CONTENTS:
VOLUME III. APRIL TO JULY, 1850-51.
Alfieri, History and Genius of 229
American female Poets, Opinions of, by a Frenchman, 452
Anspach, Margravine of 303
American Missions in Ceylon and Sir E. Tennant, 308
American Saint, An, 163
Adventures and Observations in Nicaragua. (Illustrated.) 437
Arts, The Fine—Public Works by the King of Prussia, [136].—Herr Hiltensperger, [135].—Picture by Leonardo Da Vinci, [136].—Art-Union of Vienna, [136].—Another Picture by Raffaelle Discovered, [136].—Steinhauser's Group for Philadelphia, [136].—The Hillotype, [136].—Baron Hackett, [137].—Statue of Giovanni de Medici, [137].—Lectures before the New-York Artists, [137].—Belgian Exhibition, [137].—Brady's Gallery of Illustrious
Americans, [137].—Portrait of Cervantes, [137].—Portraits by Mr. Osgood, [137].—Discoveries at Prague, [137].—Exhibition of the British Institution, [137].—Lortzing, [137].—Statue of Wallace, [137].—Engravings of the Art-Unions, 180.—Exhibition of the National Academy, 181.—Bulletin of the Art-Union, 181.—Girodet, 181.—Kotzbue, 181.—Mr. Elliott, 181.—Schwanthaler, 181.—Museum of Berlin, 181.—Munich Art-Union, 181.—Kaulbach, 181—French Contribution to the Washington Monument, 181—Widnmann, 181.—The Exhibitions in New-York, 327.—Prizes and Prospects of the Art-Union, 329.—Delaroche, 329.—Mr. Kellogg, 329.—L'Imitation de Jesus Christ, by Depaepes, 330.—New Members of the National Academy, 330.—Sculptures Discovered at Athens, 470.—New Works by Nicholas, 471.—German Criticism of Powers, 471.—Diorama of Hindostan, 471.—Unveiling the Statue of Frederick the Great, 471.—Jenny Lind, 471.—The Opera, 471.
Authors and Books.—The Russian Archives, [26].—Humboldt on the State, [26].—Russian Geographical Society, [26].—Recollections of Paris, by Hertz, [26].—The latest German Novels, [27].—Schäffner's History of French Law, [27].—Fate of Bonpland, the Traveller, [27].—Russian Account of the War in Hungary, [28].—Bülau's Secret History of Mysterious Individuals, [28].—Italy's Future, by Dr. Kölle, [28].—German Translation of Channing, [28].—Essays by M, Flourens, [28].—Jacques Arago, [28].—New Book on Napoleon, by Colonel Höpfner, [28].—Vaublanc's History of Prance in the Time of the Crusades, [28].—Works on the Statistics of Ancient Nations, [28].—French Version of McCulloch, [28].—MM. Viardot and Circourt on the History of the Moors in Europe, [29].—Breton Poets, [29].—Louis Phillippe's Last Years, as Described by Himself, [30].—M. Audin, [31].—Collection of Spanish Romances, by F. Wolf, [31].—Le Bien-Etre Universel, [31].—Notices of English Literature by the Revue Brittanique, [31].—History of French Protestants by Felice, [31].—Works in Modern Greek Literature, [32].—Dictionary of Styles in Poetry by Planche, [33].—Continuation of Louis Blanc's History of Ten Years, [33].—Mr. Hallam, [33].—General Napier and his Wife, [33].—Plagiarism by Charles Mackay, [33].—English Books on the Roman Catholic Question, [33].—New Work by R. H. Horne, [33].