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IVORY, BERTHA May. Portrait by Scholten, St. Louis, Mo.

Eugene Geary. 313 Romola-Self-Exiled. A Broken Fan. The Gates Unclasped. A Surrender. 'A Love-Leaf. Quotations. MUNKITTRICK, RICHARD K.

David Connolly. Music in Nature. Sleep. Blind. A June Lily A Lump of Coal. Ghosts. À Gray Day. An Etching. Evolution.

Haunted. A Cup of Nature. Her Secret. Constancy.
WASHBURN, DEXTER CARLETON.

Charles T. Walter.
My Little Saint. A Cloudy Morning in the Country. The Lamplighter. Jen.' Quotations.
FLANDERS, CHRISTOPHER P.

Justin S. Barrows.
The Voyagers. Poetry. Quotation.
OBERHOLTZER, Sara Louisa. With portrait.

M. Sheeleigh. 323 The Springtime. Indecision. The Dead Camellia. Come for Arbutus. An Interview with the Spring Wind.

A Burial Ode. Quotation. STEVENS, SARAH J. D.

George C. Chase. 326 A Firelight Dream. Premonition. To a Star. MANVILLE, MARION. Portrait by Pryor, La Crosse, Wis.

Margaret H. Lawless.

329 Little Jack Two-Sticks. August. Recompense.

An Immortelle. Questioning. The Death of Cleopatra. My
Children.
WALTON, SARAH STOKES. Portrait by Tichenor, Burlington. N. J.

Helen Struthers. 332 Empty Arms. June and December. My Boy. It Might Have Been. They are the Living, We are the Dead.

Quotation.
M'GREGOR, DONALD FITZ-RANDOLPH. Portrait by Wendel, New York.

Thomas Mooney. 341
A Serenade. Algeria. A Reverie. A Gem.
WEBSTER, Mrs. AUGUSTA.

F. A. H. Eyles. 343 Poulain, the Prisoner. The Whisper. The Heart That Lacks Room. The Gift. The Message of Victory.

One of Many. Song. Quotation.
COLLINS, DENNIS B. Portrait by Lloyd, Troy, N. Y.

James Fitz Simmons.

347 My Dream. A Tear. Quotation. BRADLEE, CALEB D., D. D.

F W. Ricord.

349 God Knows Best. A Poem. Who Shall Be Greatest ? In Memoriam. A Sick Person's Prayer. The White Moun

tains. Night. A Poem. NOURSE, LAURA A. S. , .

A. C. Barney. 353 New Year Thoughts of 1890. Tying Threads. Voices. There is No Death. Quotation. LEGGETT, BENJAMIN F.

Bailey Aldrich Brown. 355 After Harvest. A Word For Shakespeare. A Morning Song. In the Hammock. Eventide. Quotation. TALMAN, JOHN. With portrait.

Carrie Lee Steele. 359 Rest. The Young Elm. Quotation. HARPER, JOHN M.

Helen Manning. 361 To a Sorig o' Heather. Arbor Day. Quotations. BARNES, John W. Portrait by Purcell, Macon, Mo.

L. Weber. 365
The Prairie Tree. The River of Oblivion. Mirth.
Efnor, Lottie CAMERON.
Sketch by Bradley, Buffalo, N. Y.

A. A. McBryde.
Dreaming. Lines. A Texas June. To a Lone Flower in February. Quotation.
JENKS, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. With portrait.

Rossiter Johnson.

368 The Return. The Discovery: The Life Streain. The Old-Man's "Yesterday.” Quotation. LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL.-FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

Jeannette Ward. 373 SINGLE POEMS III.

377 Mother and Poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 'Ostler Joe, George R. Sims. A Visit From St. Nicholas. Clement

C. Moore. Rock me to Sleep, Elizabeth Akers Allen. My Mind to me a Kingdom is, William Byrd. A Contented

Mind, Joshua Sylvester. Good Ale, John Still. Lament for Sir Philip Sidney, Mathew Roydon. PERSONAL POEMS.-A COLLECTION OF SONNETS. III.

385 To Paul Hamilton Hayne, Philip Bourke Marston. Robert Browning, Cotsford Dick. John Henry Newman, M. Ė. Henderson. Walt Whitman, Robert Buchanan. On the Reception of the Poet Wordsworth at Oxford, Thomas Noon Talfourd. To Emma Lazarus, Allen Eastman Cross.' To Ruskin, C. M. Harger. Keats' Greek Urn, Margaret J. Preston. Sonnet, R. W. Duke Jr. To Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Helen (Powers) Whitman. Whittier's Eightieth Birthday, Edmund Clarence Stedman. Longfellow, Marion Juliet Mitchell. To Helen Hunt Jackson,

Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Julia Ward Howe-Kate Vannah. Dinah Mulock Craik, Julia P. Boynton. A COLLECTION OF RONDEAUS.

