" 'NUTH'N', " SAYS SMITH. From Life on the Mississippi.

"'Now Andy,' said old Kit, replacing the cheese on Andy's nose." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"And the huge form of the dead Panther was lying by my side, with the pocket holding the valerian firmly clenched in his teeth."—Page 101. From Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." In "The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-West. Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; in a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character. By "Madison Tensas," M.D., and "Solitaire," (John S. Robb, of St. Louis, Mo.) Author of "Swallowing Oysters Alive," etc.".

"BETTING" A NEGRO IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, Page 69. From Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life.

"But hardly had he reached the deck, when he discovered the monster rattlesnake—his head drawn back ready for striking."—Page 69. From Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." In "The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-West. Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; in a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character. By "Madison Tensas," M.D., and "Solitaire," (John S. Robb, of St. Louis, Mo.) Author of "Swallowing Oysters Alive," etc.".

"Closer and firmer his gripe closed upon my throat, barring out the sweet life's breath."—Page 199. From Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." In "The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-West. Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; in a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character. By "Madison Tensas," M.D., and "Solitaire," (John S. Robb, of St. Louis, Mo.) Author of "Swallowing Oysters Alive," etc.".

"SEEM LIKE I AIN'T NEVER SEE NO RAW DAY LIKE DAT." From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Frontispiece Image] From Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.

[Frontispiece Image] UNCLE REMUS AND HIS DECEITFUL JUG From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[IIlustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Half-Title Page Image] HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON. NEW-YORK. C.P. Putnam. From Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.

[Illustration] From Father Ryan's Poems.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Illustration] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Title Page Image] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

[Vignette] From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

"A MOUNTAIN PINK!" From Dialect Tales.

A NEGRO HUNT IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, Page 137. From Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life.

"A paleness more ghastly than that of death come over the widow's face as she heard the sentence. Falling to the earth, she groveled at the feet of Captain Suggs." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

ABSENCE OF HARMONY. From Life on the Mississippi.

"ADDED TO THE FOLD." From Life on the Mississippi.

"AIN'T THAT SO, THOMPSON?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"ALL GO HURRYING TO THE WHARF." From Life on the Mississippi.

"ALL RIGHT, DUTCHY - GO AHEAD." From Life on the Mississippi.

"ALL WELL - BUT ME." From Life on the Mississippi.

"AN ALLIGATOR BOAT." From Life on the Mississippi.

ALLIGATOR PILOTS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Almighty Nature, the first law of God, Perforce I followed." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

AMBITION. From Life on the Mississippi.

ANCHORED IN THE STREAM. From Life on the Mississippi.

"And by their favorite stream, The fair, wild roses blossomed modestly Above the wave that wooed them." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"And thar lay Jess, which had stumped his toe agin somethin', right flat of his face, a-moanin' dreadful!" From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"And, on nearing the arbor, was struck with surprise at seeing some one with her." From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

ANDROMEDA PULVERULENTA. From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

ANONA GRANDIFLORA. From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

ANONA PYGMEA. From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

ANOTHER VICTIM. From Life on the Mississippi.

"ANY BOAT GONE UP?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"ARE YOU HORACE BIGSBY'S CUB?" From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"At this point he called Charley to him, and taking his hand, placed Nellie's in it," &c. From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

A BAD CASE OF SHAKES. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

A BAD EAR. From Life on the Mississippi.

BART DAVIS'S DANCE. "Black silk in h-ll is thar', scream'd she, a-hissin' like onto a cat, an' commenced a-pullin' up by the roots his long har like it wer flax." From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

"BEAMING BENIGNANTLY." From Life on the Mississippi.

"BEEN LAYING YOU FOR DUFFERS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"BESIEGING THE PILOT." From Life on the Mississippi.

"BETWEEN THE SUNKEN SUN AND THE NEW MOON." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

The Big Bear of Arkansas. From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

BIRTHPLACE OF PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE. Charleston, S. C. From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"BLESS YOU, CHILE, IT WUZ DE TEEF I WANTED, NOT DE MAN!" From Dialect Tales.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

Bob Herring's Camp-fire. From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

"Bookcases filled with brown-backed, much-read books." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.

"BORED WITH TRAVELLING." From Life on the Mississippi.

BRASS BANDS BRAY. From Life on the Mississippi.

