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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

Abbott, Josiah Gardner John Hatch George
An Incident of 1686 Mellen Chamberlain
Ansart, Louis Clara Clayton
Arthur, Chester Alan Ben: Perley Poore.
Beacon Hill Before the Houses David M. Balfour
Boston Tea-Party
Boston, The First Schoolmaster of Elizabeth Porter Gould
Boston, The Siege of, Developed H.B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D.
Boston Y.M.C. Association Russell Sturgis, Jr.
Boundary Lines of Old Groton Samuel Abbott Green, M.D.
British Forces in the Revolution
British Losses in the Revolution
Bunker Hill H.B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin
Chelsea William E. McClintock, C.E.
Defence of New York, 1776 H.B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D.
Dungeon Rock, Lynn Frank P. Harriman
Early Harvard Rev. Josiah Lafayette Seward
Esoteric Buddhism.--A Review Lucius H. Buckingham, Ph.D.
Reprint of Webster's Oration, 1800
Family Immigration to New England Thomas W. Bicknell, LL.D.
First Baptist Church in Massachusetts Thomas W. Bicknell, LL.D.
From the White Horse to Little Rhody Charles M. Barrows
Fuller, George Sidney Dickinson
Gifts to Colleges and Universities Rev. Charles F. Thwing
Groton, The Boundary Lines of Old Samuel Abbott Green, M.D.
Groton, Old Stores and Post-Office of Samuel Abbott Green, M.D.
Groton, Taverns and Stage-Coaches of Samuel Abbott Green, M.D.
Historical Notes
Washington Elm; Eliot Oak L.L. Dame
Lancaster in Acadie Hon. Henry S. Nourse
Lovewell's War John N. McClintock, A.M.
Lowell
Loyalists of Lancaster Hon. Henry S. Nourse
Massachusetts, Y.M.C. Associations Russell Sturgis, Jr.
New England Town-House Prof. J.B. Sewall
Ohio Floods George E. Jenks
One Summer.--A Reminiscence Annie Wentworth Baer
Perkins, Captain George Hamilton George E. Belknap, U.S.N.
Poet of the Bells E.H. Goss
Railway Mail Service Thomas P. Cheney
Reuben Tracy's Vacation Trips Elizabeth Porter Gould
Rice, Alexander Hamilton Daniel B. Hager, Ph.D.
Town and City Histories Robert Luce
Webster, Colonel Fletcher Charles Cowley, LL.D.
Wilder, Marshall P. John Ward Dean, A.M.

POETRY.

Bells of Bethlehem James T. Fields
His Greatest Triumph Henrietta E. Page
Rent Veil Henry B. Carrington
Song of The Winds Henry B. Carrington
Tuberoses Laura Garland Carr
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AMERICAN EXPLORERS. The United States has played a late but an honorable
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