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CONTENTS.

GAMBETTA PROCLAIMING THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE, Frontispiece. Drawn by Howard Pyle. Engraved by Frank French.
REMINISCENCES OF THE SIEGE AND COMMUNE OF PARIS. First Paper—The Downfall of the Empire. By E. B. Washburne, ex-Minister to France. With illustrations from portraits and documents in Mr. Washburne’s possession, and from drawings by Thulstrup, Meeker, Reich, and others.
SETH’S BROTHER’S WIFE.—Chapters I. to V. Harold Frederic.
THE STORY OF A NEW YORK HOUSE.—I.—H. C. Bunner. Illustrated by A. B. Frost, F. Hopkinson Smith and G. W. Edwards.
SONNETS IN SHADOW. Arlo Bates.
OUR DEFENCELESS COASTS. F. V. Greene, Captain U.S. Engineers. With maps, sketches, and diagrams.
IN A COPY OF THE LYRICAL POEMS OF ROBERT HERRICK. Austin Dobson.
IN MEXICO. A Story. Thomas A. Janvier.
THE BABYLONIAN SEALS. William Hayes Ward. With illustrations from seals in the author’s collection, and after De Clercq, Pinches, and others.
GLIMPSES AT THE DIARIES OF GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. Social Life and Character in the Paris of the Revolution. First Paper. Annie Cary Morris. With portrait engraved by G. Kruell, from the painting at Old Morrisania.
SOCIALISM. Francis A. Walker.
THE NEW YEAR. Maybury Fleming.
A VIOLIN OBLIGATO. A Story. Margaret Crosby.

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