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  BELFORD'S MAGAZINE

  VOL II.

  DECEMBER, 1888--MAY, 1889

  CHICAGO, NEW YORK, AND SAN FRANCISCO

  BELFORD, CLARKE AND COMPANY

  PUBLISHERS

  LONDON: H. J. DRANE, LOVELL'S COURT, PATERNOSTER ROW


  COPYRIGHT, 1888.

  BY

  BELFORD, CLARKE & CO.


  DRUMMOND & NEU,

  _Electrotypers_,

  1 to 7 _Hague Street_,

  New York.




CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

                                                                    PAGE

  AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE, THE, _James A. MacKnight_,              849

  AMERICAN EAGLE UNDER DIFFICULTIES, THE, _James Steele_,             55

  AMERICA, THE KING OF: A Story, _John W. Bell_,                     680

  AMERICA'S ROMANCE: A Story, _Henry C. Wood_,                       708

  ANDY'S GIFT: A Story, _T. C. De Leon_,                             172

  BELLA'S BUREAU: A Story in Three Scares, _E. Delancey Pierson_,    360

  CERTAIN ANCESTORS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND,                           32

  CHRISTMAS IN EGYPT, _Rose Eytinge_,                                 42

  CHRISTMAS ROUND-ROBIN, _Celia Logan_,                                1

  COST OF THINGS, THE, _X._,                                         511

  COUNTER, BOTH SIDES OF THE: Almost a Tragedy,
     _Fannie Aymar Mathews_,                                         350

  COVENANT WITH DEATH, A: A Novel, complete, by
     _The Author of "An Unlaid Ghost,"_                              573

  DEAD SHOT DAN: A Story, _W. J. Florence_,                           26

  DECLINE OF THE FARMER, THE, _J. F. H._,                            641

  DOCTOR MERIVALE: A Story, _Charles P. Shermon_,                    811

  DOES THE HIGH TARIFF AFFECT OUR
  EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM?      _Emil L. Scharf_,                         541

  FIRST REGIMENT OF U. S. <DW52> TROOPS, THE,
     _Catherine H. Birney_,                                          335

  FOREIGNER, AN OBJECTIONABLE, _James W. Steele_,                    690

  FRENCH BALL, NIGHT OF THE, _Portland Wentforth_,                   530

  GOING, GOING, GONE: A Story, _Albert R. Haven_,                    197

  IDLENESS, STATISTICS OF, _Ethelbert Stewart_,                       45

  IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?                                             230

  IRAR'S PEARL: A Story, _Thomas S. Collier_,                        324

  JEN: A Backwoods Story, _W. H. S. Atkinson_,                       832

  JOE: A Story of Frontier Life, _Rosalie Kaufman_,                   65

  LION'S SHARE, THE: A Novel, complete, _Mrs. Clark Waring_,         252

  MAUNDERINGS, _Paul Drayton_,                                       701

  MYSTERY, A FAMILIAR, _James McCarroll_,                            801

  <DW64> "LIBERTINUS" IN THE SOUTH, THE, _Preston Connelly_,          827

  NOVELISTS ON NOVELS, _J. A. Stewart_,                              500

  PIRATES ON BROADWAY, _John W. Watson_,                             857

  PRACTICAL FACTS FOR SENATOR EDMUNDS, A FEW,
     _W. C. Wood, M.D._,                                             321

  QUEEN OF THE BLOCK, THE, _A. L. Kinkead_,                          108

  REVENGE, AN ECCENTRIC: A Novel, complete, _Convers Atwood_,        747

  SEASONABLE FOOLS AND FOOLING, _Celia Logan_,                       666

  SHEBA, A PRINCESS OF: A Story, _James O. G. Duffy_,                651

  SILK CULTURE, _D. Thew Wright_,                                    221

  'SIXTY-FOUR, AN EPISODE OF, _Cee Ess_,                             842

  SNIPS FROM AN OCCASIONAL DIARY, _Coates Kinney_,                   675

  SPOILS SYSTEM, THE ROOT OF THE,