387 With Pipe and Flute, Austin Dobson. Crying for the Moon, Alice M. Dowd. First Sight, Edmund Gosse. Knee

Deep! Knee Deep! Henry Jerome Stockard. Love Cannot Die, Frances L. Mace. O Love Delay, Clinton Scol-
lard. O Sleeping Heart, Constance E. Dixon. Without One Kiss, Charles G. D. Roberts. Rondeajıx of Cities,

Robert Grant. The Redbreast, Charles H. Luders.
QUOTATIONS ON Music.

392 CURRENT Poems. III.

394 Two Epitaphs: On Dr. Johnson, Soame Jenyns; On Soame Jenyns, Rowland B. Mahany. The Merrythought,

Margaret Johnson. Clear Shining After Rain, Grace Adele Pierce. Francis S. Saltus, Louis Michael Eilshemius.
Where the Rainbow Went, Mary Leslie Jenks. The Ideal,

Florence Earle Coates. What is the Reason, Emma C.
Dowd. July, J. Waller Henry. April, Katherine Pyle. Triumph, Helen Gray Cone. The Transferred Malady,
Joel Benton He, Love, W. Wilsey Martin. St. John's Eve, Julia C. R. Dorr. Theodore DeBanville, Edmund

Gosse. To the Winds of June, Mary A. Mason.
CLYMER, Ella Dietz.
With portrait by Sarony, New York.

Alma Calder Johnston. 404-432 The Magic Bark. Mystical Death. The Grave of Love. Easter Monday. Purification. Creation. Love's

Strength. Song. The Song of the Wind. I Gave Thee Jewels. Quotations.
BARLOW, GEORGE.
With portrait by Debenham, Brighton, England.

Arthur Hervey. 405
A Gift of Spring. A Southern Vengeance. Husband and Wife at Lord's. The River and the Sea. To N. H. A
Picture. The Flower Asleep. Blossoms Above a Tomb. God and Woman.

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Robert McIntyre.
A'Ghost o the Past. A Lullaby. She is Noi Dead. 'Frae Robbie's Cot. The Little Boy That Went Away Dinna

Gae Oot Frae the Farm.
MORRIS, SARAH LOUISE. With portrait by Melander, Chicago, Ill.

Marion E. Clapp.
My Guest. An Impromptu. At My Window. True Royalty: Leaves.
POWELL, E. P.

Orin Root.
Dreamland.' The Norse Mother. Indian Summer. 'The Goldfinch.
ESLING, CHARLES H. A. With portrait by Broadbent & Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa. Maurice Francis Eagan.

A Greeting. Sheridan. To Annetta. Paestum. Quatrain. Quotation.
GRISWOLD, HATTIE TYNG.

Nettie Leila Michel.
Under the Daisies. We're Going Home To-morrow. The Maiden's Offering. A Living Sorrow. Creeds and

Deeds. Expression.
MARTIN, GEORGE.
With portrait

John Reade.
In the Woods of St. Leon. Superstition. Maiden Longings. Keats: Quotations.
HEWLINGS, Lucy M.

Theron R. Woodward.
Thanksgiving. Quotation.
COLEMAN, AUGUSTUS A. With portrait.

Martha Young
We'll Talk of That When Next we Meet.

Mabel. 'My Christmas Gift. To Ellen. Poetry. Quotation. CARNEY, JULIA A. F.

1. Arthur King. Deal Gently with the Erring. Life. A Reply. To John G. Whittier. Faith. Storm and Sunshine. One Boris

Opinion of the "Good Old Times.” The Farmer's Song. Quotation.
PRAED, WINTHROP M.

Emma Huntington Nason.
Childhood and his Visitors. Josephine. Song. Quotation.
WASHINGTON, LUCY H. With portrait by Worden, Boston, Mass.

Frances E. Willard.
Work to do for Jesus. Seek Jesus. To a Brown Thrush. Dawn. The Dying. Year. Quotation.
McAUSLANE, WILLIAM T.

Nellie Townsend.
A Word. 'A Dream. Morning at Brodick Arran. At the Coast. The Name of Jesus.
VALENTINE, EDWARD A. U. With portrait by H. B. Schaeffer, Bellefonte, Pa.

Phebe Davis Natt.
Love at Fishing. Andromeda. Sonnets on the Moon. Frogs. Rowing. Autumin. On the Verge. The Pine Tree.

Quotation.
McCarthy, LAURA S. R.

R. N. Webster,
The Banshee. The Star in the East. The Rain. Quotation.
MATHIS, JULIETTE ESTELLE. With portrait by N. H. Reed, Santa Barbara, Cal.

Alice R. Huse.
Honeysuckles. A Message. One Ambition.
LLOYD, J. WILLIAM.

