C C) NT E NTS. About the Stikine................................ C. M. Sclmon.................................253 Adventures in Mexico........................... S. S. Boynton)...............................409, 549 Adventures of a Locomotive Engineer.............Henry S. Brooks.................................301 After the Winter Rain............................Charlotte Whitney...............................225 Illustrations:-Headpiece; Almond Branch; A Caion Path; Currant Bough; Monterey Trilli um; Wild Radish; About the Tree Rorts; White and Yellow Azalea; Veined Iris; Across the Lowland; Coreopsis; An Adobe Relic; Fruit Blossoms. Drawn by E. C. Peixotto, M. Wil liams, and R. Lewis. American Histories, Some............................................................... 439 American Miner in Mexico, An.,an eille..........l.................34,145 American Politics, Personal Equation in...... Wilbur Laxrremore...............................134 Arizona Ghost Story, An...........................Ed. Holland.....................................24 Autumn Days in Ventura. II...... N,netta Eames.................................. 1 Illustrations:-From photographs by Brewster, and sketches by G. E. Lyon, Miss M. Williams, and Albert Hooper. Date Palms of the Padres' Orchard; Mission San Buenaventura; Father Rubio; The Ventura Big Grape Vine; Ventura High School; Threshing Beans at Saticoy; The Judge at Home; Bee Ranch at Las Posas; Simi Creek; Simi Valley; Baby Elizabeth; Lara; Ojai Valley, Nordhoff; Hanging Rock in Matilija ('aion; "Can You Tell Me the Way to New Jerusalem?"; Steve White; Glimpse of Nordhoff; Ojai Oaks and Grape Vines; At the Oak Glen Cottages; Tailpiece. Bellamy, The Theories of, Compared with the Uto pias of the Past................................H. Peebles......................................574 Biography, Recent..................................................................................554 Book Reviews: Accolon of Gaul, 105.-Adams's (Henry) History of the United States of America during the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson, 441.-Aldrich's (Thomas Bailey) Wyndham Towers, 210.-Allen's (A. V. G.) Jonathan Edwards, 554.-Amnes's (Lucia True) Memoirs of a Million aire, 437.-Ancient Spanish Ballads, (Lockhart,) 106.-Around the World on a Bicycle, (Thomas Stevens,) 224.-Austen,Jane, (Famous Women Series,) 447.-Autobiography of Benjamin Frank lin, 333.-Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel, 556.-Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 110. Babes of the Nations, (Maud Humphrey and Edith Thomas,) 111.-Banquet of Palacios, The, 335. -Bellamy's (Edward) Six to One, 435.-Beneath Two Flags, (Maud B. Booth,) 448.-Betty Leicester, (Sarah Orne Jewvett,) 111.-Birds through an Opera Glass, (Florence A. Merriam,) 112. -Boston, The Story of, (Arthur Gilman,) 334.-Burrough's (John) Indoor Studies, 224.-By Whose Hand?, 434. Calendars for 1890, 110.-Cause, 105.-Chaplet of Verse, A, 106.-Character and Comments from the Novels of Howells, 334.-Chlata and Chinita, (Louise Palmer Heaven,) 318.-Child, The, and Na ture; or Geography Teaching with Sand-modeling, 560.-Circumstances Beyond Control, 323. Coal and the Coal-mines, (Homer Greene,)112.-Colonial Boy, A, 323.-Constitutional History of the United States, The (Geo. Ticknor Curtis,) 439.-Constitutional History of the United States as seen in the Development of American Law, 440.-Constitutional History of the United States in the Formative Period, Essays on the, 442.-Curse of Marriage, The, 434.-Cyclopmdia of Educa tion, Sonnenschein's, 327. Dabney's (W. D.) The Public Regulation of Railways, 446.-Day, The, Will Come, (Miss Brad don,) 323.-Dearly Bought, 435.- Deb and the Duchess, 111. Easter Gleams, (Lucy Larcom,) 448.-Educatiocn in the United States, (Richard G. Boone,) 325. Edwards, Jonathan, (A. V. G. Allen,) 554.-Emerson's Essays, 110.-Essays on Government, (A. Lawrence Lowell,) 223.-Essays on the Constitutional History of the United States in the Formative Period, 442.-European Schools, (L. R. Kleinm,) 327.-Everyday Biography, 334. Everyday Business, 335.-Evolution of a Life, The, 447.-Exercises in Wood-working, 560. Expiation, (Th. Bentzon,) 434. Facing the Sphinx, 335.-Fate of a Voice, The, (Mary Hallock Foote.) 437.-Fifty Years on the Trail, (Harrington O'Reilly,) 333. —Fish and Game Laws of California, 333.-Foote's (Mary Hal lock) The Last Assembly Ball, and The Fate of a Voice, 436.-Footprints of Christ, 560.-Frank lin, Autobiography of, 333.-Friedrich Froebel, Autobiography of, 556. Geography of Marriage, The, 223.-George Washington, (Horace Scudder, ) 112.-Golden Sunsets, 111.-Gudrun, (Mary Pickering Nichols,) 211. Handbook of Precious Metals, A, 335. —Heritage of Dedlow Marsh, and other Tales, (Bret Harte,) 321.-Hermitage, The, and Later Poems, (E. R. Sill,) 210.-Heroes of the Crusades, The, (Aman da M. Douglas,) 112.-History of the United States of America during the First Administration of Thos. Jefferson, (Henry Adams,) 441.-Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 110.-How to Study Geography, 326.-Hymn and Tune Book for Schools and Colleges, 336.-Hymns pro Patria, 104. Idyls of the Golden Shore, 105.-Indoor Studies, (John Burroughs,) 224.-International Educa tional Series: Boone's Education in the United States, 325; H]owland's Practical Hints for the Teachers of Public Schools, 560; Klemm's European School, 327; Parker's How to Study Geog raphy, 326.-In the Time of the Cherry Viewing, 322. Jane Austen, (Famous Women Series,)447. Jed, (Warren Lee Goss,)323.-Jewett's (Sarah Orne) Betty Leicester, 111.-Jonathan Edwards, (A. V. G. Allen,) 554. Klemm's European Schools, 327. —Knickerbocker Nuggets: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 333; Lockhart's Ancient Spanish Ballads, 106; Sesame and Lilies, 333; Songs of Fairyland, 333; War Ballads of America, 106.