( The entire contents of this Magazine are covered by the general copyright, and articles must no! be reprinted nithont special permission. ) CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1896. 643 Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frontispiece. Beecher. Elizabeth Robins Pennell William Dean Howells.. George E Woodberry.. 659 671 672 Prisoners of Conscience. A Story of Shetland in Two Parts. Part I. Amelia E Barr. With pictures by Louis Loeb. Abner Lynn Roby Meeldins 691 The Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Richard Burton 698 With pictures, portraits and autographs by courtesy of Mrs. Stowe's family and Houghton, Miffin & Co. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 705 Martha Gubert Dickinson .... 715 Thomas Da:gleish .. 716 The Gold-Fields of Guiana. With pictures from photographs. Sir George Tressady. XI Mrs. Humphry Ward. 722 Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Exile and his Return: The Struggles of Exhaustion - The Fal of Paris - Napoleon's First Ab. Guérin, Lefevre, David, Isabey, Malcolm Fraser, H. A, Ogden. Map by J. Hart. 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