International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY Of Literature, Art, and Science.Reading editionChapter navigation31 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY Of Literature, Art, and Science.NUMISMATIC ARCHÆOLOGY.THE CSIKOS OF HUNGARY.THE PRESENT RELIGION OF PERSIA.THE "OLD DUKE OF QUEENSBURY."THE DECAY OF GREAT FAMILIES.MADRID AND THE SPANISH SENATE.THE KANASZ.THE "WILD HUSSAR" OF HUNGARY.Original Poetry.Science.Authors and Books.The Fine Arts.Recent Deaths.ON A PORTRAIT OF CROMWELL.WORDSWORTH'S POSTHUMOUS POEM.3THE MONUMENT TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.JURISPRUDENCE OF THE MOGULS: THE PANDECTS OF AURUNGZEBE.4THE MYSTERIOUS COMPACT.PART II—CONCLUSIONPEASANT LIFE IN GERMANY.SUMMER PASTIME.REMINISCENCES OF SARGENT S. PRENTISS, OF MISSISSIPPI.THE CHEMISTRY OF A CANDLE.DANIEL WEBSTER,THE NEW PROPHET IN THE EAST.5COOLING A BURNING SPIRIT.AN OLD HAUNT.KILLING A GIRAFFE.THE VETERAN KOLOMBESKI.ANECDOTE OF LORD BROUGHAM.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →NUMISMATIC ARCHÆOLOGY.All chapters and sections (31)INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY Of Literature, Art, and Science.NUMISMATIC ARCHÆOLOGY.THE CSIKOS OF HUNGARY.THE PRESENT RELIGION OF PERSIA.THE "OLD DUKE OF QUEENSBURY."THE DECAY OF GREAT FAMILIES.MADRID AND THE SPANISH SENATE.THE KANASZ.THE "WILD HUSSAR" OF HUNGARY.Original Poetry.Science.Authors and Books.The Fine Arts.Recent Deaths.ON A PORTRAIT OF CROMWELL.WORDSWORTH'S POSTHUMOUS POEM.3THE MONUMENT TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.JURISPRUDENCE OF THE MOGULS: THE PANDECTS OF AURUNGZEBE.4THE MYSTERIOUS COMPACT.PART II—CONCLUSIONPEASANT LIFE IN GERMANY.SUMMER PASTIME.REMINISCENCES OF SARGENT S. PRENTISS, OF MISSISSIPPI.THE CHEMISTRY OF A CANDLE.DANIEL WEBSTER,THE NEW PROPHET IN THE EAST.5COOLING A BURNING SPIRIT.AN OLD HAUNT.KILLING A GIRAFFE.THE VETERAN KOLOMBESKI.ANECDOTE OF LORD BROUGHAM.Vol. I. NEW YORK, August 26, 1850. No. 9.◇Notes in this chapterNote 1 · A magnificent work1 upon this subject has just been completed in Paris, where it was commenced fifteen years ago. It was begun under the ausNUMISMATIC ARCHÆOLOGY. →