Note: The Table of Contents and the list of illustrations were added by the transcriber. LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE February, 1876. Vol. XVII, No. 98. TABLE OF CONTENTS THE CENTURY--ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. II.--AMERICAN PROGRESS. UP THE THAMES. CONCLUDING PAPER, by EDWARD C. BRUCE. THE POET'S PEN, by F.A. HILLARD. SKETCHES OF INDIA. II. FRA ALOYSIUS, by EMMA LAZARUS. A FEW HOURS IN BOHEMIA. PROFESSOR AND TEACHER, by JAMES MORGAN HART. CONTRASTED MOODS, by CHARLOTTE F. BATES. THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS, by MRS. E. LYNN LINTON CHAPTER XXI. CHANGES. CHAPTER XXII. EDGAR HARROWBY. CHAPTER XXIII. ON THE MOOR. CHAPTER XXIV. THE CHILD FINA. LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA, by LADY BARKER. ON SANKOTA HEAD, by ETHEL C. GALE. AT THE OLD PLANTATION. TWO PAPERS.--II, by ROBERT WILSON. OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. A GERMAN AGRICULTURAL FAIR. A PAIR OF WHEELS AND AN OLD PARASOL. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, by R.A.F. PENROSE. OUR EARLY NEWSPAPERS. LITERATURE OF THE DAY. _Books Received._ ILLUSTRATIONS POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT BUILDING AT WASHINGTON. THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON AND CARPENTERS' HALL, WHERE THE FIRST COLONIAL CONGRESS MET. HOE'S NEW PERFECTING PRINTING-PRESS, PRINTING 12,000 DOUBLE IMPRESSIONS PER HOUR, AND THE OLD EPHRATA PRESS. THE CITY OF TOKYO, THE LARGEST STEAMSHIP BUILT IN AMERICA, AND FITCH'S STEAMBOAT, THE FIRST CONSTRUCTED. THE COTTON GIN. GRAIN ELEVATOR. INTERIOR OF A POSTAL CAR. PROF. S.F.B. MORSE, THE INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. THE SCHOOL-HOUSE OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. WINDSOR CASTLE, FROM ETON. MORTON CHURCH. MILTON'S PEAR TREE. GRAY. BEACONSFIELD CHURCH. TOMB OF BURKE. HEDSOR AND COOKHAM CHURCHES. ETON COLLEGE AND CHAPEL. ETON COLLEGE, FROM NORTH TERRACE, WINDSOR. STAINES CHURCH. NORMAN GATE AND ROUND TOWER, WINDSOR. HERNE'S OAK. EAST FRONT, WINDSOR CASTLE. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S BUILDING, WINDSOR. EARL OF SURREY. WINDSOR CASTLE, FROM BISHOPSGATE. LOCK AT WINDSOR. THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. ELMS NEAR THE HERONRY. HINDU TEMPLES NEAR POONA. GÓNDS. CENOTAPHS IN THE VALLEY OF THE TONSA. THE GAUR, OR INDIAN BISON. BANJARIS. LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF _POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE_. FEBRUARY, 1876. THE CENTURY--ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. II.--AMERICAN PROGRESS. [Illustration: POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT BUILDING AT WASHINGTON.]