Volume 1 — CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

A Bachelor's Reverie. By Ik. Marvel620

A Child's Dream of a Star73

A Chip from a Sailor's Log478

Adventure in a Turkish Harem321

Adventure with a Snake415

Aerial voyage of Barral and Bixio499

A few words on Corals251

A Five Days' Tour in the Odenwald. By William Howitt448

A Giraffe Chase329

Alchemy and Gunpowder195

American Literature37

American Vanity274

A Midnight Drive820

Amusements of the Court of Louis XV97

Andrew Carson's Money: A Story of Gold503

Anecdote of a Singer779

Anecdotes of Dr. Chalmers696

Anecdote of Lord Clive554

A Night in the Bell Inn. A Ghost Story.252

A Paris Newspaper181

A Pilgrimage to the Cradle of Liberty721

Archibald Alison (with Portrait)134

A Shilling's Worth of Science597

Assyrian Sects454

A Tale of the good Old Times52

Atlantic Waves786

A True Ghost Story801

A Tuscan Vintage600

A Word at the Start1

Bathing—Its Utility. By Dr. Moore215

Battle with Life (Poetry)731

Benjamin West. By Leigh Hunt194

Biographical Sketch of Zachary Taylor298

Borax Lagoons of Tuscany397

Burke and the Painter Barry807

Charlotte Corday262

Chemical Contradictions736

Christ-hospital Worthies. By Leigh Hunt200

Conflict with an Elephant352

Death of Cromwell (Poetry)257

Descent into the Crater of a Volcano838

Diplomacy—Lord Chesterfield246

Doing (Poetry)268

Dr. Johnson: his Religious Life and Death71

Early History of the Use of Coal656

Early Rising52

Earth's Harvests (Poetry)297

Ebenezer Elliott349

Education in America209

Elephant Shooting in South Africa393

Encounter with a Lioness303

Eruptions of Mount Etna35

Fashions for Early Summer142

Fashions for July287

Fashions for August431

Fashions for early Autumn575

Fashions for Autumn719

Fashions for November863

Fate Days, and other Superstitions729

Father and Son243

Fearful Tragedy—A Man-eating Lion471

Fifty Years ago. By Leigh Hunt180

Fortunes of the Gardener's Daughter832

Francis Jeffrey66

Galileo and his Daughter347

Genius65

Ghost Stories: Mademoiselle Clairon83

Glimpses of the East. By Albert Smith198

Globes, and how they are Made165

Greenwich Weather-wisdom265

Habits of the African Lion480

Have great Poets become impossible?340

History of Bank Note Forgeries745

How to kill Clever Children789

How to make Home unhealthy. By Harriet Martineau601

How We Went Whaling844

Hydrophobia846

Ignorance of the English205

Illustrations of Cheapness. Lucifer Matches75

Industry of the Blind848

Jenny Lind. By Fredrika Bremer657

Jewish Veneration119

Lack of Poetry in America403

Lady Alice Daventry; or, the Night of Crime642

Ledru Rollin476

Leigh Hunt Drowning202

Lettice Arnold. By Mrs. Marsh13, 168, 353

Lines. By Robert Southey206

Literary and Scientific Miscellany556

Lord Jeffrey's Account of the Origin of the Edinburgh Review—Character of Sir Robert Peel—The Ownership of Land—A Self-Taught Artist—Conversation of Literary Men—Rewards of Literature—Schamyl the Prophet of the Caucasus—The Colossal Statue—Wordsworth's Prose-Writings—Anecdotes of Beranger—The Paris Academy of Inscriptions.

Literary Notices.

