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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II

Volume 2 — CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

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Actors and their Salaries403

A Death-Bed. By James Aldrich84

A Dream and the Interpretation Thereof816

Address to Gray Hair699

An Agreeable Surprise84

A little Stimulant361

Anecdote of a Dog97

Anecdote of a Hawk490

Anecdotes of Napoleon231

Anecdotes of Serpents663

Anecdotes of Wordsworth319

An Empty House103

An Excellent Match315

Apology for Burns334

Bachelor's Christmas399

Beauties of the Law543

Births:—Mrs. Meek of a Son672

Birth of Crime614

Bona Lombardi Brunoro155

Carol for the New Year396

Chapter on Bears546

Chapter on Dreams768

Chapter on Shawls39

Chapter on Wolves787

Charles Wolfe734

Cheerful Views of Human Nature242

Child Commodore641

Climate of Canada358

Colds and Cold Water110

Conflict of Love63

Courtesy of Americans846

Crazed401

Crisis in the Affairs of Mr. John Bull235

Crocodile Battery768

Crystal Palace584

Curiosities of Railway Traveling194

Curran, the Irish Orator497

Dangers of Doing Wrong226

Darling Dorel843

Death of a Goblin478

Death of Howard298

Death of John Randolph80

Dog and Deer of the Army407

Domestic Life of Alexander, Emperor of Russia99

Edible Birds'-Nests of China397

Efforts of a Gentleman in search of Despair521

Encounter with an Iceberg406

England in 1850. By Lamartine46

Escape of Queen Mary from Lochleven Castle22

Fair in Munich774

Fashions for December143

Fashions for Early Winter287

Fashions for Later Winter431

Fashions for Early Spring575

Fashions for Spring719

Fashions for May863

Fate of a German Reformer76

Five Minutes too Late647

Fidgety People662

Flowers in the Sick Room52

Freaks of Nature356

French Revolutionists, Marat, Robespierre, and Danton27

Gabrielle; or, The Sisters801

Gamblers of the Rhine61

General Rosas and the Argentine Republic484

German Picture of the Scotch25

Ghost-Stories of Chapelizod499

Give Wisely! An Anecdote121

Gunpowder and Chalk18

Habits and Amusements of the London Costermongers644

Haunts of Genius—Gray, Burke, Milton, Dryden, and Pope49

Heart of John Middleton449

History and Mystery of the Glass-House308

Horrors of War658

Household of Sir Thomas More616, 818

How to be Idolized640

Incident in the First French Revolution622

Invitation to the Zoological Gardens297

Jane Eccles; or, Confessions of an Attorney677

Judge Not626

Lamartine on the Religion of Revolutionary Men598

Land, Ho!—A Sketch of Australia357

Leaves from Punch

Preparatory Schools for Young Ladies; Ladies' Arithmetic; Netting for Ladies, 285. A False Apple-ation; A Tête-à-Tête; Expected out soon; Going down to a Watering-place; Attraction; 19th Cent'ry; Putting the Cart before the Horse; A Narrow Escape; Division of Labor; Animal Economy; A Holiday at the Public Offices, 429. Lectures on Letters; Punch on Special Pleading; Smithfield Club Cattle Show; Golden Opportunities; Universal Contempt of Court; Startling Fact, 569. 1851; Please, Sir, shall I hold your Horse? The Affairs of Grease; The War on Hats; Peace Offering; The Best Law Book; Justice for Bachelors; The Weather, a Drama for Every-Day Life; A Juvenile Party; the Kitchen Range of Art; Reward of Merit, 713. Encouragement to Book-Lenders; Diplomacy and Gastronomy, Supper at a Juvenile Party; One of the Juveniles after the Party; Conversation-Books for 1851; To find Room in a Crowded Omnibus; A File to Smooth Asperities; The Lowest Depth of Meanness; A Little Bit of Humbug, 859.

Letters and Letter Writing35

Literary Notices.