BRER FOX TACKLES BRER TARRYPIN. From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

BRER RABBIT MEETS HIS MATCH AGAIN. From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

BRINGING THE CHILDREN. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE BROOM BRIGADE. From Life on the Mississippi.

BURIAL OF DE SOTO. From Life on the Mississippi.

"BURST INTO A FURY." From Life on the Mississippi.

CAFÉ DES EXILÉS. [Frontispiece Image] From Old Creole Days.

CANADIAN INDIANS. From Life on the Mississippi.

CANAL STREET. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE CAPTAIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE CAVE DWELLERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

CAVING BANKS. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE CEMETERY. From Life on the Mississippi.

[A Chair and Flowers] From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.

CHAMELEONS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"CHANGING WATCH." From Life on the Mississippi.

"CHARLES WILLIAM ALLBRIGHT, SIR." From Life on the Mississippi.

A CHEAP AND PITIFUL RUIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

"A CHILL FELL THERE." From Life on the Mississippi.

CHIMNEY ROCK. From Life on the Mississippi.

CHIVALRY. From Life on the Mississippi.

"CLASSIFYING THEIR OFFSPRING." From Life on the Mississippi.

CLAUDIA AND EULALIA. From The Planter's Northern Bride.

CLEANSING THEMSELVES. From Life on the Mississippi.

A CLOSE INSPECTION. From Life on the Mississippi.

COCK PIT. From Life on the Mississippi.

COLLISION. From Life on the Mississippi.

A Colonial Stove. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.

COLUMBIA FEMALE INSTITUTE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Come, come and seek us here, In these cool deeps." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"Come, sweetheart, hear me!" From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"COME! TURN OUT!" From Life on the Mississippi.

CONCEALED IN THE BRAKE. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE CONSECRATED KNIFE. From Life on the Mississippi.

CONSECRATING THE ROBBERY. From Life on the Mississippi.

CORN-SHUCKING SONG. From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

"COULDN'T I SLEEP IN DE KITCHEN?" From Dialect Tales.

COUNTING THE VOTE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Countless corsucations glimmer, Glow and darken, wane and shimmer, . . . By mysterious currents stirred Of great winds." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

THE CRISIS. From Life on the Mississippi.

CROSSING THE LAKES. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE CURE OF POETRY From The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.

A DAIRY FARM. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Dancing! I love it, night or day: There's nought on earth so jolly." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

DANGEROUS DITCHING. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

DARNELL vs. WATSON From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

THE DAYS OF LONG AGO. From Life on the Mississippi.

"DE PARSTER OF DE FUST METHODIS' CHURCH, LIMITED.&rdquo [Page 32. [Frontispiece Image] From Dialect Tales.

DE SOTO SEES IT. From Life on the Mississippi.

"DE WELL!" SHRIEKED MOTHER POP. From Dialect Tales.

DEAD PAST RESURRECTION. From Life on the Mississippi.

DELUGED AND CAREENED. From Life on the Mississippi.

"DIS AIN'T NUTHIN' SHORT OF MURDER, IT AIN'T." From Dialect Tales.

"A DISMAL WITNESS." From Life on the Mississippi.

DISPOSING OF TIDDLEEKINS. From Dialect Tales.

"DO YOU DRINK THIS SLUSH?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"DO YOU SEE THAT STUMP?" From Life on the Mississippi.

THE DOOR WAS A-CRACK. From Life on the Mississippi.

DR. JEX. From Dialect Tales.

"DRIFTING LOGS." From Life on the Mississippi.

DROWSY ENGINEERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

DRUMMERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

EALER SAVES HIS FLUTE. From Life on the Mississippi.

EARLY NAVIGATION. From Life on the Mississippi.

AN EARLY POSTMASTER. From Life on the Mississippi.

"ED GOT UP MAD." From Life on the Mississippi.

ELABORATE STYLE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"AN EMANCIPATED SLAVE." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

EMPTYING THE WOOD-FLAT. From Life on the Mississippi.

EULALIA AND THE NIGHTMARE. From The Planter's Northern Bride.

"Every deepest copse in moonshine bright, Glimmered from hoary trunk to frost-tipped bud. . . . Scores of gray-skinned brutes--a direful pack Of wolves half-starved that yelled along their track." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

The Exclusive Property of the Mistress. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.

AN EXPLANATION. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE EXPLOSION. A STARTLED BARBER. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

THE FIRST ARRIVAL. From Life on the Mississippi.

