Robert Merry's Museum, Volumes V-VI (1843)
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY BRADBURY, SODEN & CO.
NO. 10, SCHOOL STREET.
1844.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by S. G. Goodrich, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
EDITED BY S. G. GOODRICH, AUTHOR OF PETER PARLEY’S TALES.
VOLUME V.
BOSTON: BRADBURY, SODEN, & CO. , No. 10, School Street. 1843. Stereotyped by George A. Curtis, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry.
JANUARY TO JUNE, 1843.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by S. G. Goodrich, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
Well, here we are again at the opening of a new year! It might seem that New-Year’s day had come so often as to have lost its interest; that by repetition it would become stale; that the words, “I wish you a happy new year!” would cease to excite the slightest regard. But it is not so. New-Year’s day seems always to take us by a kind of pleasant surprise, and never fails to be welcomed by old and young, boys and girls. It has been said by some old writers, that such anniversaries as this of New-Year’s day, are, in the journey of life, like milestones along the road, marking the distance we have travelled, and informing us of the position we occupy in respect to the beginning and end of our existence. If, indeed, we were to use them as such; if, on New-Year’s day, we were accustomed to look over our past lives, to compare what we have done with what is required of us; to see when we have performed, and when failed in, our duty; to mourn over past errors and neglect, and adopt new resolutions of improvement for the future—then, indeed, would New-Year’s day be an instructive mile-stone on our journey, a point of reckoning of the greatest benefit; and then it would not pass by as a mere thoughtless holiday of pleasant speeches and profitless amusement.
And why, blue eyes and black eyes!—tell me why we should not thus use our New-Year’s day—or at least a little piece of it? I will not ask you to give the whole day to a moral lecture. No! You may partake freely of the frolics and festivities of the day; you may greet all your friends and companions with that pleasant salutation—“A happy new year!” It is a cheerful sound, especially when uttered from child to child; from the child to the parent; from friend to friend. And you may engage in the various amusements of the season, as freely as if old Bob Merry were a child again, and romping with you, the gayest of the gay.
Various
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ROBERT MERRY’S
MUSEUM:
Fidelity of a Negro Servant.
The Maple Tree Temple at Matibo, in Italy.
The Lost Found.
The Snow Man.
True Stories.
The Narval, or Sea-Unicorn.
Come and get it.
The Effects of Music on Animals.
WINTER EVENING,
The White Bear.
The Story of Hercules.
Little Chapters for little Readers.
The Lost Friend.
The Walk.
Discontented Betty.
FEBRUARY, 1843.
Sources of History.
Something about Government.
THE LAW IS EVERYWHERE.
EQUALITY.
Anecdotes of Storks.
Conundrums.
Artificial Ice for Skating.
True Stories.
The Love of Nature.
True Stories of the Young.
Winter.
Smiles.
The Water-Spout.
“Beauty.”
The Elephant and Fox.
A FABLE.
The Vain Search.
Varieties.
Imagination.
Sister.
Burning of the Tower of London.
The Gleaner.
Metals.
The Prussian Exercise; a Game for Children.
Anecdotes of Bonaparte.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
Amusements.
All by Themselves.
A Roman Story.
The Rock of Gibraltar.
Order and Disorder.
The Little Mariner.
The Old Lady and her Cat.
A Sliding Party:
A MOTHER’S STORY.
The Old Owl.
The Zebu, or Indian Ox.
The Bison, or American Buffalo.
Good and Evil.
The Story of Limping Tom.
Inquisitive Jack.
The Snow Drift.
Constantinople.
Tsze Pun Yu!
Signs of the Zodiac.
Invention of Printing.
Comparison
BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD HOUSEWIFERY.
An Equinoctial Storm; or, Adventures of a Hat.
Yellow Hair.
April.
True Stories.
Shops in London.
Fishes playing the Jewsharp.
Tea.
The Finland Mother.
Comets.
Things that have happened.
The Blind Beggar and his Dog.
Mother’s Advice.
The Snow Drift.
Inquisitive Jack.
The Moon.
The Meadow Lark.
The Bird’s Nest.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
Shrine of San Rosalia, at Palermo.
