Literature and National Policy.

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CONTENTS.—No. XXIV.

The Nation. By Hugh Miller Thompson,	601
Buckle, Draper, and a Science of History. By E. B. Freeland,	610
Diary of Frances Krasinska,	624
The Sleeping Soldier. By Edward N. Pomeroy,	632
My Mission. By Ella Rodman,	633
Letter Writing. By Park Benjamin,	648
The Year. By W. H. Henderson,	657
The Great American Crisis. By Stephen Pearl Andrews,	658
Was He Successful? By Richard B. Kimball,	670
Dead. By Anna Gray,	683
Reconstruction. By Henry Everett Russell,	684
Virginia. By H. T. Tuckerman,	690
She Defines her Position. By Eliza S. Randolph,	702
Whiffs from my Meerschaum. By Lieut. R. A. Wolcott,	704
Literary Notices,	706
Editor's Table,	711