The

CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:

DEVOTED TO

Literature and National Policy

VOL. VI.—October, 1864—No. IV.

CONTENTS

[SOME USES OF A CIVIL WAR.]
[PROVERBS.]
[THE UNDIVINE COMEDY—A POLISH DRAMA.]
[THE NORTH CAROLINA CONSCRIPT.]
[DOES THE MOON REVOLVE ON ITS AXIS?]
[LUNAR CHARACTERISTICS.]
[A GLANCE AT PRUSSIAN POLITICS.—PART 11.]
['YE KNOW NOT WHAT YE ASK.']
[COMING UP AT SHILOH.]
[ÆNONE:—A TALE OF SLAVE LIFE IN ROME.]
[APHORISMS.—NO. XII.]
[EXCUSE.]
[AMERICAN WOMEN.]
[A WREN'S SONG.]
[WORD-STILTS]
[A GREAT SOCIAL PROBLEM.]
[APHORISMS.—NO. XIII.]
[OUR GREAT AMERICA.]
[LONGING]
[THE LESSON OF THE HOUR.]
[THE SCIENTIFIC UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: ITS CHARACTER AND RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGES.]
[FLOWER ODORS.]
[LOCOMOTION.]
[LITERARY NOTICES.]
[EDITOR'S TABLE]