Number 11.25 Cents.

THE

CONTINENTAL

MONTHLY

DEVOTED TO LITERATURE and NATIONAL POLICY

NOVEMBER, 1862.

NEW YORK:
JOHN F. TROW, 50 GREENE STREET
(FOR THE PROPRIETORS).
HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: FRANCK TAYLOR.


CONTENTS—No. XI.

The Causes of the Rebellion. Hon. F. P. Stanton,513
Word-Murder,524
Stewart, and the Dry Goods Trade of New York. W. Frothingham,528
Unheeded Growth, John Neal,534
Red, Yellow, and Blue,535
One of the Million. Caroline Cheesebro,541
Las Oraciones. C. K. Tuckerman,557
A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke,560
The Union. Hon. Robert J. Walker,572
The Wolf Hunt. Chas. G. Leland,580
The Poetry of Nature. Chas. G. Leland,581
Maccaroni and Canvas. Henry P. Leland,591
The Proclamation. Chas. G. Leland,603
The Press in the United States. Hon. F. P. Stanton,604
Was He Successful? Richard B. Kimball,610
Aurora. Horace Greeley,622
From Mount Lafayette, White Mountains,626
The Homestead Bill. Hon. Robert J. Walker,627
Literary Notices,636
Editor's Table,638