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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

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• My Double; and how he undid
  me Edward Everett Hale 1

• The Diamond Lens Fitz James O'Brien. 21

• Life in the Iron-Mills Miss R. B. Harding 50

• The Pursuit of Knowledge under
  Difficulties Gail Hamilton 93

• A Raft that no Man made Robert T. S. Lowell 147

• Why Thomas was Discharged George Arnold 162

• Victor and Jacqueline Miss Caroline Chesebro 180

• Elkanah Brewster's Temptation
  Charles Nordhoff 248

• The Queen of the Red Chessmen
  Miss Lucretia P. Hale 271

• Miss Lucinda Miss Rose Terry 299

• The Denslow Palace J. D. Whelpley 336

• Friend Eli's Daughter Bayard Taylor 367

• A Half-Life and Half a Life Miss E. H. Appleton 398

• The Man without a Country Edward Everett Hale 448

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