CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Prologue to Volume XCVII | 1 | |
| The Flitch of Bacon: or, The Custom of Dunmow. A Tale of English Home. By the Editor | 3, 143, 269, 395 | |
| The Birth of 1853. By Nicholas Michell | 29 | |
| Our Boarding-house in Brussels. By Dudley Costello | 30 | |
| Rose—The Death Marriage. By Cyrus Redding | 44 | |
| Young Tom Hall's Heart-aches and Horses | 45 | |
| Agatha's Husband and Basil | 56 | |
| The Later Dramas of Sheridan Knowles | 59 | |
| Creosoting Timber. By Frederick Marshall | 69 | |
| Lisette's Castles in the Air. From the Danish of H. P. Holst. By Mrs. Bushby | 71 | |
| New York—Its Hotels, Waterworks, and Things in General. By J. W. Hengiston, Esq. | 80 | |
| The Eve of All-Souls. By Mrs. Acton Tindal | 94 | |
| Annie Livingstone. The Sequel to "Annie Lee." | 98 | |
| Literary Leaflets. By Sir Nathaniel. No. IV—William Sydney Walker | 119 | |
| A Garland of German Poems, Old and New. Done into English by John Oxenford | 127 | |
| Memoirs of Thomas Moore | 129 | |
| The Austrians in Italy | 169 | |
| A Word to England | 182 | |
| Novels of the Season | 193 | |
| The Piscatorial Adventures of Jean Gribou. By Dudley Costello | 201 | |
| The South American's Farewell to his Native Land. From the Spanish of Heraclio Guardia, a South American Poet. By Mrs. Bushby | 221 | |
| Philadelphia and its Environs. By J. W. Hengiston, Esq | 223 | |
| Beauties of Sicily | 236 | |
| Literary Leaflets. By Sir Nathaniel. No. V.—Miss Mitford | 242 | |
| Winchelsea's Deliverance; or, The Stout Abbot of Battayle. Ballads of the South.—No. I. | 249 | |
| Central Africa | 252 | |
| Falconry | 295 | |
