Volume 4 — CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

Amalie de Bourblanc, the Lost Child202

American Arctic Expedition11

Anecdotes and Aphorisms348

Anecdotes of Leopards and Jaguars227

Anecdotes of Monkeys464

Artist's Sacrifice624

Ass of La Marca354

Benjamin Franklin. By Jacob Abbott145, 289

Bird-hunting Spider78

Black Eagle in a Bad Way217

Bleak House. By Charles Dickens649, 809

Blighted Flowers549

Boston Tea-Party. By B. J. Lossing1

Bow Window50

Brace of Blunders540

Chewing the Buyo408

Child's Toy476

Christmas as we grow Older. By Charles Dickens390

Christmas in Company of John Doe. By Charles Dickens386

Christmas in Germany499

Clara Corsini—a Tale of Naples68

Conspiracy of the Clocks185

Crime Detected768

Curious Page of Family History351

Curse of Gold—A Dream335

Czar of Russia at a Ball828

Difficulty56

Diligence in doing Good781

Dream of the Weary Heart511

Editor's Drawer.

Tailing on; The John Jones Party; How many Times did the Hedge-pig mew? Touching the Tin, 134. The Deformed's Hope; Looking out for Number One—Abroad and at Home; Leaves and Coats; The Mathematical Monomaniac, 135. A puzzled Doctor, 136. A Text for a Sermon; The entombed Racer; Cause and Effect; Vagaries of the Insane, 268. Munchausenism; Love and Mammon; Professional Enthusiasm, 269. Mind your P's and Q's; Sympathy thrown away; Winter Duties, 270. Experiments in Flying; Affair of Honor—almost, 271. Takin' Notes; Having One's Faculties; Great Talkers, 421. Witnesses and Counsel—with an Example; Physiognomy at Fault; Mercantile Drummers, 422. On Discontentment; Omnipresence of the Deity; To Snuffers and Chewers; The French and Death, 412. Rat and Owl Fight; Moralizing on Climbing a greased Pole; Inquisitiveness, with an Instance thereof, 565. Street Thoughts by a Surgeon; The Millionaire without a Sou; The Deaf-and-Dumb Boy; Workers in Worsted, 566. Subscribing Something; Bad Spelling; Lending Umbrellas, 567. Something about Music; The Workhouse Clock, 568. Sweets in Paris; Something about China, 569. Difference of Opinion; a Tale of other Times, 704. Stealing Sermons; About Snuff; Laughter; Looking-glass Reflections; Something from Sam Slick, 705. Turning the Tables: Youthful Age; Fools and Madmen; Under Canvas, 706. Joking in Letters; Welsh Card of Invitation; Chiffoniers in Paris, 707. Harrowing Lines, 708. Eating cooked Rain; Patent Medicine Toast; New Language of Flowers, 847. Song of the Turkey; Marks of Affection; Tired of Nothing to do; Lame and impotent Conclusion, 848. Orders is Orders; The Sleeping Child; Dickens's Denouements; Statistical Fellows, 849. Keep your Receipts; Giving a Look; About Dandies; Chawls Yellowplush on Lit'ry Men; Deep-blue Stockings, 850. A Climax; Some Love-Verses; A Criminal Curiosity-hunter; a Skate-vender on Thaws, 851.

Editor's Easy Chair.

Kossuth; Louis Napoleon; A Workingman for President, 131. Musical Chit-chat; Lumley and Rossini; America in the Exhibition, 132. A very French Story of Love and Devotion; Another of Devotion and Smuggling, 133. Kossuth and our Enthusiasm for him, 265. On Lola Montez; Dumas and the French Censorship; Signor Braschi; Female Stock-brokers; The consoled Disconsolates, 266. An Italian Romance, 267. Louis Napoleon's Coup d'état; Kossuth Talk, 418. Paris Gossip; Cavaignac and his Bride elect; The Lottery of Gold, 419. Home Gossip; How Mr. Coper sold a horse, 420. The Hard Winter; The Forrest Trial, 563. The French Usurpation; President-making and Morals in the Metropolis; A Bit of Paris Life; Legacies to Litterateurs, 564. Now; Close of the Carnival; the Cooper Testimonial; Lectures; Exemplary Damages, 702. Congressional Manners; The Maine Liquor Law; Reminiscence of Maffit; French Writers, 703. The Chevalier's Stroke for a Wife, 704. More about the Weather, 843. Sir John Franklin; Free Speech; Lola in Boston; Jenny Goldschmidt, 844. Marriage Associations; About Punch; Magisterial Beards; An equine Passport, 845. Matrimonial Confidence; Dancing in the Beau Monde; Major M'Gowd's Story, 846.

