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Number 24. 25 Cents.

THE

CONTINENTAL

MONTHLY.

DEVOTED TO

Literature and National Policy.

DECEMBER, 1863.

NEW YORK:
JOHN F. TROW 50 GREENE STREET
(FOR THE PROPRIETORS).
HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR-TOUSEY.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: FRANCK TAYLOR.

CONTENTS.--No. XXIV.

The Nation. By Hugh Miller Thompson, 601

Buckle, Draper, and a Science of History. By E. B. Freeland, 610

Diary of Frances Krasinska, 624

The Sleeping Soldier. By Edward N. Pomeroy, 632

My Mission. By Ella Rodman, 633

Letter Writing. By Park Benjamin, 648

The Year. By W. H. Henderson, 657

The Great American Crisis. By Stephen Pearl Andrews, 658

Was He Successful? By Richard B. Kimball, 670

Dead. By Anna Gray, 683

Reconstruction. By Henry Everett Russell, 684

Virginia. By H. T. Tuckerman, 690

She Defines her Position. By Eliza S. Randolph, 702

Whiffs from my Meerschaum. By Lieut. R. A. Wolcott, 704

Literary Notices, 706

Editor's Table, 711

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