TABLE OF CONTENTS

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

[AN ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA. [Illustrated] 265]

AUSTRALIAN SCENES AND ADVENTURES.

[Two Papers.—1. [Illustrated] 282]

[FORECAST by CHARLOTTE F. BATES. 294]

THE MATCHLESS ONE:

A Tale of American Society, In Four Chapters by ITA ANIOL PROKOP.

[Chapter III. 295]

[Chapter IV. 300]

[MUNICH AS A PEST-CITY. 303]

[AMONG THE BLOUSARDS by WIRT SIKES. 313]

[SONNET by F.A. HILLARD. 320]

THREE FEATHERS by WILLIAM BLACK

[Chapter XXVI. A Perilous Truce. 321]

[Chapter XXVII. Further Entanglements. 326]

[Chapter XXVIII. Farewell! 328]

LA MADONNA DELLA SEDIA.

[A Tradition by EMMA LAZARUS. 334]

[EARLY TRAVELING EXPERIENCES IN INDIA by FITZEDWARD HALL. 338]

[ONCE AND AGAIN by CHARLES WARREN STODDARD. 345]

[THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE by S. WEIR MITCHELL. 352]

[PLAYING WITH FIRE by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. 357]

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TUSCAN COURT UNDER THE GRAND DUKE LEOPOLD

[by T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE. 370]

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.

[Old English Charities. 379]

[Landoriana. 382]

[The Death of Doctors' Commons. 385]

[The Lay of the Leveler. 387]

[The Philosopher Strauss as A Poet. 388]

[LITERATURE OF THE DAY. 389]

[392Books Received.]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Rufin Piotrowski.]

[The Arrest.]

[Crossing the Courtyard of the Prison.]

[Outstaring the Guard.]

[Charity to the Exile.]

[A Russian Othello.]

[Vain Attempt to Escape.]

[A Samaritan of the Steppes.]

[The Benediction With Two Fingers.]

[Crossing the Frontier.]

[Aborigines of the Eastern Coast.]

[King Tatambo.]

[Daughter of King Tatambo.]

[Negro War-Dance, or Corrobori.]

[A Gold-Mine.]

[Kangaroo Hunt.]

[Cattle-Hunting.]

[Companions of the Hunt.]

[Fern Trees Near Hobart Town.]

[Forest of Ferns.]

[Library of Melbourne.]

[The Environs of Melbourne.]