Bryant's Letters of a Traveler; Bayard Taylor's Eldorado, 140. Standish the Puritan; Talbot and Vernon, 141. Smyth's Unity of the Human Races, 284. Talvi's Literature of the Slavic Nations; Greeley's Hints toward Reforms, 288. Antonina Martinet's Solution of Great Problems; Lossing's Field Book, 286, 427, 837. Lamartine's Past Present and Future of the French Republic; Lardner's Railway Economy; The Lone Dove; Mezzofanti's Method applied to the Study of the French Language; The Ojibway Conquest; Buffum's Six Months in the Gold Mines; The World as it is and as it appears; Drake's Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, 286. Campbell's Life and Letters, 425. Life and Correspondence of Andrew Combe, 426. Dr. Johnson's Religious Life and Death; Sydney Smith's Sketches of Moral Philosophy; The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, 427. Mrs. Child's Rebels; Davies's Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Gallery of Illustrious Americans; The Phantom World; Christopher under Canvas; Byrne's Dictionary of Mechanics; Griffith's Marine and Naval Architecture, 428. Duggin's Specimens of Bridges, etc. on the U.S. Railroads; M'Clintock's Second Book in Greek; Baird's Impressions of the West Indies, and North America; Fleetwood's Life of Christ; The Shoulder Knot; Supplement to Forester's Fish and Fishing; The Morning Watch; Debates in the Convention of California; The Mothers of the Wise and Good, 429. Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets, 430, 571. The Illustrated Domestic Bible; Earnestness; Amy Harrington; The Vale of Cedars; Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange; Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; Poems by H. Ladd Spencer; Talvi's Heloise; The Initials; The Lorgnette, 430. Tennyson's In Memoriam, 570. Abbott's History of Darius; Fowler's English Language in its Elements and forms; Julia Howard; Cumming's Five Years of a Hunter's Life; Moore's Health, Disease, and Remedy; Wright's Perforations of the Latter-day Pamphlets; Lanman's Haw-Ho-Noo, 571. Leigh Hunt's Autobiography; U.S. Railroad Guide and Steamboat Journal; Ware's Hints to Young Men; The Iris; Irving's Conquest of Granada, 572. Life and Times of Gen. John Lamb, Progress of the Northwest; Everett's Bunker Hill Oration; Walker's Phi Beta Kappa Oration; Bayard Taylor's American Legend; Ungewitter's Europe, Past and Present; Downing's Architecture of Country Houses, 573. Jarvis's Don Quixote; Halliwell's Shakspeare; Meyer's Universum; The Night Side of Nature; Giles's Thoughts on Life; Hill's Lectures on Surgery; The National Temperance Offering, 574. Rural Hours; Robinson's Greek and English Lexicon; The Berber, 713. Works of Joseph Bellamy; Adelaide Lindsay; Mayhew's Popular Education; Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; After Dinner Table Talk; Cooper's Deer Slayer; Stockton's Sermon on the Death of Zachary Taylor; Raymond's Relations of the American Scholar to his Country and his Times, 714. Loomis's Recent Progress of Astronomy; Loomis's Mathematical Course; Autobiography of Goethe; Braithwaite's Retrospect; Mrs. Ellett's Domestic History of the Revolution; Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men; Johnson's Cicero; Lady Willoughby's Diary; The Young Woman's Book of Health, 715. Whittier's Songs of Labor; Nicholson's Poems of the Heart; The Mariner's Vision; Collins's edition of Æsop's Fables; Seba Smith's New Elements of Geometry, 716. Buckingham's Specimens of Newspaper Literature; Edward Everett's Orations and Speeches, 717. Echoes of the Universe; Memoir of Anne Boleyn; The Lily and the Totem; Reminiscences of Congress; Mental Hygiene, 718. Williams's Religious Progress; Poetry of Science; Footprints of the Creator; Pre-Adamite Earth, 857. Household Surgery; Gray's Poetical Works; Memoirs of Chalmers; History of Propellers and Steam Navigation; The Country Year-Book; Success in Life; Alton Locke, 858. The Builder's, and the Cabinet-maker and Upholster's Companion; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Lexicon of Terms used in Natural History; Lamartine's Additional Memoirs, and Genevieve; Rose's Chemical Tables; Pendennis; Stockhardt's Principles of Chemistry; Petticoat Government; Etchings to the Bridge of Sighs, 859. Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Church's Calculus; Lonz Powers; Abbott's History of Xerxes; Alexander's Dictionary of Weights and Measures; America Discovered; Dwight's Christianity Revived in the East; Grahame, 860. George Castriot; The Last of the Mohicans; Johnston's Relations of Science and Agriculture; Descriptive Geography of Palestine; Life of Commodore Talbot; American Biblical Repository; North American Review, 861. Methodist Quarterly Review; Christian Review; Brownson's Quarterly, 862.

