......669 .666 Faith in the Supernatural, Rev. T. M. Griffith.. January-Truths for Wives-What is your Daughter Thinking About?-Keeping Faith with a Child-Treatment of Servants-" Love Creates Love"-The Eldest Daughter at Home-Fathers and their Families. Willy and Wise: Jokes at the Doctors' Expense-Universalism— Concentrated Eloquence-A Pun by President MonroeMixed Metaphors-A Chinaman's Opinion of Rum........ 51 February.- Home Courtesy-Selfish Persons - Children's Legs and Arms-Death Indoors-Religious Instruction of Children. Witty and Wise: A Noble ReplyAnecdote of Lord Brougham-Genuine Eloquence-A Retort-A Miser's Trap-A Modern Dogberry-Angel Whispers-Not Willing to Die for it-For Ladies-To the Advantage of the Oyster-Natural Feeling-No More Left-Working Cheap..... ............115 PAGE. April.-Something about Dress-The True WomanHenry Ward Beecher on Love-Occupation for Children. Witty and Wise: Accidents of Speech-Quaker Story-A Child's Remedy-Nothing to Hold on by-Count Gurowski-That Great Name-Going to Jesus-A Good Husband-A Worthless Millionaire-Selfishness Rebuked.....243 May.-A Talk to Young Women-Scolding Never does Good-Why the Men won't Propose-A Young Lady's Reasons for not Dancing-Like Parent, Like ChildThe Dear Babies. Willy and Wise: Praying for the Preacher-Colored Eloquence-" And Then "-The Head Turned Round-Did n't Charge them a Cent-Well Answered...... 307 ............ September.-The Punishment of Children-Kind Manners at Home-Christianity in the Kitchen-Fashionable Women-High Attainments. Witty and Wise: "Stop Blowing and go to Work"-All the same for the Patients-The Pilgrims-Taking Exercise-Amusing the Children-Repartee-That Trap-Corruption of WordsThe Lost is Found-Honoring-The True CompassAgainst Polygamy-Robbers.... October.-Marriage and the Sabbath-Our Wives and Daughters-Evils of Gossip-Duties of Parents-Emerson on the Baby "-An Item which every Man should Read-Do n't have any Confidents. Witty and Wise: Spicy-Did n't Know his Home-Not a Reverend-Echoes-The Doctor-Another Doctor-The Lawyer-A Good Profession-Lightly Dressed--Considerate...... November.-A French Opinion of American LadiesThe Aged Lover-Who Rules-Tell your Wife-Putting the Children to Bed-Be Happy-A Good-Night Kiss. Witty and Wise: An Anecdote of Mr. Wesley-Vanity of Vanities-Model Composition-Dreams go by Contraries Preaching Old Sermons-Going out of his WayNot Complimentary-A Popular Preacher-For the Sake of the Rhyme-Doctors and Quacks-Improving Scripture....... December.-On Living in Perspective - Proper Rebuke A Judicious Wife-A Pretty Picture-Rising in the World-A Cheerful Heart-Wife, Mistress, Lady.. Fashion, Mrs. H. C. Gardner.... Fifteen Minutes too Soon, Carrie Miller. Fragments, Rev. F. S. Cassady. Gabrielle Mentonini.. Genius, Rev. H. Johnston, B. A.... .563 .627 691 .751 ..260 ............ 94 .........621 ..273, 328 269 May.-Kings and Princes of the "Retired List "-Magnesium in the Ocean-The Russian Steppe-Coffee-Population of Paris-Freaks of Earthquakes-Mammoth Trees-Wool in Ohio-Weight of People-An Item of Interest....... ..............316 June.-London in 1866-The English Cheap PressPopulation of Turkey-Burr's Burial-Place-African Explorations-Curiosities of Photography-Drinking Impure Water-The Arctic Night-Effects of Alcohol....380 July.-Literature in Germany-Sleeping-Cars-An Ancient Dinner-Grocers: Their Antiquity-Climate of Russian America-Dimensions of Heaven-Rhode Island-National Debt of England-The Relative Value of Disinfectants-Emancipation in Brazil-Fashions in Printing Types-A Large Farm-Peat in Virginia-Emigrants in New York.......... August.-Longevity of the Jews-Power from Sunshine--The Alpine Tunnel-Vital Statistics-WisconsinWhisky and Bread-Loss of Life in Coal Mines-Rhode Island-Agricultural Department, Washington-Cotton in India................ .444 ...509 September.