CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

JANUARY-OCTOBER, 1891.

Sunset. Late May. Old Wooden Church in the Grove. Afternoon in Summer. Battle Prayer. Quotation.

MASON, MARY AUGUSTA. Portrait by Cobb, Binghamton, N. Y.

Baxter, James Phinney.

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB.

Portrait engraved on steel by George W. Hall.

Portrait by Marceau & Power, Indianapolis, Ind.

June. Who Bides His Time. When My Dreams Come True. A Song. A Life-Lesson.
Bessie Died. God Bless Us Every One. Little Orphant Annie. Griggsby's Station.
Punkin. Quotations.

Cooper, George.

W. W. Pfrimmer.

The Lost Kiss. When

When the Frost is on the

Mary E. Tyson.

Beautiful Isle of the Sea. Sweet Genevieve. Must We Then Meet as Strangers. Baby-Land. A Midsummer Day.

Mother-Love. A Bird's Carol. An Inquisitive Boy. Quotation.

DORR, JULIA C. R.

Portrait by Stimson, Appleton, Wis.

Mrs. George Archibald.

"O Wind That Blows Out of the West.' The Clay to the Rose. Five. Twenty-one. At Rest. When Lesser

Loves. At the Last. Quotations.

Lida Rose McCabe.

SHERWOOD, KATE BROWNLEE. Portrait by R. F. Hughes, Toledo, O.

The Army of the Potomac. Albert Sidney Johnston. The Army Haversack. If I Should See the King Go By.

Shakespeare. Ulric Dahlgren.

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY.

Pen and ink sketch by Bradley, Buffalo, N. Y.

I. Arthur King.

The Pillar of the Cloud. A Voice From Afar. Vexations. Warnings. Flowers Without Fruit. Seeds in the Air.

Quotations.

WERNER, ALICE.

Celeste M. A. Winslow.

The Last of the Reapers. Among the Hyacinths. Dawn. In a Theatre. Sunday Morning. The Cry of the Nations.

A Life's Labor. Quotations.

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK. Portrait drawn by George du Maurier, 1872.

The Skeleton in the Cupboard. A Nice Correspondent. "The Widow's Mite."

BAXTER, JAMES PHINNEY.

Dolce Far Niente. Miserere. Two Idyls. Quotations.

KETCHUM, JOHN B.

Alexander H. Japp.

The Jester's Plea. Quotations.

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Rev. Anson Titus.

Richard H. Jackson, Jr.

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Charles M. Dickinson.

An Autumn Morning. Stars in the Well. For All. If Love Were Life. A Belated Blossom. Uncertainty. The

Poet's Song.

WILLIAMS, SELINA TARPLEY,

Some Morning Roses. Tired. The Swift Ships. Hidden. To a Field Lark. The Webs we Weave. Grandmother

and Baby. Quotation.

BADGER, WILLIAM WHITTlesey.

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Daisy Barnard.

The Veterans. The Burns Rescue. Be True to the Dreams of Thy Youth. The Peerless Patti. The Cherry Tree.

God's Almoner. Quotation.

From portrait by L. Alman, New York.

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DUKE, R. T. W., JR.

Henry A. Thurman.

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Et in Arcadia Ego. Beside Love's Bier. Too Late You Came. The Soul's Reflection. Lost Hours. M. B. M.,

WOOLSON, CONSTANCE Fenimore. With portrait.

Work Done for God Can Never Die. Only Waiting. When Christians all are One. The Better Land.

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CROFTON, FRANCIS BLAKE.

The Battle-Call of the Antichrist. The Cry of Cain. An Unconsecrated 'Grave.

Plaint of the Muse in the

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Goodwin, Rev. H. M., D. D.

Life. The Soul of Liberty. To Horace Bushnell. Poetry. Silence.

A Hundred Years to Come. To-morrow. Autumn Leaves. Weary. The May Flower.

Forest Stream is Choked With Yellow Leaves.

FURBER, AURilla. Portrait by Essery, St. Paul, Minn.

Water Lilies. Peace. Stir of Wings. Quotations.

HULL, ELIZAbeth White. Portrait by H. W. Lawhead, Gilman, Ill.
The Mortgage. Hast Thou Been Tempted? Quotations.

Lucinda H. Westbrook.

Christie Krusen.

RUDE, ELLEN Sergeant. Portrait by W. A. Cox, St. Augustine, Fla.

The Tree of State. Uncaged. Lincoln. Sea Mosses. Into the Likeness. True Charity. Quotations.

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SCOTT, CLEMENT.

