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CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

EDITOR'S DRAWER-continued.

ful Age; Fools and Madmen; Under Canvas, 706.

Joking in Letters; Welsh Card of Invitation;

Chiffoniers in Paris, 707. Harrowing Lines, 708.

Eating cooked Rain; Patent Medicine Toast;

New Language of Flowers, 847. Song of the

Turkey; Marks of Affection; Tired of Nothing

to do; Lame and impotent Conclusion, 848. Or-

ders is Orders; The Sleeping Child; Dickens's

Denouements; Statistical Fellows, 849. Keep your

Receipts; Giving a Look; About Dandies; Chawls

Yellowplush on Lit'ry Men; Deep-blue Stockings,

850. A Climax; Some Love-Verses; A Crim-

inal Curiosity-hunter; a Skate-vender on Thaws,

851.

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.

Kossuth; Louis Napoleon; A Workingman for

President, 131. Musical Chit-chat; Lumley and

Rossini; America in the Exhibition, 132.

A very

French Story of Love and Devotion; Another of
Devotion and Smuggling, 133. Kossuth and our
Enthusiasm for him, 265. On Lola Montez; Du-
mas and the French Censorship; Signor Braschi;
Female Stock-brokers; The consoled Disconso-
lates, 266. An Italian Romance, 267. Louis Na-
poleon's Coup d'état; Kossuth Talk, 418. Paris
Gossip: Cavaignac and his Bride elect; The Lot-
tery of Gold, 419. Home Gossip; How Mr. Coper
sold a horse, 420. The Hard Winter; The Forrest
Trial, 563. The French Usurpation; President-
making and Morals in the Metropolis; A Bit of
Paris Life; Legacies to Litterateurs, 564. Now;
Close of the Carnival; the Cooper Testimonial;
Lectures; Exemplary Damages, 702. Congres-
sional Manners; The Maine Liquor Law; Re-
miniscence of Maffit; French Writers, 703. The
Chevalier's Stroke for a Wife, 704. More about the
Weather, 843. Sir John Franklin; Free Speech;
Lola in Boston; Jenny Goldschmidt, 844. Mar-
riage Associations; About Punch; Magisterial
Beards; An equine Passport, 845. Matrimonial
Confidence; Dancing in the Beau Monde; Major
M'Gowd's Story, 846.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

Time and Space, 128. Testimony of Geology

to the Supernatural, 130. The Year, 262. The
Pulpit and the Press, 265. The Value of the
Union, 415. The Seventh Census, 557. The
Immensity of the Universe, 562. The Spiritual
Telegraph, 699. History the World's Memory,
700. Mental Alchemy :-Credulity and Skepti-
cism, 839.

Tailing on; The John Jones Party; How many

Times did the Hedge-pig mew? Touching the

Tin, 134. The Deformed's Hope; Looking out

for Number One-Abroad and at Home; Leaves

and Coats; The Mathematical Monomaniac, 135,

A puzzled Doctor, 136. A Text for a Sermon;

The entombed Racer; Cause and Effect; Vaga-

ries of the Insane, 268. Munchausenism; Love and

Mammon; Professional Enthusiasm, 269. Mind

your P's and Q's; Sympathy thrown away; Win-

ter Duties, 270. Experiments in Flying; Affair

of Honor-almost, 271. Takin' Notes; Having

One's Faculties; Great Talkers, 421. Witnesses

and Counsel-with an Example; Physiognomy at

Fault; Mercantile Drummers, 422. On Discon-

tentment; Omnipresence of the Deity; To Snuff-

ers and Chewers; The French and Death, 412.

Rat and Owl Fight; Moralizing on Climbing a

greased Pole; Inquisitiveness, with an Instance

thereof, 565. Street Thoughts by a Surgeon; The

Millionaire without a Sou; The Deaf-and-Dumb

Boy; Workers in Worsted, 566. Subscribing

Something; Bad Spelling; Lending Umbrellas,

567. Something about Music; The Workhouse Fashions for April.

Clock, 568. Sweets in Paris; Something about Fashions for May..

China, 569. Difference of Opinion; a Tale of other

Episode of the Italian Revolution

Esther Hammond's Wedding Day.

Eyes made to Order..

Fashionable Forger.

Fashions for December.

Fashions for January.

Fashions for February.

Fashions for March.

Times, 704. Stealing Sermons; About Snuff; Forgotten Celebrity.

Laughter; Looking-glass Reflections; Something French Flower Girl.

from Sam Slick, 705. Turning the Tables: Youth-Gold-What, and Where from..

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