# The Galaxy/Volume 5

THE
GALAXY.
AN ILLUSTRATED
MAGAZINE OF ENTERTAINING READING.
VOL V.
January 1, 1868, to July 1, 1868.
NEW YORK:
SHELDON & COMPANY, 498 AND 500 BROADWAY.
1868.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by SHELDON & COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
* Number 1 (January, 1868)
* Number 2 (February, 1868)
* Number 3 (March, 1868)
* Number 4 (April, 1868)
* Number 5 (May, 1868)
* Number 6 (June, 1868)
INDEX TO VOLUME V.
| | | Page. |
| American and Foreign Theatres | Olive Logan | 22 |
| American Dining | George E. Pond | 256 |
| Aphoristic Cynicisms | Junius Henry Browne | 122 |
| A Problem | Henry James, Jr. | 697 |
| Apple Blossoms | May Mather | 761 |
| A Trip to the Wyandotte Cave | F. M. Gray | 746 |
| Ballad (The) of Sir Ball | W. D. O'Connor | 328 |
| Beechdale—Chapters 1 to 5 | Marian Harland | 581, 719 |
| Before Genius | John Burroughs | 421 |
| Black Bess (The) | Harriet Prescott Spofford | 517 |
| British Marriage Law and Practice | Theresa Yelverton | 197 |
| Burgoyne in a New Light | William L. Stone | 78 |
| Byronism | Walter S. McCann | 777 |
| Camorra (The) of Naples | G. W. Appleton | 641 |
| Case (A) of Mistaken Identity | Edward Gould Buffum | 188 |
| Cassiterides (The) | W. L. Alden | 500 |
| Christmas (The Same) in Old England and New | Edward Everett Hale | 47 |
| Clementina Kinniside | E. Lynn Linton | 549 |
| Corner Stone (A) | Clarence Cook | 144 |
| Cruikshank (George) | Clarence Cook | 126 |
| Deserted Plantation (A) | E. B. Seabrook | 308 |
| Dinner (A) | Pierre Blot | 173 |
| Drift-Wood | Philip Quilibet | 645, 782 |
| Annual House-Swapping; New Hampshire Canvasses; The Alabama Claims; Books, Brains, and Bread; The Travelling Season; Who is our Sovereign; A Nation's Repentance and Faith; Churches and Amusements. |||
| Eccentric Artist (An) | D. E. C. | 638 |
| Elements of Physiology (Huxley's) | E. L. Youmans | 656 |
| Elder Knapp, the Revivalist | George E. Pond | 342 |
| Elizabetta's Christmas | Harriet Prescott Spofford | 60 |
| Faux-Pas of the Press | James Grant Wilson | 762 |
| Fight (The) at Fisher's Hill | James Franklin Fitts | 427 |
| Five Years in Japan | D. B. Simmons | 606 |
| Forced Marches | J. W. De Forest | 708 |
| Forest Fire (The) | Edward S. Ellis | 774 |
| From May till Martinmas | Mrs. W. H. Palmer | 455 |
| General Washington's Negro Body-Servant | Mark Twain | 154 |
| Grasses and Wild Flowers | H. Malan | 690 |
| House and the Heart | E. R. Sill | 574 |
| How Lamirande was Caught | Gaston Fay | 355 |
| Jarocho Life | Mayne Reid | 681 |
| John Bright at Home | Richard J. Hinton | 288 |
| Lady Jacqueline | Phœbe Cary | 679 |
| Literature and Art | | 652, 778 |
| William Blake, by Richard Grant White; Huxley's Elements of Physiology, by E. L. Youmans; Art and Artists, by S. S. Conant; Women Writers and Mrs. Edwards, by Eugene Benson; Various Books, by Richard Grant White. |||
| Legend (The) of St. Gwendoline | Morgan Dix | 258 |
| London Docks | N. S. Dodge | 766 |
| Love's Largess | Helen Hunt | 129 |
| Lowlands (The) of the Mississippi | Henry L. Abbot | 445 |
| Magazine Making | The Editor | 509 |
| Manners (The) of the Day | The Editor | 376 |
