LONDON: TRÜBNER AND COMPANY.

M DCCC LXIV.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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CONTENTS.

Ambassadors in BondsCaroline Chesebro281
Annesley Hall and Newstead AbbeyMrs. R.C. Waterston239
Beginning of the End, TheC.C. Hazewell[112]
BryantG.S. Hillard233
California as a Vineland----600
Convulsionists of St. Médard, TheRobert Dale Owen209, 339
Cruise on Lake Ladoga, ABayard Taylor521
Fast-Day at Foxden, A----676
Fighting Facts for FogiesC.C. Hazewell393
First Visit to Washington, TheJ.T. Trowbridge448
Fouquet the MagnificentF. Sheldon467
GeniusJ. Brownlee Brown137
Glacial PeriodProf. Louis Agassiz224
Glaciers, External Appearance ofProf. Louis Agassiz[56]
Glen Roy, in Scotland, The Parallel Roads ofProf. Louis Agassiz723
Gold-Fields of Nova Scotia, TheArthur Gilman576
Guides, A Talk aboutMaria S. Cummins649
Half-Life, A, and Half a LifeMiss E.H. Appleton157
House and Home PapersHarriet Beecher Stowe[40], 201, 353, 458, 621, 754
Irving, WashingtonDonald G. Mitchell694
Life on the Sea IslandsMiss Forten587, 666
Minister Plenipotentiary, TheO.W. Holmes[106]
Mormons, Among theFitz-Hugh Ludlow479
My BookGail Hamilton[90]
New-England Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, The,J.G. Palfrey553
Northern InvasionsE.E. Hale245
Old Bachelor, Some Account of the Early Life of anMrs. A.M. Diaz560
Our Progressive IndependenceO.W. Holmes497
Our SoldiersMrs. Furness364
Peninsular Campaign, TheLt.-Col. B.L. Alexander379
Pictor IgnotusGail Hamilton433
Presidential Election, TheC.C. Hazewell631
Queen of California, TheE.E. Hale265
RayHarriet E. Prescott[19]
Relation of Art to Nature, On theJ. Eliot Cabot183, 313
Rim, TheHarriet E. Prescott605, 701
RobsonGeorge Augustus Sala715
Schoolmaster's Story, TheMrs. A.M. Diaz416
Stephen YarrowAuthor of "Life in the Iron Mills"[66]
Thackeray, William MakepeaceBayard Taylor371
TypesWilliam Winter615
Victory, How to UseE.E. Hale763
Yo-Semite, Seven Weeks in the GreatFitz-Hugh Ludlow739
Wet-Weather WorkDonald G. Mitchell304, 539
WhittierD.A. Wasson331
Winthrop, Governor John, in Old EnglandG.E. Ellis[1]