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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Ballooning in Later Years | 286 | |
| French Almanacks for 1853, and Parisian Literary and Political Chit-Chat | 323 | |
| A Potter's Trials | 346 | |
| The Parting Friends. Duet. By J. E. Carpenter | 366 | |
| Village Life in Egypt | 367 | |
| Literary and Scientific Notes | 373 | |
| Ultramontanism in France and England | 379 | |
| Annie Lee. By the Author of "Seven Years in the Wedded Life of a Roman Catholic" | 399 | |
| Morten Lange. A Christmas Story. From the Danish of Hand Christian Andersen. By Mrs. Bushby | 414 | |
| Double Vue. By Frederick Marshall | 417 | |
| The Late Earthquake | 446 | |
| A Yankee Steamer on the Atlantic. By J. W. Hengiston, Esq. | 459 | |
| Esmond: and some other Novels | 483 | |
| The Epilogue to Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Two | 497 | |