Little Mary—A tale of the Irish Famine518

Lizzie Leigh. By Charles Dickens38

Longfellow74

Lord Byron, Wordsworth, and Lamb293

Lord Coke and Lord Bacon239

Madame Grandin135

Married Men106

Maurice Tiernay. By Charles Lever2, 219, 329, 487, 627, 790

Memoirs of the First Duchess of Orleans56

Memories of Miss Jane Porter. By Mrs. S.C. Hall433

Men and Women89

Metal in Sea Water71

Milking in Australia37

Mirabeau. Anecdote of his Private Life.648

Monthly Record of Current Events.

domestic.

General Intelligence.—The invasion of Cuba, 275. Mr. Webster's letter on the delivery of fugitive slaves; Reply of Hon. Horace Mann, 275. Prof. Stuart's pamphlet, 275. The Nashville Convention, 275. New Southern Paper at Washington, 275. Connecticut resolutions in favor of the Compromise Bill, 275. Dinner to Senator Dickenson, 275. Dinner to Hon. Edward Gilbert, of California, 276. Constitutional conventions in Ohio and Michigan; Governors Crittenden and Wright, 276. Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 276. Seizure of a vessel for violation of the neutrality act, 276. Death of President Taylor; succession of Mr. Fillmore, and the new Cabinet, 416. Release of the Contoy prisoners, 417. Incorrect rumor of an insult to the U.S. Minister to Spain, 417, 703. Fire in Philadelphia, 417. Will saltpetre explode, 417. Cholera at the West, 417. Professor Webster's confession, 418. The Collins steamers, 418. Mr. Squier's researches in Central America, 418. Measures for a direct trade from the South to Liverpool, 418. Free School System in New York, 418. Medal to Colonel Fremont, 418. U.S. Boundary Commission, 418. State Convention in New Mexico, 419. Fourth of July Addresses at various places, 420. Celebration of the Capture of Stony Point, 420. Affairs at Liberia, 420. American claims on Portugal, 424. Courtesies between the Corporations of Buffalo and Toronto, 563. Suffering the growth of the Canada thistle made penal in Wisconsin, 563. Report of the West Point Board of Visitors, 563. Project for shortening the passage of the Atlantic, 563. Gen. Quitman's letter, 702. Re-election of Mr. Rusk as Senator from Texas, indicating a disposition to accept the U.S. proposals, 702. Arrival of a Turkish Commissioner, 702. Changes in the Cabinet, 702. Mr. Conrad's letter to his constituents on the slavery question, 702. Execution of Prof. Webster, 703. Arrival of Jenny Lind, 703. Opening of the Gallery of the Art Union, 704. Passage of the Pacific from Liverpool, the shortest ever made, 707. Whig State Convention at Syracuse; Convention of the seceders at Utica; Letter of Washington Hunt, 849. Anti-Renters' convention at Albany, 849. Feeling at the South in relation to the admission of California, 850. Hon. C.J. Jenkins on disunion, 850. New Collins steamers, Arctic and Baltic, 850. Property in N.Y. City, 850. Swedish colony in Illinois, 850. Working of the Fugitive Slave Bill, 850. Jenny Lind's concerts, 850. New York a Catholic Archepiscopal See, 850. The Boundary Bill in Texas; Mr. Kaufman's letter, 851. Policy of Government in relation to the transit of the Isthmus, 851. Earthquake at Cleveland, 851. Congressional.—The Compromise Bill in the Senate, 275. Webster's speech on the Bill, 416. The Galphin Claim, 416. Final action of the Senate on the Compromise Bill, 561. Protest of Southern Senators against the admission of California, 561. Proposals to Texas, in relation to the boundary, 562. Discussion in the House on the Appropriation Bill, 562. President's Message on Texas and New Mexico, with Webster's letter to Gov. Bell, of Texas, 562. Nominations to the Cabinet, 563. Passage of the Texas Bill, and analysis of the votes, 700. Passage of the California Bill; of the Fugitive Slave Bill; of Bill abolishing the Slave-trade in the District, 701. Passage of the Appropriation Bills, with provisions for abolishing flogging in the navy, and granting bounties to soldiers; Adjournment of Congress, 849. Elections.