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" in six years 212 00

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Cash payment $24 00

Payment in one year 24 00
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Number 16. 25 Cents.

THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY.

DEVOTED TO Literature and National Policy.

APRIL, 1863.

NEW YORK: JOHN F. TROW 50 GREENE STREET (FOR THE PROPRIETORS).

HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY. WASHINGTON, D.C.: FRANCK TAYLOR.

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CONTENTS.--No. XVI.

The Wonders of Words, 385

The Chech, 395

Pictures from the North, 398

The New Rasselas, 404

The Chained River. By Charles Godfrey Leland, 410

How the War affects Americans. By Hon. F. P. Stanton, 411

Promoted, 420

Henrietta and Vulcan. By Delia M. Colton, 421

Ethel. By Martha Walker Cook, 435

The Skeptics of the Waverley Novels. By Charles Godfrey Leland, 439

A Merchant's Story. By Edmund Kirke, 451

A Chapter on Wonders. By Perth Granton, 461

The Return. By Edward Sprague Rand, jr., 464

The Union. By Hon. R. J. Walker, 465

Down in Tennessee, 469

Poetry and Poetical Selections, 474

Flag of our Sires. By Hon. R. J. Walker, 480

A Fancy Sketch, 482

Our Present Position; its Dangers and its Duties, 488

The Complaining Bore, 496

Literary Notices, 500

Editors' Table,