Front matter

THE WILLING CAPTIVE. Engraved by W. E. Tucker

GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE.

Vol. XLI.. July, 1852. No. 1.

Table of Contents

I’d Offer Thee This Heart

Summer

New York Printing Machine, Press, and Saw Works

Osceola’s Address to His Warriors

The Miseries of Music

Not Dead

The Game of the Month

Sonnet

The Pedant

To Adhemar

My First Sunday in Mexico

Endymion

The Vintage

Light of Nature

The Mother’s Prophecy

“Settling to a Jemima.”

Snow Flakes

A Life of Vicissitudes

My Forefathers

Cleopatra

Reminiscence

To the Picture of My Child

Paqueta

Recollections

The Boy Afar Unto His Sister

Blind Rosa

I Dream of All Things Beautiful

Anecdotes of Ostriches

Impressions of England

The Exile

Review of New Books

Literary Gossip

Graham’s Small-Talk

Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook.

GRAHAM’S

AMERICAN MONTHLY

MAGAZINE

Of Literature and Art.

EMBELLISHED WITH

MEZZOTINT AND STEEL ENGRAVINGS, MUSIC, ETC.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT, RICHARD H. DANA, JAMES K. PAULDING,

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, N. P. WILLIS, J. R. LOWELL, HENRY W. HERBERT,

GEO. D. PRENTICE.

MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY, MISS C. M. SEDGWICK, MRS. EMMA C. EMBURY,

MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS, MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY, MRS. A. M. F. ANNAN, ETC.

PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS.

GEORGE R. GRAHAM, EDITOR.

VOLUME XLI.

PHILADELPHIA:

GEORGE R. GRAHAM, 134 CHESTNUT STREET.

1852.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FORTY-FIRST VOLUME.

JUNE, 1852, TO JANUARY, 1853.

A Life of Vicissitudes. By G. P. R. James,49

Anecdotes of Ostriches,89

Astronomy. By T. Milner, M.A.122

Antony and Cleopatra. By H. W. Herbert,133

Annie Morton. By Amy Harned,183

Among the Moors. By C. Dickens,212

Aztec Children. By Australis,223

A Night in the Dissecting-Room.

By Mrs. Louise Piatt,245

A Visit. By Fredrika Bremer,309

Among the Moors,492

A Day with a Lion,534

A History of the Art of Wood-Engraving.

By An Amateur Artist,564

Blind Rosa. Translated by Mary Howitt,79

Brevia. By James W. Wall,330

Blind Sight-Seeing. From Household Words,653

Chaucer and His Times. By T. B. Shaw,291

Canadian Life. By Mrs. Moody,430

Clara Gregory,477

Distribution of the Human Race.

By Thomas Milner, M.A.233

Fancies from a Garret. By G. Canning Hill,370

Father Bromley’s Tale. By W. A. Sutliffe,641

Graham’s Small-Talk,111, 224

Ganga. By D. Williams,271

Glimpses of Western Travel,378

Grace Bartlett. By Mary J. Windle,613

Hoe’s Machine Works,7

Hush! Hush! By Donald Macleod,180

Impressions of England. By Miss Bremer,98, 200

Influence of Place on Race. By Bon Gaultier,360

James Logan of Pennsylvania,496

Literary Gossip,109

London Coffee-Houses. By C. Dickens,495

My First Sunday in Mexico. By W. H. Davis,25

Miss Harper’s Maid,140

My First Inkling of a Royal Tiger.

By An Old Indian Officer,215

Mabel Dacre. By Helen,406

Machinery, for Machine Making.

By H. W. Herbert,469

Monde Hedelquiver.

By the Author of “Susy L——’s Diary,”595

Nelly Nowlan on Bloomers. By S. C. Hall,206

Nine O’Clock,435

Nelly Nowlan’s Experience. By S. C. Hall,540

Nineveh, and Assyrian Art,586

Paqueta. By H. Didimus,72

Reminiscence,70

Review of New Books,106, 220, 333, 443, 547, 663

Rivers. By Thomas Milner, M.A.454, 574

Settling to a Jemima. By Alice B. Neal,44

Sporting Adventures in India,380

Something New About Byron. By Aeldric,384

Shawls,488

The Miseries of Music. By Caleb Crotchet,13

The Game of the Month. By H. W. Herbert,16, 399, 464

The Pedant. By Henry Holm,21, 161, 284

The Vintage. By A. B. Reach,29

The Useful Arts. By Charles Williams,145

The Harvest of Gold,168

The Shark and His Habits,174

The Ranger’s Chase. By J. L. M‘Connel,187

The Giant’s Causeway,229

The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philada.231

The Opium Eater’s Dream,253

The Tutor’s Daughter. By Mrs. M. A. Ford,266

The Three Sisters,300

The Lucky Penny. By Mrs. S. C. Hall,312, 418, 531, 657

The Countess of Montfort. By H. W. Herbert,316

The Mysteries of a Flower. By Prof. R. Hunt,322

Too Much Blue. By Charles Dickens,325

The Trial by Battle,327, 425, 527

The Atmosphere and Its Currents.

By Thos. Milner, M.A.343

The Minister’s Wife. By Ella Rodman,374

The Autobiography of a Boarding-House.

By Cornelia Carolla,390

The Mother’s Prophecy.

By Mrs. Julia C. B. Dorr,35

The Topmost City of the Earth,659

Useful Arts Among the Greeks and Romans.

By Charles Williams,497

Ups and Downs. By Thos. R. Newbold,628

Wellington. By William Dowe,607

Widows. By Thompson Westcott,118

Wreck and Ruin,403

POETRY.

