TABLE OF CONTENTS

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

THE CENTURY ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL.

IV.--THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION UNDER ROOF. [393]

SKETCHES OF INDIA.

IV.--CONCLUSION. [409]

THE COLLEGE STUDENT by JAMES MORGAN HART. [428]

SONNET by MAURICE THOMPSON. [439]

THE HOUSE THAT SUSAN BUILT by SARAH WINTER KELLOGG. [440]

AFTER A YEAR by KATE HILLARD. [457]

THE BERKSHIRE LADY by THOMAS HUGHES. [458]

THE SABBATH OF THE LOST. [462]

THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS by MRS. E. LYNN LINTON.

CHAPTER XXIX. THE FRIEND OF THE FUTURE. [464]

CHAPTER XXX. MAYA--DELUSION. [469]

CHAPTER XXXI. BY THE BROAD. [474]

CHAPTER XXXII. PALMAM QUI NON MERUIT. [479]

THE SING-SONG OF MALY COE by CHARLES G. LELAND. [485]

LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA by LADY BARKER. [487]

DINNER IN A STATE PRISON by MARGARET HOSMER. [497]

FAREWELL by AUBER FORESTIER. [503]

THE INSTRUCTION OF DEAF MUTES by JENNIE EGGLESTON ZIMMERMAN. [504]

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.

THE CITY OF VIOLETS by ELISE POLKO. [510]

LA BEFANA. [512]

ERNESTO ROSSI. [514]

BISHOP THIRLWALL'S PRECOCITY. [517]

FREAKS OF KLEPTOMANIA. [518]

LITERATURE OF THE DAY. [519]

BOOKS RECEIVED. [520]


ILLUSTRATIONS

[THE BRIDGE ACROSS LANSDOWNE RAVINE, CONNECTING MEMORIAL AND HORTICULTURAL HALLS.]

[GIRARD AVENUE BRIDGE--ONE OF THE APPROACHES TO THE EXHIBITION GROUNDS.]

[MAIN BUILDING.]

[MACHINERY HALL.]

[HON. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.]

[GENERAL ALFRED T. GOSHORN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.]

[JOHN WELSH, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE CENTENNIAL BOARD OF FINANCE.]

[AGRICULTURAL BUILDING.]

[HORTICULTURAL HALL.]

[MEMORIAL HALL, WITH EXTENSION.]

[INDIGO-FACTORY NEAR ALLAHABAD.]

[MUSSULMAN SCHOOL AT ALLAHABAD.]

[MÂLERS AND SONTALS.]

[GRAIN-AND-FLOUR MERCHANT OF PATNA.]

[A TIGER-HUNT, ELEPHANT-BACK.]

[BENGAL WATER-CARRIERS.]

[BRAHMANS OF BENGAL.]

[BENGALESE OF LOW CASTE.]

[CHARIOT OF THE PROCESSION OF THE RATTJATTRA, AT JAGHERNÂTH.]

[THE PORT OF CALCUTTA.]