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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| An Imperial Visit | 267 | |
| Literary Leaflets. By Sir Nathaniel. No. XII.—"Positive" Philosophy: Comte and Lewes | 275 | |
| Travels in the North | 282 | |
| Walks Up Hill. By H. Spicer, Esq., Author of "Sights and Sounds" | 292 | |
| Sea-side Recreations | 298 | |
| American Authorship. By Sir Nathaniel. No. VIII.—William Cullen Bryant | 306 | |
| The French Almanacks for 1854 | 312 | |
| St. Martin's Eye. By the Author of "The Unholy Wish" | 327 | |
| A Political Conversazione of the Year 1848.—Metternich, Guizot, Louis Philippe, Palmerston | 343 | |
| The North-West Passage | 350 | |
| Babali and the Pacha. Being the Second Tale of my Dragoman. By Basil May | 359 | |
| Extracts from the Commonplace-Book of a lately Deceased Author | 363, 422 | |
| The War in the East | 379 | |
| Palace Tales: The White Lady; and the Story of Pale Sophie | 400 | |
| A Voice to the Sad. By G. W. Thornbury | 421 | |
| American Authorship. By Sir Nathaniel. No. IX.—N. P. Willis | 425 | |
| The Lady's Well. By the Author of "The Unholy Wish" | 430 | |
| Gossip from Florence. A Letter addressed to the Editor of the "New Monthly Magazine" | 442 | |
| Tales of my Dragoman. No. III. How Muftifiz rose to Greatness. By Basil May | 450 | |
| Literary Leaflets. By Sir Nathaniel. No. XIV.—Mrs. Jameson | 457 | |
| McCarthy's Calderon | 487 | |
| The Elf-King's Bride. From the Danish of Hans Christian Andersen. By Mrs. Bushby | 490 | |
| The Epilogue of 1853 | 491 | |
