CONTENTS.—No. XXIV.
| The Nation. By Hugh Miller Thompson, | 601 |
| Buckle, Draper, and a Science of History. By E. B. Freeland, | 610 |
| Diary of Frances Krasinska, | 624 |
| The Sleeping Soldier. By Edward N. Pomeroy, | 632 |
| My Mission. By Ella Rodman, | 633 |
| Letter Writing. By Park Benjamin, | 648 |
| The Year. By W. H. Henderson, | 657 |
| The Great American Crisis. By Stephen Pearl Andrews, | 658 |
| Was He Successful? By Richard B. Kimball, | 670 |
| Dead. By Anna Gray, | 683 |
| Reconstruction. By Henry Everett Russell, | 684 |
| Virginia. By H. T. Tuckerman, | 690 |
| She Defines her Position. By Eliza S. Randolph, | 702 |
| Whiffs from my Meerschaum. By Lieut. R. A. Wolcott, | 704 |
| Literary Notices, | 706 |
| Editor's Table, | 711 |
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