"FIVE HUNDRED BETTER." From Life on the Mississippi.

FLOOD ON THE RIVER. From Life on the Mississippi.

"The flowers that wreathe my humble hearth With roseate blush and bloom." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"For five full seconds, it would seem As if you really thought, coquette, On something grave." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"FOR LAGNIAPPE." From Life on the Mississippi.

A FORMER RESIDENT. From Life on the Mississippi.

FORT SUMTER UNDER BOMBARDMENT. From an Old Print. From A Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and Afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army.

[Frontispiece Image] SIMON SUGGS. From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

THE "BATON ROUGE." [Frontispiece Image] From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"GAMBLING DOWN BELOW." From Life on the Mississippi.

"GET A MEMORANDUM BOOK." From Life on the Mississippi.

"Gladly I hail these solitudes, and breathe The inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"'GOOD-DAY,' HE SAID, TAKING OFF HIS HAT." From Dialect Tales.

A GOVERNMENT LAMP. From Life on the Mississippi.

"GRABBED THE LITTLE CHILD." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE GRACEFUL PALMETTO. From Life on the Mississippi.

GRAND TOWER. From Life on the Mississippi.

GRANDPA APPLE. From Dialect Tales.

GUESTS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, Over ledge and stone." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"HAULED ABOARD." From Life on the Mississippi.

"Have I not followed, followed where she led, Tracking wild rivers to their fountain head." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

HE CHUCKLED. From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE CLUNG TO A COTTON BALE." From Life on the Mississippi.

HE DROPPED ON HIS KNEES. From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE EASILY BORROWED SIX DOLLARS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE IS HAPPY WHERE HE IS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE JUMPED UP IN THE AIR." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HE KNOCKED THEM SPRAWLING." From Life on the Mississippi.

HE PULLED SOME "LEATHER." From Life on the Mississippi.

"He turned to wave 'farewell' with mailçd hand, And then rode blithely down the sunlight land." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"HENRY AND I SAT CHATTING." From Life on the Mississippi.

HENRY CLAY DEAN. From Life on the Mississippi.

"HERE, YOU TAKE HER." From Life on the Mississippi.

HIERONYMUS'S CHARGE. From Dialect Tales.

HIERONYMUS RETURNS. From Dialect Tales.

HIERONYMUS SINGS A SOOTHING DITTY. From Dialect Tales.

A HIGH WATER SKETCH. From Life on the Mississippi.

HIS MAIDEN BATTLE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"HIS TEARS DRIPPED UPON THE LANTERN." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HOLD ME!" CRIED THE DOCTOR. From Dialect Tales.

"HOLD UP YOUR FOOT." From Life on the Mississippi.

HOME OF PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE "Copse Hill," Ga. From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"HONEY, YER AIN'T HARF AS SMART AS YER THINKS YER IS!" From Dialect Tales.

"THE HOUSE BEGAN TO BREAK INTO APPLAUSE." From Life on the Mississippi.

"HURLED ME ACROSS THE HOUSE." From Life on the Mississippi.

HYDRANGEA QUERCIFOLIA. From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

I AM ANXIOUS ABOUT THE TIME. From Life on the Mississippi.

"I HIT BROWN A GOOD HONEST BLOW." From Life on the Mississippi.

"I remember it well; 'twas a morn cold and gray, . . . A thin drizzle of rain piercing chill to the soul." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"I rolled up my shirt sleeves--which it was a tolluble warm day, and my koat was off--and ses I, you see that hoss yonder." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

I SAT DOWN BY HIM. From Life on the Mississippi.

I SHOT HIM THROUGH THE HEAD. From Life on the Mississippi.

I TAMPER WITH MY CONSCIENCE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"IF YOU LOVE ME, BACK HER." From Life on the Mississippi.

"ILLINOIS GROUND." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Illustration] From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Illustration] From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Illustration] From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Illustration] From A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Dialect Tales.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

IMMORTELLES. From Life on the Mississippi.

IN SUSPENSE. From Dialect Tales.

IN THE MORGUE. From Life on the Mississippi.

AN INDEPENDENT RACE. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"INSENSIBLY THEY DREW TOGETHER." From Life on the Mississippi.

AN INTERIOR. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE INTERVIEW. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

ISLAND NUMBER TEN. From Life on the Mississippi.

