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ISSUE DATE: MAY, 1869; VOLUME 38, NUMBER 228
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS . . . J. S. C. (JOHN STEVENS CABOT) ABBOTT, pp. 721-741. ILLUSTRATIONS.-Columbus in his Studio.-Columbus at the Door of the Convent.-Columbus before the Commissioners.-The Landing.-Erecting the Cross.-The Return Voyage.-Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella.-Columbus and the Egg.-The Colony destroyed.-Columbus in Chains.-The Eclipse of the Moon.-The Rescue.

GLASS-BLOWING FOR LITTLE FOLKS . . . LOUISE E. CHOLLET, pp. 742-750. ILLUSTRATIONS.-The Fall of the Giant.-The Wise Man and the Giant.-The Wise Man at Home. -The Wise Man's Home changed.-Blowing Glass.-It's Window Glass!-My little Invention.Blowing up the Giant.-The Wise Man's Work.

THE SACRED CITY OF THE HINDUS . . . HENRY M. ALDEN, pp. 750. ILLUSTRATIONS.-The Minarets, from the Ganges.-Raja of Ahmety's Temple.-Temple at Manikarnika Ghat.-Raja of Magpore's Ghat.-The Nepalese Temple.-Ram Ghiit.-Carving on the Buddhist Tower, Sarnath.-Great Buddhist Tower at Sarnath, near Benares.-Ancient Buddhist Temple at Bakariya Kund.

MAGDALEN . . . HARRIETT PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, pp. 741-742.
A SIN OF OMISSION . . . MARY N. PRESCOTT, pp. 768-778.
BOTH SIDES . . . ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS, pp. 778-787.
DAGUERREOTYPES OF WEBSTER, CLAY, CALHOUN, AND JACKSON . . . T. B. Thorpe, pp. 787-789.

THE PLAINS, AS I CROSSED THEM TEN YEARS AGO . . . HORACE GREELEY, pp. 789-795.
THE WORKING-MEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES . . . Eugene Lawrence, pp. 795-806.
THE EVE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW. pp. 806-808. With an Illustration.

MY ENEMY'S DAUGHTER. By JUSTIN M'CARTHY . . . JUSTIN MCCARTHY, pp. 808-824. CHAPTER XIV; An odd Interview and an unexpected Meeting. CHAPTER XV. The Ileavy Father's Mistake. ILLUSTRATION.-I talk with Lambert after Dinner.

A BRAVE LADY. By the Author of "JOHN HALIFAx, GENTLEMAN . . . Dinah Mulock Craik, pp. 824-839. ILLUSTRATIONS.-Winifred Weston and Lady de Bougainville.-Winifred's Thoughts.

EVENING REST . . . L. D. Nichols, pp. 839-840.
PHILLY AND THE REST . . . Mary E. Dodge, pp. 840-843.
DEEP-SEA SOUNDING . . . Jacob Abbott, pp. 843-845. ILLUSTRATION.-Brooke's Dcep-Sea Sounding Apparatus.

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR. pp. 845-850. About Church Street, New York.-What it was, and what it is.-Migrations of Churches and Theatres.-Reminiscence of a Murder.-Some architectural Jokes, Grecian and Gothic.-Sham Architecture.-Theology Bouffe.-A Little Hassock's Ideas.-The Easy Chair about Editors and Contributors.

EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. pp. 850-855. Scott's Fishing in American Waters.-Madame Guiccioli's Recollections of Byron.-Preston's Studies in Shakspeare.-French's Arithmetics.-The Library of Wonders.-The Year-Book of Facts. -Marcel's Study of Languages.-Wells's Phrenology and Physiognomy.-Barnes's Notes on the Psalms.-Bain's Moral Science.-Hopkins's Law of Love.-Ken's Sermons.-Cuyler's Empty Crib.Bickersteth's Blessed Dead.-Sprague's American Pulpit.-Browning's Ring and the Book.-The Planet.-Hall's Voices of Nature. -School Lyrics.-Appleton's Republications.-Bickmore's Indian Archipelago.-The Fisher Maiden. Gain of a Loss.-Phinens Finn.-He Knew he was Right.-The Chaplet of Pearls.-Tales from Alsace.-Madame de Stael.-Fairy Tales front Gold Land.-Five Weeks in a Balloon.

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS. pp. 855-859. Death of James Harper.-President Johnson's Farewell Address.-Meeting of the new Congress. -President Grant's Inaugural Address.-The Cabinet.-The Congressional Committees.-The Pablic Credit Bill.-The Currency Equalization Bill.-The Tenure-of-Office Law.-Reorganization of the Armv.-The Public Debt.-Mr. Wells on Prices and Labor.-Mexico.-The Cuban Revolution. -Proclamation of General Dulce.-The British Parliament.-Mr. Gladstone on Church Question.Receipts and Expenditures of Government.-Tlie King of Saxony on German Affairs.-The Spanish Constitution.-Montpensler for King.-Marriage of Priests in Italy.

EDITOR'S DRAWER. pp. 859-864. Close of a Volume.-The Kn-Kluxes.-Hard Disease.-Indian Agents.-Listening to the Hymn.Faraday on Powder.-Wouldn't marry him.-Cannibalism.-Smelling of the Testament.-A Silent Blessing.-Papal Joke.-Sans Sonci Hotel.-Deficiency Bill.-A cheerful Funeral.-Why-I Jenkins. -Straining the Keg.--Admitting the Assault.-Preaching about twenty Minutes.-Tbe Gates of Hell.-The Lesson of the Day.-No want of a Nourse.-Another Dip.-Too young for a Name.Loving a Horse.-A barbarous Judge.-Dusenberry's Card.-Clerical Fees.-By Way of Providence. -Clerical Capers.-A Freedman's Hymn.-Malum in se.-To Nickerbockers.-The Cobs come.Balled already.-Let Africa keep Silence.-Reversing the Sexes.-Settling up and down.-Changing the Address.-Get off at Wilmington.-Corwin's Fie.-Juvenalia.-The Letter killeth.-Duties of Soldiers.
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