—Miss Martineau's Book against Religion, [34].—Sir John Cam Hobhouse, [34].—Another Book on "Junius", [34].—Fourier on the Passions, [34].—Mr. Grattan coming again to America, [34].—Poems by Alaric A. Watts, [35].—The Stowe MSS., [35].—The Scott Copyrights, [35].—Dr. Layard, [35].—Henry Alford, [35].—Letter by Washington Irving, [35].—Speech on Art, by Alison, [36].—Pensions to Poets, [36].—Lavengro, [36].—James T. Fields, [36].—W. G. Simms, [36].—Nile Notes by a Howadji, [36].—Use of Documents in the Historical Society's Collections, [36].—Fanny Wright, [37].—Prof. Channing's Resignation, [37].—Mr. Livermore on Public Libraries, [37].—Fenelon never in America, [37].—Mr. Goodrich and Mr. Walsh, [37].—Works of Major Richardson, [37].—Mr. Squier's forthcoming Works on American Antiquities, [38].—Letter from Charles Astor Bristed, on his Contributions to Fraser, [39]—The Sillimans in Europe, [39].—Works of John Adams, [39].—The Cæsars, by De Quincy, [39]—Jared Sparks, and his Historical Labors, [40]—The Opera, by Isaac C. Pray, [40].—Frederic Saunders, [40].—The Duty of a Biographer, [40].—Dr. Andrews's new Work on America, 663.—Bodenstedt's Thousand and One Days in the East, 165.—German Emigrant's Manual, 165.—Hungarian Biographies, 165.—Caccia's Europe and America, 165.—Fanny Lewald, 166.—German Reviewals of George Sand, 166.—Scherer's German Songs, 166.—New Book by Henry Mürger, 166.—Ebeling's Tame Stories of a Wild Time, 167.—Grillpazer, the Dramatist, 167.—Rhine Musical Gazette, 167.—Eddas, by Simrock, 167.—Transactions of the Society of Northern Antiquaries, 167.—Raumer's Historical Pocket Book, 167.—Bilder aus Oestreich, 167.—Poems by Dinglestedt, 167.—Autobiography of Jahn, 167.—The Deutsches Museum, 168.—The Constitutional Struggle in Electoral Hesse, 168.—Translations of the Scriptures in African Languages, 168.—History of the Prussian Court and Nobility, 168.—Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Women, 168.—Countess Hahn Hahn, 168.—Italia, 168.—Humboldt, as last described, 169.—Rewards of Authors, 169.—New Translations of Northern Literature, by George Stephens, 169.—Old Work on Etherization, 169.—Phillip Augustus, a Tragedy, 169.—Bianchi's Turkish Dictionary, 169.—General Daumas, on Western Africa, 170.—De Conches, the Bibliopole, 170.—Jules Sandeau, 170.—French Play of Massalina, 170.—New French Review, 170.—Victor Hugo's New Works, 170.—M. de St. Beuve, 170.—The Shoemakers of Paris, 170.—Recovery of a Comedy by Molière, 171.—Memoirs of Bishop Flaget, 171.—Travels in the United States by M. Marmier, 171.—Guizot and Thiers, 171.—M. Mignet, 171.—Lamartine, 171.—Michelet, 171.—Paris and its Monuments, 171.—Mullie's Biographical Dictionary, 171.—The Chancellor d'Auguesseau, 171.—Romance and Tales by Napoleon Bonaparte, 172.—Henry's Life of Calvin, 172.—Discovery of lost Books by Origen, 173.—Important Discoveries of Greek MSS. near Constantinople, 173.—Prose Translation of Homer, 173.—Gillie's Literary Veteran, 173.—Lord Holland's Reminiscences, 173.