-Heliotypography--Kansas School Statisties-The Blind in Great Britain-Scientific MagicNational Finances-How our Ancestors Lived-Results of High Culture-Crises in Life-Changing PopulationDepth of the Ocean-Indian Literature-AustraliaLosses of Prussia in War-Outbreak of the Plague on the Euphrates-Japan....... October.-Black Walnut Timber-Growth of KansasNickel-An Over-grown Lake-Alaska-Calico Printing-First American Bible-Beauty of Irish WomenScandinavian Immigrants-Artesian Wells in AlgeriaPacific Railroad-Curious Facts about Water-The German Exodus-Chattanooga-Keeping Milk-Switzerland........... ..........637 PAGE. ployment of Swiss Women-A New Anaesthetic-Squeaking Boots-Number of Lawyers-The Oldest Relic of Humanity-Tobacco-Cedars of Lebanon-Religious Belief of the Esquimaux-The Express Companies-Gold Fish in the Hudson.. ........755 Journey Round my Room, Mrs. Julia M. Olin...391, 465, 529 607, 657, 715 4 Lady Bird, the, Hon. G. P. Disosway..... January.-The Great Rebellion-The Office of the Holy Communion in the Book of Common Prayer-English Composition and Rhetoric-A Grammatical AnalyzerNelson's Common School Arithmetic-The Picture of St. John-Beethoven's Letters; 1790-1826-SunnybankFrederick the Great and His Court-Maud Muller-That Good Old Time-The King's Ring-Maggie Fuller Library-The Missing Boat..... 59 February-Flower de Luce-A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life-The Giraffe Hunter-Out of Town-The Poems of Alfred B. Street-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-The Children of the Frontier-The Merchant of Berlin-American Leaves-Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals-Reading Without Tears-Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood-Laboulaye's Fairy BookThe Sanctuary - Principia Latina, Part II - Early Crowned-Christmas Times in the Crocus Family-Only a Penny-Robin Ranger's Stories about Beasts-Little Doorkeeper Library-New Hymn and Tune-Book-The Old Helmet-The Story of Martin Luther-Cripple Dan-The School-Girl in France-A Ray of Light-The Draytons and the Davenants-The Brownings-The Brewer's Family-Stories from Life which the Chaplain Told-The Two New-Year's Days-The Christmas Holly-Miscellaneous-Catalogues, Circulars, etc.......123 March.-New Hymn and Tune-Book-Six Years in India-The Children of Lake Huron-Trials of an Inventor-Arthur Forest-Bessie Field-Stories of the Woods-Bright Nook-Nellie Newton-The Satisfactory Portion-Walking in the Light-The Body-Politic-Passages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller, Mistress Anne Askew-Two Marriages-Esop's Fables-Drops of Water from Many Fountains-The Tongue of Fire on the Daughters of the Lord-Miscellaneous...... ...........187 April.-Charles Wesley Seen in his Finer and Less Familiar Poems-Poems-Sanctification Practical-Scripture Baptism Defended-The French Manual-The American Farmer's Horse-Book-Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures-The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubJoseph II, and His Court-Our Sunday School ScrapBook-The Philosophy of Methodism-The Claverings Music.. .........250 May. The English of Shakspeare-The Tent on the Beach-The Good Report-Venetian Life-The Market Assistant-Guyot's Geographical Text-Books - The Brother Soldiers-Pamphlets..... ...........314 June. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America-A Journey to Ashango-Land-Plutarch on the Delay of the Deity in Punishing the Wicked-The Jewish Church in its Relations to the Jewish Nation and to the Gentiles-Letters to a School-Boy-Christie's Faith-Sybil's Second Love-The Bankrupt Law of the United States, 1867Miscellaneous-Literary Announcements....... ...........378 July.-Works of Charles Dickens: Globe Edition: Nicholas Nickleby-The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby-The History of Pendennis-The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-HomespunNotes on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the He brews The Centennial Singer-Sermons to School Girls-Frederick the Great and his Family-The Little Sunbeam-Pamphlets.......... ..........442 August. History of the American Civil War-The Bible Looking-Glass-History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America-Bible • Teachings in Nature-Old England-Miss Ravenel's PAGE. Conversion from Secession to Loyalty-Henry VIII and his Court-Miscellaneous ........ September-Christianity and its Conflicts, Ancient and Modern-The Culture Demanded by Modern Life-Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch-The Land of ThorAn Elementary Treatise on Grape Culture and WineMaking-Thackeray's Lectures-Curiosity Shop, and Sketches-The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzle. wit, and Dombey and Son-The Pickwick Papers-The History of the Church, in Verse- The Blind BasketMaker Library-The Last Chronicle of Barset-Appleton's Hand-Book of American Travel-Catalogues-Miscellaneous... ..570 October.-Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature-Bench and Bar-Wool-Gathering-Isthinus of Panama-College Life-Indiana Miscellany-A Romance of the Republic-Half Tints-Ethics for our Country and the Times-The Romance of the Age-Little Dorrit-The Early Years of his Royal Highness, the Prince Consort-Louisa of Prussia and Her Times-Good Stories-Miscellaneous-Catalogues....634 November.-Woman's Work in the Civil War-A Complete Alphabetically-Arranged Biblical Biography-The Human Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures-Woman's Hand-Book of Health-The Principles of Biology-Home Life-The Principles and Practice of Disinfection-The Forest Boy-A Budget of Facts for Young Readers-Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote The Bleak House-The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier-Miscellaneous..... ..........699 December.-iistory of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America-Ezekiel and DanielManual of Physical Exercises-Dictionary of the BibleHistory of the Thirty-Ninth Congress-The Adventures of Oliver Twist-Rainbows for Children-Snow-BerriesGrimm's Goblins-Winifred Leigh Library-Silvertone Library-A Sermon for the Crisis Literature of Letters, North Baring.. Little in Nature, the, Hon. G. P. Disosway. Little Lizzie..... Loneliness of Christ... ..613 .217 522 ..650 ..107 1 March. The Eastern Question-Christian Union-Religious Freedom in Italy-Intolerance in Spain-Infidels in Council-The Ritualistic Controversy - Methodist Freedmen's Aid Society--Decadence of Quakerism-Centennial Celebration-Catholic Propagandism.................185 April.-Religion at the National Capital-The Week of Prayer in Italy-Operations of the American Bible Society-The Turkish New Testament-Baptists-Reform in India-Michigan Methodism-Discoveries in SyriaMethodist Episcopal Church South...... ...252 May. The Bible in Italy-Catholics in PhiladelphiaEgypt-The Jesuits-Thibet Mission-The Bible in Portugal-Concession to the Jews in Russia-Gospel in Japan-United Brethren-German Reformed Church-Rev. Daniel Webb-Protestantism in Belgium-First Baptist Church in America-Baptists in Illinois........................318 June.-Chinese Dictionaries-Jewish Reforms-Spiritual Decline in Holland-Religious Services in Paris During the Exposition-Church Progress and Growth-Drew Theological Seminary-Genesee College-United Presbyterian Church-Methodist Missionary Operations-Catholic Sunday School Paper-Methodist Episcopal Church South-Women in India-Madagascar-Jews in Holland.382 July.-Christianity in Polynesia-Methodists in Vermont-Convents in Italy-Baptist Missionary Commission-Polynesia-The Nestorians-London Missionary Society-Spread of Toleration-Ancient Hebrew Community-Death of United States Minister Wright-Anniversary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society-New Seminary-Non-Episcopal Methodism-Episcopal Cathedral-The Union of the Presbyterian Bodies-Jewish Sunday School...... .446 August.