Three Kisses. The Midnight Charge. L'Addio Penseroso. Somebody's Pride. Eden.
BELLAMY, ORLANDO R. Portrait by Osborn, Oswego, Kan.

At Daybreak. Dawn. Morning. I Know not Where. Quotations.

INGELOW, JEAN.-FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

BURNS, ROBERT.-FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. With portrait.

SINGLE POEMS. I.

Little Brown Hands, Mary H. Krout. Carmen Bellicosum, Guy Humphrey McMaster. Brother Bartholomew,
Louise Imogene Guiney. The Wild Honeysuckle, Philip Freneau. Plain Language From Truthful James,
Francis Bret Harte. Maryland, James Ryder Randall. Over the River, Nancy Priest Wakefield. There is no
Death, J. L. McCreery. Vive La France, Frances Fisher. Nothin' to Say, James Whitcomb Riley. Kathleen
Mavourneen, Mrs. Crawford. Light, Francis W. Bourdillon.

PERSONAL POEMS.-A COLlection of SONNETS.

I.

To Mr. Gray, Thomas Warton. Blanco White, Sara Coleridge. Coleridge, Washington Allston. To Wordsworth,

Hartley Coleridge. Milton, Ernest Myers. To the Memory of Sydney Dobell, John Stuart Blackie. Shakespeare,

Robert Browning. Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot, Algernon Charles Swinburne. To Cardinal Manning,

George Meredith. Walt Whitman, James Newton Matthews. Paul Hamilton Hayne, Margaret H. Lawless.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier. To John Keats, Francis Howard Williams. Dante Gabriel

Rossetti, Margaret J. Preston. To the Memory of H. H., Thomas Wentworth Higginson. To Bayard Taylor,

Edmund Clarence Stedman.

A COLLECTION OF QUATRAINS. I.

The Quatrain, Charlotte Fiske Bates. The Quatrain, Frank Dempster Sherman. Fair Friendship Raised his Placid

Mask, Oscar Fay Adams. Maple Leaves, Pessimist and Optimist, The Difference, Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Woodbines in October, Patience in Art, Charlotte Fiske Bates. Family Jars, George Birdseye. The Miracle,

Herbert W. Bowen. To a Dead Woman, H. C. Bunner. Quatrain, Richard E. Burton. Jacobite Toast, John

Byrom. Fate, John Vance Cheney. Back From the Darkness, Richard Watson Gilder. The Mariner, William

H. Hayne. Tetrastich, Sir William Jones. Sacrifice, Matthew Richey Knight. Death, Walter Savage Landor.

A Matrimonial Duet, Matthew Gregory Lewis. Sin, Friedrich Von Logan. Changed Perspective, Sayings,

James Russell Lowell. A Touchstone, Charles Henry Luders. Love's Way. W. Wilsey Martin. Pictures,

Lewis Morris. Music, William Chadwick Olmstead. A Kiss, Yes, John Boyle O'Reilly. An Atlantic Trip,

Frances Sargent Osgood. A Woman's Promise, Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. Remorse, Alice Wellington Rollins.

Pursuit, Summer in Winter, Clinton Scollard. A Red Rose, A Star, Frank Dempster Sherman. Epitaph on Gen-

eral Gordon, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. On Poetry, Chauncey Hare Townshend. In the Woods, W. DeWitt

Wallace. Equanimity, William Wheeler. Crumbs of Bread, A. Stephen Wilson. Epigram on Sleep, John Wolcot.

PRIZE QUOTATIONS.

Little Myrtle, W. Wilsey Martin. At the Turn of the Road, Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Last Eve of Summer,

John Greenleaf Whittier. To the Sunset Breeze, Walt Whitman. Elder Lamb's Donation, Will Carleton.

Christmas, J. T. Ward. A Picture, Ella C. Drabble. John Henry Newman, John Fullerton. Beatrice, Constance

E. Dixon. The Raising of the Ban, Libbie C. Baer. Tyranny, Julie M. Lippmann. The Grande Ronde Valley,

Ella Higginson. The Conundrum of the Workshops, Rudyard Kipling. The Famous Sonnet of Arvers, Mrs. E.

W. Latimer.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

NOTES.

THE EDITOR'S TABLE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POETRY FOR 1890.

BUCHANAN, Robert. Portrait by J. C. Armytage.

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Hermione; Or, Differences Adjusted. Lord Ronald's Wife. Langley Lane. L'Envoi. To Triflers. Quotations.
WILLSON, Forceythe.

Sketch by Bradley, Buffalo, N. Y., from photo by Sonrel, Boston, Mass.

The Old Sergeant. In State. No More. Quotations.

The Modern Poet.

