Aphorisms, 78, 83, 134, 222, 260, 414, 444, 609, 663 Asleep, 270 Averill's Raid. By Alfred B. Street, 326 Battle of the Wilderness. By E. A. Warriner, 207 Buckle, Draper: Church and Estate. By Edward B. Freeland, 55 Buried Alive. A Dirge. By Martha Walker Cook, 189 Causes of the Minnesota Massacre. By January Searle, 174 Church Music. By Lucia D. Pychowska, 112 Colors and their Meaning. By Mrs. M. E. G. Gage, 199 Coming Up at Shiloh, 399 'Cor Unum, Via Una.' God Bless our Native Land! 716 Creation. By Charles E. Townsend, 531 Death in Life. By Edwin R. Johnson, 516 Docs the Moon Revolve on its Axis? By Charles E. Townsend, 380 Editor's Table, 238, 478, 711 Excuse. By Kate Putnam, 415 Flower Odors, 469 Fly Leaves from the Life of a Soldier, 289, 534 Genius, By Richard Bowen, 705 James Fenimore Cooper on Secession and State Rights. By Charles K. Tuckerman, 79 Letter of Hon. R. J. Walker, in favor of the Reëlection of Abraham Lincoln, Sept. 30, 1864, London, 686 Life on a Blockader. By the Author of 'The Last Cruise of the Monitor, 46 Literary Notices, 116, 232, 359, 475, 706 Locomotion. By David M. Balfour, 472 Lois Pearl Berkeley. By Margaret Vane Hastings 552 Longing. From Schlegel, 454 Look-Out Mountain. By Alfred B. Street, 65 Lunar Characteristics. By Charles E. Townsend, 381 Miracles. By Rev. Asa L. Colton, 685 Negro Troops. By Henry Everett Russell, 191 Observations of the Sun. By Charles E. Townsend, 328 One Night. By Julius Wilcox, 67 On Hearing a 'Trio.' By Mary Freeman Goldbeck, 650