II., III. | Harriet Prescott Spofford | 7, 186, 313 | |
| Four Months on the Stage | 225 | ||
| Free Missouri. I., II. | Albert D. Richardson | 363, 492 | |
| Gentleman of an Old School, A | J. W. De Forrest | 546 | |
| George Silverman's Explanation. I., II., III. | Charles Dickens | 118, 145, 277 | |
| Hawthorne in the Boston Custom-House | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 106 | |
| John Chinaman, M. D. | J. W. Palmer | 257 | |
| Lagos Bar. I., II. | W. Winwood Reade | 406, 574 | |
| Mrs. Johnson | W. D. Howells | 97 | |
| Modern Lettre de Cachet, A | L. Clarke Davis | 588 | |
| Next President, The | 628 | ||
| Old Masters in the Louvre, and Modern Art | Eugene Benson | 111 | |
| Oldport Wharves | T. W. Higginson | 61 | |
| Old Philadelphia Library, The | John Meredith Read, Jr. | 299 | |
| On a Pair of Spectacles | J. E. Babson | 534 | |
| Our Second Girl | H. B. Stowe | 50 | |
| Our Roman Catholic Brethren. I., II. | James Parton | 432, 556 | |
| Pittsburg | James Parton | 17 | |
| Plea for the Afternoon, A | Antoinette B. Blackwell | 385 | |
| Poison of the Rattlesnake, The | 452 | ||
| President Wayland, The Late | J. Lewis Diman | 68 | |
| Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The | Henry James, Jr. | 209 | |
| St. Michael's Night. I. | Miss Agnes Harrison | 685 | |
| Sequel to an Old English State Trial, The | L. Clarke Davis | 333 | |
| Spenser | E. P. Whipple | 395 | |
| Talmud, The | Calvin E. Stowe | 673 | |
| Tenth of January, The | E. Stuart Phelps | 345 | |
| Théophile Gautier | Eugene Benson | 664 | |
| Turf and the Trotting Horse in America, The | John Elderkin | 513 |
