CONTENTS.

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  _PREFACE_ 3

  _IN MEMORIAM_ 5

  I. _THE CASE OF SUMMERFIELD_ 13

  II. _THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE_ 34

  III. _THE DESERTED SCHOOLHOUSE_ 37

  IV. _FOR AN ALBUM_ 50

  V. _PHASES IN THE LIFE OF JOHN POLLEXFEN_ 52

  VI. _THE LOVE-KNOT_ 94

  VII. _THE AZTEC PRINCESS_ 95

  VIII. _THE MOTHER'S EPISTLE_ 154

  IX. _LEGENDS OF LAKE BIGLER_ 156

  X. _ROSENTHAL'S ELAINE_ 171

  XI. _THE TELESCOPIC EYE_ 174

  XII. _THE EMERALD ISLE_ 190

  XIII. _THE EARTH'S HOT CENTER_ 199

  XIV. _WILDEY'S DREAM_ 212

  XV. _WHITHERWARD_ 218

  XVI. _OUR WEDDING DAY_ 229

  XVII. _THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW_ 231

  XVIII. _A PAIR OF MYTHS_ 233

  XIX. _THE LAST OF HIS RACE_ 247

  XX. _THE TWO GEORGES_ 249

  XXI. _MASONRY_ 260

  XXII. _POLLOCK'S EUTHANASIA_ 262

  XXIII. _SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY_ 264

  XXIV. _THE ENROBING OF LIBERTY_ 276

  XXV. _A CAKE OF SOAP_ 279

  XXVI. _THE SUMMERFIELD CASE_ 280

  XXVII. _THE AVITOR_ 291

  XXVIII. _LOST AND FOUND_ 293

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