Magazine Literature--Georgia _versus_ New England Prohibition-- German "Housekeeping Schools"--The Historic Spirit--The _old_ NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE and its _successor_--Notes--An Historical Parallel--Archdeacon Farrar's Eulogy on the Founders of New England--The Presidential Message--A Note of Peace in Turbulent Times--Society sacrificing its Ornaments--Fall of the Salisbury Government--Bostonian Society--Webster Historical Society--Literary Labors of Miss Cleveland--Socialism in America and Europe--The Chinese Problem--A Short History of Napoleon the First--The _Century_ on International Copyright--Christian Charity and Freedom--Comparative Marriage Statistics--Neither Caste, Class, nor Sect in the late Civil War--Free Education System--The Convict's Family--A Representative American--Train-Wrecking--The Institute of Civics--New England Summer Resorts--The Value of Recreation--The Sensational Press. Education: Progress and Prospects of Education in America 280 Education 184, 381 Elizabeth: A Romance of Colonial Days. Chapters XXIX.-XXXIII. Frances C. Sparhawk 77, 168, 250 Forty Years of Frontier Life in the Pocomtuck Valley Hon. George Sheldon 236 Grand Array of the Republic in Massachusetts Past Commander-in-Chief George S. Merrill 113 Hawthorne's Last Sketch P. R. Ammidon 516 Historical Record 91, 185, 281, 382, 477, 560 Irish Home Rule Agitation: Its History and Issues Rev. H. Hewitt 157 Judicial Falsifications of History Hon. Chas. Cowley, LL.D. 457 King Philip's War, A Romance of Fanny Bullock Workman 330, 414 Literature and Art 91, 192, 294, 482, 565 Lucy Keyes.--A Story of Mt. Wachusett. I. 551 Index to Magazine Literature 193, 278, 389, 483, 567 Maple-Sugar Making in Vermont, (Illust.) J. M. French, M.D. 208 Myth in American Coinage Isaac Bassett Choate 537 Necrology 61, 190, 285, 380, 479, 562 New Bedford, (26 Illust.) Herbert L. Aldrich 423 New England Characteristics Lizzie M. Whittlesey 374 New England Library and its Founder, The Victoria Reed 347 New England Magazine, The Original Rev. Edgar Buckingham 153 New England Manners and Customs in Time of Bryant's Early Life Mrs. H. G. Rowe 364 Notes and Queries.--Answers 95 Objections to Level-Premium Life Insurance G. A. Litchfield 68 Olden Time, In 291