The Salamander; Spencer's Pastor's Sketches; Abbott's Madame Roland; Stanton's Sketches of Reforms and Reformers; Gorree's Churches and Sects of the United States; Cenotaph to a Woman of the Burman Mission; Fleetwood's Life of Christ; Banbridge's Scripture History for the Young; Poems by Grace Greenwood, 139. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair; The Green Hand; The New Englander; Bibliotheca Sacra; Maturin's Lyrics of Spain and Erin; Holmes's Astræa; De Quincey's Essays; Bigelow's Jamaica in 1851; Cantica Laudis; Young's Translations from Beranger, 140. Andersen's Tales; Gem of the Western World; Our Saviour with Prophets and Apostles; Sacred Scenes; National Cook-Book; Smith's Relations between Scripture and Geology, 141. Life and Works of John Adams; The Broken Bracelet; The Immortal; Boyd's edition of Paradise Lost; General View of the Fine Arts; Artist's Chromatic Hand-Book, 142. Reveries of a Bachelor; Richard Edney; Washburn's Issue of Philosophic Thought, 281. The Memorial; Evening of Life; Mrs. Knight's Memoir of Hannah More; Andrews' Latin Lexicon, 282. Smith's Classical Dictionary; Mansfield's American Education; The Ministry of the Beautiful; Green's History and Geography of the Middle Ages; Christian Melodies; Sketch of Fowell Buxton; The Manhattaner in New Orleans, 283. Redfield's Twelve Qualities of Mind; Winter in Madeira; Gems by the Wayside; The World's Progress; Vinet's Montaigne; Sumner's Orations; The Broken Bud; Bardouac; Fadette; Memoir of Alexander Waugh; Chanticleer, 284. Life and Times of Gen. Lamb; Memoir of James Handasyde Perkins; Humboldt's Religious Thoughts and Opinions; Balmes's Protestantism and Catholicity; Tappan's University Education, 425. Gilfillan's Bards of the Bible; Webster's Dictionary, 426. Celebrated Saloons; Home Ballads; History of my Pets; Cheever's Island World of the Pacific; Life of Summerfield; Greek Exile; Carpenter's Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors; Mother's Recompense; The Diosma; Poems by S.G. Goodrich, 427. Woodbury's New Method of learning German; Poems by Frances A. and Metta V. Fuller; Lives of the Queens of Scotland; Pendennis; Southey's Life and Correspondence; Murray's Decline of Popery; Henry Smeaton, 428. The Howadji; Crumbs from the Land o' Cakes; De Quincey's Miscellaneous Essays; Hayward's Faust; Lavengro, 565. Abbott's Malleville; Practical Cook-Book; Foster's Discourse on Missions; Lewis's Restoration of the Jews; Anderson's Geography; The Dove and the Eagle; Carter's Publications, 566. Hildreth's United States; Lossing's Field Book; Du Barry's Progress of the United States; Salander and the Dragon, 567. The Prairie; Stanton's Address, and Street's Poem at Hamilton College; Lord Holland's Foreign Reminiscences; Jane Bouverie; Mayhew's London Labor and London Poor; The Moorland Cottage, 568. Johnson's California and Oregon, 709. Mount Hope, 710. Parnassus in Pillory, 711. Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales; Time the Avenger; Porter's Educational Systems of the Puritans and the Jesuits; Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines; Poetry from the Waverley Novels; Whipple's Essays and Reviews; Loomis's Geometry and Calculus; The City of the Silent; Blunt's Shipmaster's Assistant, 712. Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, 855. Buttmann's Greek Grammar; Lee's Ecclesiastical Manual; Dixon's Life of Penn; The Rangers; Mulchinoch's Ballads; Foster's Christian Purity; Lyra Catholica, 856. The Soldier of the Cross; Field's Irish Confederates; Schmitz's History of Greece; Abbott's Franconia Stories; London Labor and the London Poor; Dwight's Roman Republic; De Quincey's Cæsars; Life on the Plains of the Pacific; Hints to Sportsmen, 857. Curran and His Contemporaries; Gayarre's Louisiana; Monge's Statics; Warreniana; Jung-Stilling's Pneumatology; Tuckerman's Poems; Theory of Effect; Volcano Diggings; Cooper's Wing and Wing; Irving's Conquest of Florida; Banker's Common-Place Book, 858.