—In Virginia for members of constitutional convention; contest between the eastern and western sections, 463. In Missouri, partial success of the Whigs, 463. In North Carolina, success of the Democrats, 463. In Indiana, giving the Democrats the control of the legislature and constitutional convention, 463. In Vermont, success of the Whigs, 703. Election of Hon. Solomon Foot as Senator, 850. California, New Mexico, and Oregon.—Tax on foreigners, 276. Excitement at the delay of admission to the Union, 276. Riot at Panama, 276. Fires at San Francisco, 419. Gold, 419. Indian hostilities, 419. Bill for the admission of California as a state into the Union, passed the Senate, and protest of Southern Senators, 561. Line of stages between Independence, Mo., and Santa Fé, 563. Continued discoveries of gold, 566. Disturbances with Foreigners and Indians, 566. Steam communication between San Francisco and China, 566. Rumors of gold in Oregon, 566. Resignation of Gov. Lane, 566. News from the Boundary Commission, 702. Disturbances on account of Sutter's claims, 705. Cholera on board steamers, 706. New rumors of gold in Oregon, 706. Arrival of Senators from New Mexico; conflict of authorities; Indian outrages, 706. State of affairs in California, up to Sept. 15, 851. In Oregon to Sept. 2, 852. Mexico And South America.—Presidential Election in Mexico, Cholera; Right of Way across the Isthmus, 418. Ravages of the Indians in Mexico, 566. Transit of the Isthmus; Opening of the Port of San Juan, 851. Steamers proposed between Valparaiso and Panama, 851. Literary.—Agassiz and Smyth on the Unity of the Human Race; Address of Professor Lewis; Bishop Hughes on Socialism. Walter Colton's book on California; Professor Davies's Logic and Utility of Mathematics, 276. Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Mansfield on American Education, 277. De Quincey's writings: Poems by Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell; Giles's Christian Thoughts on Life; Bristed's Reply to Mann; Gould's Comedy, The Very Age, 277. Historical Society in Trinity College, Hartford, 420. March's Reminiscences of Congress, 564. Torrey's translation of Neander, 564. Life of Randolph, 565. Kendall's work on the Mexican War, 565. Commencement Exercises at various Colleges, 565. G.P.R. James's Lectures, 704. Andrews's Latin Lexicon, 704. Hildreth's new volume of American History, 705. Dr. Wainwright's Our Saviour with Prophets and Apostles; Miss McIntosh's Evenings at Donaldson Manor, 853. Scientific.—Paine's Water-gas, 277, 564. Forshey's Essay on the deepening of the channel of the Mississippi, 563. Professor Page's experiments in electro-magnetism, 564. Mathiot's experiment's at illuminating with hydrogen, 564. Meeting of the American Scientific Association at New Haven, 564. Astronomical Expedition under Lieutenant Gillis; Humboldt's Notice of American Science, 705. Personal.—Arrival of G.P.R. James, 419. Arrival of Gen. Dembinski, 419. Emerson, Prescott, Hudson, Garibaldi, 420. Hon. D.D. Barnard, 563. Henry Clay at Newport, 563. Intelligence from the Franklin Expedition, 564. Messrs. Lawrence and Rives at the Royal Agricultural Society, 567. Messrs. Duer, Spaulding, and Ashmun, decline re-election to Congress, 702. Ammin Bey, 702. Jenny Lind, 703. Nomination of George N. Briggs for re-election as Governor of Mass., 850. Hamlet the fugitive Slave, 850. Archbishop Hughes, 851. Bishop Onderdonk, 851. G.P.R. James and the Whig Review, 853. Deaths.—Adam Ramage; S. Margaret Fuller, 420. Commodore Jacob Jones, 563. Mr. Nes; Professor Webster; Dr. Judson; Bishop H.B. Bascom; John Inman, 703. Gen. Herard, ex-President of Haiti, 706.

