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 20. 25 Cents. THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY. DEVOTED TO Literature and National Policy. AUGUST, 1863. NEW YORK: JOHN F. TROW 50 GREENE STREET (FOR THE PROPRIETORS). HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY. WASHINGTON, D.-C.: FRANCK TAYLOR. CONTENTS.--No. XX. Our Future. By Lieut. Egbert Phelps, U.S.A., 121 Autumn Leaves. By Mrs. M. W. Cook, 136 Across Maine in Mid-Winter, 138 Diary of Frances Krasinska, 150 The Sleeping Peri, 159 My Lost Darling, 160 Reason, Rhyme, and Rhythm. Compiled and written by Mrs. M. W. Cook, 168 The Buccaneers of America. By W. L. Stone, 175 Under the Palmetto. By H. G. Spaulding, 188 The Spirit's Reproach. By Mrs. M. W. Cook, 204 Jefferson Davis and Repudiation. A Letter from Hon. Robert J. Walker, 207 Evergreen Beauty. By Major Samuel H. Hurst, 227 Dying in the Hospital. By Mary E. Nealy, Louisville, Ky., 229 Literary Notices, 231 Editor's Table, 237 CHARLES GODFREY LELAND and EDMUND KIRKE have withdrawn from the editorial management of this Magazine. All communications, whether concerning MSS. or on business, should be addressed to JOHN F. TROW, Publisher, 50 GREENE STREET, NEW YORK. 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.