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  THE GALAXY.

  A MAGAZINE OF ENTERTAINING READING.

  VOL. XXIII.

  JANUARY, 1877, TO JUNE, 1877.

  NEW YORK: Sheldon & Company,

  1877.




   Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
                      SHELDON & COMPANY,
   in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.


   Typography of CHURCHWELL & TEALL.   Electrotyped by SMITH & MCDOUGAL.




INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII.


                                                                   PAGE.

   Administration of Abraham Lincoln    _Gideon Welles_           5, 149

   Almanacs, Some Old                   _Charles Wyllys Elliott_      24

   Alnaschar. 1876                      _Bret Harte_                 217

   Alfred de Musset                     _Henry James, Jr._           790

   Applied Science                      _Charles Barnard_        79, 160

   Art's Limitations                    _Margaret J. Preston_        159

   Assja                                _Ivan Tourgueneff_           368

   Aut Diabolus aut Nihil                                            218

   Ballad of Constance                  _William Winter_             109

   Balzac, Letters of                   _Henry James, Jr._           183

   Battalion, The                       _J. W. De Forest_            817

   Beer                                 _S. G. Young_                 62

   Beethoven, To                        _Sidney Lanier_              394

   Cigarettes                                                        471

   Cleopatra's Soliloquy                _Mary Bayard Clarke_         506

   Climbing Rose, The                                                596

   Cossacks, An Evening Party with the  _David Ker_                  406

   Dead Star, The                       _John James Piatt_           660

   Dead Vashti, A                       _Louise Stockton_            428

   Defeated                             _Mary L. Ritter_             354

   Dramatic Canons, The                 _Frederick Whittaker_   396, 508

   DRIFT-WOOD                           _Philip Quilibet_       125, 265,
                                                                411, 553,
                                                                 695, 842

         The Twelve-Month Sermon; Ribbons and Coronets at Market Rates; The
    Spinning of Literature; Growth of American Taste for Art; The Wills
    of the Triumvirate; The Duel and the Newspapers; The Industry of
    Interviewers; Talk about Novels; Primogeniture and Public Bequests;
    The Times and the Customs; Victor Hugo; Evolutionary Hints for
    Novelists; The Travellers; Swindlers and Dupes; Pegasus in Harness.

   Eastern Question, The                _A. H. Guernsey_             359

   English Peerage, The                 _E. C. Grenville Murray_     293

   English Traits                       _Richard Grant White_        520

   English Women                        _Richard Grant White_        675

   Executive Patronage and Civil
   Service Reform                       _J. L. M. Curry_             826

   Fascinations of Angling, The         _George Dawson_              818

   Fallen Among Thieves                                              809

   Great Seal of the United States      _John D. Champlin, Jr._      691

   Hard Times                           _Charles Wyllys Elliott_     474

   Head of Hercules, The                _James M. Floyd_              52

   Heartbreak Cameo                     _Lizzie W. Champney_         111

   Home of My Heart                     _F. W. Bourdillon_           543

   Influences                           _Charles Carroll_            124

   Juliet on the Balcony                _Howard Glyndon_              42

   Lassie's Complaint, The              _James Kennedy_              367

   Libraries, Public in the United
     States                             _John A. Church_             639

   Life Insurance                                               686, 803

   LITERATURE, CURRENT                                          137, 279,
                                                                425, 567,
                                                                 708, 855

   Love's Messengers                    _Mary Ainge De Vere_