"IT WUZ ANNIKY'S TEEF." From Dialect Tales.

IXEA CÆLESTINA. From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

IXEA CÆLESTINA. From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

"JACK APPLE STEPPED IN, AN OPEN CLASP- KNIFE IN ONE HAND." From Dialect Tales.

A JUSTIFIABLE ADVANCE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Katie, pretty Katie, kiss me." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"I KILLED BROWN EVERY NIGHT." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"King of a realm of firs, and icy floes, Cold bright fiords, and mountains capped with clouds." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"The kingdom's princeliest youth besiege her ear." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"KIT KUNCKER," "FIDLER BILL," AND THE DOG "ANDY." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

LA SALLE CANOEING. From Life on the Mississippi.

LA SALLE ON THE ICE. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

THE LAND OF FULL "GOATEES." From Life on the Mississippi.

A LANDING. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Leagues of golden fields and streams, Fair hills and shadowy vineyards, by great teams Of laboring oxen rifled morn by morn." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"LEARNING THE RIVER." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE LECTURER. From Life on the Mississippi.

"LET A LEADSMAN CRY, 'HALF TWAIN.' " From Life on the Mississippi.

A LIGHT KEEPER. From Life on the Mississippi.

"THE LIGHTNING KILLED TWO MEN." From Life on the Mississippi.

"LOADING AND FIRING." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"LOOK HERE, HAVE YOU GOT THAT DRINK YET?" From Life on the Mississippi.

A LUMBER RAFT. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE MAIDEN'S ROCK. From Life on the Mississippi.

MAJESTIC BLUFFS. From Life on the Mississippi.

A MAN CAME IN SIGHT. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE MAN WITH A TRADE MARK. From Life on the Mississippi.

MARDI-GRAS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"MARS' TOM SAY HE DONE GIN OUT DE NOTION." From Dialect Tales.

MIGHTY WARM TIMES. From Life on the Mississippi.

Mike Fink's Great Shot. From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

MINNEAPOLIS AND THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY. From Life on the Mississippi.

"A MINUTE LATER." From Life on the Mississippi.

MISS COW FALLS A VICTIM TO BRER RABBITS DECEIT. From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

MISS MEADOWS EN DE GALS. From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

MISSION WORK. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE MIXTURE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"The Moon, a ghost of her sweet self, . . Creeps up the gray, funereal sky, Wearily! how wearily." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

MORELAND ENTERING NANCY'S COTTAGE. [Second Frontispiece Image] From The Planter's Northern Bride.

MOSQUITOES. From Life on the Mississippi.

MR. AND MRS. MORELAND AND ALBERT. [First Frontispiece Image] From The Planter's Northern Bride.

MR. B. STEPPED INTO VIEW. From Life on the Mississippi.

MR. BRAINARD AND EULALIA. From The Planter's Northern Bride.

MR. HASTINGS AND THE MINISTER. From The Planter's Northern Bride.

"Mr. Suggs," said he, "I'd like to have an interest in your contract, and I m willing to pay for it; I'll find the money to pay the Indian." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"Mrs. Naron flew at the child with an energy that contrasted strongly with her oleaginous appearance; and seizing him by the middle, held him up inverted with one hand." From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"MULE MEAT?" From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

MY BURDEN IS LIFTED. From Life on the Mississippi.

[1st Frontispiece Image] "My cloak flew open as I fell, and the force of the fall bursting its envelope, out, in all the hideous realities, rolled the infernal imp of darkness."—Page 137. From Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." In "The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-West. Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; in a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character. By "Madison Tensas," M.D., and "Solitaire," (John S. Robb, of St. Louis, Mo.) Author of "Swallowing Oysters Alive," etc.".

MY PROMENADE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"My shoe, papa, please hang it Once more on the holly bough." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"MY SOUL AN' BODY IS A-YEARNIN' FUR A HAN'SUM CHANY SET O' TEEF." From Dialect Tales.

"My thoughts are wandering on the verge of dreams, . . . While lower, feebler, flit the fireside gleams." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"MY, WHAT A RACE I 'VE HAD!" From Life on the Mississippi.

NAPOLEON AS IT IS. From Life on the Mississippi.

NAPOLEON IN 1871. From Life on the Mississippi.

NATCHEZ. From Life on the Mississippi.

NATIVE WILD-WOODS. From Life on the Mississippi.

