See photo #2 for table of contents. 

143 pages. Profusely illustrated. 

Outstanding content includes: 

A.H. Guernsey's opening article, with 26 illustrations, "Another African Hunter." 

J. Ross Browne's "A Few Days in Moscow," with 11 illustrations.  

The youthful New York Civil War correspondent, writer and poet N.G. Shepherd's new story, "The Widow Thorn's First Marriage." 

George Eliot's illustrated serial novel (1 of 15 monthly installments) Romola.(Chapters 38-41). 

New verse from N.G. Shepherd, "Fifth Avenue" (New York).  

Rose Terry's story, "My Thanksgiving." 

Caroline Chesbro's (Part II of III) "For Better, For Worse." 

A.J.H. Siddons' "A Queen's Day."

Mary M. Dodge's "My Mysterious Foe." 

Samuel Osgood's long essay, "The Home and the Flag." 

Veteran author and editor T.S. Arthur's "My Sermon Before the Mayor." 

G.M. Towle profiles the current Chief Confederate Government Traitors in a longer article headed "Some Secession Leaders" (on Jefferson Davis, John Cabell Breckinridge, Judah P. Benjamin, Robert Toombs, Alexander Stephens, and Henry A. Wise). See photo #5 for opening page. 

Historian W.H. Kinglake's "Louis Napoleon." 

Theodore Johnson's "Victor Hugo." 

John N. Watson's "The Grand Idea." 

M.G. Snow's "A Gossip About Novels." 

The able 27 year old Louise Chandler Moulton's new story, "Kitten." 

John J. Piatt's "The Master Key." 

The "Record of Current Events" is provided through the 9th of March and includes descriptions of War engagements around Strasburg and Springfield, Tennessee; the ongoing Union Army engineering work on the Mississippi River and tributaries round and above Vicksburg, Mississippi; the destruction of Nashville, etc., along with foreign reports. 

Some author identifications above are drawn from the Harper's Index, 1850-1875.