May.
The Village of Economy.
Mohammed.
A Fourth of July Oration
Heathen Mythology.
The Elephant.
The Lion.
The Gnoo.
A Swedish Girl.
The Story of “Gander.”
The Dog of Montargis.
Natural Lamps.
LITTLE LEAVES FOR LITTLE READERS.
The School-Ma’am.
Inquisitive Jack.
Lucy and Ann.
A DIALOGUE.
The Little Flower Girl.
Dash won’t learn his Lesson!
To Correspondents.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
Louisa Vinning.
Importance of a Fly.
June.
A Chapter of English Kings.
True Stories.
Geography.
The Bob-o-link.
The White or Polar Bear.
The Unfaithful Servant.
The Barber of Paris.
The World within a Plant.
The Kildeer Plover.
Early Impressions.
A STORY FOR PARENTS.
About the Chicadees,
The Two Travellers.
A FABLE.
To our Correspondents.
LITTLE LEAVES FOR LITTLE READERS.
Inquisitive Jack.
The Hoop; or Look ere you Leap.
Hay-Making.
The Moth.
Chapter on Spices.
The Balloon.
The Harrow.
Handsome is that handsome does.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
A Midsummer Morning.
Listening.
Eugene Aram.
Bald Eagle.
Gallantry in a Dog.
Charon.
A Civilized Bear.
The Palisadoes.
A real Hero.
A Revolutionary Story.
Having a Good Time.
July.
Jumping Rabbit’s Story.
Passage of Mountains in India.
LITTLE LEAVES FOR LITTLE READERS.
The Giraffe, or Camelopard.
The Arbor.
Fire-works at Rome.
Careless Nancy.
Charity.
Inquisitive Jack.
The 4th of July.
To Correspondents.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
Hindostan.
Peter Somebody and the Woodpecker’s Nest.
London, Past and Present.
Whale Stories.
The Life of Columbus.
Ancient Castles.
Æronautics,
OR ART OF NAVIGATING THE AIR WITH BALLOONS.
Eccentric Characters.
A lost Elephant found.
Jumping Rabbit’s Story.
LITTLE LEAVES FOR LITTLE READERS.
The Old Oaken Bucket.
France.
The Moose.
Inquisitive Jack.
The Race.
The Swing.
A Strange Bird.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
September.
Jumping Rabbit’s Story.
The Smuggler.
The Poet’s Dog.
A Shark Story.
Eccentric Characters
Punch and Judy.
Attakullakulla.
A Droll Mimic.
Whale Stories.
CONTEST ABOUT A WHALE.
DISTRESSING ADVENTURE OF FOURTEEN WHALEMEN.
The Life of Columbus.
Turn the Carpet.
A Monkey Trick.
“The Light of all Nations.”
Precocity of Frenchmen.
September Thoughts.
To our Correspondents.
LITTLE LEAVES FOR LITTLE READERS.
Christ Healing the Sick.
Going to School.
The First Sailor.
Inquisitive Jack.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
October.
The Island of Hong Kong.
Tippoo Saib.
A Revolutionary Story.
The Blue-Bird.
Green.
What is it to be Polite?
Early Rising.
Eccentric Characters
The Life of Columbus.
Jumping Rabbit’s Story.
LITTLE LEAVES FOR LITTLE READERS.
Mamma’s Lessons.
Questions.
Old Age.
The Sun, Moon and Stars.
Inquisitive Jack.
What is Habit?
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
A long Chapter upon November.
Pierre Ramus.
A Revolutionary Story.
The Musical Snuff-box at Church.
John Hancock.
Jumping Rabbit’s Story.
The new London Exchange.
The Imperial Joss.
A Salt Water Scene.
The Life of Columbus.
Inquisitive Jack.
Stomach of the Horse.
Patriotism.
The Wooden Horse.
Hannibal crossing the Alps.
The House of our Childhood
Blessing on a Child.
Varieties.
Our Correspondence.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
A Revolutionary Story.
The Life of Columbus.
Washington Irving’s Cottage.
Jumping Rabbit’s Story.
Inquisitive Jack.
The Close of the Year.
Our Correspondence.
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