Editor's Table.

Time and Space, 128. Testimony of Geology to the Supernatural, 130. The Year, 262. The Pulpit and the Press, 265. The Value of the Union, 415. The Seventh Census, 557. The Immensity of the Universe, 562. The Spiritual Telegraph, 699. History the World's Memory, 700. Mental Alchemy:—Credulity and Skepticism, 839.

Episode of the Italian Revolution771

Esther Hammond's Wedding Day520

Eyes made to Order91

Fashionable Forger231

Fashions for December143

Fashions for January287

Fashions for February431

Fashions for March575

Fashions for April719

Fashions for May863

Forgotten Celebrity778

French Flower Girl54

Gold—What, and Where from87

Good Old Times in Paris395

Great Objects attained by Little Things330

Habits and Character of the Dog-Rib Indians690

Helen Corrie391

High Life in the Olden Time254

How Gunpowder is Made643

How Men Rise in the World211

Hunting the Alligator668

Impressions of England in 1851. By Fredrika Bremer616

Indian Pet38

Insane Philosopher647

Introduction of the Potato into France622

Keep Him Out515

Knights of the Cross. By Caroline Chesebro'221

Kossuth—A Biographical Sketch40

Leaves From Punch.

Better Luck next Time; Doing one a Special Favor; Etymological Inventions, 141. Off Point Judith; Singular Phenomenon; A Slight Mistake; New Biographies, 142. Arrant Extortion; Mr. Booby in the New Costume, 285. A Bloomer in Leap Year; Strong-minded Bloomer, 286. A Horrible Business; Rather too much of a Good Thing, 429. Mrs. Baker's Pet, 430. Signs of the Times; France is Tranquil, 573. The Road to Ruin; New Street-sweeping Machines, 574. Going to Cover, 173. Revolution on Bayonets; Thoughts on French Affairs; Early Publication in Paris, 714. Scene from the President's Progress, 715. Touching Sympathy; Sound Advice, 716. Effects of a Strike, 717. Perfect Identification; Calling the Police; The Seven Wonders of a Young Lady, 718. Butcher Boys of the Upper Ten, 857. The Inquisitive Omnibus Driver; The Flunky's Idea of Beauty, 858. A Competent Adviser; Scrupulous Regard for Truth, 859. Awful Effects of an Eye-glass; Penalties; Rather Severe, 860. What I heard about Myself in the Exhibition; The Peer on the Press, 861. The Interior of a French Court of Justice in 1851, 862.

Legend of the Lost Well47

Legend of the Weeping Chamber358

Life and Death. By the Author of Alton Locke216

Literary Notices.

BOOKS NOTICED.

