ART. I. LETTERS TO ELLA. NUMBER EIGHT, II. HUMAN LIFE: A SIMILE, III. LINES INSPIRED BY THE FELINE MUSE, IV. THE WICKED YOUNG DOCTOR, AND HIS DIREFUL END, V. LINES: WHISPERINGS. BY IRENE,. VI. THE ENCAMPING ANGEL, 551 559 . 560 561 . 578 574 VII. PUSILLANIMA SIMPLE. BY KIT KELVIN, BY 'ASIA,' . 580 584 IX. STANZAS: PROCRASTINATION. X. ELEANOR MANTON: OR LIFE-PICTURES. BY MINNIE MYRTLE, XII. LINES: THAT TONE.' BY HELEN M. LADD, .585 586 .596 597 XIII. REMINISCENCES OF THE SOUTHERN TIER. NUMBER TWO, 598 601 602 603 607 609 612 615 618 XVI. THE VALE OF ECHOES, XVII. THE DRUMMER'S BRIDE, XVIII. SCHEDIASMS. BY PAUL SIOGVOLK, . XIX. LINES: THE CHANGE IN A HOUSEHOLD,' XX. THE OBSERVATIONS OF MACE SLOPER, ESQ., XXI. A TALK WITH MYSELF. BY JENNY MARSH, LITERARY NOTICES: 1. LIFE OF SCHAMYL, THE CIRCASSIAN CHIEF, 2. THE SPARROWGRASS PAPERS, OR LIFE IN THE COUNTRY. 3. MOTLEY'S RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC,' 4. THE NEW PASTORAL BY T. B. READ, 5. THE LOST HUNTER: A TALE OF EARLY TIMES, EDITOR'S TABLE: 1. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS, 1. THE CITY OF THE PRAIRIES: ITS DRAW-BRIDGES, AND THEIR VARIORUM' USES: PUBLICATIONS, ART-NOTICES, ETC. 619 621 621 624 630 682 THE KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE, EDITED BY LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK. THE number for January, 1856, begins the FORTY-SEVENTH VOLUME of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE. Since the price of subscription has been reduced from FIVE to THREE DOLLARS a year, the circulation of the KNICKERBOCKER has been increased nearly four to one. In many places ten are sold where there was but one before, and through the year it has been steadily increasing. It is now offered as cheap as any of the Magazines, all things considered. Instead of making new and prodigious promises, we submit a few extracts from notices of late numbers, which we might extend to a number of pages. 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