Vlll SOME OP THE CHIEF CONTRIBUTORS. Isaacs, Abram S., Journalist. Jay, John, Late Minister to Austria. Johnson, Bradley Tyler, Member of Maryland Bar. Johnson, Rossiter, Author and Editor. Johnston, William Preston, President of Tulane University. Jones, Charles C, Historian of Georgia. Jones, Horatio Gates, Vice-President of Pennsylvania Historical Society. Jones, William Alfred, Author " Character and Criticisms." Kendrick, James By land, Ex-President Vassar College. Lamb, Mrs. Martha J., Historian of New York City. Lathrop, George Parsons, Author " A Study of Hawthorne." Latrobe, John H. B., President Maryland Historical Society. Leach, Josiah Granville, Member of Philadelphia Bar. Lincoln, Robert T., Ex-Secretary of War. Lodge, Henry Cabot, Author '• Life of Hamilton." Lowell, James Russell, Late Minister to Great Britain. McCormick, Richard C, Late Governor of Arizona. Mathews, William, Author " Orators and Oratory." McMaster, John Bach, Author " History of the People of the United States." Mitchell, Donald G., Author " Reveries of a Bachelor." Mombert, Jacob I., D. D., Author " History of Charles the Great." Norton, Charles Eliot, Professor Harvard University. O'Connor, Joseph, Editor Rochester, N. Y., " Post-Express." Parkman, Francis, Author " Frontenac " and " French in Canada." Partem, James, Author and Essayist. Phelan, James, Editor Memphis, Tenn., "Avalanche." Phelps, William Walter, Member of Congress from New Jersey. Pierrepont, Edwards, Ex-Attorney-Gencral United States. Porter, David D., Admiral United States Navy. Porter, Gen. Horace, Formerly of Gen. Grant's Staff. Potter, Henry Codman, Bishop of Now York. Preston, Mrs. Margaret Junkin, Author and Poet. Read, John Meredith, Late Minister to Greece. Ricord, Frederick W., Of New Jersey Historical Society. Robinson, Ezekiel G., President of Brown University. Rodenbough, Theophilus S., Late of the U. S. Army. Romero, Mattias, Mexican Minister to the United States. Scharf, John Thomas, Historian of Maryland. Schurz, Carl, Ex-Secretary of the Interior. Schweinitz, Edmund A. de, Late Moravian Bishop. Sedgwick, Arthur G., Member of New York Bar* Sherman, William T., Late General of the United States Army. Smith, Charles Emory, Editor Philadelphia " Press." Stedman, Edmund C, Poet and Critic. Stille, Charles Janeway, Author " History of the Sanitary Commission." Stewart, George, Jr., President Quebec Historical Society. Stoddard, Richard Henry, Author and Poet. Stone, William L., Author "Life of Red Jacket." Strong, William, Ex-Justice United States Supreme Court. Stryker, William Scudder, Adjutant-General of New Jersey. Symington, Andrew James, Author "Life of William Cullen Bryant." Tanner, Benjamin T., Editor "African Methodist Episcopal Review." Tenner, WiUiam Christian, Graduate of the University of Paris. Tucker, J. Randolph, Member of Congress from Virginia. Vinton, Arthur Dudley, Miscellaneous Writer. Wadleigh, Bainbridge, Ex-United States Senator. Warner, Charles Dudley, Author and Journalist. Welling, James C, President of Columbian University. Whittier, John Greenleaf, Author and Poet. Wilson, James Grant, President Genealogical and Biographical Society. Wilson, James Harrison, Author " Life of Ulysses S. Grant." Winslow, WiUiam C, Author and Clergyman. Winter, William, Poet and Theatrical Critic. Winthrop, Robert C, Ex-United States Senator. Wright, Marcus Joseph, Late of the Confederate Army. Young, John Russell, Author and Journalist.