Melville's Moby Dick; Putnam's Hand-books; Rural Homes; Hawthorne's Wonder-Book, 137. Greeley's Glances at Europe; Stoddard's Poems; Neander on Philippians; Heavenly Recognition; Lindsay and Blackiston's Gift-Books; Bishop McIlvaine's Charge, 138. Taylor's Wesley and Methodism, 272. Boyd's Young's Night Thoughts; Mrs. Lee's Florence; Words in Earnest; Herbert's Captains of the Old World; Ida Pfeiffer's Voyage Round the World, 273. Reveries of a Bachelor; James's Aims and Obstacles; Simm's Norman Maurice; Richard's Claims of Science; Greenwood Leaves; Winter in Spitzbergen; Dream-land by Daylight, 274. Memoir of Mary Lyon; Woods's Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings; Wainwright's Land of Bondage; Mrs. Kirkland's Evening Book; The Tutor's Ward; Thompson's Hints to Employers, 275. Layard's Nineveh; Saunders's Great Metropolis; Ik. Marvel's Dream-life; Florence Sackville; Clovernook, 424. Salander and the Dragon; Spring's First Woman; Edwards's Select Poetry; Sovereigns of the Bible; Hawthorne's Snow Image; Summerfield; The Podesta's Daughter; Ross's What I saw in New York; Curtis's Western Portraiture; Stephen's Lectures on the History of France, 425. Chambers's Life and Works of Burns, 569. Abbott's Corner Stone; Browne's History of Classical Literature; Dickson's Life, Sleep, and Pain; Head's Faggot of French Sticks; Hudson's Shakspeare; Simmon's Greek Girl; House on the Rock; Companions of my Solitude; Wright's Sorcery and Magic; Ravenscliffe; Mitford's Recollections of a Literary Life, 570. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Edwards's Charity and its Fruits, 708. Richardson's Arctic Searching Expedition; Bonynge's Future Wealth of America; Copland's Dictionary of Medicine; Cheever's Reel in the Bottle; The Head of the Family; Neander's Exposition of James; Men and Women of the Eighteenth Century; Bon Gaultier's Book of Ballads; Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, 709. Stiles's Austria in 1848-49, 852. Forester's Field Sports; Simms's Golden Christmas; Falkenburg; Isa; The Howadji in Syria, 853. Stuart's Commentary on Proverbs; Parker's Story of a Soul; Arthur and Carpenter's Cabinet Histories; Mosheim's Christianity before Constantine; Pulszky's Tales and Traditions of Hungary; Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers; Barnes's Notes on Revelation, 854. Kirwan's Romanism at Home, 855.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Hawthorne; Literary Gazette on Hitchcock; The News on Vestiges of Civilization; Westminster Review; New Works announced; Assyrian Sculptures; Pension to Reid; Christopher North; Map of France; Manuscripts of Lalande; Dumas's Memoirs, 139. Documents on the Thirty Years' War; Douglas Jerrold's Works, 275. Lady Bulwer; Rise of Bunsen; New College, Edinburgh; Madame Pfeiffer; Richardson's Arctic Expedition, 276. Plays by Jerrold and Marston; Stephen's Lectures; Critique on Hildreth; On Moby Dick; Shakspeare for Kossuth; Landor on Kossuth; Critique on Springer's Forest Life; On Layard's Nineveh, 277. Alison; Works denounced; Brougham; Translations of Scott; New Works in France, 278. M. Vattemare; The Elzevirs; Daguerre; Heine; Leipzig Easter Fair; Papers in Germany; Japanese Dictionary; Excavations at Athens; Ximenes; Spanish Classics; Ida Hahn-Hahn; Professor Nuylz; Oriental MSS.; Proscription in Italy; Discovery of Old Paintings in Münster; Jeffrey; Mr. Jerdan; Brougham; Gutzlaff, 425. Carlyle's Sterling; Yeast; Blake; Dickens in Danish; Delta; Stephen: M'Cosh; Hahn-Hahn; Junius; Kossuth's Eloquence; Beresford, 426. Guizot; Revolutionary Walls; Migne's Book Establishment; French Works; Bonaparte and Literature; Silvio Pellico; German Novels; Oersted; Oehlenschläger; Menzel; Heine, 427. Schiller Festival; Zahn; Kosmos; Servian Poetry; Shakspeare in Swedish; Italian Book on America; Chinese Geography; Turkish Grammar and Dictionary; Ticknor in Spanish, 428. Westminster Review; New Books; Benedict; Macaulay, 570. Browning's Shelley; Junius; Budhist Monuments; Freund's German-English Lexicon; Bulwer's Works; The Head of the Family; Lossing's Field-Book; Hawthorne; Eliot Warburton, 571. French Literary Exiles; Lamartine; Count Ficquelmont; Works on the Coup d'Etat; Louis Philippe and Letters; George Sand; Humboldt; Schiller's Library; Hagberg; Translations into Spanish, 572. Theological Translations; Bohn's New Publications; Greek Professorship in Edinburgh; Dr. Robinson; Talvi, 710. Moby Dick; Tests in Scottish Universities; Montalembert; Cavaignac; The Press in Paris; Posthumous Work by Meinhold, 711; Lamartine's Civilisateur; Eugene Sue; Neuman's English Empire in Asia; English Literature in Germany; Nitzsch on Hahn-Hahn; Gutzkow; The Rhenish Times; Hebrew Books; Literature of Hungary; Monument to Oken, 712. Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey; Grote's History of Greece; Farini's History of the Roman State; The Shelley Forgeries; James R. Lowell; Papers of Margaret Fuller, 855. Life of Fox; Sale of rare Books; Greek Professor at Edinburgh; Bleak House in German; Macaulay in German; Barante's Histoire de la Convention Nationale; Pierre Leroux; Chamfort; George Sand; Stuart of Dunleath in French; Epistolary Forgeries; Anselm Feuerbach; Bust of Schelling; Goethe and Schiller Literature; Count Platen-Hallermünde; Lives of the Sovereigns of Russia, 856.