NATIVES AT DINNER. From Life on the Mississippi.

NEGRO DENTISTRY. Page 130. From Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life.

NEGRO TRAVELLERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"NO FOOLIN!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"NO, YOU DON'T, JACK BODDY!" From Dialect Tales.

"NOBODY THERE." From Life on the Mississippi.

" 'NONE O' YO' SHOOTIN',' SAID SINCERITY." From Dialect Tales.

"Now, Mars Walter," replied Thomas, reprovingly. From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

"Now, serene nature, at luxurious ease, . . . all her opulent life Reveals in tremulous brakes and whispering seas." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"O masterful wind and cruel! at thy sweep, From the bold hill-top to the valley deep, Surprise and fear through all the woodlands run." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"O twilight sky of mellow gray, Flushed with faint hues." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"O weary winds! O winds that wail, O'er desert fields and ice-locked rills." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"O'er all the fragrant land this harvest day, What bounteous sheaves are garnered, ear and blade." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"OH, HOW AWFUL." From Life on the Mississippi.

"OH, I KNEW him." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

OLD BURN'S BULL RIDE. "He jist cum in atwixt his hine legs, an' burried head, an' hon's thar onder a full run, a histen socks starn full two foot, clar of the yeath, an' right then his tail come down with a swish." Page 100. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

OLD PLANTATION PLAY-SONG. From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser.

An Old Virginia Sideboard. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.

AN OLD-FASHIONED BREAK-DOWN. From Life on the Mississippi.

ON A SHORELESS SEA. From Life on the Mississippi.

"On the fateful streamlet rolled Through unnumbered, nameless changes, Shade and sunshine, gloom and gold." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

ON THE RIGHT TRACK. From Life on the Mississippi.

"On yesternight Old winter came with locks and beard of white." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

THE ORATOR OF THE SCOW. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Our Nelly clasped his neck and whispered: 'Please, Won't you be good, sir? For I like you so.' " From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"OUR PERMANENT AMBITION." From Life on the Mississippi.

"OVER SHE GOES." From Life on the Mississippi.

OVER THE BREASTBOARD. From Life on the Mississippi.

"THE PHANTOM ASSUMED THE WHEEL." From Life on the Mississippi.

PILOT BROWN From Life on the Mississippi.

PILOT TOWN. From Life on the Mississippi.

A PLAIN GILL. From Life on the Mississippi.

Plate IV From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

"PLEASANTLY SITUATED." From Life on the Mississippi.

"POSTING HIS REPORT." From Life on the Mississippi.

A PRACTICAL JOKE. From Life on the Mississippi.

"PULL HER DOWN!" From Life on the Mississippi.

QUEEN'S BLUFF. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"THE RACKET HAD BROUGHT EVERYBODY TO THE DECK." From Life on the Mississippi.

RELICS. From Life on the Mississippi.

REPAIRING DAMAGES. From Dialect Tales.

"RESURRECTED PILOTS." From Life on the Mississippi.

RESUSCITATING TIDDLEKENS. From Dialect Tales.

"RIVER INSPECTORS." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

THE RIVER WAS UNDISTURBED. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Roly Poly's just awakened, Wakened in his cosy bed." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

RUNNING IN A FOG From Life on the Mississippi.

THE SACRED BIRD. From Life on the Mississippi.

"I SAT UP IN BED QUAKING." From Life on the Mississippi.

"SCARED TO DEATH." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD. p. 98. From The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.

A SCIENTIST. From Life on the Mississippi.

SELLER'S MONUMENT. From Life on the Mississippi.

SELLING THE NEGRO. From Life on the Mississippi.

"SET HER BACK." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"SHE LEANED HER HEAD AGAINST A TREE." From Dialect Tales.

"She tuk off her shoe, and the way a No. 10 go-to-meetin' brogan commenced givin' a hoss particular Moses, were a caution to hoss-flesh."—Page 52. From Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." In "The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-West. Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; in a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character. By "Madison Tensas," M.D., and "Solitaire," (John S. Robb, of St. Louis, Mo.) Author of "Swallowing Oysters Alive," etc.".

THE SHELL ROAD. From Life on the Mississippi.

"A SHINING HERO." From Life on the Mississippi.

A SHORT STOUT BAG. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

SHOWING THE BELLS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"SMELL THEM, TASTE THEM." From Life on the Mississippi.