foreign.

England.—Birth of Prince Arthur, 123. Mr. Gibson's motion in Parliament to abolish all taxes on knowledge; bearing of these taxes; motion negatived; evasion of the excise on paper by the publisher of the "Greenock Newscloth," 124. Education Bill introduced, discussed, and postponed, 124. Defeat of ministers on unimportant measures, 124. Preparations for Industrial Exhibition, 125, 280, 852, 853. Expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin, 125, 855. The Greek quarrel, 277. Consequent action of Russia and Austria in relation to British subjects, 278. University reform, 278. Imprisonment of British colored seamen at Charleston, 278. Sinecures in the ecclesiastical courts, 278. Motion in Parliament to give the Australian colonies the full management of their own affairs, lost, 278. Bill passed reducing the parliamentary franchise in Ireland, and speech of Sir James Graham in its favor, 279. Various bills for Sanitary and Social reform, 279. Bill to abolish the Viceroyalty in Ireland, 280. Commission of inquiry into the state of the Universities, 280. Death of Sir Robert Peel, 420. Discussions on the Greek question; remarkable speeches of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, 421. Sunday labor in the Post-office, 421. Bill lost for protecting free sugar; Intra-mural interments Bill passed, 422. Assault on the Queen, 422. Wrecks in the Northern Atlantic; wreck of the Orion, 422. The Rothschild case, 566. Foreign policy of ministers sustained, 566. Sundry Bills for social and political reform lost, 567. Grants to the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, 567. Explosion of a coal-mine, 567. Gen. Haynau mobbed, 706. Prorogation of Parliament, 706. Lord Brougham's vagaries, 706. Extent of railways in Great Britain, 707. The Times and Gen. Haynau, 852. The Arctic Expedition, 852. Cotton in Siberia, 852. Lord Clarendon in Ireland, 852. Queen's University and the bishops, 852, 855. Shipwrecks, 853. The Sea Serpent in Ireland, 853. Punishment of naval officers for carelessness, 853. Amount of Irish crop, 855. Cunard steamers, 855. France.—Contest in Paris for election of Member of Assembly; election of Eugene Sue, 122. Mutiny in the 11th Infantry, 122. Destruction of the suspension-bridge at Angers, and terrible loss of life, 122. Arrest of M. Proudhon, 123. Capture of Louis Pellet, a notorious murderer, 123. Bill for restricting the suffrage, 283. Stringent proceedings against the Press, 283. Recall of the French embassador to England, 283. Increase voted to the salary of the President, 424. New laws for the restriction of the Press, 424. Walker's attempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon, 424. M. Thiers's visit to Louis Philippe, 424. Tax on feuilletons, 569. The President's tour, 707. Death of Louis Philippe, and notice of his life, 708. Decision of a majority of the departments in favor of a revision of the constitution, 709. Duel between MM. Chavoix and Dupont, 711. Death of Balzac, and notice of his life and works, 711. The President's plans; revision of the Constitution, 856. Germany.—Convocations at Frankfort and Berlin, 284. Attempt on the life of the King of Prussia, 284. Dissolution of the Saxon Chambers, and of the Wurtemberg Diet, 424. Peace Convention at Frankfort, 424, 712. Restrictions on the Press in Prussia, 424. Fresh hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, Battle of Idstedt, 570. Proceedings of Austria, respecting the Act of Confederation, 712. Inundations in Belgium, 712. General Krogh rewarded by the Emperor of Russia for his bravery at the battle of Idstedt, 712. Extension of telegraphs, 855. Hungarian musicians expelled from Vienna, 855. Colossal statue completed, 855. Revolutions in Hesse Cassel and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 856. Italy, Spain, Portugal.—The Pope's return, and adhesion to the Absolutists, 128. State of affairs in Italy, 284. Intrigues in Spain, 284. Rain after a five years' drought, 284. Explosion of a powder-mill, 284. Claims of the United States on Portugal, and consequent difficulties, 424, 569. Birth and death of an heir to the Spanish Crown, 569. Disturbances in Piedmont, 712. Disquiets in Rome, 712. Inundation in Lombardy, 855. Prisons at Naples, 855. India, And The East.