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 14709-h.htm or 14709-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/0/14709/14709-h/14709-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/0/14709/14709-h.zip) LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE February, 1875 Vol. XV, No. 86 TABLE OF CONTENTS. FOLLOWING THE TIBER. CONCLUDING PAPER. SIX MONTHS AMONG CANNIBALS. AN AMERICAN GIRL AND HER LOVERS. by Mary E. Blair. A JAPANESE MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. by W.E. Griffis. THE LOST BABY. by Clara G. Dolliver. THREE FEATHERS. by William Black. CHAPTER XXIII. SOME OLD SONGS. CHAPTER XXIV. THE CUT DIRECT. CHAPTER XXV. NOT THE LAST WORD. FEVER. by H.C. Wood, Jr., M.D. SONNET. by Charlotte F. Bates. SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF HIRAM POWERS. by T. Adolphus Trollope. CORN. by Sidney Lanier. GENTLEMAN DICK. by W. Mackay Laffan. A SINGULAR FAMILY. by Clelia Lega Weeks. THE MATCHLESS ONE: A TALE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, IN FOUR CHAPTERS. by Ita Aniol Prokop. PROLOGUE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES OF PARIS. by Lucy H. Hooper. OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. GYPSY MUSIC IN HUNGARY. by E.C.R. THE "GIORNO DEI MORTI." by T.A.T. MR. MILL'S MOTHER. NOTES. LITERATURE OF THE DAY. Books Received. FOOTNOTES LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. TEMPLE OF THE CLITUMNUS. THE FALLS OF TERNI. ORVIETO. CIVITÀ BAGNOREA. THE TIBER, FROM ORTE. BORGHETTO. ST. PETER'S AND THE VATICAN, FROM THE FALLS OF THE TIBER. THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO. ISLAND OF THE TIBER. CUPOLA OF ST. PETER'S. THE PINCIO, FROM THE VILLA BORGHESE. SORACTE. VEII, FROM THE CAMPAGNA. TIVOLI. CASTLE AT OSTIA. HEAD OF THE TRAJAN CANAL, NEAR OSTIA. FOLLOWING THE TIBER. CONCLUDING PAPER. [Illustration: TEMPLE OF THE CLITUMNUS.] One branch of the little river which encompasses Assisi is the Clitumnus, the delight of philosophers and poets in the Augustan age. Near its source stands a beautiful little temple to the divinity of the stream. Although the ancients resorted hither for the loveliness of the spot, they did not bathe in the springs, a gentle superstition holding it sacrilege for the human body to lave itself in a stream near its source. [Illustration: THE FALLS OF TERNI.]