Authors contributing to this issue include Angele de V. Hull, Frances S. Osgood, Henry T. Tuckerman, Richard Penn Smith, Caroline C——, Augusta C. Twiggs, T.S. Arthur, Emma C. Embury and others. William F. Lynch presents the concluding chapters of his serialized story “The Naval Officer”. Readers will also find Part II of “The Recluse” by Park Benjamin and the first installment of “Passages of Life in Europe” by J. Bayard Taylor. Bayard Taylor’s narrative poem “Ariel in the Cloven Pine” is another treat for readers. Not to be missed is the criticism and wit of Edgar Allen Poe in the first part of his “Fifty Suggestions”. For fashion history, see the conclusion of “History of the Costume of Men” by Fayette Robinson. Bird lovers must see Professor Frost’s discussion of the Cat-bird and the Chicadee in “Wild Birds of America”.