'The publisher, therefore, presents this volume to the public, in the hope that it will not only gratify the reader of the present, but that it will assist to preserve the 'Spirit of the Fair' for the reader of the future.'

The Little Rebel. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co. 1864. For sale by Hurd & Houghton, New York.

A very interesting book for the little ones. It presents vivid pictures of New England life, and is fragrant and dewy with fresh breezes from the maple bush, the hillside, and the pasture lands. The style is excellent, and the matter as sprightly and entertaining as it is simply natural and morally improving.

The Poet, and other Poems. By Achsa W. Sprague. Boston: William White & Co., 158 Washington street. For sale by A. J. Davis, New York.

'Miss Sprague was chiefly known to the world as a trance lecturer under what claimed to be spirit influence. Although speaking in the interest of a faith generally unpopular, and involved in no slight degree in crudities, extravagance, and quackery, she was herself neither fool nor fanatic. She was a true child of nature, direct and simple in her manners, and impatient of the artificiality and formal etiquette of fashionable society.' These poems are characterized by great case of style, flowing rhythm, earnestness in the cause of philanthropy, and frequently contain high moral lessons. But it is somewhat strange that the poems of trance writers and speakers, so often marked by exquisite, varied, and delicate chimes of ringing rhythm, of brilliant words, of sparkling poetic dust blown from the pages of great writers, and drifting through the world, should so seldom give us those great granite blocks of originality, which must constitute the enduring base for the new era therein announced. Is there nothing new in the world beyond the grave which they deem open to their vision? We ask this in no spirit of censure or cavil, for we have no prejudice against the school of spiritualistic literature, save where it militates against the faith in our Redeemer.

INDEX TO VOLUME VI.

A Castle in the Air. By E. Foxton,272
Ænone; a Tale of Slave Life in Rome,[10], 149, 254, 408, 519, 610
A Glance at Prussian Politics. By Charles M. Mead,261, 383
A Great Social Problem. By G. U.,441
American Civilization. By Lieut. Egbert Phelps, U. S. A.,[102]
American Slavery and Finances. By Hon. Robert J. Walker,[22]
American Women. By Mrs. Virginia Sherwood,416
An Army: Its Organization and Movements. By Lieut.-Col. C. W. Tolles, A. Q. M.,[1], 223, 330, 601
A Sigh. By Virginia Vaughan,355
A Wren's Song,434
Aphorisms,[78], [83], 134, 222, 260, 414, 444, 609, 663
Asleep,270
Averill's Raid. By Alfred B. Street,326
Battle of the Wilderness. By E. A. Warriner,207
Buckle, Draper: Church and Estate. By Edward B. Freeland,[55]
Buried Alive. A Dirge. By Martha Walker Cook,189
Causes of the Minnesota Massacre. By January Searle,174
Church Music. By Lucia D. Pychowska,[112]
Colors and their Meaning. By Mrs. M. E. G. Gage,199
Coming Up at Shiloh,399
'Cor Unum, Via Una.' God Bless our Native Land!716
Creation. By Charles E. Townsend,531
Death in Life. By Edwin R. Johnson,516
Docs the Moon Revolve on its Axis? By Charles E. Townsend,380
Editor's Table,238, 478, 711
Excuse. By Kate Putnam,415
Flower Odors,469
Fly Leaves from the Life of a Soldier,289, 534
Genius, By Richard Bowen,705
James Fenimore Cooper on Secession and State Rights. By Charles K. Tuckerman,[79]
Letter of Hon. R. J. Walker, in favor of the Reëlection of Abraham Lincoln, Sept. 30, 1864, London,686
Life on a Blockader. By the Author of 'The Last Cruise of the Monitor,[46]
Literary Notices,[116], 232, 359, 475, 706
Locomotion. By David M. Balfour,472
Lois Pearl Berkeley. By Margaret Vane Hastings552
Longing. From Schlegel,454
Look-Out Mountain. By Alfred B. Street,[65]
Lunar Characteristics. By Charles E. Townsend,381
Miracles. By Rev. Asa L. Colton,685
Negro Troops. By Henry Everett Russell,191
Observations of the Sun. By Charles E. Townsend,328
One Night. By Julius Wilcox,[67]
On Hearing a 'Trio.' By Mary Freeman Goldbeck,650
Our Domestic Affairs. By George Wurts,241
Our Great America. By January Searle,>445
Our Martyrs. By Kate Putnam,147
Phenomena of Haze, Fogs, and Clouds. By Charles E. Townsend,533
Proverbs. By E. B. C.,371
Recognition. By Virginia Vaughan,[88]
Self-Sacrifice. Analect from Richter,632
Shanghai: Its Streets, Shops, and People. By Henry B. Auchincloss,633
Sketches of American Life and Scenery. By Lucia D. Pychowska,544, 664
Some Uses of a Civil War. By Hugh Miller Thompson,361
Sound Reflections. By E. B. C.,314
Streck-Verse. By E. B. C.,298
Tardy Truths. By H. K. Kalussowski,209
The Antiquity of Man. A Philosophic Debate. By William Henderson,356
The Constitutional Amendment. By Henry Everett Russell,135
The Cross. By E. Foxton,[34]
The Danish Sailor. By G. T. M.,[99]
The Devil's Cañon in California. By Henry B. Auchincloss,280
The English Press. By Nicholas Rowe, London,[36], 135
The Esthetics of the Root of All Evil. By George P. Upton,677
The First Christian Emperor. By Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff,161
The First Fanatic. By Fanny L. Glenfield,543
The Ideal Man for Universal Imitation; or,
The Sinless Perfection of Jesus. By Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff,651
The Lesson of the Hour. By Edward Sprague Rand,455
The North Carolina Conscript. By Isabella McFarland,379
The Progress of Liberty in the United States. By Rev. A. D. Mayo,481
The Resurrection Flower. By M. E. Dodge,[84]
The Sacrifice. By S. J. Bates,296
The Scientific Universal Language; Its Character and Relation to other Languages.
By Edward B. Freeland,456, 572
The Seven-Hundredth Birthday of a German Capital. By Prof. Andrew Ten Brook,[89]
The Two Platforms. By Henry Everett Russell,587
The Undivine Comedy. A Polish Drama. By Count Sigismund Krasinski.
Translated by Martha Walker Cook,298, 372, 497, 623
The Vision. By George B. Peck,620
Tidings of Victory. By C. L. P.,676
Violations of Literary Property. The Federalist--Life and Character of John Jay.
By Henry T. Tuckerman,336
Who Knows? By Edwin R. Johnson,358
Word-Stilts. By William Wirt Sikes,439
'Ye Know Not What Ye Ask.' By Fanny L. Glenfield,398