TABLE OF CONTENTS

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

UP THE PARANA AND IN PARAGUAY.

Concluding Paper. [Illustrated] [649]

A TALE OF THE CONSCRIPTION by E.C. GRENVILLE MURRAY. [667]

THE SYMPHONY by SIDNEY LANIER. [677]

THE BLOUSARD IN HIS HOURS OF EASE by WIRT SIKES. [684]

EIGHT HUNDRED MILES IN AN AMBULANCE.

Two Papers.—1 by LAURA WINTHROP JOHNSON. [693]

A MEETING AT SEA by ROBERT WILSON. [703]

ART—EXPERIENCE OF AN IGNORAMUS by SARAH B. WISTER. [712]

BY THE LAKE by ITA ANIOL PROKOP. [718]

A SCENE IN THE CAMPAGNA by T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE. [726]

THREE FEATHERS by WILLIAM BLACK.

Chapter XXXVI. —Into Captivity. [735]

Chapter XXXVII. —An Angry Interview. [739]

Chapter XXXVIII. —The Old, Half-Forgotten Joke. [742]

Chapter XXXIX. —New Ambitions.[746]

Chapter XL. —An Old Lady's Apology.[751]

CAMP-FIRE LYRICS.

II.—Night—Lake Helen by EDWARD KEARSLEY. [755]

MILL'S ESSAYS ON RELIGION by LAWRENCE TURNBULL. [755]

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.

Woman's Rights In The Eighteenth Century. [763]

THE TOMB OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI. [765]

T.W. ROBERTSON. [768]

THE LETTERS OF A PRINCESS. [770]

JAPANESE ART. [771]

LITERATURE OF THE DAY. [772]

Books Received. [776]


ILLUSTRATIONS

[The Quinta De La Miseria.]

[How the Poor Travel In Paraguay.]

[View of Ibitimi.]

[Itape: Palace and Church.]

[Interior of the Church at Villa Rica.]

[A Jaguar Trap.]

[Uncaptioned.]

[Foundry at Ibicuy, Destroyed During the War.]

[Village of Carapegua.]