- Newspapers in Turkey - Christian CoffeeRooms-Presbyterian Foreign Missions-The Saxon Bible Society-The Saxon Foreign Missionary SocietyThe Baptists in England-Jerusalem-Progress in Turkey-A Tamil Prayer-Book-Church Extension SocietyThe Protestant Faith in Portugal-Venice-China and the Far East-Houses of Charity in London.................510 September.-Religious Festival at Rome - MexicoJews-Change of Name - The Gospel in BeyroutChurches in Chicago-Presbyterian Church, Old SchoolPresbyterian Church, New School-The French Conference-American Tract Society-American Sunday School Union-High Church Government-Chicago Theological Seminary-Presbyterian Churches in Scotland...............574 October.-Portugal - Power of the Word-Reformed Dutch Church-Friends-The Sabbath and the Exposition-West Canada Methodism-French ProtestantsThe Prussian National Church-Ancient Hebrew Community-Denominations in Europe-Reunion Statistics.639 November.-The Turks and the Cretans-The Pan-Anglican Council in London-Congregationalists in California-The Free-Will Baptist Church-The Bible at the Exposition....... .........703 .758 425 276 .223 .612 Mary Gray, Mary A. P. Humphrey.. Maurice de Guerin, Mrs. Julia M. Olin........ Maximilian, the Emperor....... Mistress Barbara, Karl Neumann-Strela... Modern Jerusalem, J. V. C. Smith, M. D.. Monomaniac, a..... Mr. and Mrs. Smith's Headaches. 6 .611 Odell, Hon. Moses F....... Old and New, Mrs. J. E. M'Conaughy..... 288 June. The Heavenly City - Everlasting Remembrance-The Wind-Swept Harp-It Pleases God-Not the Gift, but the Motive-Yes, He Hears-Acceptance of One's Lot. ...........374 July. Streets of Jerusalem-Eastern Dwellings..........438 Angust.-Trial a Means of Grace-Piety the Sum of Happiness-An Angel Standing by-Christ the Believer's Pilot-The Influence of a Consistent Life-The Living Epistle The Logic of Love....... ............502 September.-Easy-Chair Piety-Treading under Foot the Son of God-Little Crosses-Little Things-Reverent Spirit Necessary-Virtue-The Cross of Christ...............566 October.-Purity of Intention-The Power of PrayerChrist Giving-The Lights in the Tunnel-Begin the Day with God-The Sleep of the Soul-Do thy Little-LightThe Bible in the Heart-Reconciliation .630 Sketch from Real Life, Jennie Brankston.. Snow Bound, Kate E. Gardner.................. Sober Second Thought........ .171 .720 .397 ......331 ...321 ..459 228 ...598 ...337, 404 ..294 ......492 Vital Forces of Methodism, Rev. C. D. Foss.. Women in War Time, Mrs. Mary E. Nealy. ....464 Lamentation, Jean Ingelow.......................................... .746 Earth and Heaven, Mrs. E. L. Bicknell................................................... Ever With Thee............. Little People........ .600 ....458 Little Plaid Sun-Bonnet, Helen L. Bostwick. 583 Little Sleeper, the, Trench......................... 31 Faith, Hope, and Charity, Margie S. Hughes...................686 Fallen, Felicia H. Ross..... Looking for a Crown............ .327 AIT PAGE. 86 159 Mysteries, Mary Barry Smith..........................................424 .354 ...336 .588 ....146 .727 ....606 Song of June, Augusta Moore.......... Tender and True, Augusta Moore... Void Within, the, Mrs. Carrie B. Edgar.......... CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME XXVII. MRS. J. E. AKERS, MRS. M. E. W. ALEXANDER, MRS. M. A. BIGELOW, MRS. CARRIE P. BLAIR, REV. JAMES I. BOSWELL, JENNIE BRANKSTON, GEO. W. BUNGAY, REV. JOHN W. CARHART, D. D. MRS. J. D. CHAPLIN, GABRIEL P. DISOSWAY, H RI R ୯ B. EDGAR, I ARTHUR EDWARDS, SAS FARMER, JV. A. D. FIELD, LEV. CYRUS D. Foss, REV. JAMES M. FREEMAN, MRS. SAMANTHA K. FURMAN, REV. T. M. GRIFFITH, ELLEN CLEMENTINE HOWARTH, MARY A. P. HUMPHREY, MRS. MARY LOWE, REV. ALEX. MARTIN, D. D., MRS. EMILY H. MILLER, AUGUSTA MOORE, NELLIE M. SOULE, REV. OLIVER M. SPENCER, D. D., REV. JAMES STEPHENSON, MISS C. M. STONE, ADELAIDE STOUT, REV. GEO. L. TAYLOR, M. A., MISS T. TAYLOR, MRS. ANNIE HOWE THOMSON, MRS. L. R. TURNER, REV. J. B. WAKELEY, D. D., REV. H. B. WARDWELL, PROF. WILLIAM WELLS, MRS. JENNIE F. WILLING, REV. W. H. WITHRON. 1 |