CONTENTS.
| Page | ||
| [The House and the Brain] | E. Bulwer Lytton | [7] |
| [D’Outre Mort] | Harriet Prescott Spofford | [60] |
| [The Fall of the House of Usher] | Edgar Allan Poe | [91] |
| [Chops the Dwarf] | Charles Dickens | [118] |
| [Wakefield] | Nathaniel Hawthorne | [134] |
| [Murder, considered as one of the Fine Arts] | Thomas De Quincey | [147] |
| [The Captain’s Story] | Rebecca Harding Davis | [187] |