Retrospective. By Rev. Dr. Henry, 1 Sir Charles Lyell on the Antiquity of Man. By a Presbyterian Clergyman, 369 Sketches of American Life and Scenery. By Lucia D. Pychowska, 9, 270, 425 Sleeping. By Hugh Miller Thompson, 716 Temptation. From the Polish of Count Sigismund Krasinski, 53 The Andes. By William G. Dix, 229 The Angels of War, 203 The Conscription Act of March 3d, 1864. By L. M. Haverstik, 110 The Decline of England. By S. J. Bayard, 48 The Development of American Architecture. By A. W. Colgate, 466 The Dove. By Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, 625 The English Press. By Nicholas Rowe, London, 100, 139, 564 The Great American Crisis. By Stephen P. Andrews, 87, 300 The Great Lakes to St. Paul. By Robert Dodge, 397 The Great Struggle, 34 The House in the Lane. By Miss Virginia Townsend, 573 The Isle of Springs. By Rev. C. C. Starbuck, 461 The Issues of the War. By John Stahl Patterson, Quarter-master Sergeant, 20th Ohio Battery, 287 The Lessons of the Wood. By George W. Bungay, 26 The Love Lucifer. By S. Leavitt, 319, 414 The March of Life. By Clarence Frederick Buhler, 649 The Mechanical Tendency in Modern Society. By John A. French, 351 The Mississippi River and its Peculiarities. By De B. R. Keim, 629 The Mound Builder. By January Searle, 517 The Red Man's Plea, 160 The Treasury Report and Mr. Sec'y Chase. By Hon. Frederick P. Stanton, 151 The Unkind Word, 690 The War a Contest for Ideas. By Henry Everett Russell, 578 The Wild Azalea. By E. W. C., 596 The Young Author's Dream. By Edwin R. Johnson, 395 Thistle-Down. By Frances Lamartine, 318 Thomas De Quincey and His Writings. By L. W. Spring, 650 Thomas Jefferson, as Seen in the Light of 1863. By J. Sheldon, 129 Thought. By Virginia Vaughan, 577 Union Not to be Maintained by Force. By Hon. Frederick P. Stanton, 73 Was He Successful? By Richard B. Kimball, 80, 221, 341, 445 THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY: DEVOTED TO LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY. VOL. V.--JANUARY, 1864.--No. I. RETROSPECTIVE.