Portrait by Latour, Sedalia, Mo.

BATES, ARLO. Portrait by Marshall, Boston, Mass.

Henry A. Thurman.

A Lover's Messengers. A Shadow Boat. Metempsychosis. Unchosen. A Lament.

Truth. Heredity. Recognition. A Night Sketch. Forward. Sonnets in Shadow. Content. Quotations.

GRIFFITH, GEORGE Bancroft. Portrait by Jackson & Kinney, Portland, Me.

The Swiss "Good-Night." Laura Bridgman. Mary Chilson. The Golden Organ. The Common Blessings. Gather

the Grains. A Child's Voice. April Clouds. Our Purest Joys. Trial.

MOORE, Augusta.

Frances L. Mace.

Life's Story. Quotations.

W. De Witt Wallace.

In Our Midst. Quotation.

Katharine Tynan.

Homeward. The Brook and the River. Hold Your Own. Love's Outcast. Our Circle.

BATES, MARGRET HOLMES. Portrait by Marceau & Power, Indianapolis, Ind.

Nineveh. Hildegarde. If I Had Seen You Lying Still and White. Oh, Gentle Sleep.

MEYNELL, ALICE.

Song. Builders of Ruins. An Unmarked Festival. Thoughts in Separation. Renouncement. A Day to Come.

CLEAVELAND, CHARLES LORENZO.

Charles B. Cross.

Greenwood Men. Purpose. A Pinewood Sonnet. Quatrains. Sunnyway. An Obine Song.

LYTTON, LORd Robert. Portrait by Emil Rabending, Vienna.

William Cartwright Newsam.

The Chess-Board. Changes. Forbearance. The First Farewell. Knowledge and Wisdom. The Heart and Nature.

Possession. Leoline. Tears. Quotations.

MCKINNIE, Patterson LeoN. Photogravure by Globe Lithograph Co., Chicago, Ill. James A. Sexton.

The Press and Fast Mail. William Tecumseh Sherman. Gladstone. My Mother. The President. The Private

Soldier. Quotation.

RICHARDSON, MARY E. M.

Lizzie Hyer Neff.

Recollection. On Galilee. The Four Winds. Christmas Hymn. A Snow Storm. "Come Unto Me, and I Will Give

You Rest."

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A Night Ride. Failure.

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ROBINSON, HARRIET H.

The Thyme-leaved Sandwort. Louisa May Alcott. The Inward Voice. My Madonna. Quotations.

ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN.

After Death in Arabia.

BELL, ORELia Key.

Maid and Matron.

HEWITT, JOHN H.

With portrait.

She and He. Peace, Good Will. Quotations.

Portrait by Mrs. L. Condon, Atlanta, Ga.

Lucy Larcom.

F. A. H. Eyles.

Mell R. Colquitt.

The Dead Worker. Since Our Souls Crossed. A Song to Cool my Lady. To Youth.

The American Boy. The Mountains. Song of the American Girl. The Lake Spirit's Song.

Swafford, Mrs. M. Portrait by Wright & Holloway, Terre Haute, Ind.

Hesperides. The Haunted Battle Field. The Evening South-Wind. Restitution.

MOUNTCASTLE, Clara H.

The Settler's Wife. Autumn. An Appeal. Art Thou Thinking of Me? Quotation.

KENT, LUCIAN HERVEY. Portrait by Weatherup, Westfield, N. Y.

Matter and Mind. Truth.

KERR, ROBERT,

Louis Kossuth.

WELLS, HARRY LAURENZ.

Brevities. Quotations.

With portrait.

Unrest. My Roses. The Klamath. Why Fall the Leaves.

WEBSTER, GEORGE W.

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H. B. Kent.

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M. S. L. B.

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Ella Higginson.

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Charles Wells Moulton.

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David F. Monash.

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My Season. Winter's Temple. Lines. Two Sonnets. Golden Sweets.

HARLOW, WILLIAM BURT.

With portrait by Doust, Syracuse, N. Y.

Kenilworth. Lodore. To a Butterfly Hatched in February. By the Brook. To a Water-Lily. Quotation.

DICKINSON, Charles M. With portrait by Evans, Binghamton, N. Y.

Hezekiah Butterworth.

How Far From Heaven. At Mother's Grave. A Morning Miracle. Night's Silence. The Lilies. In the Garden.

FERRIS, LUCY D. W.

With portrait.

J. M. Ferris.

George R. Cathcart.

Invocation. Quotation.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER.-QUOTATIONS. From a painting by Sir H. Raeburn, 1808.

SINGLE POEMS. II.

