Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections) THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY. DEVOTED TO Literature and National Policy. VOL. IV. JULY-DECEMBER, 1863. New York: JOHN F. TROW, 50 GREENE STREET, (FOR THE PROPRIETORS.) 1863. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by JOHN F. TROW, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER, 46, 48, & 50 Greene St., New York. * * * * * INDEX TO VOLUME IV. Abijah Witherpee's Retreat, 16 Across Maine in Mid-Winter, 138 A Detective's Story, 474 American Finances and Resources. By Hon. Robert J. Walker, 463 Autumn Leaves. By Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, 136 Buckle, Draper, and a Science of History. By Edward B. Freeland, 610 Buckle, Draper, and the Law of Human Development. By Edward B. Freeland, 529 Currency and the National Finances. By J. Smith Homans, 419 Dead. By Anna Gray, 683 Diary of Frances Krasinska; or, Life in Poland during the 18th Century, 42, 150, 274 394, 491, 624 Dying in the Hospital. By Mary E. Nealy, Louisville, Ky., 229 Early History of Printing and the Newspaper Press in Boston and New York. By W. L. Stone, 256 Editor's Table, 118, 237, 355, 598, 711 Emancipation in Jamaica, By Rev. C. C. Starbuck, 1 Evergreen Beauty. By Major S. H. Hurst, 227 Extraterritoriality in China. By Dr. Macgowan, 556 Japanese Foreign Relations. By Dr. Macgowan, 333 Jefferson Davis and Repudiation. By Hon. Robert J. Walker, 207, 352 Jefferson Davis--Repudiation, Recognition, and Slavery. By Hon. R. J. Walker, 390 Ladies' Loyal League. By Mrs. O.S. Baker, 51 Letters to Professor S. F. B. Morse. By Rev. Dr. Henry, 514 Letter Writing. By Park Benjamin, 648 Literary Notices, 114, 231, 478, 594, 706 Maiden's Dreaming. By E. W. C., 403 Matter and Spirit. By Lieut. E. Phelps, with Reply of Hon. F. P. Stanton, 546 Mrs. Rabotham's Party. By L. V. F. Randolph, 33 My Lost Darling, 160 My Mission. By Ella Rodman, 633 November. By E. W. C., 500 October Afternoon In the Highlands, 433 Our Future. By Lt. Egbert Phelpe, U.S.A. 121 Patriotism and Provincialism. By H. Clay Preuss, 59 Reason, Rhyme, and Rhythm. Compiled and written by Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, 20, 168, 293, 412 Reconnoissance near Fort Morgan, and Expedition in Lake Pontchartrain and Pearl River, by the Mortar Flotilla of Captain D. D. Porter, U. S. N. By F. H. Gerdes, Ass't U.S. Coast Survey, 269 Reconstruction. By Henry Everett Russell, 630 Remembrance. By G.F.G., 296 She Defines her Position. By Eliza S. Randolph, 702