Lively Turtle52

Lucy Cawthorne633

Lunatic Asylum in Palermo183

Madame Campan153

Mathematical Hermit627

Metal Founder of Munich516

Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune. By Charles Lever173, 364, 468, 737

Michelet, the French Historian353

Milton and Wordsworth201

Mistakes in Personal Identity69

Modern Mummies321

Monthly Record of Current Events.

UNITED STATES.

Political and General News.—State of feeling on the Compromise measures, 122. Letters of Washington Hunt to the Secession and Anti-Rent Conventions, 122. Meeting at Castle Garden; Letter of Mr. Webster; Nominations, 122. Constitution of Congress, 123. State Convention in Georgia, 123. Meeting at Macon, 123. State of Feeling in Georgia, 123. In South Carolina, 124. In Alabama; Gov. Collier declines to call a State Convention; Letter of Mr. Hilliard, 124. In Mississippi, 124. In Louisiana, 124. Letters of Senators Downs and Soulé; Letter from the Congressional delegation to the Governor, 124. Correspondence between Isaac Hill and Mr. Webster, 125. Dinner to Mr. Clayton, 125. Opening of Congress, 263. Message of President Fillmore, 133. Report of the Secretary of War, 264. Of the Secretary of the Navy, 265. Of the Postmaster General, 265. Of the Secretary of the Interior, 266. Bill for the protection of fugitives in Vermont, 267. Message of Gov. Ford of Virginia, 267. Of the Governor of Alabama, 267. Of Mississippi, 267. Union majority in Georgia, 267. Message of Gov. Bell of Texas, 268. Of Gov. Seabrook of South Carolina, 268. Of Gov. Brown of Florida, 268. The Nashville Convention, 268. Various Union meetings; and letters and speeches of Messrs. Webster, Choate, Stuart, Woodbury, Hilliard, and others, 268, 269, 270, 271. Reception of Mr. Clay in the Legislature of Kentucky, 271. Letters of Messrs. Hamilton, Poinsett, and Rush, 272. Speech of Mr. Clayton, 272. George Thompson, 272. General News from California, 272, 410, 556, 701. General news from Oregon, 273. Webster's reply to Hulsemann, 409, 848. Opening of the Legislature of New York, and Message of Gov. Hunt, 409. Message of Gov. Wright of Indiana, 410. Florida resolutions, 410. Of Gov. Johnston of Pennsylvania, 410. Boundary Commission, 411, 556, 701. Safety of the Steamer Atlantic, 555. Progress of measures in Congress, 555. Action of the Legislature of North Carolina in favor of Union, etc., 555. Indictment of Gov. Quitman, 556. Thanksgiving in Texas, 556. Loss of the John Adams, 556. Inaugural of Gov. Fort of New Jersey, 556. Letter of Gen. Houston in favor of Union, 556. Action for Union in Delaware, 556. Union meeting at Westchester, 556. Correspondence between a British consul and the Governor of South Carolina respecting imprisonment of colored seamen, 556. Indian hostilities in California, 556, 701. Gold Bluffs on Trinity River, 556, 701. Amount of gold shipped, 556. Adjournment of Congress, and notice of measures acted upon, 700. Measures for the relief of Kossuth, 700. The Postage bill, 700. Rescue of a fugitive slave in Boston, 701. Homestead exemption in Illinois, 701. Exemption in Delaware, 701. Free negroes in Iowa, 701. Germans in Texas, 701. Manufactures at the South, 701. Quiet after Excitement, 847. New York Common school law, 847. Canal enlargement bill, 847. Legislative visit to New York, 847. The sergeant-at-arms and the gamblers, 847. Ohio resolutions on the fugitive slave law, 847. Virginia Union resolutions, 847. General Union feeling at the South, 848. In South Carolina, 848. Mr. Hayne's disunion letter, 848. Senator Phelp's letter, 848. Amin Bey, 848. New Constitution of Ohio, 848. Virginia Constitutional Convention, 849. Socorro tragedy, 849. Elections.—State elections in New York and New Jersey, 122. In Ohio and Massachusetts, 123. General Congressional result, 123. Election of U.S. Senators, 555, 701. Mr. Fish in New York, 555, 847.

MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA.

Capture of slaves at Rio, 127. General news from Mexico, 273, 411, 557, 701, 849. Message of Herera, 457. Inauguration and speech of Arista as President, 557. Affairs in Nicaragua; discovery of gold; proceedings of Mr. Chatfield, the British consul, 557. Intelligence from Valparaiso, 557. Hostilities between Guatemala and San Salvador, 702. Gold in New Grenada, 702. Route across the isthmus through Lake Nicaragua, 702. Earthquake at Carthagena, 702. Peru, 702. Banishment of Buenos Ayreans from Bolivia, 702. Prohibition of the landing of liberated slaves in Brazil, 702.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Establishment of Catholic sees in England; Letter of Dr. Ullathorne, 125. Speech of Lord Stanley on Protection, 125. Tenant right in Ireland, 126. The Synod of Thurles, 126. Increase of Crime, 126. Submarine telegraph, 126, 132. Illumination on Arthur's Seat, 126. Speech of Prince Albert at York, 126. Consuming smoke at Manchester, 127. Emigration, 127. Movements for independence in New South Wales, 127. The Exhibition, 132, 274, 278, 419, 558, 704, 851. Bridge at Westminster, 133. New College at Glasgow, 133. Catholic excitement, 273, 558. Lord John Russell's Durham Letter, 273. Cardinal Wiseman's Appeal, 273. Law Reform, 273. Cotton in India, 274. Ornamental cemeteries in London, 278. Tax on telegraphs, 278. General view of the state of England, 411. Progress of the Catholic excitement, 413. Various addresses, speeches, deputations, etc., 414. Attempts to increase the supply of Cotton or to discover a substitute, 414. Famine in the Highlands, 415. Opposition of the Cunarders to the American steamers, 415. Increased value of silver, 415. Protest of the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Ireland, 558. The surplus, 558. Austria demands the punishment of the assailants of Haynau, 558. Disturbances at the Cape of Good Hope, 558. Opening of Parliament; the Queen's Speech, 702. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill; Free-trade motion; unsatisfactory Budget, 703. Defeat of Ministers on franchise question; resignation of Ministers; attempt to form new cabinet, 704. Queen Adelaide's pension, 704. Petition for constitution for Cape of Good Hope, 704. Protestants of Dublin and Duke of Wellington, 704. Viceroyalty of Ireland, 704. Return of Cabinet to office, 848. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill mutilated, 849. Checks to Ministers, 850. Arsenic Bill, 850. Kaffir revolt, 850. Revolutionary Committee, 850. Miss Talbot and the Convent Bill, 850. Public execution, 850. Monster address, 850. Charges against Lord Torrington, 850. Coal-pit disaster, 850. Adulteration of food, 850. Hungarian refugees, 850. New expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 851.

FRANCE.

Pretended Republican plot, 127. The President's attempt to secure the army, 127. Quarrel between him and Changarnier, and between the Assembly and Gen. Hautpoul, who resigns, 128. Opening of the Assembly, and Message of the President, 275. Cavaignac and the President, 276. Letter from the Duke of Nemours, 276. General view of the state of France, 412. Credit passed for the army, 415. Public baths, 415. Bill for the observance of the Sabbath, 415. Luxury at the Elysée, 415. Progress of the quarrel between the President and the Assembly; dismissal of Changarnier; dissolution of the Ministries; President's tactics, 558, 704. Dotation to the President refused, and his consequent action, 704. Bill for the return of the Bourbons lost, 851. Speech of M. Dufraisse, 851. The Orleanists and Legitimists, 851. The Archbishop of Paris and the Bishop of Chartres, 851. Censure of M. Michelet, 851.

