On Detached Service.--An Episode of the Civil War Charles A. Patch, Mass. Vols. 121 Otis, James, Junior Rev. H. Hewitt 319 Port Hudson, An Incident of William J. Burge, M.D. 548 Publishers' Department 96 Social Life in Early New England Rev. Anson Titus 63 Toppan, Colonel Christopher 60 Town Meeting-House and Town Politics in the Last Century, A Atherton P. Mason, M.D. 127 Trinity College, Hartford, (Illust.) Prof. Samuel Hart, D.D. 393 Tufts College, (6 Illust. by F. A. Bicknell) Rev. E. H. Capen, D.D. 99 Veritable Trader, A A. T. S. 529 Wayte, Richard and Gamaliel, and some of their descendants Arthur Thomas Lovell 48 Webster, Daniel, and Col. T. H. Perkins John Rogers 12 Webster, Editorial Note on Daniel 217 Webster, The Life and Character of Daniel Hon. Edward S. Tobey 228 Webster's Vindication Hon. Stephen M. Allen 509 Webster Historical Society Papers.--The Webster Family, (Illust.) Hon. Stephen M. Allen 340, 409 Williams College Rev. N. H. Egleston 485 POETRY. To a Friend Edgar Fawcett 12 The Mendicant Clinton Scollard 112 Trust J. B. M. Wright 249 The Oriole Clinton Scollard 267 The Singer Laura Garland Carr 339 Trust Arthur Elwell Jenks 373 To Oliver Wendell Holmes Edward P. Guild 413 The Picture Mary D. Brine 421 Hunting of the Stag of Oenoe Clinton Scollard 503 On Hoosac Mountain Edward P. Guild 527 Bonnie Harebells Anna B. Bensel 536 FULL PAGE PORTRAITS. M. R. Waite, Chief-Justice of the U. S. Facing 1 Madame Sarah Abbot " 99 Edmund H. Bennett " 197 James Otis " 301 Thomas Prince " 344 Henry Barnard " 393 Mark Hopkins " 487 THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE AND BAY STATE MONTHLY. Old Series January, 1886. New Series