SMOKE AND GOSSIP. From Life on the Mississippi.

"SNAGS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"SO FULL OF LAUGH." From Life on the Mississippi.

"SO YOU HAVE BEEN FIGHTING." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"Sober September, robed in gray and dun, Smiled from the forest in half-pensive wise." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"SOON THERE WAS A REGULAR STORM." From Life on the Mississippi.

A SOUL-MOVING VILLAIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

SOUND ASLEEP STEAMBOATS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"SOUNDING." From Life on the Mississippi.

SPANISH FORT. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE ST. LOUIS HOTEL. From Life on the Mississippi.

ST. PAUL. From Life on the Mississippi.

STAGE-STRUCK. From Life on the Mississippi.

"STAND BY, NOW!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"Stand!" said he, as the old lady was climbing the fence. From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

STATION LOAFERS. From Life on the Mississippi.

STEAMBOAT TIME. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE STEAMER "MARK TWAIN." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

"I STOOD LIKE ONE BEWITCHED." From Life on the Mississippi.

SUBLIME IN PROFANITY. From Life on the Mississippi.

"A SUMPTUOUS TEMPLE." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

SUT LOVINGOOD'S DOG. "Jist as he got clost tu the carryall, the powder cotch fire, an' soon arterwards went off, an' so did he, head fust."Page158. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

SUT LOVINGOOD'S DADDY ACTING HORSE. "He seem'd tu run jis adzactly es fas' es a ho'net cud fly, hit wer the titest race I ever seed, fur wun hoss to git all the whipin." Page 25. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

SUT'S NEW-FANGLED SHIRT. "I hearn a n'ise tarin' a shingle ruff ofen a hous' at wun rake, an' felt like my bones wer all what lef the shut, an' reached the floor."Page34. From Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.

[2nd Frontispiece Image] THE SWAMP DOCTOR'S ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH-WEST. "The way that bar's flesh giv in to the soft impresshuns of that leg, war an honor to the mederkal perfeshun for having invented sich weepun."—Page 175. From Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." In "The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in the South-West. Containing the Whole of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; in a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character. By "Madison Tensas," M.D., and "Solitaire," (John S. Robb, of St. Louis, Mo.) Author of "Swallowing Oysters Alive," etc.".

"I SWUM ALONG THE RAFT." From Life on the Mississippi.

"TAKE THAT ICE PITCHER." From Life on the Mississippi.

TALKING OVER THE SITUATION. From Life on the Mississippi.

"A TANGLED KNOT." From Life on the Mississippi.

"TELL ME WHERE IT IS--I 'LL FETCH IT!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"That man must die before they fly, or yield to us the field." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"THAT 'S A REEF." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE BARKEEPER. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE BRAN DANCE. From Dialect Tales.

"THE CAPTAIN STORMED." From Life on the Mississippi.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

THE COMMISSION DEALER. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE DEATH OF CLOTEL. Page 218. [Frontispiece Image] From Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE FIRE DROVE THE AXEMEN AWAY. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE HOSPITAL WARD. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE ISRAELITE. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE MAN'S EYES OPENED SLOWLY. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE MYSTERIOUS BARREL. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE PARTING CHORUS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"THE PEDDLER COULD HARDLY KEEP BACK A SHOUT." From Dialect Tales.

"THE SIGN OF MEMBERSHIP." From Life on the Mississippi.

THE SPECTRE STEAMER. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE TEMPLE WALL. From Life on the Mississippi.

THE TRAGEDY. From Life on the Mississippi.

The Wild Turkey Hunter. (Frontispiece). From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

THE WOOD-YARD MAN. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Then holding it in the flame of the lamp," &c. From The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story.

"There cometh a dream of the past to me, On the desert sands by the autumn sea." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"They arose with the sun, and caught life from his light." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

THEY KEPT ON SHOOTING. From Life on the Mississippi.

THEY RUMMAGED THE CABIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

"This is my world! within these narrow walls, I own a princely service." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

THORNBURGH'S CUB. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Those bristling rocks, O'er which the chafed sea, in quick thunder-shocks, Leaps passionate, panting through the showery spray." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"Three hundred noble vessels Rose on the rising flood, Wherein with sullen apathy Embarked those men of blood." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"THREW THE PREACHER OVERBOARD." From Life on the Mississippi.