—Meeting of the British Association, 173.—Miss Martineau and the Westminster Review, 174.—Fielding and Smollett, 174.—Mr. Bigelow's Book on Jamaica, in England, 174.—Macready and George Sand, 174.—The Stones of Venice, 175.—Bulwer Lytton's New Play, 175.—The Last Scenes of Chivalry, 166.—Fanny Corbeaux, 176.—John G. Taylor on Cuba, 176.—Lady Wortley's Travels in the United States, 176.—Opinions of Mr. Curtis's Nile Notes, 177.—Rev. Satan Montgomery, 177.—Documentary History of New-York, 177.—Albert J. Pickett's History of Alabama, 178.—Mrs. Farnham, 178.—Mr. Gayarre on Louisiana, 178.—Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution, 178.—Rev. J. H. Ingraham, and his Novels, 178.—Mrs. Judson.—The Lady's Book, 179.—Mr. J. R. Tyson, 179.—Dr. Valentine's Manual, 179.—Episodes of Insect Life, Mr. Willis, 179.—Robinson's Greek Grammar, 179.—Kennedy's Swallow Barn, 179.—American Members of the Institute of France, 179.—Works of Walter Colton, 179.—Cobbin's Domestic Bible, 179.—Works of Several American Statesmen now in Press, 180.—Professor Gillespie's Translation of Comte, 180.—Lincoln's Horace, 180.—New Novel by the Author of Talbot and Vernon, 180.—Life in Fejee, 180.—S. G. Goodrich in England, 180.—Recent American Novels, 180.—Publications of the Hakluyt Society, 180.—Dr. Mayo's Romance Dust, 180.—Thackeray's Lectures, 180.—Mr. Alison, 180.—Dr. Titus Tobler on Professor Robinson, 312.—New German Novels, 313.—Kohl, the Traveller, 313.—Anastasius Grun and Lenau, 313.—Sir Charles Lyell's American Travels Reviewed in Germany, 313.—More of the Countess Hahn-Hahn, 313.—German Translations of David Copperfield, Richard Edney, and Mrs. Hall's Sorrows of woman, 313.—Books on Affairs at Vienna, 314.—Travels of the Prince Valdimar, 314.—De Montbeillard on Spinosa, 314.—Joseph Russeger, 314.—Dr. Strauss, 314.—German Universities, 314.—Frau Pfieffer, the Traveller, 314.—Parisians sketched by Ferdinand Hiller, 314.—The Diplomats of Italy, 315.—A Parisian Willis, 315.—De Castro on the Spanish Protestants, 316.—Books on the Hungarian Matters, 316.—Literature in Bengal, 316.—Publications on the late Revolutions, at Turin and Florence, 317.—Pensions to Authors in France, 317.—MSS. by Louis XVI., 317.—Memoirs of Balzac, 317.—Quinet on a National Religion, 318.—New Life of Marie Stuart, 318.—Count Montalembert, 318.—English Biographies by Guizot, 319.—Romieu's Spectre Rouge de 1852, 319.—Novel by Count Jarnac, 319.—French inscriptions in Egypt, 319.—Saint Beauve and Mirabeau, 319.—Democratic Martyrs, 319.—Prosper Merimee on Ticknor's Spanish Literature, 320.—Innocence of M. Libri, 320.—The Politique Nouvelle, 320.—New Labors of Lamartine, 320.—An Assyrian Poet in Paris, 320.—The Edinburgh Review and The Leader on Cousin, 321.—Walter Savage Landor in Old Age, 321.—Moses Margoliouth, 321.—Publications of the Ecclesiastical History Society, 321.—The Life of Wordsworth, 322.—Blackwood on American Poets, 322.—Comte's new Calendar, 323.—Old Tracts against Romanism, 323.—The Scott Copyrights, 323.