GERMANY, ETC.

Hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, 128. Catastrophe at Herrgott, 129. Forest conflagration in Poland, 129. Constitutions for Galicia and Bukowina, 129. Detailed statement of the German question, 274. Warlike aspect, 275. General view of the continent of Europe, 412. Peace prospects; Conference at Dresden, 415. Return of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, 416. Internal affairs of Austria, 416. Progress of affairs in the Dresden Conference; understanding between Austria and Prussia for the depreciation of the minor powers, 558, 705. Dresden Conference at fault, 851. Policy of Austria and Prussia, 852.

SPAIN, ITALY, AND PORTUGAL.

Address of Mazzini, 127. Overthrow of the Constitution and of liberty of the press in Tuscany, 129. Brigandage in the Roman States, 130, 705. General view of the state of the south of Europe, 413. Foreign troops in Rome, 416, 705. The Austrians in Venice, 416. Condition of Sardinia, 416. Disruption of the Spanish Cabinet, 416. Conspiracy under Mazzini, 705. Archbishop Hughes at Rome, 705. Liberal ministry in Piedmont, 705. Austrian movements, 852. Proclamations against political pamphlets, 852. Washington's birthday at Rome, 852. Protestant chapel, 852.

THE EAST.

Contributions preparing for the Exhibition, 128. Affairs in India, 128. Mortality at Hong Kong, 129. Cotton in Bombay, 129. Insurrection in China, 129. The Hungarian refugees in Turkey, 129. Conspiracy at Teheran, 130. Collisions between the Turks and Christians, 276. Persecutions in Aleppo, 276. Disturbances in Syria, 276. Canal between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, 419. Napier's farewell, 705. Prospective annexations, 705. Suppression of insurrection in China, 705. Death of Lin, 705. Difficulties in Egypt, 705. Troubles at Bagdad, 705. Massacres in Southern Africa, 705.

LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND PERSONAL.

