DEVOTED TO

LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.

FEBURARY, 1862.

BOSTON:
J. R. GILMORE, 110 TREMONT STREET
NEW YORK: GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 532 BROADWAY.
ROSS & TOUSEY, AND H. DEXTER AND COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA T. B. PETERSON & BROTHER

CONTENTS.

NO. II.

Enlarged Sixteen Pages.

	Page
Our War and Our Want	113
Brown's Lecture Tour. By a Lecturer	118
The Watchword. Poetry	126
Tints and Tones of Paris	127
The True Basis	136
The Black Flag. Poetry	138
The Actress-Wife	139
Self-Reliance. Poetry	149
The Huguenot Families in America	151
The Black Witch	155
Freedom's Stars. Poetry	166
On the Plains	167
Seven Devils	171
What will you do with us?	175
James Russell Lowell	176
Refurgamus. Poetry	186
Among the Pines	187
Mr. Seward's Published Diplomacy	199
To England. Poetry	209
The Heir of Rofeton	210
Our Danger and its Cause	220
She Sits Alone. Poetry	225
Literary Notices	226
Editor's Table	228

THE PRESENT NUMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL

Contains Articles by Ex-Gov. Boutwell, Hon. Horace Greeley, Hon. George P. Difofway, A. Oakey Hall, Richard B. Kimball, Henry T. Tuckerman, Frederick W. Shelton, The Author of "The Cotton States," J. Warren Newcomb, Jr., Henry P. Leland, Miss Delia L. Colton, Charles G. Leland, and other diftinguished writers.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by James R. Gilmore, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 3 Cornhill, Boston.