—Mrs. Browning's new Poems, 323.—Mrs. Hentz's last Novel Dramatized, 323.—New Book on the United States, 323.—The Guild of Literature and Art, 324.—Rev. C. G. Finney's Works in England, 324.—Talvi, 324.—Mrs. Southworth's new Novel, 324.—Dr. Spring's last Work, 324.—Mrs. Sigourney, 324.—Henry Martyn, 324.—Algernon Sydney, 324.—New Volumes of Poems, 324.—Paria, by John E. Warren, 325.—Klopstock in Zurich, 458.—Wackernagel's History of German Literature, 458.—German Dictionary with Americanisms, 458.—Carl Heideloff's new Book in Architecture, 458.—Siebeck on Beauty in Gardening, 459.—Schafer's Life of Goethe, 459.—Franz Liszt, 459.—History of the Khalifs, by Weil, 459.—Von Rhaden's Reminiscences of a Military Career, 459.—Life of Baron Stein, 459.—Adalbert Kellar, 460.—Heeren and Uckert's Histories of the States of Europe, 460.—The Countess Spaur on Pius IX., 460.—Illustration of German Idioms, 460.—Last Book of the Countess Hahn-Hahn, 460.—"Intercourse with the departed by means of Magnetism," 460.—Languages in Russia, 461.—Professor Thiersch, 461.—"The Right of Love," a new German Drama, 461.—New German Travels in the United States, 461.—Dr. Ernst Foster, 461.—New Work on the use of Stucco, 461.—Russian Novels and Poems, 461.—Captain Wilkes's Exploring Expedition and Taylor's Eldorado in German, 461.—Collection of Greek and Latin Physicians, 462.—Correspondence of Mirabeau, 462.—Louis Blanc's Pius de Girondins, 462.—Anecdote of Scribe, 462.—A Siamese Grammar, 462.—"The Death of Jesus," by Citizen Xavier Sauriac, 463.—Dufai's Satire on Socialist Women, 463.—Remains of Saint Martin, 463.—Documents respecting the Trial of Louis XVI., 463.—Another Book on the French Revolutions, 463.—Letters on the Turkish Empire by M. Ubicini, 463.—Collection of Sacred Moralists, 463.—M. Regnault's History, 463.—New Novel by Mery, 464.—French Revolutionary Portraits, 464.—Swedish Version of "Vala," by Parke Godwin, 464.—An Epic by Lord Maidstone, 464.—A Defence of Ignorance, 464.—New Story by Dickens, 464.—Thackeray's Lectures on British Humorists, 464.—Theodore S. Fay, 465.—Works Published by Mr. Hart, 465.—Carlyle's Life of Sterling, 465.—Historical Memoirs of Thomas H. Benton, 465.—New Life of Jefferson, 466.—Life of Margaret Fuller, by Emerson and Channing, 466.—The late Rev. Dr. Ogilby's Memoirs, 466.—Dr. Gilman on Edward Everett, 466.—W. Gilmore Simms, 466.—Works on "Women's Rights," 466.—Illness of Rev. Dr. Smyth, 466.—New Novels, 467.—Miss Bremer, 467.—Vestiges of Civilization, 467.—Shocco Jones, 467.—Works in Press of Mr. Scribner, 467.—John Neal, 467.—Poems of Fanny Green, 467.—Ik. Marvel, 467.—Martin Farquhar Tupper, 467.—Dr. Holbrook, 467.—New Edition of "Margaret," 467.—Mr. Schoolcraft's Memoirs, 467.—New Work by Mr. Melville, 467.—Col. Pickett's History of Alabama, 468.—Dr. Baird's Christian Retrospect, 469.—The Parthenon, 469.—Cardinal Wiseman's Lectures, 469.—Works of Walter Colton, 469.—History of the French Protestants, 469.—New Poems of Alice Carey, Boker, &c., 470.