Adieu. By E. A. L.186

Ambition. By Rufus Waples,270

Age. By Wm. Alexander,290

A French Idea. By Bon Gaultier,112

A Poet’s Thought. By Wm. A. Sutliffe,315

A Midnight Fantasy. By Wm. A. Sutliffe,379

Ariadne. By Mrs. E. J. Eames,398

Ambition’s Burial-Ground.

By Francis De Haes Janvier,546

Annie. By D. W. Bartlett,645

Better Days. By Lydia L. A. Very,662

Cleopatra. By H. W. Herbert,69

Cydnus. By Wm. Alexander,205

Endymion. By T. Buchanan Read,28

Excerpts. By Erastus W. Ellsworth,243

Fanny Leigh. By Mrs. Toogood,342

Fragment. By Wm. Albert Sutliffe,377

Forgotten By C. E. T.476

Fragment of a Poem. By Wm. A. Sutliffe,594

Gather Ripe Fruit, O Death!311

Hymn to the Sun. By Henry W. Herbert,132

Hesperius. By Wm. Albert Sutliffe,159

Hymn. By Rev. Dryden S. Phelps,230

Hours in August. By Mrs. J. H. Thomas,645

I Dream of All Things Beautiful.

By Miss M. E. Alilson,88

I know where the Fairies are. By M. Delamaie,429

Joy Murmurs in the Ocean. By C. H. Stewart,308

Light of Nature. By Wm. Alexander,34

Life’s Battle March. By Mrs. J. H. Thomas,167

Lines. By Mrs. E. L. Cushing,173

Lay of the Crusader. By W. H. C. Hosmer,308

Le Petit Savoyard. By William Dowe,405

My Forefathers. By J. Hunt, Jr.68

Midsummer Days,117

Memory’s Consolation. By W. W. Harney,283

Meditations on the Last Judgment.

By Erastus W. Ellsworth,424

Mutability. By Wm. Alexander,545

Not Dead. By L. L. M.15

November. By Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr,545

Oceola’s Address to His Warriors.

By Wm. H. C. Hosmer,12

Oh, Would I Were a Child! By M. Delamaie,244

Peace. By Wm. Alexander,383

Pale Concluding Winter. By A. B. Street,563

Recollections. By Miss Mattie Griffiths,77

Remembered Ones. By J. Hunt, Jr.463

Summer,5

Sonnet. By Wm. H. C. Hosmer,20

Snow Flakes. By Mrs. L. G. Abell,48

Seminole War-Song. By W. H. C. Hosmer,172

Stability. By J. Hunt, Jr.172

Sonnet.—Virtue. By Wm. Alexander,173

Song. By O. J. Victor,270

Song. By Wm. H. C. Hosmer,369

Sonnets. By E. Anna Lewis,510

Sonnet.—Iron. By Wm. Alexander,585

Sonnet.—Homer. By Wm. Alexander,612

Sonnet. By Caroline F. Orne,627

To Adhemar. By E. Anna Lewis,24

To the Picture of My Child. By Meta Lander,71

The Boy Afar Unto His Sister. By Lil. May,78

The Exile. By Caroline F. Orne,105

The Two Birds. By Geo. H. Boker,139

To a Whip-Poor-Will Singing in a Grave-yard.

By E. Anna Lewis,158

The Fountain of Youth. By A. G. H.179

The Old Man’s Evening Thoughts. By F. G.214

The Dead at Thermopylæ. By H. W. Herbert,252

The World Conqueror. By Mrs. E. J. Eames,311

To Mary. By Matthias Ward,315

To —— ——. By Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr,326

To the Redbreast,341

The Comet. By Wm. Alexander,369

The Last Hour of Sappho. By E. A. Lewis,433

The Cottage Door,453

The Song-Stream. By Ellen More,468

To My Cigar. By Charles Albert Janvier,526

Virginia Dare. By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney,442

Whatever He Doeth Shall Prosper.

By Mrs. Mary Arthur,144

We Laid Her Down to Rest. By C. C. Butler,283

Wild Roses by the River Grow. By Car. F. Orne,468

Were I but with Thee. By C. F. Orne,585

Yesterday—To-day—To-morrow! By C. D. Gardette, M.D.211

Zulma. By Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr,389

REVIEWS.

Lilian, and Other Poems. By W. M. Praed,106

The Howadji in Syria. By G. W. Curtis,106

Papers from the Quarterly Review,220

Ingoldsby Legends. By Rev. R. H. Barhaw,221

The Blithedale Romance. By N. Hawthorne,333

The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in

France. By Alphonse de Lamartine,334

Up the Rhine. By Thomas Hood,335

A Step from the New World to the Old and Back

Again. By Henry P. Tappan,335

The Poetical Works of Fitz Greene Halleck,443

Mysteries. By Charles Wyllys Elliott,444

The Works of Shakspeare. By H. N. Hudson,444

The Book of Snobs. By Wm. M. Thackeray,445

The Upper Ten Thousand. By C. A. Bristed,547

The Heirs of Randolph Abbey,549

Anglo-American Literature and Manners.

By Philarète Chasles,552

Precaution. By J. Fenimore Cooper,553

The Master Builder. By D. Kellog Lee,553

Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life.

By Joseph T. Buckingham,554

Reuben Medlicott. By M. W. Savage,663

The Eclipse of Faith,663

MUSIC.

I’d Offer Thee This Heart.

Composed by Valentine Dister,2

Departed Joys. From the Melodies

of Sir H. R. Bishop,114

Our Way Across the Sea,226

Derwentwater,338

The Dreams of Youth. Words by C. Mackay.

Accompaniment by Sir H. R. Bishop,450

STORM ON THE SEABOARD.

I’D OFFER THEE THIS HEART.