Transcriber's note All apparent printer's errors have been retained. In this version the superscript is indicated by ^. THE GALAXY. A MAGAZINE OF ENTERTAINING READING. VOL. XXIII. JANUARY, 1877, TO JUNE, 1877. NEW YORK: Sheldon & Company, 1877. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by SHELDON & COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Typography of CHURCHWELL & TEALL. Electrotyped by SMITH & MCDOUGAL. INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII. PAGE. Administration of Abraham Lincoln _Gideon Welles_ 5, 149 Almanacs, Some Old _Charles Wyllys Elliott_ 24 Alnaschar. 1876 _Bret Harte_ 217 Alfred de Musset _Henry James, Jr._ 790 Applied Science _Charles Barnard_ 79, 160 Art's Limitations _Margaret J. Preston_ 159 Assja _Ivan Tourguéneff_ 368 Aut Diabolus aut Nihil 218 Ballad of Constance _William Winter_ 109 Balzac, Letters of _Henry James, Jr._ 183 Battalion, The _J. W. De Forest_ 817 Beer _S. G. Young_ 62 Beethoven, To _Sidney Lanier_ 394 Cigarettes 471 Cleopatra's Soliloquy _Mary Bayard Clarke_ 506 Climbing Rose, The 596 Cossacks, An Evening Party with the _David Ker_ 406 Dead Star, The _John James Piatt_ 660 Dead Vashti, A _Louise Stockton_ 428 Defeated _Mary L. Ritter_ 354 Dramatic Canons, The _Frederick Whittaker_ 396, 508 DRIFT-WOOD _Philip Quilibet_ 125, 265, 411, 553, 695, 842 The Twelve-Month Sermon; Ribbons and Coronets at Market Rates; The Spinning of Literature; Growth of American Taste for Art; The Wills of the Triumvirate; The Duel and the Newspapers; The Industry of Interviewers; Talk about Novels; Primogeniture and Public Bequests; The Times and the Customs; Victor Hugo; Evolutionary Hints for Novelists; The Travellers; Swindlers and Dupes; Pegasus in Harness. Eastern Question, The _A. H. Guernsey_ 359 English Peerage, The _E. C. Grenville Murray_ 293