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INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII.

PAGE.
[Administration of Abraham Lincoln]Gideon Welles[5], 149
[Almanacs, Some Old]Charles Wyllys Elliott[24]
Alnaschar. 1876Bret Harte217
Alfred de MussetHenry James, Jr.790
[Applied Science]Charles Barnard[79], 160
Art's LimitationsMargaret J. Preston159
AssjaIvan Tourguéneff368
Aut Diabolus aut Nihil 218
[Ballad of Constance]William Winter[109]
Balzac, Letters ofHenry James, Jr.183
Battalion, TheJ. W. De Forest817
[Beer]S. G. Young[62]
Beethoven, ToSidney Lanier394
Cigarettes 471
Cleopatra's SoliloquyMary Bayard Clarke506
Climbing Rose, The 596
Cossacks, An Evening Party with theDavid Ker406
Dead Star, TheJohn James Piatt660
Dead Vashti, ALouise Stockton428
DefeatedMary L. Ritter354
Dramatic Canons, TheFrederick Whittaker396, 508
[Drift-Wood]Philip Quilibet[125], 265, 411, 553, 695, 842

[The Twelve-Month Sermon]; [Ribbons and Coronets at Market Rates]; The Spinning of Literature; Growth of American Taste for Art; The Wills of the Triumvirate; The Duel and the Newspapers; The Industry of Interviewers; Talk about Novels; Primogeniture and Public Bequests; The Times and the Customs; Victor Hugo; Evolutionary Hints for Novelists; The Travellers; Swindlers and Dupes; Pegasus in Harness.

Eastern Question, TheA. H. Guernsey359
English Peerage, TheE. C. Grenville Murray293
English TraitsRichard Grant White520
English WomenRichard Grant White675
Executive Patronage and Civil Service ReformJ. L. M. Curry826
Fascinations of Angling, TheGeorge Dawson818
Fallen Among Thieves 809
Great Seal of the United StatesJohn D. Champlin, Jr.691
Hard TimesCharles Wyllys Elliott474
[Head of Hercules, The]James M. Floyd[52]
[Heartbreak Cameo]Lizzie W. Champney[111]
Home of My HeartF. W. Bourdillon543
[Influences]Charles Carroll[124]
[Juliet on the Balcony]Howard Glyndon[42]
Lassie's Complaint, TheJames Kennedy367
Libraries, Public in the United StatesJohn A. Church639
Life Insurance 686, 803
[Literature, Current] [137], 279, 425, 567, 708, 855
[Love's Messengers]Mary Ainge De Vere[51]
Love's RequiemWilliam Winter182
[Lucille's Letter] [23]
[Madcap Violet. Chapters XLIV. to End]William Black[30]
Margary, The Murder ofWalter A. Burlingame175
Miss Misanthrope. Chapters I. to XX.Justin McCarthy244, 302, 450, 597, 746
Miss TinselHenry Sedley337
Mohegan-HudsonJames Manning Winchell637
[Monsieur Delille]T. S. Fay[119]
National Bank Notes, How RedeemedFrank W. Lautz647
[Nebulæ]By The Editor[144], 288, 431, 576, 720, 864
[Normandy and Pyrenees]Henry James, Jr.[95]
On Being Born Away from HomeTitus Munson Coan533
[Our Rural Divinity]John Burroughs[43]
Philter, TheMary B. Dodge242
Portrait D'une Jeune Femme InconnueM. E. W. S.336
Progressive Baby, AS. F. Hopkins581, 727
Punished, TheElla Wheeler789
Pythia, The ModernS. B. Luce209
RenunciationKate Hillard358
Reflected LightMary Ainge De Vere802
[Romance]J. W. De Forest[61]
Roman Picture, AMary Lowe Dickinson674
Saint Lambert's CoalMargaret J. Preston519
[Scientific Miscellany]Prof. John A. Church[129], 269, 415, 558, 699, 846