United States.—Dinner to Mr. Webster at his native place, 130. Amin Bey, 130. M. Vattemare; Statue of Calhoun; Wm. W. Story; Wm. D. Gallagher, Prof. Filopanti; Daniel D. Barnard, 130. Crawford's Washington; bust of Allen; monument to Warren; movements of artists, 131. Gift-books and Annuals, 276. Lessing's Martyrdom of Huss, 277. Ehninger's etchings, 277. Academy of Design lectures, 277. Hawthorne, 277. Greek Slave, 277. Jenny Lind, 277, 852. Third ring of Saturn, 277. Cultivation of tea, 277. Darley's outlines, 277. Healey's portraits of Calhoun and Webster, 277. Power's statue of America, 279. Mr. Webster on the Mayflower, 416. Stephenson's statue of the Wounded Indian, 416. Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress, 417. Mount's Lucky Throw, 417. Powell's Burial of Fernando de Soto, 417. Prof. Hart's Female Prose Writers, 417. Mrs. Hale's Female Biography, 417. Mr. Putnam's new publications, 417. The Opera, 417. Paine's Water-gas, 417. Dembinski, 417. Public lectures by various individuals, 277, 559, 705. Presidential library, 559. Burns's birthday, 559. Dinner to Mr. Hoe, 559. Books, 559. Papers of Citizen Genet, 559. Talvi, 559. Panoramas, 705. Arrival of Tupper, 705. Celebration of Washington's birth-day, 706. Irving to Ichabod Crane, 706. Opening of Exhibition of Academy of Design, 852. Greenough's Pioneer, 852. Healey's Calhoun, 852. Pictures by Wright, Duggan, Stearns, and Richards, 852. Tupper as a lion, 853. Calhoun's Life and Works, 853. Works of Alexander Hamilton, 853. Taylor's El-Dorado in German, 853. First cotton sent to Liverpool, 853. Dr. Goadby's insects, 853. Acquittal of the Cuban invaders, 853. Foreign.—Miss Howard's donation for hospital for widows, 126. Sir John Franklin, 126, 132. Levi's Commercial Law, 131. Wordsworth; Mazzini; Southey; Sir Robert Peel, 131. Idiots, 132. Delaroche's Napoleon crossing the Alps, 132. Monument to Elliott; Tindal, 132. Artists at Rome, 133. Duke of Wellington's sanctum, 133. Gutzlaff, 133. Government of the Sandwich Islands, 133. French exhibition of pictures, 134. Theatrical censorship, 134. Joan of Arc, 134. Madame de Genlis, 134. The woorari, 134. Suspension bridge across the Straits of Dover, 134. Barral and Bixio, 135. Sundry German books, 135, 422. Statues to Thaer, Gustavus Adolphus, Tegner, and Plettenberg, 135. Lessing's Martyrdom of Huss, 135. Literary Society at Jerusalem, 135. Polish literature, 135. Ticknor's Spanish Literature in German, 136. Portrait of Constantine, 136. New locomotive, 136. Meyerbeer, 136. Statue of Bavaria, 136. Kinkel, 136. Miscellanies, 137, 138, 278. Literary pensions, 278, 560. The Princess D'Este and the literary fund, 278. French voting machine, 279. New aerostatic machine, 279. Rossini; Armand Marrast; Jehan le Bel, 279. A common meridian, 279. Snail telegraph, 279. Beranger, 280. Mock Message of the President of France, 280. Theatrical quarrels in Brussels, 280. Heinrich Heine, 280. Works of art for the King of Bavaria and the Emperor of Russia, 280. Written language in Western Africa, 418. Earl of Carlisle's lectures, 418. Walter Savage Landor, 418. The Napiers, 418. Dr. Johnson and the Welsh bard, 418. Lawrence's portrait of Peel, 418. Copyright to foreigners in England, 418. Copying telegraph, 419. Monument to the Duke of Cambridge, 419. London charities, 419. Windsor Reward Society, 419. Ragged Schools, 419. Sale of the effects of O'Connell, 419. French telegraphs, 419. Guizot on Washington and Monk, 420. Toussaint Louverture, 420. St. Prix on Constitutional Law, 420. Effect of the French Revolution on newspapers, 420. Cemeteries in Paris, 420. Carl Ferd. Becker, 420. Bruno Bauer, 421. Brockhaus, 421. The Leipzig Book-Fair, 422. Rauch's Monument to Frederick the Great, 422. Tunnel under the Neva, 422. Translations into Russian, 422. Books prohibited in Italy, 423. Destruction of vase in the Vatican, 423. Oersted, 423. Passion-play at Ammergau, 423. Life of Foscolo, 423. D'Arlincourt's L'Italie Rouge, 423. Statue to Olbers, 423. Scandinavian literature, 423. Lamartine, 560, 706. Bad spelling, 560. St. Peter's chair, 560. Layard, 560. Last survivor of Cook's voyages, 561. Sir Roger de Coverley's chaplain redivivus, 561. Fossils as manure, 561. New classical works in Germany, 561. Mohammedan histories, 561. Ewald's Commentary, 561. Miss Martineau's new work, 706. Mrs. Sherwood, 706. Knowles as a controversialist, 706. England as it is, 706. Austrian view of Hungarian affairs, 706. Newton's way of living, 706. Sundry Books, 706. Remuneration of literature, 706. Talmudic refinements, 707. Knight and Chambers on paper-tax, 707. MSS. of Richelieu, 707. George the Fourth, and the library in the Museum, 707. Appleyard on the Kaffir language, 707. Signals in fog, 708. Velocity of light, 707. Hail in India, 708. Essence of milk, 708. Deutches Museum, 853. Causeries du Lundi, 853. Rare old editions, 853. Unique edition of La Fontaine, 853. Victor Hugo, 853. New work of Origen, 853. Germania, 1850, 853. Yeast: a Problem, 854. Landor to Duncan, 854. Dahomey and the Dahomans, 854. Dynamical Theory of the Earth, 854. Memoirs of a Literary Veteran, 854. Hartley Coleridge, 854.

