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Contents.
| 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 |
| A 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 | James Russell 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 | Alica Cary | 22 |
| Mystery of Nature, The | Theodore Tilton | 349 |
| Nightingale in the Study, The | James Russell 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 Notices. | ||
| 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 | 235 | |
| 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 Sketch 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" | 252 | |
| 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 | |
