Eccentricities of Insanity, by Dr. W.A. Butler. Common Adulterations of Food, by Dr. J.C. Draper. The Home Life of Oysters, and other Natural History Papers, by Arabella B. Buckley. Wonders in Ourselves; or the Curiosities of the Human Body, by Dr. Austin Flint, Jr. Insect Enemies of the Garden, the Orchard and the Wheat-Field, by A.S. Packard, Jr. Demons of the Air and Water. A fascinating Series of Papers on Sanitary Science, by R. Ogden Doremus. The Youth Of the Brain, "Speech in Man," "Animal Poisons and their Effects," and Other Papers, by Dr. W.A. Hammond. Strange Ways Of Curing People. A Description of Curious Sanitaria,--the Peat, Mud, Sand, Whey, and Grape Cures, by William H. Rideing. * * * * * Encouragement and Advice. Hints for Poor Farmers, by C.E. Winder. The Failures of Great Men, by James Parton. A Dietary for Nervous People, by Dr. W.A. Hammond. Hints for Country House-Builders, by Calvert Vaux. The Gift Of Memory, and Other Papers, giving Instances of Self-Help, by Samuel Smiles. A New Profession for Young Men. The Opportunities for Young Men as Electrical Engineers, by Thomas A. Edison. At the Age Of Twenty-One. A Series of Papers showing what Great Men had accomplished, and what they proposed doing, at that period of their lives, by Edwin P. Whipple. * * * * * Original Poems. BY ALFRED TENNYSON, VICTOR HUGO, THE EARL OF LYTTON, J.C. WHITTIER, T.B. ALDRICH, DR. CHARLES MACKAY, And Many Others. * * * * * Illustrated Adventure and Travel. Shark-Hunting, by T.B. Luce. Four Amusing Stories, by C.A. Stephens. Outwitted. An Indian Adventure, by Lieut. A. Chapin. A Honeymoon in the Jungle, by Phil. Robinson. Wrecked Upon a Volcanic Island, by Richard Heath. Stories of the Cabins in the West, by E.J. Marston. Adventures in the Mining Districts, by H. Fillmore. The Capture of Some Infernal Machines, by William Howson. Breaking in the Reindeer, and Other Sketches of Polar Adventure, by W.H. Gilder. An American in Persia, by the American Minister Resident, Teheran, S.G.W. Benjamin. China as Seen by a Chinaman, by the Editor of the Chinese American, Wong Chin Foo. Stories Of Menageries. Incidents connected with Menagerie Life, and the Capture and Taming of Wild Beasts for Exhibition, by S.S. Cairns. Boys Afoot in Italy and Switzerland. The Adventures of two English boys travelling abroad at an expense of one dollar a day, by Nugent Robinson. * * * * * Reminiscences and Anecdotes.