The recent rise of the flood of unbelief, 706; How few are really infidels, 707; Evi- dences of the Divinity, 708; The different kinds of atheists, 709; The form that is most generally defended, 711; The present great interest in the subject of religion, 712; Individual and universal experience, 713; Other striking features of religion besides its universality, 715; The one bright star of the ancient world, 716; The people in whom was preserved the Messianic tradition, 717; What the universal belief in the Messiah proves, 718; The life of Jesus Christ on earth, 719; Man in- IMPRESSIONS OF LIFE IN VIENNA. By Frederick St. George Mivart, Evident good effect of religion on society in Vienna, 721 ; Restrictions on travel, 722: Peculiarities of hotel life, 723: The cheapest way to live, 724; How the use of coffee was begun in Vienna, 725; Notes about fish and wine, 726; The best wines to be had, 727; When every body takes coffee, 728; A hotel regulation pecu- liar to Vienna, 729; Street travel, 730; Wonderful charm of the streets, 731; Architec- tural contrasts, 782; A pretty garden and the beautiful blue Danube, 733; The grand and magnificent "Prater," 734; Vienna preeminently the city of pleasure, 735. ALESSANDRO MANZONI. By K. R. L., The parents of our poet, 736; The mother's influence upon her son's character, 737; A very curious will, 738; Standing and surroundings of the Beccaria family, 739; The Manzoni family, 740; A delightful home and rendezvous, 741; How death came upon Manzoni, 742; Manzoni among the shifting scenes of the world of letters, 743 Some of Manzoni's literary friends, 744; An element that was lack- ing, 745; More of his habitués, 746; Cantu's relations with Manzoni, 747; In his friendships even Garibaldi was included. 748; A three-fold classification of friends, 749; His relations with Balzac, 750; Manzoni's indebtedness to Scott, 751: His De Spiritu Societatis Jesu (Rossetti)......... 382 185 576 574 Ownership and Natural Right (Holaind) 189 576, 768 Elements of Ecclesiastical Law (Smith)... 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