Battle-Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe. That Glorious Song of Old, Edmund Hamilton Sears. Nature's

Nestlings, Isadore G. Jeffery. Trust, Mary F. Butts. Let the Toast Pass, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. No Sect in

Heaven, Mrs. E. H. J. Cleveland. Woodman Spare That Tree, George P. Morris. Revelry in India, Bartholomew

Dowling. The Burial of Sir John Moore, Charles Wolfe. Midsummer Invitation, Myron B. Benton. On the

Mountain, Mary Augusta Mason.

PERSONAL POEMS.-A COLLECTION OF SONNETS. II.

Shakespear, Matthew Arnold. Milton, William Wordsworth. Milton, Henry W. Longfellow. Robert Browning,

Louise Chandler Moulton. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helen Gray Cone. Matthew Arnold, William P.

Andrews. On the Death of Paul Hamilton Hayne, Philip Bourke Marston. When June Shall Come Again, E. M.

Edmonds. To Walt Whitman, Dora Read Goodale. To Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns Wilson.

A COLLECTION OF QUATRAINS. II.

On Beau Nash's Picture at Bath, Mrs. Jane Brereton. On the Above Lines, Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.

To Madame De Damas, Learning English, Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford. Death, Henry Luttrell. Death,

George Colman, The Younger. Death, Walter Savage Landor. To a Young Lady, Thomas Campbell. Epigram

on the "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner," Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Ermine, The Bees, The Nightingale, The

Snake, The Tiger, The Diamond, Falling Stars, Richard Chenevix Trench. Darwin, Mortimer Collins. Popular-

ity, Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Modesty, Definition, John Kendrick Bangs. Perseverance, Mary Earl Hardy. Coy,

P. McArthur. A Poet's Apology, Charles Washington Coleman. Creation, Charles Henry Luders. Laburnums,

W. Wilsey Martin. On Bloomfield, Henry Kirk White. Music, Marion Juliet Mitchell.

QUOTATIONS On Woman.

CURRENT POEMS. II.

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Palm Sunday, Rowland B. Mahany. A Song, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. What Shall it Profit, William Dean Howells.

Old-Age Echoes, Walt Whitman. Song, Florence Earle Coates. Pansy, Carrie Renfrew. Lines, Alice S. Dele-

tombe. Long Ago, Hu Maxwell. Embarrassment, Francis S. Saltus. The Minstrel, Christopher P. Cranch.

Sidney Lanier, Charles W. Hubner. The Mocking-Bird, W. L. Shoemaker, A Rondelet, James Graham.

Twilight, A. Mary F. Robinson. The Bibliomaniac's Prayer, Eugene Field. The Strangers, John B. Tabb.

FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS.-A STUDY OF HIS POETRY.

Thomas S. Collier. 269

Alfred W. Harris. 278-336

Nettie Leila Michel.

GALLAGHER, WILLIAM DAVIS. Portrait by Roche, Louisville, Ky.

The Mothers of the West. The Laborer. Línes. Quotations.

Portrait by Guy & Co., Cork, Ireland.

PIATT, SARAH M. B.

In Primrose Time. There was a Rose. A Doubt. Hearing the Battle. A Woman's Birthday. Two Hunters. The

Witch in the Glass. The Descent of the Angel. A Tragedy of the Night. Good-Bye. Fred's Mother. Questions of

the Hour. One Happy Woman. Stop the Clock. Quotations.

MITCHELL, S. Weir.

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PIATT, JOHN JAMES. Portrait by Guy & Co., Cork, Ireland.

Benjamin S. Parker.

Farther. Western Windows. The Mower in Ohio. Reading the Milestone. The Morning Street. The Old Man

and the Spring Leaves. The Sight of Angels. Mirage. A Morning in September. The Flower of a Dream.

GOODE, KATE TUCKER. Portrait by Perkins, Baltimore, Md.

The Quaker Graveyard. How the Cumberland Went Down. A Psalm of Death. September. The Carry. You

and I. Quotations:

A Woman's Complaint. In Memory of John Howard Payne. I Want You So. The Path Through the Clover.

What He Saw at the Ball.

BARKER, ANNIE E. HUBBart.

James G. Clark.

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When the Mists Have Rolled Away. When They go Silently. New Time Rolling On. Painting a Poet.

GUSTAFSON, Zadel Barnes. Portrait by Walery, London, England.

Zlobane. Maud's Answer. Katie, the Belle of Glenco'. In the Garden. Morning.

BROWN, THeron.

The Wild Strawberry. The Old Wife. Bunker Hill, 1775. An Autumn Sunset. The Fall Cricket. The Last Relic.
Quotations.