| Modern State Trials. Part I., | 373 |
| My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. Part II., | 393 |
| Military Life in North Africa, | 415 |
| The Green Hand—A "Short" Yarn. A Wind-up, | 433 |
| The French Wars of Religion, | 456 |
| A Wild-Flower Garland. By Delta, | 471 |
| The Masquerade of Freedom, | 475 |
| Dies Boreales. No. VIII.—Christopher under Canvass, | 479 |
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