| Mexico, its Territory and People, | 261 |
| A Summer Day. By Thomas Aird, | 277 |
| Cabrera, | 293 |
| My College Friends. No. IV. Charles Russell, the Gentleman Commoner. Conclusion, | 309 |
| Letters on English Hexameters. Letter II., | 327 |
| Algeria, | 334 |
| How to Build a House and Live in it. No. II., | 349 |
| How I became a Yeoman, | 358 |
| The Water-Cure, | 376 |
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