—Disturbances among the Affredies; their villages destroyed by Sir Charles Napier, 128. Arrangements of the Pasha of Egypt for shortening the passage across the desert, 128. Establishment of a new journal in China, 129. Permission granted the Jews for building a temple on Mount Zion, 129. University in New South Wales, 129. Terrible explosion at Benares, 570. Sickness at Canton, 570. The great diamond, 570. Revolt at Bantam, 570. Sulphur mines in Egypt, 856. Literary.—Postponement of the French Exhibition of Paintings, 129. Goethe's Manuscripts, 423. Mr. Hartley's bequests set aside, 423. History of Spain, by St. Hilaire, 568. Sir Robert Peel's MSS., 568, 712. Miss Strickland's forthcoming Lives of the Queens of Scotland, 569. Bulwer's new novel, 710. Copyright of foreigners, 710. Sale of the Paintings of the King of Holland, 710. Lamartine's Confidences, 710. Notice of Ticknor's Spanish Literature in the Morning Chronicle, 710. The North British Review, 711. Sale of the Barbarigo Gallery at Venice, 711. A new singer, 711. New edition of Owen's Works, 853. Copyrights paid to American Authors, 854. Theological Faculties in Germany, 854. Translation of Dante and Ovid into Hebrew, 854. Books issued, 126, 282, 422, 564, 710. Scientific.—Papers read by Murchison and Lepsius before the Geological Society, 125. Before the Royal Society, by O'Brien, Faraday, and Mantell, 125. The Pelorosaurus, 125. Lead for statues, 126. Operations of Mr. Layard, 126, 280, 854. Discovery of ancient Roman coins in the Duchy of Oldenburg, 128. Opening of the submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais, 129. Experimental slips dropped from balloons, 129. Box Tunnel, London, 129. Transplantation of a full grown tree, 129. Glass pipes for gas, 129. International railway commission, 129. Russian expedition for exploring the Northern Ural, 129. Invention for extinguishing tires, 280. Experiments on light and heat, 281. Discovery of a new comet, 281. Unswathing a mummy, 423. Society for investigating epidemics; for observations in Meteorology, 423. Depredations on Assyrian and Egyptian antiquities, 568. Apparatus to render sea-water drinkable, 568. Improved mode of producing iron, 569. Prof. Johnston on American Agriculture, 569. Telegraphic wire between Dover and Calais, 711. Iron unsuitable for vessels of war, 853. New submarine telegraph, 853. The atmopyre, 854. A new star, 854. The Britannia bridge, 855. Ascent of Mount Blanc, 855. Social.—Great project for agricultural emigration, 129. English criminal cases, 129. Building for the Industrial exhibition, 567. Lord Campbell on the Sunday Letter Bill, 707. Extension of the Franchise in Ireland, 707. Introduction of laborers into the West Indies, 707. Tenant-right conference in Dublin, 707. Peace Congress at Frankfort, 424, 712. Personal.—Monument to Jeffrey, 125. Absence of mind of Bowles, 133. Degree of Doctor of Music conferred upon Meyerbeer, 422. Gutzlaff, Corbould, Gibson, 422. Baptism of the infant prince, 422. Accident to Rogers, 423. Monument to Wordsworth, 423. Sir Robert Peel's injunction to his family not to accept titles or pensions, 567. Barral and Bixio's balloon ascent, and Poitevin's horseback ascent, 568. Poverty of Guizot, 568. Meinhold fined for libel, 569. Guizot's refusal to accept a seat in the Council of Public Instruction, 569. Bulwer a candidate for the House of Commons; his new play, 569. Ovation to Leibnitz and Humboldt, 569. Haynau mobbed, 706. Movements of the Queen, 707. Duel between MM. Chavoix and Dupont, 711. Viscount Fielding embraces Catholicism, 855. Prospective liberation of Kossuth, 855. Deaths.—Wordsworth, Bowles, 125; Sir James Bathurst, Madame Dulcken, Sir Archibald Galloway, Admiral Hills, Dr. Prout, Madame Tussaud, 127; Dr. Potts, inventor of the hydraulic pile-driver, 129. Gay Lussac, 282; M.P. Souyet, the Emperor of China, Earl of Roscommon, Sir James Sutherland, Mrs. Jeffrey, 283; Sir Robert Peel, 420; Duke of Cambridge, 422; Dr. Burns, Dr. Gray, Rev. W. Kirby, B. Simmons, 568; Neander, 569; Louis Philippe, 708; Balzac, 711; Sir Martin Archer Shee, 711. Gale the aeronaut, 854.

