Mallston's Youngest _M. H. Catherwood_ 189 Mrs. Marcellus. By a Guest at her Saturdays _Olive Logan_ 613 Mrs. Pinckney's Governess 336 National Music an Interpreter of National Character _Amelia E. Barr_ 181 Newport a Hundred Years Ago _Frances Pierrepont North_ 351 On Spelling Reform _M. B. C. True_ 111 On the Skunk River _Louise Coffin Jones_ 56 Our Grandfathers' Temples. (_Illustrated._) _Charles F. Richardson_ 678 Paradise Plantation. (_Illustrated._) _Louise Seymour Houghton_ 19 Pipistrello _Ouida_ 84 Seven Weeks a Missionary _Louise Coffin Jones_ 424 Short Studies in the Picturesque _William Sloan Kennedy_ 375 Studies in the Slums-- _Helen Campbell_ III. Nan; or, A Girl's Life 103 IV. Jack 213 V. Diet and its Doings 362 VI. Jan of the North 498 The [Greek: Apax Aegomena] in Shakespeare _Prof. James D. Butler_ 742 The Arts of India. (_Illustrated._) _Jennie J. Young_ 532 The Authors of "Froufrou" _J. Brander Matthews_ 711 The Early Days of Mormonism _Frederic G. Mather_ 198 The Mistakes of Two People _Margaret Bertha Wright_ 567 The Palace of the Leatherstonepaughs. (_Illustrated._) _Margaret Bertha Wright_ 9 The Practical History of a Play _William H. Rideing_ 586 The Price of Safety _E. W. Latimer_ 698 The Ruin of Me. (Told by a Young Married Man.) _Mary Dean_ 369 The Ruins of the Colorado Valley. (_Illustrated._) _Alfred Terry Bacon_ 521 Through the Yellowstone Park to Fort Custer _S. Weir Mitchell, M. D._ 29 Westbrook _Alice Ilgenfritz_ 218 Where Lightning Strikes _George J. Varney_ 232 Will Democracy Tolerate a Permanent Class of National Office-holders? 690 LITERATURE OF THE DAY, comprising Reviews of the following Works: