# The Galaxy/Volume 6

THE
GALAXY.
AN ILLUSTRATED
MAGAZINE OF ENTERTAINING READING.
VOL VI.
July 1, 1868, to January 1, 1869.
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 (July, 1868)
* Number 2 (August, 1868)
* Number 3 (September, 1868)
* Number 4 (October, 1868)
* Number 5 (November, 1868)
* Number 6 (December, 1868)
INDEX TO VOLUME VI.
| | | PAGE. |
| Acquitted | H. H. | 803 |
| Adam and Eve | Sophie May | 197 |
| Annals of Angling | Charles Lanman | 305 |
| Answering (The) Voice | | 327 |
| Attempt (The) at Strasbourg; as described by Louis Napoleon in a letter to his Mother. With Notes | J. S. C. Abbott | 648 |
| Aunt Penelope's Girlhood | Anna L. Johnson | 47 |
| Autumn Song (An) | Robert Weeks | 484 |
| Ballad (The) of the King's Bloodhound | Charles Dawson Shanly | 623 |
| Barcarolle | Lily Nelson | 830 |
| Beechdale—Chapter 6 to end | Marian Harland | 69, 217, 341, 501, 634 |
| Boys | Harriet Prescott Spofford | 835 |
| Brain (The) and Spinal Cord | W. A. Hammond, M. D. | 41 |
| Bright (John) | Celia Logan | 115 |
| By Rail to the Rocky Mountains | I. Edwards Clarke | 666 |
| Cholera and its Oriental Sources | John C. Peters, M. D. | 361 |
| Church of the Future | †. †. † | 85 |
| Cipher: A Novel. Part I.—Chapters I. to XI. Part II.—Chapters I. to VII | Jane G. Austin | 437, 581, 725 |
| Collision (A) at Sea | N. S. Dodge | 399 |
| Confederate Congress (The). A Chapter in the History of the late War | Edward A. Pollard | 749 |
| Countess Nell | | 84 |
| Death (The) of Hope | Mary E. Atkinson | 499 |
| Democratic Deities | Eugene Benson | 661 |
| Desidero Te | Maria Louise Pool | 40 |
| Devil of Indigestion | T. Edwards Clark, M. D. | 694 |
| Driftwood | Philip Quilibet | 129, 273, 421, 563, 709, 747 |
| The London Aerial Fair; Juvenile Theatricals; Our Diplomatic Representatives; Parlor Recitations; Prices; The Alabama Again; Inherited Wealth; Political Candor; German and Yankee; The Base-Ball Season; Quackery; The Presidential Campaign; Law and Labor; The Penalties of Greatness; The Electoral College; Spain; Wickedest Men and other Men; Two and Two Make Four; Reverdy Johnson in England; Something New in Advertising; Presidents and President Making. |||
| Eagre in a Finger-Bowl | Marston Niles, U. S. N. | 699 |
| Ebb Tide | | 845 |
| Exit the Blonde | D. H. Jacques | 840 |
| Facetiæ of the War | James Franklin Fitts | 320 |
| Feast | H. H. | 180 |
| Few Words about the Nerves | W. A. Hammond, M. D. | 41, 181, 493 |
| For a Year | Annie Thomas | 97 |
| For Life | Maria Louise Pool | 329 |
| Four Nations (The) | W. L. Alden | 702 |
| Galaxy Miscellany | | 113, 257, 399, 549, 693, 831 |
| Ghost (A) in a State-Room | Charles H. Doe | 172 |
| Great Awakenings | †. †. † | 388 |
| Hazard | Caroline Chesebro | 465 |
| History of Tears | W. R. Alger | 476 |
| Histrionic Metempsychosis | Justin Winsor | 549 |
| Is Labor a Curse? | †. †. † | 537 |
| Johnson (Eastman) | Eugene Benson | 111 |
| Journey (A) Through Mongolia | Thomas W. Knox | 160 |
| Kemble (Mrs Frances Anne) | | 797 |
| Kit Grale | James T. McKay | 149, 293 |
| Literal Turn of Mind | George Wakeman | 403 |
| Literary Transfer Work | George Wakeman | 205 ​ |
| Literature and Art | | 135, 278, 425, 569, 716 |
| Darwin's Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, by E. L. Youmans; Various Books, by R. G. White; Art in Summer, American Art Subjects, by S. S. Conant; Art and Modern Inventions, by Ion Perdicaris; George Eliot's Poem, A Passage in Macbeth, The Kalevala, by R. G. White; St. Columba; the Jarves Collection, Buying Old Masters, by S. S. Conant; William Morris, by R. G. White; The Leipsic Book Mart, by M. J. Cramer; Copies of Great Paintings, by S. S. Conant; Familiar Quotations, by R. G. White; Medusa, and other Tales, by Virginia Vaughan; Leutze and Elliott, Women Artists, Prang's Chromos, by S. S. Conant; Story of the "Revels Book," by R. G. White; Our Branch and its Tributaries, by Virginia Vaughan; Portraits of General Grant, by S. S. Conant; Horace Greeley, by R. G. White; Ruby's Husband; Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom; Bierstadt's New Picture; Our Artists and their Summer Labors; Prang's Chromos Again. |||
| London Beggars | N. S. Dodge | 606 |
| Margaret Fuller | Anna L. Johnson | 121 |
| Midge | Chauncey Hickox | 625 |
| Midsummer | May Mather | 359 |
| Miss Faith | H. A. Hudson | 381 |
| Mr. Turveydrop Discourses on a Social Nuisance | James Franklin Fitts | 113 |
| Mr. Turveydrop Applies the Probe | James Franklin Fitts | 556 |
| Mud Baths (The) of Franzensbad | W. C. Church | 406 |
| My Field | Mary Allen Atkinson | 109 |
| Mystery of Mrs. Brown | P. St. Arnaud | 313 |
| National (The) Prospects and Resources | D. D. Porter, U. S. N. | 60 |
| Needle and Pillow | C. A. B. | 118 |
| Nebulæ | The Editor | 144, 286, 433, 576, 720, 861 |
| Nervous People | W. A. Hammond, M. D. | 491 |
| Newport at Sunset | S. S. Conant | 693 |
| Old Newspaper (An) | C. P. Cranch | 411 |
| One Too Many | Caroline Chesebro | 759 |
| Osborne's Revenge | Henry James, Jr. | 5 |
| Our African Parrot | N. S. Dodge | 257 |
| Our Great Diamonds | Charles Wyllys Elliott | 32 |
| Ownership | G. B. Buzelle | 126 |
| Picture of the World | E. R. Sill | 612 |
| Pine Country (The) | L. S. | 559 |
| Poe and Hawthorne | Eugene Benson | 742 |
| Romantic Passage in a Notable Life | R. H. Howard | 269 |
| Saved by a Bullet | James Franklin Fitts | 188 |
| Slow and Secret Poisoning | T. Edwards Clark, M. D. | 416 |
| Soft Brown Smiling Eyes | C. P. Cranck | 846 |
| Story (The) of a Hero | Edward A. Pollard | 598 |
| Sympathetic (The) System and the Emotions | W. A. Hammond, M. D. | 181 |
| Talk (A) with Mr. Burlingame about China | Richard J. Hinton | 613 |
| Thought | H. H. | 68 |
| Three Weeks at Kissengen | Abner W. Colgate | 262 |
| Tides | H. H. | 548 |
| Tied up by the Thumbs | T. A. Dodge | 790 |
| To a Friend | R. H. Stoddard | 819 |
| Treasure of the Three Kings (The) | Jane G. Austin | 808 |
| Tropical Morning at Sea | E. R. Sill | 186 |
| Two Artists of Comedy—Maggie Mitchell and Mary Gannon | L. Clarke Davis | 245 |
| Two French Editors—Emile de Girardin and Henri Rochefort | Virginia Vaughan | 678 |
| Visit to the Bank of Prussia | Carl Winter | 553 |
| Vittoria Colonna | | 453 |
| Wallack (John Lester) | William Stuart | 485 |
| Whose Hand? A Chemico-Ghost Story | D. P. Ramseur | 523 |
| When Dreams are Truest | T. W. Parsons | 319 |
| Who Took Ticonderoga? | B. F. Da Costa | 831 |
| Women as Physicians | Mary E. Wager | 774 |
| Words and Their Uses | Richard Grant White | 235, 373, 513, 686, 820 |
| Misused Words; Making Pronouns; Pease and Pison; Get, Gotten; Irregular Verbs; Sunset; Misused Words; Some Briticisms; Squeamish Slang; Misused Words; Misused Words Concluded; Words that are not Words. |||