The Sisters. By G. G. Foster, 114 To Violet. By Jerome A. Maby, 115 The Prayer of the Dying Girl. By Samuel D. Patterson, 136 The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight. By Grace Greenwood, 146 The Light of our Home. By Thomas Buchanan Read, 146 The Lost Pet. By Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, 152 The Poet's Heart. By Charles E. Trail, 161 The Return to Scenes of Childhood. By Gretta, 162 To Guadalupe. By Mayne Reid, 174 The Faded Rose. By G. G. Foster, 174 The Child's Appeal. By Mary G. Horsford, 175 The Old Farm-House. By Mary L. Lawson, 175 Temper Life's Extremes. By G. S. Burleigh, 187 The Deformed Artist. By Mrs. E. N. Horsford, 202 The Angel of the Soul. By J. Bayard Taylor, 210 The Bard. By S. Anna Lewis, 219 To Her Who Can Understand It. By Mayne Reid, 228 To the Violet. By H. T. Tuckerman, 232 They May Tell of a Clime. By C. E. Trail, 232 The Battle of Life. By Anne C. Lynch, 266 The Prophet's Rebuke. By Mrs. Juliet H. L. Campbell, 274 The Mourners. By Rev. T. L. Harris, 317 The Gardener. By George S. Burleigh, 328 The Record of December. By H. Morford, 335 The Christian Hero's Epitaph. By B., 348 The City of Mexico. By M. E. Thropp, 356 To a Rose-Bud. By Y. S., 359 Visit to Greenwood Cemetery. By Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, 53 Zenobia. By L. Mason, 185 REVIEWS. Endymion. By Henry B. Hirst, 57 Memoir of William Ellery Channing, 58 Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire, 58 Romance of the History of Louisiana. By Charles Gayarre, 59 The Life of Oliver Cromwell. By J. T. Headley, 118 A Supplement to the Plays of Shakspeare. By Wm. Gilmore Simms, 119 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. By Alphonse de Lamartine, 119 Hawkstone: A Tale of and for England in 184- 178 The Planetary and Stellar Worlds, 178 Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings, 179