FINIS CORONAT OPUS, 604
At Last, 612
Auld Lang Syne, 613
Avoidance, 623
Burial Places of Europe, 604
Death, 628
Faith, Hope and Love, 627
Goethe’s Last Words, 622
Guizot’s Confession of Faith, 620
Immortality, 619
Imperator Augustus, 624
In a Rose Garden, 614
Into the World and out, 626
Mary Stuart’s Prayer, 625
No Repairs, 627
Now I lay me, 615
Old Hickory’s Death-bed, 624
Patientia, 626
Patrick Henry’s Legacy, 622
Thanatopsis, 618
Thiers’s Faith, 622
FIRST THINGS, 125
Anæsthesia, 132
Anno Domini, 143
Anthracite, 133
Auld Kirk, 140
Bank-notes, 143
Beer, 140
Billiards, 147
Boston “Merchantman”, 148
Boycott, 139
Cardinal’s Red Hat, 154
Cheap Postage, 147
Coffee, 146
College Papers, 129
Damnatus, 129
Dark Horse, 157
Degree of M.D., 150
Dollar, 149
Emblematic Eagle, 137
Equal Mark, 154
Erasure, 142
Eve’s Mirror, 145
First American Book, 128
First Blood of the Revolution, 125
First Christian Hymn, 152
First Duel in New England, 126
First Gold found in California, 158
First Marriage in American Colonies, 125
First Person cremated in America, 127
First Riddle, 138
First United States Bank, 165
Flag of the United States, 162
Gringo, 142
Honeymoon, 141
John Bull, 138
Machine Politics, 132
Marriage in Church, 149
Millions for Defence, 131
Mother Goose and Mary’s Lamb, 152
National Political Conventions, 163
Oldest Buildings, 126
Oldest Declaration, 143
Oldest Living Things, 166
Old Hickory, 137
Old Proverb, An, 155
Old-time Journalism, 127
Order of the Garter, 146
Petroleum, 134
Photography, 135
Pioneer Furrier, 128
Postage Stamps, 148
Punctuation, 144
Sleeping-cars, 144
Stereoscope, 156
Suspension Bridge, 130
Theatrical Deadhead, 148
Thimble, 142
Title of Reverend, 150
Umbrella, 153
Virginia Abolitionist, 130
Vivisection, 139
FLASHES OF REPARTEE, 247
Bearding the Lion, 257
Best for her, 254
Boomerang, A, 252
Condemned Jester, 261
Courteous Retort, 256
Date of Possession, 250
Decay’s Effacement, 253
Declined with Thanks, 256
Distinction with a Difference, 257
Divine Knowledge, 259
Each his Own Way, 251
Ecclesiastical Tit-for-tat, 254
Even Chances, 255
Fitting Answers, 247
Force and Argument, 260
Future Provision, 257
Hereditary Transmission, 247
Last Chance, 259
Left-handed Compliments, 248
Like Topsy, 249
Limitation of Authority, 248
Marjorie, 262
Marriage in Heaven, 260
Maternity, 250
Meeting an Emergency, 255
Nature’s Painting, 252
No Jury then and there, 251
Not beyond Reach, 248
Old Dominion, 250
Opposite Effects, 249
Quaint Reproof, 259
Quick-witted Damsel, 255
Relationship, 253
Sumner’s Legal Learning, 258
Walk _vs._ Conversation, 258
Woman’s Revenge, A, 254
FORECASTS, 187
Emancipation, 194
Foreshadowing of the Germ Theory, 191
French Revolution, 195
Great Fire of London, 193
Moons of Mars, 187
Panama Canal, 190
Plague of London, 194
Reformation, The, 195
Sic Vos non Vobis, 187
Stenography, 192
Suez Canal, 189
Telephone, 191
White Lady, 196
HITS OF THE SATIRISTS, 299
American Eagle, 303
Bancroft as a Historian, 305
Battle Prayer, 299
Beaconsfield, 301
Burns’s Impromptu, 302
Carlyle as a Masquerader, 321
Compliments to Boswell, 305
Drama as an Instrumentality, 304
Forbidden Fruit, 305
Imitation of the Commentators, 317
Junius on the Duke of Bedford, 313
Lardner’s Mistaken Prediction, 306
Lawyers and Playwrights, 307
Pens dipped in Gall, 311
Plain Speaking, 310
Prince Regent, 303
Puffery Extraordinary, 301
Ruskin on the Bicycle, 316
Samuel Rogers, 312
Satire, 321
Serious Interruption, 316
Silly Newspaper Queries, 300
Stanhope, 310
Statesman as a Scientist, 306
Sylvan Reverie, 318
Thanks for Victory, 299
Wordsworth’s Horse, 318