Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I
How suddenly that straight and glittering shaft Shot thwart the earth! in crown of living fire Up comes the day! As if they conscious quaff'd The sunny flood, hill, forest, city spire Laugh in the waking light.
Richard H. Dana.
t was a glorious October morning, mild and brilliant, when I left Boston to visit Concord and Lexington. A gentle land-breeze during the night had borne the clouds back to their ocean birth-place, and not a trace of the storm was left except in the saturated earth. Health returned with the clear sky, and I felt a rejuvenescence in every vein and muscle when, at dawn, I strolled over the natural glory of Boston, its broad and beautifully-arbored Common. I breakfasted at six, and at half-past seven left the station of the Fitchburg rail-way for Concord, seventeen miles northwest of Boston. The country through which the road passed is rough and broken, but thickly settled. I arrived at the Concord station, about half a mile from the centre of the village, before nine o'clock, and procuring a conveyance, and an intelligent young man for a guide, proceeded at once to visit the localities of interest in the vicinity. We rode to the residence of Major James Barrett, a surviving grandson of Colonel Barrett, about two miles north of the village, and near the residence of his venerated ancestor. Major Barrett was eighty-seven years of age when I visited him; and his wife, with whom he had lived nearly sixty years, was eighty. Like most of the few survivors of the Revolution, they were remarkable for their mental and bodily vigor. Both, I believe, still live. The old lady—a small, well-formed woman—was as sprightly as a girl of twenty, and moved about the house with the nimbleness of foot of a matron in the prime of life. I was charmed with her vivacity, and the sunny radiance which it seemed to shed throughout her household; and the half hour that I passed with that venerable couple is a green spot in the memory.
MONUMENT AT CONCORD.
Various
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No. VI.—NOVEMBER, 1850.—Vol. I.
[From Dickens's Household Words.]
FATE DAYS AND OTHER POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.
"BATTLE WITH LIFE!"
TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF MADAME ROLAND.
[From Dickens's Household Words.]
CHEMICAL CONTRADICTIONS.
[From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.]
THE EVERY-DAY YOUNG LADY.
[From Dickens's Household Words.]
HISTORY AND ANECDOTES OF BANK NOTE FORGERIES.
THE OLDEST INHABITANT OF THE PLACE DE GREVE.
[From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.]
STORY OF A KITE.
[From Sharp's Magazine.]
THE STATE OF THE WORLD BEFORE ADAM'S TIME.
THE MANIA FOR TULIPS IN HOLLAND.
THE SALT MINES OF EUROPE.
MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
[From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.]
THE EVERY-DAY MARRIED LADY.
ANECDOTE OF A SINGER.
[From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.]
WHEN THE SUMMER COMES.
[From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.]
VILLAINY OUTWITTED—FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A POLICE OFFICER.
[From Dickens's Household Words.]
ATLANTIC WAVES.
[From the Dublin University Magazine.]
MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
CHAPTER XVII.
[From Colburn's Magazine.]
THE WAHR-WOLF; OR, THE LOVERS OF HUNDERSDORF.
A TRUE GHOST STORY.
[From the London Critic.]
SKETCHES OF LIFE. BY A RADICAL.
ALTON'S MOTHER AND THE MISSIONARY.
ALTON'S STUDY.
THE FIRST SIP OF FREEDOM.
THE TERRORS OF THE COMPETITIVE SYSTEM.
THE REAL OFFICE OF POETRY.
THE DANGERS THAT ARE LOOMING.
BURKE AND THE PAINTER BARRY.
[From Hogg's Instructor.]
THE COUNTESS—A TALE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
[From Bentley's Miscellany.]
A MIDNIGHT DRIVE.—A TALE OF TERROR.
[From Dickens's Household Words.]
SPIDER'S SILK.
[From the Dublin University Magazine.]
THE RAILWAY.
[From Bentley's Miscellany.]
THE BLIND SISTER, OR CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT.
[From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.]
FORTUNES OF THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER.
[From Dickens's Household Words.]
THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN.
[From Sharpe's Magazine.]
THE LIGHT OF HOME.
[From Dickens's Household Words.]
HOW WE WENT WHALING OFF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
HYDROPHOBIA.
INDUSTRY OF THE INSANE.
MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.
LITERARY NOTICES.
Fashions for November.
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