INTRODUCTORY,

Out at elbows.—­The story of st. George cleave.  By John Esten Cooke,

My secret. (From the French.) By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

A leaf from my Paris note-book.  By H.T.  Tuckerman,

On popular knowledge.  By George S. Hillard,

On receiving A privately printed volume of poems from A friend. 
By Thomas Buchanan read,

The prince at LAND’S end.  By Caroline Chesebro,

Sea-weed. By James Russell Lowell,

Trefoil.  By Evert A. DUYCKINCK,

Miserere Domine.  By William H. Burleigh,

The kingdoms of nature praising god.—­A short essay on the 148th
psalm.  By C.A.  Bartol,

Translations.  By the Rev.  Charles T. Brooks,

Recollections of Neander, the church historian. 
By the Rev.  Roswell D. Hitchcock, D.D.,

Poems. By Julia Ward Howe,

Earth’s witness.  By Alice B. Haven,

The new England thanksgiving.  By the Rev.  Henry W. Bellows, D.D.,

Song of the archangels. (From Goethe’s Faust.) By George P. Marsh,

A night and day at Valparaiso.  By Robert Tomes,

Translations.  By the Rev.  Theodore Parker,

Paid for by the page.  By Edward S. Gould,

Words for music.  By George P. Morris,

“The Christian greatness.” (Passages from a Manuscript Sermon.)
By the Rev.  Orville Dewey, D.D.,

The baby and the boy musician.  By Lydia Huntley Sigourney,

The Erl-king. (From the German of Goethe.) By Mrs. E.F.  Ellet,

Thoughts upon Fenelon.  By the Rev.  Samuel Osgood, D.D.,