OBITUARIES.

Archibald Alexander, D. D.; J. Kearney Rodgers, M. D.; Granville Sharp Pattison, M. D.; Gardner G. Howland, 122. Dr. Wingard; Byron's Sister; H. P. Borrell; Dr. Gutzlaff; Mrs. Sherwood, 140. King of Hanover, 261. Professors Wolff and Humbert, 280. Joel R. Poinsett; Moses Stuart, 411. Marshal Soult, 414. William Wyon; Rev. J. H. Caunter; Chevalier Lavy; M. de St. Priest; Paul Erman; Professor Dunbar; Dr. Sadleir; Basil Montague, 426. T. H. Turner, 570. Baron D'Ohsen; Robert Blackwood; Serangelli, 712. Hon. Jeremiah Morrow, 836. Thomas Moore; Archbishop Murray; Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, 837. Marshal Marmont; Armand Marrast, 838.

Louis Napoleon and his Nose833

Love Affair at Cranford457

Masked Ball at Vienna469

Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune. By Charles Lever57, 187, 339

Mazzini, the Italian Liberal404

Miracle of Life500

Monthly Record of Current Events.

UNITED STATES.

The November Elections: success of the Union Party in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama, 120. Adoption of the New Constitution in Virginia, 120. Election in Pennsylvania, 120. Return of the Arctic Expedition, 121. Dinner to Mr. Grinnell, 121. Imprisonment of John S. Thrasher in Havana, 121, 258, 553. Appeal of Mr. Tyler in behalf of the Cuban prisoners, 121. Inauguration of Gov. Campbell of Tennessee, 121. Convention of Cotton-planters in Macon, 121. Decision in favor of Morse's Telegraph, 122. Decision of the Methodist Book-fund case, 122. Letter of Mr. Clay on the Compromise, 122. Elections in California, 122. General Intelligence from California, 122, 258, 411, 553, 693, 835. General Intelligence from Oregon, 122, 411, 693. Volcanic Eruption in the Sandwich Islands, 123. General Intelligence from New Mexico, 123, 259, 411, 553, 693,835. Arrival of Kossuth, and reception in New York, 255. Speech of Kossuth at the Corporation banquet in New York, 255. At the Press dinner, 256. Opening of the Thirty-second Congress, 256. Abstract of the President's Message, 256. Correspondence with foreign Powers respecting Cuba, 258. Official vote in New York, 258. Speech of Kossuth at the Bar dinner in New York, 410. Kossuth at Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, 410. Opening of the New York Legislature and Message of Governor Hunt, 410. Opening of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 411. Mr. Clay resigns his seat in the Senate, 411. Destruction of the Congressional Library, 411. American expedition to the Sandwich Islands, 411. Kossuth at the West, 551. Esterhazy, Batthyanyi, Pulszky, and Szemere on Kossuth, 551. Speeches in Congress on Intervention, 552. Outrage at Greytown disavowed by the English government, 553. Legislative nominations for the Presidency, 553. Message of Gov. Farwell of Wisconsin, 553. The U.S. Indemnity in Texas, 553. Letter of Mr. Buchanan, 553. Of Mr. Benton, 553. General proceedings in Congress, 692. Correspondence respecting Kossuth, 692. Mr. Webster's discourse before the Historical Society, 693. Commemorative meeting to J. Fenimore Cooper. 693. Archbishop Hughes's lecture on Catholicism in the United States, 693. Whig State Convention in Kentucky, 693. In Indiana, 693. Webster meeting in New York, 693. Washington's birthday at the Capital, 693. Mormon disturbances in Utah, 694. Debates in the Senate on Intervention; speech of Mr. Soulé, 834. Abstraction of public papers, 834. Mr. Cass on the Wilmot Proviso, 834. Presidential speeches in the House, 834. Political Conventions in various States, and nominations for the Presidency, 834. Proceedings in the Legislature of Mississippi, 834. State debt of Pennsylvania, 835. Mr. Webster at Trenton, 835. Accident at Hell-gate, 835. Return of Cuban prisoners, 835. Letter of Mr. Clay on the Presidency, 835. Expedition to Japan, 835. Loss of steamer North America, 835. Col. Berzenczey's expedition to Tartary, 835.

