Transcriber's note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes movedto the end of the article. The index for Volume 57 is included at theend of this issue.
Púshkin, the Russian Poet. No. I., 657
The Novel and the Drama, 679
Marston; or, the Memoirs of a Statesman. Part XVII., 688
Lebrun's Lawsuit, 705
Cennino Cennini on Painting, 717
Æsthetics of Dress. No. IV., 731
Suspiria de Profundis: being a Sequel To the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 739
Hannibal, 752
Stanzas written after the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, C.G.B., 766
Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood, 768
North's Specimens of the British Critics. No. V.—Dryden on Chaucer—Concluded, 771
Index, 794
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