| Modern French Clubs | George M. Towle | 247 ​ |
| My Late Senatorial Secretaryship | Mark Twain | 633 |
| My Note Book | Anne M. Crane | 733 |
| My Spiritualistic Experiences | Richard Frothingham | 28 |
| Native Wines and Native Games | Pierre Blot | 631 |
| Nebulæ | The Editor | 124, 255, 382, 513, 659, 797 |
| Christmas—George Cruikshank—Sunday Laws—"On this Continent"—"Love's Largess"—Derivation of Slang—Punning—Charles Dickens—American Dining—The Legend of St. Gwendoline—Apathy of the American People—The Sinfulness of Sleep—A Ball and a Poem—The Story of Macbeth—Female Poppers—The Amount of our Reading—One Touch of Nature—Mines and Coinage—Honorary Degrees—Books and Publishers—A New Religion—A Case for Retaliation—A Woman's Word with Monsieur Blot—A Man's Word with Monsieur Blot—The Tyng Trial and its Moral—Wood Engraving—The Grande Duchesse—An Apt Application of Scripture—New York Names—Congressional Courtesies—Women 2,000 Years Ago—Artistic Imagination—Poetry at the Capitol—Women's Waists. |||
| O. P. Riots (The) of 1809 | A. Bromley | 636 |
| Our Millionaires | T. W. | 529 |
| Our Railway Management | Edward Howland | 757 |
| Parting in Hope | Thomas Hitchcock | 426 |
| Personalism | Walt Whitman | 540 |
| Pilgrimage (The) to Mecca | Edna Dean Proctor | 575 |
| Political Outlook (The) | D. G. Croly | 41 |
| Popular Songs | George Wakeman | 157 |
| Reminiscences of Dr. Wayland | W. L. Stone | 180 |
| Secret History (The) of a Subsidized Organ | Olive Logan | 317 |
| Semele | E. R. Sill | 374 |
| Shadow (The) on the Wall | | 547 |
| Sinfulness of Sleep | Junius Henry Browne | 259 |
| Slaughtered (The) Frenchman | Paul Asberge | 472 |
| Snow (The) | May Mather | 172 |
| Soldier Statesmen | Thomas Jordan | 565 |
| Some Celebrated Shrews | Frank W. Ballard | 298 |
| Some of our Actors | O. B. Bunce | 165 |
| Southern Troubles and their Remedy | James O. Noyes | 365 |
| Spring (1868) Exhibition National Academy | S. S. Conant | 657 |
| Steven Lawrence, Yeoman—Chapter 32 to end | Mrs. Edwards | 86, 206, 261, 389, 618, 661 |
| Story (The) of a Masterpiece | Henry James, Jr | 5, 133 |
| The Galaxy Miscellany | | 631, 762 |
| Native Wines and Native Game, by Pierre Blot; My Late Senatorial Secretaryship, by Mark Twain; The O. P. Riots of 1809, by A. Bromley; An Eccentric Artist, by D. E. C.; The Camorra of Naples, by G. W. Appleton; Faux-Pas of the Press, by Jas. Grant Wilson; London Docks, by N. S. Dodge; The Tompkinses, by N. T.; The Forest Fire, by Edward S. Ellis; Byronism, by Walter S. McCann. |||
| Three Branches (The) of the Government | John Norton Pomeroy | 482 |
| To a Lady | T. W. Parsons | 707 |
| To a Caged Canary | Lily Nelson | 732 |
| Tompkinses (The) | N. T. | 770 |
| Trumpet Smith (The) | Charles Dawson Shanly | 539 |
| Wedding Song (A) | Edgar Fawcett | 27 |
| William Blake (Swinburne's) | Richard Grant White | 652 |
| With my Book | T. W. Parsons | 21 |
| Woman and the Weed | Schuyler Brightley | 438 |
| Words and their Uses | Richard Grant White | 240, 334, 491, 599 |
| Woods and Waters | Edward Clarence Stedman | 579 |
| Worthless Laurels | Kate Putnam Osgood | 297 |
| Wreck | Helen Hunt | 630 |