CONTENTS.

ART. L. THE HUDSON: ILLUSTRATED BY SIXTEEN ENGRAVINGS, BY T. ADDISON

RICHARDS,

IL. SIX BY SEVEN,

III. THE POET'S LOVE,..

IV. PHYSICAL DECLINE OF AMERICAN WOMEN,

VIL. THE BATTLE OF FORT MOULTRIE. BY HON. GEORGE BANCROFT,..

VIII. EPIGRAM ON A LITTLE WRITER WHO WROTE BUT LITTLE,

IX. A NEW-YEAR'S MONODY: 'IN SPERO TE,'

X. A DAY AT METTRAY,

XI. LINES: TO SH,

LITERARY NOTICES:

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1. FRENCH CLASSICS: IN SIX VOLUMES,

2. MODERN PHILOLOGY. BY BENJAMIN W. DWIGHT,

3.

WAYSIDE GLIMPSES: NORTH AND SOUTH. BY LILIAN FOSTER,

4. THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS, TRANSLATED AND COPIOUSLY

ΑΝΝΟΤΑΤED,

EDITOR'S TABLE:

1. EDITORIAL HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF THE KNICKERBOCKER

MAGAZINE: NUMBER NINE,

2. AN INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR, .

3. WASHINGTON IRVING UPON THE LATE FENIMORE COOPER,

4. REVIEW OF COOPER IN THE NORTH-AMERICAN' QUARTERLY,

5. DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING,

6. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS,

IRVING MEMORIAL.

REMINISCENCES BY LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK: MR. WILLIS' LATE INTERVIEW WITH WASHINGTON
IRVING: VISIT OF THEODORE TILTON TO SUNNYSIDE: ADDRESS OF DR. FRANCIS BEFORE THE
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT KING: SPEECH OF THE HON.
GEORGE BANCROFT: WASHINGTON IRVING AS AN INVALID: REMINISCENCES FROM HIS PHYSI-
CIAN, DR. JOHN C. PETERS.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by JOHN A. GRAY, in the Clerk's Office of the

District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

JOHN A. GRAY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District

of New-York.

JOHN A. GRAY,