Botello, Astonishing Adventures of James.—By Dr. Mayo, author of "Kaloolah," [40]
Biography of a Bad Shilling, [92]
Borrow, Real Adventures and Achievements of George, 183
Butchers' Leap at Munich, 298
Beautiful Streamlet and the Utilitarian, the 307
Benevolent Institutions of New-York. (Illustrated.) 434
Cooper, James Fenimore. (With a Portrait.) [1]
Calhoun, Powers's Statue of John C. (Illustrated.) [8]
Cocked Hats, A Supply of, [97]
Costume of the Future, [103]
Coleridge, Hartley and his Genius, 249
Conspiracy of Pontiac, 440
Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V. 376
Crystal Palace, the. A Letter from London. (Illustrated.) 444
Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V., 520
Doddridge, and some of his Friends, [77]
Donkeys at Smithfield, [97]
Duelling Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago—By Thomas Carlyle, [108]
Dog Alcibiades, the,—By C. Astor Bristed, 211
Dewey, George W., and his Writings. (Portrait.) 286
Dickens and Thackeray, 532
Egyptian Antiquities, Preservation of 299
Fashions. Ladies' (Illustrated.) [143], 287, 429
Fiddlers, Last of the,—By Berthold Auerbach, [87]
First Ship in the Niger.—By W. A. Russell, [127]
Faun over his Goblet.—By R. H. Stoddard, 184
Festival upon the Neva, 357
French Feuilletonistes upon London, 446
Gibbon, an Inedited Letter of Edward, [126]
Genlis, Madame de, and Madame de Stael, 392
Glimpse of the Great Exhibition, 409
Great Men's Wives, 413
Grave of Grace Aguilar.—By Mrs. S. C. Hall, 513
Hindostanee Newspapers. The Flying Sheet of Benares, [24]
Herbert Knowles: "The Three Tabernacles," [57]
Hogarth, William. (Six Engravings.) 149
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. (Portrait.) 156
Has there been a great Poet in the Nineteenth Century? 182
Hat Reform: A Revolution in Head-Gear, 187
Heart Whispers.—By Mary E. Hewitt, 200
Herbert, Henry William. (Portrait, &c.) 289
Halleck, Fitz Greene. (A Portrait.) 433
Historical Review of the Month, [127], 269, 423, 585
Jews and Christians, 162
Jesuit Relations: New Discoveries of MSS. in Rome, 185
Jeffrey and Joanna Baillie, 312
Kendall, George Wilkins. (Portrait.) 145
Layard, Discoverer of Nineveh, to.—By Walter Savage Landor, [98]
Life in Persia in the Nineteenth Century, [105]
Littleness of a Great People: Mr. Whitney, 161
Leading Editors of Paris, 239
Love.—By John Critchly Prince, 247
Lyra, a Lament.—By Alice Carey, 253
London Described by a Parisian, 306
Lion in the Toils, the,—By C. Astor Bristed, 366
Legend of St. Mary's,—By Alice Carey, 416
Marcy, Dr., and Homoeopathy. (Portrait.) 429
Mining under the Sea, [102]
My Novel.—By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, [110], 253, 399, 541.
Marie Antoinette.—By Lord Holland and Mr. Jefferson, [23]
Music.—By Alfred B. Street, [25]
Monte Leone.—By H. De St. Georges, [58], 201, 346, 489.
Modern Haroun Al Raschid, 245
Man of Tact, the, 372
Meeting of the Nations in Hyde Park.—By W. M. Thackeray, 330
Mary Kingsford: a Police Sketch, 417
Mayo, Dr., author of "Kaloolah." (Portrait.) 442
Marie, Jeanne, and Lyrical Poetry in Germany, 457
Nell Gwynne.—By Mrs. S. C. Hall. (Portrait and six other Illustrations.) [9]
Natural Revelation.—By Alfred B. Street, 200
Nicholas Von der Flue.—By the author of "Rural Hours," 472
Old Maids, a Family of, 289
Otsego Hall—Residence of J. F. Cooper. (Illustrated,) 285
Our Phantom Ship among the Ice, 386
Our Phantom Ship—Japan, 534
Policarpa La Salvarietta, the Heroine of Colombia, 162
Professional Devotion in a Lawyer, 188
Paganini, Anecdotes of, 237
Prospects of African Colonization, 397