Moorish Domestic Life161

Morning in Spring87

Moscow after the Conflagration137

Mrs. Hemans116

My Novel; or Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton659, 761

My Wonderful Adventures in Skitzland258

Neander. A Biographical Sketch510

Obstructions to the use of the Telescope699

Ode to the Sun. By Hunt189

Papers on Water, No. 150

Physical Education106

Peace (Poetry). By Chas. Dryden.194

Pilgrimage to the Home of Sir Thomas More. By Mrs. S.C. Hall289

Portrait of Charles I. By Vandyck137

Poverty of the English Bar218

Presence of Mind. By De Quincey467

Rapid Growth of America237

Recollections of Dr. Chalmers383

Recollections of Eminent Men. By Leigh Hunt184

Recollections of Thomas Campbell345

Scenery on the Erie Railroad213

Scenes in Egypt210

Shooting Stars and Meteoric Showers439

Short Cuts Across the Globe79

Singular Proceedings of the Sand Wasp. By William Howitt592

Sir Robert Peel. A Biographical Sketch405

Sketches of English Character—The Old Squire—The Young Squire. By William Howitt460

Sketches of Life. By a Radical803

Snakes and Serpent Charmers680

Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth218

Sonetto72

Sonnets from the Italian114

Sophistry of Anglers. By Leigh Hunt164

Sorrows and Joys (Poetry)627

Spider's Silk824

Sponges406

Steam50

Steam Bridge of the Atlantic411

Story of a Kite750

Summer Pastime (Poetry)524

Sydney Smith584

Sydney Smith on Moral Philosophy107

Terrestrial Magnetism651

The American Revolution. By Guizot178

The Appetite for News249

The Approach of Christmas (Poetry)454

The Australian Colonies118

The Blind Sister826

The Brothers Cheeryble551

The Chapel by the Shore74

The Character of Burns. By Elliott114

The Chemistry of a Candle524

The Circassian Priest Warrior and his White Horse (Poetry)98

The Communist Sparrow—An Anecdote of Cuvier317

The Corn Law Rhymer135

The Countess816

The Death of an Infant (Poetry)183

The Disasters of a Man who wouldn't trust his Wife. By William Howitt512

The Doom of the Slaver846

The Enchanted Baths139

The Enchanted Rock639

The English Peasant. By Howitt483

The Every-Day Married Lady777

The Every-Day Young Lady742

The Flower Gatherer78

The Force of Fear640

The Genius of George Sand. The Comedy of François le Champi95

The Gentleman Beggar. An Attorney's Story588

The German Meistersingers81

The Haunted House in Charnwood Forest472

The Household Jewels (Poetry)692

The Imprisoned Lady551

The Iron Ring808

The Laboratory in the Chest673

The Light of Home842

The Literary Profession—Authors and Publishers548

The Little Hero of Haarlem414

The Magic Maze684

The Mania for Tulips in Holland758

The Miner's Daughters. A Tale of the Peak150

The Modern Argonauts (Poetry)120

The Mother's First Duty105

The Mysterious Preacher452

The Old Church-yard Tree—A Prose-poem483

The Old Man's Bequest. A Story of Gold387

The Old Well in Languedoc521

The Oldest Inhabitant of the Place de Grève749

The Orphan's Voyage Home (Poetry)272

The Paris Election116

The Planet-Watchers of Greenwich233

The Pleasures of Illness697

The Pope at Home again117

The Power of Mercy395

The Prodigal's Return836

The Quakers during the American War. By Howitt595

The Railway (Poetry)826

The Railway Station (Poetry)163

The Railway Works at Crewe408

The Return of Pope Pius IX. to Rome90

The Rev. William Lisle Bowles86

The Salt Mines of Europe759

The Schoolmaster of Coleridge and Lamb. By Leigh Hunt207

The Snowy Mountains in New Zealand65

The State of the World before Adam754

The Steel Pen. Illustration of Cheapness677

The Sun689

The Tea Plant693

The Two Guides of the Child672

The Two Thompsons479

The Young Advocate304

The Uses of Sorrow (Poetry)193

The Wahr-Wolf797

The Wife of Kong Tolv. A Fairy Tale324

Thomas Babington Macaulay136

Thomas Carlyle. By George Gilfillan586

Thomas de Quincey, the "English Opium Eater"145

Thomas Moore248

Trial and Execution of Mad. Roland732

Truth137

Tunnel of the Alps77

Two-handed Dick, the Stockman. A Tale of Adventure in Australia190

Ugliness Redeemed—A Tale of a London Dust-Heap455

Unsectarian Education in England100

Villainy Outwitted781

Wallace and Fawdon (Poetry). By Leigh Hunt400

What becomes of all the clever Children?402

What Horses Think of Men. From the Raven in the Happy Family593

When the Summer Comes780

William H. Prescott138

William Pitt. By S.T. Coleridge202

William Wordsworth103

Women in the East10

Work! An Anecdote88

Wordsworth—His Character and Genius. By George Gilfillan577

Wordsworth's Posthumous Poem546

Writing for Periodicals553

Young Poet's Plaint. By Elliott113

Young Russia—State of Society in the Russian Empire269