Note: The Table of Contents and the list of illustrations were added by the transcriber. Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13061-h.htm or 13061-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/0/6/13061/13061-h/13061-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/0/6/13061/13061-h.zip) LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE MARCH, 1875. Vol. XV, No. 87 TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS AN ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA. [Illustrated] AUSTRALIAN SCENES AND ADVENTURES. Two Papers.--1. [Illustrated] FORECAST by CHARLOTTE F. BATES. THE MATCHLESS ONE: A Tale of American Society, In Four Chapters by ITA ANIOL PROKOP. Chapter III. Chapter IV. MUNICH AS A PEST-CITY. AMONG THE BLOUSARDS by WIRT SIKES. SONNET by F.A. HILLARD. THREE FEATHERS by WILLIAM BLACK Chapter XXVI. A Perilous Truce. Chapter XXVII. Further Entanglements. Chapter XXVIII. Farewell! LA MADONNA DELLA SEDIA. A Tradition by EMMA LAZARUS. EARLY TRAVELING EXPERIENCES IN INDIA by FITZEDWARD HALL. ONCE AND AGAIN by CHARLES WARREN STODDARD. THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE by S. WEIR MITCHELL. PLAYING WITH FIRE by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TUSCAN COURT UNDER THE GRAND DUKE LEOPOLD by T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE. OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. Old English Charities. Landoriana. The Death of Doctors' Commons. The Lay of the Leveler. The Philosopher Strauss as A Poet. LITERATURE OF THE DAY. Books Received. ILLUSTRATIONS RUFIN PIOTROWSKI. THE ARREST. CROSSING THE COURTYARD OF THE PRISON. OUTSTARING THE GUARD. CHARITY TO THE EXILE. A RUSSIAN OTHELLO. VAIN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. A SAMARITAN OF THE STEPPES. THE BENEDICTION WITH TWO FINGERS. CROSSING THE FRONTIER. ABORIGINES OF THE EASTERN COAST. KING TATAMBO. DAUGHTER OF KING TATAMBO. NEGRO WAR-DANCE, OR CORROBORI. A GOLD-MINE. KANGAROO HUNT. CATTLE-HUNTING. COMPANIONS OF THE HUNT. FERN TREES NEAR HOBART TOWN. FOREST OF FERNS. LIBRARY OF MELBOURNE. THE ENVIRONS OF MELBOURNE. AN ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA. [Illustration: RUFIN PIOTROWSKI.] All the languages of continental Europe have some phrase by which a parting people express the hope of meeting again. The French _au revoir_, the Italian _à rivederla_, the Spanish _hasta mañana_, the German _Auf Wiedersehen_,--these and similar forms, varied with the occasion, have grown from the need of the heart to cheat separation of its pain. The Poles have an expression of infinitely deeper meaning, which embodies all that human nature can utter of grief and despair--"To meet nevermore." This is the heart-rending farewell with which the patriot exiled to Siberia takes leave of family and friends.