Payment in one year 24 00 " in two years 24 00 " in three years 24 00 " in four years 118 00 " in five years 112 00 " in six years 106 00 * * * * * Number 16. 25 Cents. THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY. DEVOTED TO Literature and National Policy. APRIL, 1863. NEW YORK: JOHN F. TROW 50 GREENE STREET (FOR THE PROPRIETORS). HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY. WASHINGTON, D.C.: FRANCK TAYLOR. * * * * * CONTENTS.--No. XVI. The Wonders of Words, 385 The Chech, 395 Pictures from the North, 398 The New Rasselas, 404 The Chained River. By Charles Godfrey Leland, 410 How the War affects Americans. By Hon. F. P. Stanton, 411 Promoted, 420 Henrietta and Vulcan. By Delia M. Colton, 421 Ethel. By Martha Walker Cook, 435 The Skeptics of the Waverley Novels. By Charles Godfrey Leland, 439 A Merchant's Story. By Edmund Kirke, 451 A Chapter on Wonders. By Perth Granton, 461 The Return. By Edward Sprague Rand, jr., 464 The Union. By Hon. R. J. Walker, 465 Down in Tennessee, 469 Poetry and Poetical Selections, 474 Flag of our Sires. By Hon. R. J. Walker, 480 A Fancy Sketch, 482 Our Present Position; its Dangers and its Duties, 488 The Complaining Bore, 496 Literary Notices, 500 Editors' Table, 503 * * * * * 'MY SOUTHERN FRIENDS,' by the author of 'Among the Pines,' is just issued from the press of G. W. CARLETON, 413 Broadway, N. Y. Price, $l, cloth; 75 cts., paper covers. * * * * * ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by JAMES R. GILMORE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER.