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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Yucatan and Lake Itza | 274 | |
| The Cafés and Restaurants of Paris.—Dr. Véron and Bilboquet | 282 | |
| Balder | 292 | |
| Tales of my Dragoman. By Basil May. No. VI.—A Padischal Rowland for an Islam Oliver | 297 | |
| The Story of an Old Manor House. Br Mrs. Acton Tindal | 308 | |
| German Singers and English Audiences | 312 | |
| Literary Leaflets. By Sir Nathaniel. No. XVII.—Ruskin's Stones of Venice | 334 | |
| Nansavallan. By Cyrus Redding | 344 | |
| A Visit to Worcester. By the Author of "The Unholy Wish" | 346 | |
| The Orphan of the Wreck. By Mrs. Bushby | 360 | |
| Vignettes. From a Poet's Portfolio | 363 | |
| About Lord Brougham. By Doctor Pinch | 368 | |
| The Flitch of Bacon: or, the Custom of Dunmow. A Tale of English Home. Part V.—Monkbury Place. Chaps. I to IV. By the Editor | 379 | |
| Sir Thomas Talfourd. By Cyrus Redding | 407 | |
| Literary Leaflets. By Sir Nathaniel. No. XVIII.—Isaac Taylor | 416 | |
| A Fortnight in Finnland | 423 | |
| The Cardinals' Levee, and Midnight Mass in St. Peter's, Christmas Eve, 1853. By C. P. | 432 | |
| Mr. Jolly Green's Account of the Peace Deputation to St. Petersburg | 439 | |
| Art Prospects in England | 457 | |
| Armenia | 464 | |
| One Arm of the Service — Cavalry | 474 | |
| The Armament of the Baltic. By Nicholas Michell | 485 | |
| The War with Russia | 487 | |
| War! A Song. By J. E. Carpenter | 500 | |
| Literature of the Month—(January)—Landor's Last Fruit off an Old Tree—Forest Life in Ceylon—Resources of the Ottoman Empire-The Turks in Asia—Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia—Robert Montgomery's Poetical Works—John at Home—Messrs. Routledge's Cheap Novels: Jane Seaton; Percy Effingham; Miles Tremenhere; Savile House; Alderman Ralph; and Linny Lockwood—Binns and Goodwin's Publications: Protestant Endurance under Popish cruelty; and An Englishman's Travels in America—Life of Southey—Children's Plays-Astronomy and Geology—William Jones's Poems | 116 to 126 | |
| (February)—Two Prize Essays on Juvenile Delinquency—The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri—Matthew Arnold's Poems—Nicholas Michell's Ruins of Many Lands—Dr. Waller's Poems—The Lays of Modern Rome—Dalton's Tropical Lays—A Cargo of Christmas Rhymes—The Crook and the Sword | 251 | |
