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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

NUMBER 1.

Steel plate portrait of James G. Elaine
James Gillespie Elaine.  Sketch of the life of
Boundary Lines of Old Groton.  III.  By the Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, M.D. 
The Boston Herald
Wachusett Mountain and Princeton.  By Atherton P. Mason, M.D. 
Washington and the Flag.  By Gen. Henry B. Carrington, LL.D
A Summer on the Great Lakes.  By Fred Myron Colby
Our National Cemeteries.  By Charles Cowley, LL.D.

NUMBER 2.

Steel plate portrait of President Elect Cleveland
Grover Cleveland.  Sketch of the life of.  By Henry H. Metcalf
Boundary Lines of Old Groton.  IV.  By the Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, M.D. 
Sails
Elizabeth:  a Romance of Colonial Days.  I, II.  By Frances C. Sparhawk
The Protection of Children.  By Ernest Nusse
The Middlesex Canal.  By Lorin L. Dame, A.M. 
The Taverns of Boston in Ye Olden Times.  By David M. Balfour
Editor’s Table

NUMBER 3.

Steel plate portrait of Daniel Lothrop
Daniel Lothrop.  Sketch of the life of
The New England Conservatory of Music.  By Mrs. M.J.  Davis
Historical Sketch of the Town of Saugus.  By E.P.  Robinson
The Bartholdi Colossus.  By William Howe Downes
Elizabeth:  a Romance of Colonial Days.  III, IV, V. By Frances C. Sparhawk
Glorifying Trial by Jury.  By Charles Cowley, LL.D
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