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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_           51

   Love's Requiem                       _William Winter_              182

   Lucille's Letter                                                    23

   Madcap Violet. Chapters XLIV. to
     End                                _William Black_                30

   Margary, The Murder of               _Walter A. Burlingame_        175

   Miss Misanthrope. Chapters I. to
     XX.                                _Justin McCarthy_       244, 302,
                                                                450, 597,
                                                                746

   Miss Tinsel                          _Henry Sedley_               337

   Mohegan-Hudson                       _James Manning Winchell_     637

   Monsieur Delille                     _T. S. Fay_                  119

   National Bank Notes, How Redeemed    _Frank W. Lautz_             647

   NEBULAE                               _By The Editor_        144, 288,
                                                                431, 576,
                                                                 720, 864

   Normandy and Pyrenees                _Henry James, Jr._             95

   On Being Born Away from Home         _Titus Munson Coan_           533

   Our Rural Divinity                   _John Burroughs_               43

   Philter, The                         _Mary B. Dodge_               242

   Portrait D'une Jeune Femme
     Inconnue                           _M. E. W. S._                 336

   Progressive Baby, A                  _S. F. Hopkins_           81, 727

   Punished, The                        _Ella Wheeler_                789

   Pythia, The Modern                   _S. B. Luce_                  209

   Renunciation                         _Kate Hillard_                358

   Reflected Light                      _Mary Ainge De Vere_          802

   Romance                              _J. W. De Forest_              61

   Roman Picture, A                     _Mary Lowe Dickinson_         674

   Saint Lambert's Coal                 _Margaret J. Preston_         519

   SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY                _Prof. John A.
                                          Church_               129, 269,
                                                                415, 558,
                                                                 699, 846

       Complications of the Channel Tunnel; A Town of Dwarfs; Whooping
    Cough; British Association Notes; An English Crop; Influence of
    White Colors; An Involved Accident; An Old Aqueduct System;
    Galvanism Cannot Restore Exhausted Vitality; Curious Optical
    Experiments; Ice Machines; American Antiquities; Protection from
    Lightning; Steam Machinery and Privateering; Man and Animals; The
    Limbs of Whales; Our Educational Standing; Surface Markings; The
    Oldest Stone Tools; Origin of the Spanish People; The English
    Meteorite; The Boomerang; A Western Lava Field; The Principle of
    Cephalization; Curiosities of the Herring Fishery; Natural Gas in
    Furnaces; South Carolina Phosphates; Rare Metals from Old Coins; A
    French Mountain Weather Station; Migration of the Lemming; New
    Discovery of Neolithic Remains; October Weather; French National
    Antiquities; The Force of Crystallization; Frozen Nitro-Glycerine;
    English Great Guns; Ear Trumpets for Pilots; Hot Water in Dressing
    Ores; Ocean Echo