HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. XIV.—JULY, 1851.—VOL. III.

ADAMS, SHERMAN, LIVINGSTON, JEFFERSON, FRANKLIN. THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PREPARE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

OUR NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY. SOME ACCOUNT OF FRANCIS'S LIFE-BOATS AND LIFE-CARS. MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. MORBID IMPULSES. THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THO^S MORE. PHANTOMS AND REALITIES.—AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. SOMNAMBULISM. A CHAPTER ON GIRAFFES. THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE CONVICT'S TALE. A BRUSH WITH THE BISON. JOSEPHINE AT MALMAISON. WORK AWAY! THE USURER'S GIFT. A FRENCHMAN IN LONDON. LONDON SPARROWS. CONCERNING THE ECLIPSES IN THE MONTH OF JULY, 1851. THE DESERTED HOUSE. VISIT TO AN ENCAMPMENT OF LAPLANDERS. THE WORSHIP OF GOLD. MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE. Monthly Record of Current Events. Literary Notices. Editor's Drawer. A Leaf from Punch. Summer Fashions.