Politeness in Paris and London.—By Sir Henry Bulwer, K.C.B., 363
Physiology of Intemperance, [98]
Prophecy.—By Alice Carey, 244
Recent Deaths:—(Portrait of Joanna Baillie.)—Viscount Gardinville, [140].—Rev. Dr. Ogilby, [140].—George Thompson, [140].—The Emir Bechir, [140].—Dr. Leuret, [140].—M. Kockkoek, [140].—Joanna Baillie, [140].—Spontini, the Composer, [142].—Charles Coqurel, [142].—Col. George Williams, [142].—Charles Matthew Sander, [142].—Lord Bexley, [143].—John Pye Smith, [143].—Samuel Farmer Jarvis, D.D., LL.D., 279.—Judge Burnside, 279.—Ex-Governor Isaac Hill, 280.—Judge Daggett, 231.—Major James Rees, 281.—M. M. Noah, 282.—John S. Skinner, 282.—Major General Brooke, 282.—F. Gottlieb Hand, 282.—M. Jacobi, 282.—Hans Christian Oersted, 283.—Henri Delatouche, 283—Madame de Sermetz, 284.—Marshal Dode de la Bruniere, 284.—M. Maillau, 284.—Dr. Henry de Breslau, 284.—Commissioner Lin, 284.—John Louis Yanoski, 284.—Count d'Hozier, 284.—George Brentano, 284.—Francis Xavier Fernbach, 284.—Jules Martien, 284.—Captain Cunningham, 428.—John Henning, 428.—Padre Rozavan, 428.—Prince Wittgenstein, 428.—Lord Langdale, 428.—E. J. Roberts, 428,—Professor Wahlenberg, 428.—Philip Hone, Archbishop Eccleston, Gen. Brady, 428.—Dr. Samuel George Morton, 563.—Richard Lalor Shiel, 563.—Richard Phillips, 565.—Dowton, the Comedian, 565.—Admiral Codrington, 565.—Lord Chancellor Cottenham, 565.
Record of Scientific Discovery—Photography, [138].—London Society of Arts, [138].—Barry [138].—Gold, [138].—Light and Heat, [138].—Chinese Coal, [138].—Water of the Ocean, [138].—The Asteroids, [139].—Shooting Stars, [139].—Geology of Spain, [139].—Scientific Researches in Abyssinia, [139].—New Motors, 276.—Water Gas, 276.—Improvements in the Steam Engine, 276,—New Applications of Zinc, &c., 276.—New Adaptation of Lithography, 276.—Annual of Scientific Discovery, 276.—Oxygen from Atmospheric Ari, 277.—Whitened Camera for Photography, 277.—M. Laborde on Photography, 277.—Abich on the Country near the Black Sea, 277.—D'Hericourt on African Discoveries, 277.—Enormous Fossil Eggs, 277.—Papers by Leverrier and others before the Paris Academy of Sciences, 278.—Barth and Overweg in Africa, 278.—General Radowitz on Philology, 278.—Latour, on Artificial Coal, 278—Scientific Congress at Paris, 278.—Experiments at the Porcelain Factories in Sevres, 279.—Captain Purnell on Ship Cisterns, 279.—Electric Sun at Gotha, 279.—Letter from Professor Morse on the Hillotype, 566.—Professor Blume and the French Academy, 566.
Rotation of the Earth. (Illustrated.) 296
Shelley, Memoir of the late Mrs. Percy Bysshe, [16]
Shakspeare, Mr. Hudson's New Edition of, [18]
"Stones of Venice," the,—By John Ruskin, [19]
Story Without a Name.—By G. P. R. James, [45], 189, 333, 477.
Sweden, Sketches of Life in, 450
Sorcery and Magic, History of 247
Snowdrop in the Snow.—By Sydney Yendys, 201
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, and his Works. (Portrait.) 300
Second Wife, or the Tables Turned, 331
Smuggler Malgre Lui, the, 394
Sorel, Agnes, True History of—By R. H. Horne, 396
Strauss, Dr. David, in Weimar, 410
Schalken, the Painter: A Ghost Story, 449
Scenes at Malmaison, 504
Transformation: A Tale.—By the late Mrs. Shelley, [70]
Thurlow, Lord, and his Terrible Swearing, [85]
Twin Sisters.—By Wilkie Collins, 221
Trenton Falls.—By N. P. Willis. Four Engravings, 292
Tobacco, 311
Washington. (Two Engravings.) 146
Wilfulness of Woman.—By the late Mrs. Osgood, 188
Wreck of the Old French Aristocracy, 373
Walpole's Opinions of his Contemporaries, 488
"Work Away," 533
Yeast: A Problem.—By the author of "Alton Locke," 160