Lines—By Fitz-Greene Halleck 13

Charles Maitland, or the Mess-Chest—By William Leggett 16

The Discarded—By Fitz-Greene Halleck 35

Pencillings by the Way—By N. P. Willis 38

The Sabbath-Bell—By Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney 52

The Author—By Theodore S. Fay 54

To Walter Bowne, Esq.—By Fitz-Greene Halleck 83

Biography of Jacob Hays—By William Cox 86

August—By William C. Bryant 92

The Ocean—By William P. Palmer 96

Lines—By N. P. Willis 106

The Will and the Lawsuit—By William C. Baldwin 107

The Repulse—By Samuel Woodworth 117

A Night on the Banks of the Tennessee—By D. Sealfield 118

The Indian Chief Red Bird—By William P. Palmer 144

The Fight of Hell-Kettle—By Tyrone Power 146

Apologue—By Samuel Woodworth 158

Fire and Water, or the Pirate's Night Cruise—By William
Leggett 160

Stanzas—By Mrs. Emma C. Embury 179

A Kentuckian's Account of a Panther-Fight—By James H.
Hackett 180

A Vision of the Hudson—By William Cox 183

A Country Ramble—By William Cox 189

Astronomical Speculations—By William Cox 198

The Rivals; a Tale of Love and Marriage—By William
Cox 206

Specimens of a free and easy prose Translation of Thomson's
Seasons—By William Cox 220

Little Florence Gray—By N. P. Willis 248

A Charcoal Sketch of Pot Pie Palmer—By Edward Sanford 251

The Beech-Tree—By Robert M. Bird 268

A true though tough Yarn, about Pattygoney and other
matters—By Tyrone Power 270