THUMB-PRINTS. From Life on the Mississippi.

[Title Page Image] From The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation, at Virginia, in America. In Six Parts. Being a Remarkable and Succinct History of the Life of James Revel, the Unhappy Sufferer Who Was Put Apprentice by His Father to a Tinman, Near Moorfields, Where He Got into Bad Company and Before Long Ran Away, and Went Robbing with a Gang of Thieves, But His Master Soon Got Him Back Again; Yet Would Not Be Be [sic] Kept from His Old Companions, But Went Thieving with Them Again, for Which He Was Transported Fourteen Years. With an Account of the Way the Transports Work, and the Punishment They Receive for Committing Any Fault. Concluding with a Word of Advice for All Young Men.

"Now," continued the old she savage, "them's the severest dogs in this country." Page 151. [1st Title Page Image] From Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor with a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley.

"To pass once more o'er Hampshire's mountain heights, . . . The fruitful farms, the enchanted vales, to view, And the coy mountain lakes' transcendent blue." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

TOM OWEN. From The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

THE TOW. From Life on the Mississippi.

"THE TOWN DRUNKARD ASLEEP ONCE MORE." From Life on the Mississippi.

"TRACT DISTRIBUTING." From Life on the Mississippi.

"TREATED WITH MARKED DEFERENCE." From Life on the Mississippi.

TURNING THE JACK. p. 129. From The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.

A Typical "Mammy." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.

A Typical Negro Cabin. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.

UNCLE MUMFORD. From Life on the Mississippi.

UNCLE REMUS. From Life on the Mississippi.

UNDER AN ALIAS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Uplift and bear me where the wildflowers grow, By many a golden dell-side, sweet and low." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"Upveiled in yonder dim ethereal sea, Its airy towers the work of phantom spells, A viewless belfry tolls its wizard bells." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"VERY BRIEF AUTHORITY." From Life on the Mississippi.

VICKSBURG. From Life on the Mississippi.

VIEW ON THE RIVER. From Life on the Mississippi.

"View us, white-robed lilies, We whose beauty's rareness Sleeps until the bridegroom sun Woos our virgin fairness." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Vignette] From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Vignette] From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Vignette] From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates.

"Voices low and sweet From the far-off stream." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

WAIT AND MAKE CERTAIN. From Life on the Mississippi.

WAITING FOR A TRIP. From Life on the Mississippi.

"War-wasted lands . . . Touched by the charm of some regenerate fate-- Flush into golden harvest prodigal." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

WARMED UP INTO A QUARREL. From Life on the Mississippi.

"WATER-STREET CLERKS." From Life on the Mississippi.

"WAW TALK." From Life on the Mississippi.

"WE ALL FLEW HOME." From Life on the Mississippi.

WE BEGAN TO COOL OFF. From Life on the Mississippi.

"We reached an isle Whereon the waters settled languidly." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"We turn, my love and I, From that strange grave together." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"WEARING A TOOTHPICK." From Life on the Mississippi.

"WENT AROUND IN A CIRCLE." From Life on the Mississippi.

"WENT TO WHISTLING." From Life on the Mississippi.

WEST END. From Life on the Mississippi.

"WHAH YOU WAS?" From Life on the Mississippi.

THE WHARVES. From Life on the Mississippi.

"WHAT'S DAT?" From Dialect Tales.

"WHERE DID YOU SEE THAT FIGHT?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"WHERE IS MR. BIXBY?" From Life on the Mississippi.

"While grimly down the moonlit bay, The wrecked hull gleamed from afar." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"While sauntering through the crowded street, Some half-remembered face I meet." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"WHO ARE YOU?" From Life on the Mississippi.

WILLIAMS PLIES HIS TRADE. From Life on the Mississippi.

WILLIAMS. From Life on the Mississippi.

"Winds! are they winds?--or myriad ghosts, that shriek? . . . Hark! how they thunder down the far-off leas." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

[Illustration] From Life on the Mississippi.

A WORLD OF MISINFORMATION. From Life on the Mississippi.

"The woven lights and shadows, rife with calm, Creep slantwise 'twixt the foliage, bough on bough." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

"YELLOW-FACED MISERABLES." From Life on the Mississippi.

"YOU TAKE MY BOAT!" From Life on the Mississippi.

"YOU 'RE A SMART ONE." From Life on the Mississippi.