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CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | ||
| Wedding at Ogden Farm, The | George E. Waring, Jr. | 85 |
| Wesleyan University * | William North Rice | 648 |
| POETRY. | ||
| Alpine Picture, An | T. B. Aldrich | 511 |
| "A Wounded One will Read my Rhyme" | John Vance Cheney | 688 |
| Bird, The Flown | Richard Henry Stoddard | 897 |
| Centennial Bells * | Benjamin F. Taylor | 360 |
| Choice and Chance | Paul H. Hayne | 720 |
| Courage! | George Houghton | 241 |
| Fantasy, A | Mary S. Withington | 623 |
| Flood of Years, The | William Cullen Bryant | 560 |
| Greetings, The Two | Bayard Taylor | 118 |
| His Messenger | Mary E. Bradley | 399 |
| Hospes Civitatis | Richard Henry Stoddard | 584 |
| "If Love and Life were One" | John G. Saxe | 46 |
| In Loneliness | R. C. Meyers | 872 |
| Louise | Mary L. Ritter | 93 |
| My Birthright | Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt | 119 |
| My Nasturtiums | H. H. | 266 |
| Mysteries, The Two | Mary Mapes Dodge | 888 |
| Nightfall | W. W. Ellsworth | 336 |
| On a Miniature | Henry A. Beers | 633 |
| Renunciation | Charles Carroll | 187 |
| Rosenlied | Alice Williams | 498 |
| Shadows | Anna C. Green | 679 |
| "Silence Is Golden" | Sara H. Browne | 211 |
| Singing Robes | Margaret J. Preston | 15 |
| Song | Celia Thaxter | 663 |
| Song | Celia Thaxter | 478 |
| Song of the Future, A | Sidney Lanier | 543 |
| Song of the Gloaming | John Vance Cheney | 221 |
| Summons, The | George Wurts | 428 |
| Three Friends | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 261 |
| To Dora | Mary Mapes Dodge | 332 |
| Truant Madge | Kate Putnam Osgood | 167 |
| Visionary Face, The | Paul H. Hayne | 28 |
| EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT | ||
| Topics of the Time.
The Remedy is with the People—Double Crimes and One-Sided Laws—Cheap Opinions—Is it Poetry? 120; Advertising Shame—The Literary Class—A New Departure, 267; The Centennial—The May Conference—From Humility to Excellence—Great Shop-keepers, 429; The Manufacture of Doctors—The Social Evil—The Dead-Beat Nuisance, 590; Harvard Examinations for Women—Village Improvement Societies, 749; The Civil Service—Suspected Duties—English and American Copyright, 898.
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| The Old Cabinet.
"What is a Sonnet?"—Obscurity in Verse—"Dante and his Circle"—Criticism—The Poet—Telegraph Wires, 125; Reading and Writing—The Academy Exhibition, 269; A Centennial Reflection—Two Classes of Conversers—"A Spanish Anecdote"—Science and Poetry, 433; "A Song of the Early Summer"—Style—"Song"—A Letter to a Contributor—"A Midsummer Song"—Dr. McClintock, 593; The "Literary Feller"—A Crumb of Comfort, 752;—Silly through Theory—A Phenomenon of Dullness—A Discouraging Experience—Criticism—Hawthorne, 901.
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| Home and Society.
Home Uses of the Exposition—In Moving-Times—Rural Topics: Evergreens, Pears, Grapes and Vegetables, 127; How to see New York—Rural Topics: Flowers, Shrubs, Strawberries, etc.—The
Uses of Change, 272; Paris Fashions—Rural Topics: Thinning Fruit; Summer Pruning; Planting Celery; Tree-Peddlers—The Exhibition as a School, 435; Midsummer Holidays: Short Excursions from New York—The Rules of Croquet—Paris Fashions—Common Flowers, 595; Practical Hints about the Exhibition—Rural Topics: Budding, Spinach, Gathering Pears, Seedling Trees, Planting Strawberries in September—Girls' Names—Paris Fashions, 753; Paris Fashions—Rural Topics: Fall Planting of Fruits and Berries; Shrubs; Field-Mice; Tree-Peddlers, again; Hyacinths—The Rules of Croquet: II., 904. | ||
| Culture and Progress | 130, 276, 439, 599, 757, 907 | |
| The World's Work | 137, 283, 443, 603, 763, 911 | |
| Bric-à-Brac * | 141, 286, 446, 606, 765, 914 | |
