CONTENTS.

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A Chapter of American Exploration. (Illustrated.)	William H. Rideing	393
Adam and Eve	Author of "Dorothy Fox"	[42], 147, 290, 411, 547, 666
A Forgotten American Worthy	Charles Burr Todd	[68]
A Graveyard Idyl	Henry A. Beers	484
A Great Singer	Lucy H. Hooper	507
American Aëronauts. (Illustrated.)	Will O. Bates	137
Americans Abroad	Alain Gore	466
An Episode of Spanish Chivalry	Prof. T. F. Crane	747
An Historical Rocky-Mountain Outpost. (Illustrated.)	George Rex Buckman	649
An Old English Home: Bramshill House	Rose G. Kingsley	163
An Open Look at the Political Situation		[118]
A Pivotal Point	William M. Baker	559
Automatism	Dr. H. C. Wood	627, 755
A Villeggiatura in Asisi	Author of "Signor Monaldini's Niece"	308
Bauble Wishart	Author of "Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor"	719
Canoeing on the High Mississippi. (Illustrated.)	A. H. Siegfried	171, 279
Dungeness, General Greene's Sea-Island Plantation	Frederick A. Ober.	241
Ekoniah Scrub: Among Florida Lakes. (Illustrated.)	Louise Seymour Houghton	265
Findelkind of Martinswand: A Child's Story	Ouida	438
Gas-Burning, and its Consequences	George J. Varney	734
Glimpses of Portugal and the Portuguese. (Illustrated.)		473
Heinrich Heine	A. Parker	604
Horse-Racing in France. (Illustrated.)	L. Lejeune	321, 452
How she Kept her Vow: A Narrative of Facts	S. G. W. Benjamin	594
"Kitty"	Lawrence Buckley	503
Limoges, and its Porcelain	George L. Catlin	576
Mallston's Youngest	M. H. Catherwood	189
Mrs. Marcellus. By a Guest at her Saturdays	Olive Logan	613
Mrs. Pinckney's Governess		336
National Music an Interpreter of National Character	Amelia E. Barr	181
Newport a Hundred Years Ago	Frances Pierrepont North	351
On Spelling Reform	M. B. C. True	[111]
On the Skunk River	Louise Coffin Jones	[56]
Our Grandfathers' Temples. (Illustrated.)	Charles F. Richardson	678
Paradise Plantation. (Illustrated.)	Louise Seymour Houghton	[19]
Pipistrello	Ouida	[84]
Seven Weeks a Missionary	Louise Coffin Jones	424
Short Studies in the Picturesque William Sloan Kennedy		375
Studies in the Slums—	Helen Campbell
III. Nan; or, A Girl's Life		[103]
IV. Jack		213
V. Diet and its Doings		362
VI. Jan of the North		498
The Απαξ Αεγομενα in Shakespeare	Prof. James D. Butler	742
The Arts of India. (Illustrated.)	Jennie J. Young	532
The Authors of "Froufrou"	J. Brander Matthews	711
The Early Days of Mormonism	Frederic G. Mather	198
The Mistakes of Two People	Margaret Bertha Wright	567
The Palace of the Leatherstonepaughs. (Illustrated.)	Margaret Bertha Wright	[9]
The Practical History of a Play	William H. Rideing	586
The Price of Safety	E. W. Latimer	698
The Ruin of Me. (Told by a Young Married Man.)	Mary Dean	369

The Ruins of the Colorado Valley. (Illustrated.)	Alfred Terry Bacon	521
Through the Yellowstone Park to Fort Custer	S. Weir Mitchell, M. D.	[29]
Westbrook	Alice Ilgenfritz	218
Where Lightning Strikes	George J. Varney	232
Will Democracy Tolerate a Permanent Class of National Office-holders?		690

Literature of the Day, comprising Reviews of the following Works:

Arr, E. H.—New England Bygones	392
Auerbach, Berthold—Brigitta	775
Ayres, Anne—The Life and Work of William Augustus Muhlenberg	[135]
Black, William—White Wings: A Yachting Romance	775
Forrester, Mrs.—Roy and Viola	775
Fothergill, Jessie—The Wellfields	775
Green, John Richard—History of the English People	774
Laffan, May—Christy Carew	[133]
L'Art: revue hebdomadaíre illustrée. Sixième année, Tome II	517
Mahaffy, M. A., Rev. J. P.—A History of Classical Greek Literature	261
Mrs. Beauchamp Brown	518
Nichol, John—Byron. (English Men-of-Letters Series.)	645
Piatt, John James—Pencilled Fly-Leaves: A Book of Essays in Town and Country	648
Scoones, W. Baptiste—Four Centuries of English Letters	647
Smith, Goldwin—William Cowper. (English Men-of-Letters Series.)	263
Stephen, Leslie—Alexander Pope. (English Men-of-Letters Series.)	389
Symington, Andrew James—Samuel Lover: A Biographical Sketch. With Selections from his Writings and Correspondence	391
Taylor, Bayard—Critical Essays and Literary Notes	519
" " —Studies in German Literature	519
The American Art Review, Nos. 8 and 9	520
Walford, L. B.—Troublesome Daughters	775
Wikoff, Henry—The Reminiscences of an Idler	[135]

Our Monthly Gossip, comprising the following Articles:

A Child's Autobiography, 770; A Legion of Devils, 257; A Little Ireland in America, 767; A Natural Barometer, 517; An Unfinished Page of History, 764; A Plot for an Historical Novel, 385; A Sermon to Literary Aspirants, 637; Civil-Service Reform and Democratic Ideas, 762; Concerning Night-Noises, 253; Condition of the People in the West of Ireland, 514; Conservatory Life in Boston, 511; Edelweiss, [126]; Fate of an Old Companion of Napoleon III., 516; High Jinks on the Upper Mississippi, 515; Our New Visitors, 388; People's Houses: A Dialogue, 640; Prayer-Meeting Eloquence, [129]; Seeing is Believing, 642; Spoiled Children, [128]; Tabarin, the French Merry-Andrew, 255; The Demidoffs, 259; The Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris, [130]; The Miseries of Camping Out, 387; The Paris Salon of 1880, 381; "Time Turns the Tables," 642; Unreformed Spelling, 388; Wanted—A Real Gainsborough, 772; "Western Memorabilia," 250.

Poetry:

A Vengeance	Edgar Fawcett	211
Dawn	John B. Tabb	612
Delectatio Piscatoria. The Upper Kennebec	Horatio Nelson Powers	367
From Far	Philip Bourke Marston	465
Lost	Mary B. Dodge	665
My Treasure	H. L. Leonard	[109]
Possession	Eliza Calvert Hall	162
Shelley	J. B. Tabb	[18]
Teresa di Faenza	Emma Lazarus	[83]
The Home of the Gentians	Howard Glyndon	350
The King's Gifts	Emily A. Braddock	718
The Sea's Secret	G. A. Davis	240
Three Roses	Julia C. R. Dorr	585
Under the Grasses	Dora Reed Goodale	502