SOUTHERN AMERICA.

Election of Montt as President of Chili, 123. Attempt at insurrection, 123, 412. Contest against Rosas in Buenos Ayres, 124, 694, 835. Difficulties growing out of the Tehuantepec right of way in Mexico, 124. Insurrection in the northern departments under Caravajal, 124, 412, 553, 694, 835. Letters to the Governors of the departments, 124. General Intelligence from Mexico, 124, 412, 553, 835. Message of the President of Venezuela, 694. Disturbance in Chili penal settlements, 694, 835. Mexican claims for Indian depredations, 835. Defeat and flight of Rosas, 836. Peruvian expedition against Ecuador, 836. Gold in New Grenada, 836.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Arrival of Kossuth at Southampton, 124. Speech of Kossuth at Winchester, 125. Close of the Great Exhibition, 126. Disturbances in Ireland, 126. War at the Cape of Good Hope, 126, 554, 696. Opposition of the Sultan of Turkey to the Suez Railway, 126. Kossuth at Birmingham, Manchester, London, and Southampton, 259. Embarkation for America, 259. Resignation of Lord Palmerston and appointment of Earl Granville as Foreign Secretary, 412. Deputation of merchants to Lord John Russell, 412. Dinner to Mr. Walker, 412. From Ireland, 412. Petitions from Scotland against the Maynooth grant, 413. Burning of the steamer Amazon, 554. The national defenses, 554. Controversy between workmen and employers, 554. Movements of the Reformers, 554. Gold in Australia, 554. Destruction of Lagos in Africa by the British, 554, 696. Meeting of Parliament and the Queen's Speech, 694. Explanations as to the retirement of Lord Palmerston, 694. Defeat and resignation of the Russell Ministry, 695. Appointment of a Protectionist Ministry, 696. Correspondence with Austria respecting political refugees, 696. Disaster from water, 696. New expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 697. Attitude of the Derby Ministry, 836. Position of Lord John Russell, 837. Mr. Disraeli's address to his constituents, 837. Revival of the Anti Corn-Law League, 837. Mr. Layard declines to continue in office, 837.

FRANCE.

The President demands the repeal of the election law of May 31; the Ministers refuse their assent and resign, 126. Formation of a new Ministry, 127. Insults to the Republican members of Assembly, 127. Meeting of the Assembly, Message of the President, demanding the restoration of universal suffrage, and its rejection by the Assembly, 260. Progress of the struggle between the President and Assembly, 261. President's speech on distributing prizes to exhibitors, 261. The President dissolves the Assembly and assumes the sole powers of government, 413. His decree, 413. Arrest of members of Assembly, 413. Unsuccessful attempts at resistance, 413. Great majorities returned in favor of the President, 414, 554. Correspondence between the English and French Governments, 414. Celebration at the result of the election, 554. Speech of M. Baroche, 555. Proceedings of the President, 555. The new Constitution decreed by the President, 555. Formation of a Ministry of Police and of State, 556. Seizure of the property of the Orleans family, 556. Measures limiting discussion, 556. New Legislative law, 697. Letter of the Orleans princes, 697. The Ministry of Police, 697. Dinner by the President to English residents, 697. Decree regulating the press, 697. Correspondence between the government and the Emperor of Russia, 697. Proceedings in relation to Belgium, 698. Success of the government in the elections, 837. Presidential decree for mortgage banks, 837. Decree respecting the College of France, 837. Judges superannuated at seventy years, 837. Prize for adaptation of Voltaic pile, 838. Donation to M. Foucauld, 838. New military medal and pension, 838. French demands upon Belgium refused, 838. Correspondence between Austria, Prussia, and Russia respecting France, 838. French demands upon Switzerland, 839.

