ESSAYS, SKETCHES, AND LETTERS.

[Mr. Ward's first Business Letter]

[On "Forts"]

[The Shakers]

[High-handed Outrage at Utica]

[Atlantic Cable Celebration at Baldinsville]

[Among the Spirits]

[On the Wing]

[The Octoroon]

[Oberlin]

[The Showman's Courtship]

[The Crisis]

[Wax Figures vs. Shakspeare]

[Among the "Free Lovers"]

[A Visit to Brigham Young]

[The Press]

[Edwin Forrest as Othello]

[The Show Business and Popular Lectures]

[Woman's Rights]

[The Prince of Wales]

[Ossawatomie Brown]

[Joy in the House of Ward]

[Boston. (A. Ward to his Wife.)]

[How "Old Abe" received the News of his Nomination]

[Interview with President Lincoln]

[Interview with Prince Napoleon]

[Agriculture.]

[Busts]

[A Hard Case]

[Affairs around the Village Green]

PART II.