| Ænone; a Tale of Slave Life in Rome, | 287, 385, 500, 619 |
| American Finances and Resources. By Hon. Robert J. Walker, | 40, 249, 324, 489 |
| An Army: Its Organization and Movements. By Lieut.-Col. C. W. Tolles, A. Q. M., | 707 |
| An Hour in the Gallery of the National Academy of Design--Thirty-ninth Annual Exhibition, | 684 |
| An Indian Love-Song. By Edwin R. Johnson, | 361 |
| Aphorisms. By Rev. Asa Colton, | 413, 450, 482, 595, 680, 706 |
| A Pair of Stockings. From the Army, | 597 |
| Aspiro--A Fable, | 158 |
| A Summer's Night. From the Polish of Count S. Krasinski, |
| translated by Prof. Podbielski, | 543 |
| A Tragedy of Error, | 204 |
| A Universal Language. By S. P. Andrews, | 595 |
| A Vigil with St. Louis. By E. Fonton, | 70 |
| Benedict of Nursla, and the Order of the Benedictines. By Rev. Ph. Schaff, | 451 |
| Buckle, Draper, and a Science of History. By Edward B. Freeland, | 161 |
| Carl Friedrich Neumann, the German Historian of our Country. |
| By Professor Andrew Ten Brook, | 295 |
| Clouds. By Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, | 265 |
| Diary of Frances Krasinska; or, Life in Poland during the 18th Century, | 27, 180 |
| Dr. Fox's Prescription. By E. R. Johnson, | 717 |
| Editor's Table, | 118, 245, 354, 487, 605, 721 |
| English and American Taxation. By Egbert Hurd, | 405 |
| Ernest Renan's Theory. By Hugh Miller Thompson, | 609 |
| 'Feed My Lambs,' | 663 |
| Glorious! By L. G. W., | 459 |
| Hannah Thurston, | 456 |
| Hints to the American Farmer, | 584 |
| Jefferson Davis and Repudiation of Arkansas Bonds. |
| By Hon. Robert J. Walker, | 478 |
| Language a Type of the Universe. By Stephen Pearl Andrews, | 691 |
| Lies, and How to Kill Them. By Hugh Miller Thompson, | 437 |
| Literary Notices, | 116, 243, 362, 483, 601, 719 |
| Madagascar. By W. H. Whitmore, | 65 |
| Music a Science. By Lucia D. Pychowska, | 575 |
| National Friendships, | 239 |
| North and South. By Charles Wm. Butler, | 241 |
| 'Nos Amis les Cosaques.' By M. Heilprin, | 216 |
| 'Our Article,' | 20 |
| Our Domestic Relations; or, How to Treat the Rebel States. By Charles Russell, | 511 |
| Our Government and the Blacks. By William H. Kimball, | 431 |
| Out of Prison. By Kate Putnam, | 436 |
| Palmer, the American Sculptor. By L. J. Bigelow, | 258 |
| Petroleum. By Rev. S. M. Eaton, | 187 |
| Reason, Rhyme, and Rhythm. Compiled and written by Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, | 14 |
| Retrospective. By Rev. Dr. Henry, | 1 |
| Sir Charles Lyell on the Antiquity of Man. By a Presbyterian Clergyman, | 369 |
| Sketches of American Life and Scenery. By Lucia D. Pychowska, | 9, 270, 425 |
| Sleeping. By Hugh Miller Thompson, | 716 |
| Temptation. From the Polish of Count Sigismund Krasinski, | 53 |
| The Andes. By William G. Dix, | 229 |
| The Angels of War, | 203 |
| The Conscription Act of March 3d, 1864. By L. M. Haverstik, | 110 |
| The Decline of England. By S. J. Bayard, | 48 |
| The Development of American Architecture. By A. W. Colgate, | 466 |
| The Dove. By Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, | 625 |
| The English Press. By Nicholas Rowe, London, | 100, 139, 564 |
| The Great American Crisis. By Stephen P. Andrews, | 87, 300 |
| The Great Lakes to St. Paul. By Robert Dodge, | 397 |
| The Great Struggle, | 34 |
| The House in the Lane. By Miss Virginia Townsend, | 573 |
| The Isle of Springs. By Rev. C. C. Starbuck, | 461 |
| The Issues of the War. By John Stahl Patterson, Quarter-master Sergeant, 20th Ohio Battery, | 287 |
| The Lessons of the Wood. By George W. Bungay, | 26 |
| The Love Lucifer. By S. Leavitt, | 319, 414 |
| The March of Life. By Clarence Frederick Buhler, | 649 |
| The Mechanical Tendency in Modern Society. By John A. French, | 351 |
| The Mississippi River and its Peculiarities. By De B. R. Keim, | 629 |
| The Mound Builder. By January Searle, | 517 |
| The Red Man's Plea, | 160 |
| The Treasury Report and Mr. Sec'y Chase. By Hon. Frederick P. Stanton, | 151 |
| The Unkind Word, | 690 |
| The War a Contest for Ideas. By Henry Everett Russell, | 578 |
| The Wild Azalea. By E. W. C., | 596 |
| The Young Author's Dream. By Edwin R. Johnson, | 395 |
| Thistle-Down. By Frances Lamartine, | 318 |
| Thomas De Quincey and His Writings. By L. W. Spring, | 650 |
| Thomas Jefferson, as Seen in the Light of 1863. By J. Sheldon, | 129 |
| Thought. By Virginia Vaughan, | 577 |
| Union Not to be Maintained by Force. By Hon. Frederick P. Stanton, | 73 |
| Was He Successful? By Richard B. Kimball, | 80, 221, 341, 445 |