SOUTHERN EUROPE.

Neapolitan answer to Mr. Gladstone's letter, 127. New Colonial Council in Spain for Cuba, 127. Austrian rigor in Italy, 261. Pardon of the American prisoners in Spain, 414. Attempt to assassinate the Queen of Spain, 698. Change in the government of the Spanish colonies, 839.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE.

Preparations in Prussia, 127. Telegraphic arrangements in Germany, 127. The Polish provinces of Prussia excluded from the Confederation, 127. The Emperor of Austria declares himself absolute, 127. Elections in Switzerland, 261. Critical state of affairs in Austria, 261, 414. Austria and France, 414. Annulling of the Constitution of 1849 in Austria, 556. General Intelligence, 556. Attitude assumed by the European powers toward France, 678. Demands of France upon Switzerland in relation to political refugees, 698. Transferrence of Holstein to Denmark, 698. Switzerland menaced by a commercial blockade, 839.

THE EAST.

General Intelligence, 127. Negotiations in Turkey respecting the Holy Sepulchre, 414. Hostilities in India, 415. Changes of Ministry in Greece and Turkey, 698. Generosity of the Porte toward rebels, 839. High interest forbidden in Turkey, 839. Death of the Persian Vizier, 839. Hostilities between the English and Burmese, 839.

Mr. Potts's New Years Adventures281

My First Place489

My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton105, 239, 371, 525, 673, 793

Mysteries65

My Traveling Companion636

Napoleon Bonaparte. By John S. C. Abbott22, 166, 310, 592, 736

New Discoveries in Ghosts512

Old Maid's First Love360

Orphan's Dream of Christmas385

Our School. By Charles Dickens75

Paradise Lost611

Personal Sketches and Reminiscences. By Mary Russell Mitford503

Pipe Clay and Clay Pipes688

Pleasures and Perils of Ballooning96

Poison Eaters364

Potter of Tours219

Promise Unfulfilled80

Public Executions in England542

Recollections of St. Petersburg447

Rising Generationism478

Rodolphus.—A Franconia Story. By Jacob Abbott433, 577, 721

Short Chapter on Frogs791

Sicilian Vespers790

Sleep to Startle us830

Stolen Bank Notes627

Story of a Bear786

Story of Oriental Love75

Story of Rembrandt516

Street Scenes of the French Usurpation399

Suwarrow—Sketch of409

Talk about the Spider200

Taste of French Dungeons670

Taste of Austrian Jails481

The Bedoueen, Mahomad Alee, and the Bazaars. By George William Curtis755

The Brothers212

The Expectant—A Tale of Life93

The Game of Chess205

The German Emigrants. By John Doggett, Jr.183

The Little Sisters641

The Lost Ages547

The Mighty Magician772

The Moor's Revenge. By Epes Sargent669

The Mountain Torrent466

The Night Train783

The Opera. By Thomas Carlyle252

The Ornithologist470

The Point of Honor494

The Sublime Porte332

The Tub School85

Thiers—Sketch of his Life214

Thy Will be Done. By George P. Morris119

Tiger Roche.—An Irish Character760

To be Read at Dusk. By Charles Dickens235

True Courage620

Two Kinds of Honesty773

Vagaries of the Imagination63

Vatteville Ruby613

Vision of Charles XI.397

What becomes of the Rind?402

What to do in the Mean Time545

Who knew Best485

Wives of Great Lawyers764

Wonderful Toys634

You're Another105

Zoological Stories769