OBITUARIES.

Richard M. Johnson, 125. Watkins; Lenau; Becker; Rottman; Thomaschek, 133. Garnier, 134. Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, 279. Gustav Schwab; Count Brandenburgh; M. Alexandre; M. Sauve; Gen. Bonnemain; Sir L. St. G. Skeffington; Mr. Raphall; M. Motteley; Lord Nugent; Karl Aug. Espe; Martin D'Auche, 424. D.S. Kaufman, 556. Mr. Ritchie, 560. Audubon, 561. Bem, 563. Viscount Alford; Duke of Newcastle; Bastiat; Maxwell the novelist; Prof. Schumacher, 564. Commissioner Lin, 705. Marquis of Northampton; John Pye Smith; Charles Coquerel; Spontini, 708. Mrs. Shelley; Joanna Baillie, 709. Isaac Hill; Mordecai M. Noah, 854. General Brooke; Commodore Wadsworth; Samuel F. Jarvis; John S. Skinner, 855.

Morning with Moritz Retzsch509

My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton85, 251, 382, 524, 682, 825

Mysteries of a Tea-Kettle246

New Phase of Bee-Life488

Napoleon and the Pope791

Night of Terror in a Polish Inn41

Night with an Earthquake810

Not all Alone554

Notes on the Nile491

Novelty Iron Works; with Description of Marine Steam Engines, and their construction. By Jacob Abbott721

Passion for collecting Books397

Personal Appearance and Habits of Robert Southey145

Phantoms and Realities457, 601, 753

Pilchard Fishery on the Coast of Cornwall630

Plate Glass668

Plea for British Reptiles813

Prison Anecdote628

Procrastination155

Public Opinion and the Press192

Punch on Birds, Balloons, and Boluses396

Rattlin the Reefer's Dream31

Rats and Rat-Killers202

Recollections of Chantrey322

Recollections of Sir Robert Peel328

Reminiscence of the French Revolution480

Robber Outwitted544

Robber's Revenge195

Sailing in the Air168, 323

Saturday in a London-Market656

Sketches from Life372

Sketch of a Miser620

Sketch of my Childhood. By De Quincey156, 302

Sloped for Texas187

Spring. By James Thomson433

Story of Fine-Ear482

Story of Giovanni Belzoni947

Story of Silver-Voice and her Sister Zoë762

Street Music in London67

Tale of Shipwreck335

Talleyrand215

The Broken Heart; or, the Well of Pen-Morfa205

The Champion.—An Incident in Spanish History781

The Deserted Village. By Goldsmith1

The Dumb Child194

Factory Boy660

The Fairy Queen517

The Farm Laborer.—The Father674

The Farm Laborer.—The Son784

The Fugitive King at Boscobel10

The Ghost that appeared to Mrs. Wharton72

The Gipsy in the Thorn-Bush338

The Golden Age120

The Kaffir Trader341

The Marriage Settlement330

The Queen's Tobacco-Pipe513

The Stolen Fruit.—A Story of Napoleon's Childhood822

The Talisman.—A Fairy Tale348

The Traveler. By Goldsmith289

The Unlawful Gift55

The Unnamed Shell747

The Watcher665

The Wife's Stratagem778

The Woodstream346

Thomas Harlowe599

Uncle John; or, The Rough Road to Riches840

Victims of Science698

Visit to a Colliery340

Visit to a Copper Mine652

Visit to an English Dairy165

Volcano Girl188

Voyage in Search of Sir John Franklin588

Waiting for the Post238

Washington Irving577

Waste of War810

What becomes of all the pins?597

Wilberforce and Chalmers824

William Cullen Bryant581

William Penn's Conversion to Quakerism613

Winter Vision359

Wordsworth and Carlyle201

Young Man's Counselor213

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