Mary Hermo Aikin.
My Dead. An Invitation. The Valley of Silence.
WARD, JAMES THOMAS. With portrait by Cooper, Westminster, Ind.

J. W. Hering.
Decoration Day. Why Sad? The World of Books. Lines.
DRAPER, JAMES SUMNER.

Ellen Sears.
"Dies Træ.” Non Dies Iræ. “I think I am Like the Pine Tree.” Going to sleep.
HARVEY, MATTHEW JAMES. With portrait by A. P. Drew, Dover, N. H.

Enoch George Adams.
October. To a Grasshopper.
Davis, Ida MAY.
With portrait by Marceau & Power, Indianapolis, Ind.

John Clark Ridpath.
Benediction. A Memory. Afterglow. The Rose. Chanson. "Evening Song.
RUSSELL, Amos BRYANT. With portrait.

Celia H. Marsh.
“Perfect Through Suffering." An Indian Summer. A Reverie. Some Time.
Dolson, EUGENE C. portrait by ,

John Edwards.
Past and Present. A winter Night. Two Epitaphs. Bloom and Blight. Two Dreams.
SINGLE Poems. IV.

Too Late, Francis S. Saltus. The Wife's Lover, Augusta Webster. A Song for the Period, James G. Clark. A Day

in June, Mattie R. Havens. Some Day, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The New Wife and the Old, John G. Whittier. CURRENT Poems. IV.

The Ballad of Melicertes, Algernon Charles Swinburne. Where the Trout Lie, Emma B. Opper. Ænigmata, Barry

Pain. The Chime, Peter Ibbetson. Timothy, Helen Gray Cone. The Girls of Ninety-One, Margaret E. Sangster.
Prince Elecampane of the Golden Plume, Margaret Johnson. James Russell Lowell, John Fullerton. Francis S.
Saltus, Edith Lenore Montefiore. Foretaste, W. Wilsey Martin. A Culprit, Charles Henry Luders.

The
Morning, Isaac W. Sanborn.
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CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1891. JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER

Frontispiece. Steel engraving by George W. Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

W. W. Pfrimmer

3 Portrait by Marceau & Power, Indianapolis, Ind. GEORGE COOPER

Mary E. Tyson. JULIA C. R. DORR

Mrs. George Archibald .

15 Portrait by Stimpson, Appleton, Wis. KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD

Lida Rose McCabe
Portrait by R. F. Hughes, Toledo, O.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN.

1. Arthur King .

27 Pen and ink sketch by Bradley, Buffalo, N. Y. ALICE WERNER

Celeste M. A. Winslow

31 FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON

Alexander H. Japp .

37 Portrait drawn by George du Maurier, 1872. JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER ...

Rev. Anson Titus ..

40 JOHN B. KETCHUM

Richard H. Jackson, Jr.

43 MARY AUGUSTA MASON

Charles M. Dickinson .

47 Portrait by Cobb, Binghamton, N. Y. SELINA TARPLEY WILLIAMS

Claude Baxley

49 WILLIAM WHITTLESEY BADGER

Daisy Barnard

53 From portrait by L. Alman, New York. R. T. W. DUKE, JR

Henry A. Thurman .

55 CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON

Nettie Leila Michel

59 With portrait. ALICE S. DELETOMBE.

W. Farrand Felch.

65 Portrait by W. Z. Fenner, Gallipolis, o. FRANCIS BLAKE CROFTON

Arc bald M'Mechan . REV. EDWARD P. MARVIN

William Glover.

71 With portrait. MRS. ADA STANLEY.

1. Robert Norton

72 REV. H. M. GOODWIN, D. D

N. H. Egleston .

73 EMILY GREENE WETHERBEE.

John R. Rollins .

77 Portrait by Leck, Lawrence, Mass. HIRAM LADD SPENCER

Arthur John Lockhart .

79 AURILLA FURBER..

Sarah D. Hobart .

83 Portrait by Essery, St. Paul, Minn. ELIZABETH WHITE HULL

Lucinda H. Westbrook

85 Portrait by H. W. Lawhead, Gilman, III. ELLEN SERGEANT RUDE.

Christie Krusen .

86 Portrait by W. A. Cox, St. Augustine, Fla. CLEMENT SCOTT

F. A. H. Eyles .

90 ORLANDO R. BELLAMY

Mrs. Angie Beale

95 Portrait by Orsborn, Oswego, Kas. JEAN INGELOW. FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS

97 ROBERT BURNS. FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS

George R. Cathcart.
With portrait.
SINGLE POEMS .

107 PERSONAL POEMS. A COLLECTION OF SONNETS A COLLECTION OF QUATRAINS .

· 117PRIZE QUOTATIONS . QUOTATIONS ON POETRY

123 CURRENT POEMS

· 125 BIBLIOGRAPHY

130 NOTES ..

131 THE EDITOR'S TABLE

136 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS OF POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1890

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