Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II

by Various

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

Actors and their Salaries	403
A Death-Bed. By James Aldrich	[84]
A Dream and the Interpretation Thereof	816
Address to Gray Hair	699
An Agreeable Surprise	[84]
A little Stimulant	361
Anecdote of a Dog	[97]
Anecdote of a Hawk	490
Anecdotes of Napoleon	231
Anecdotes of Serpents	663
Anecdotes of Wordsworth	319
An Empty House	[103]
An Excellent Match	315
Apology for Burns	334
Bachelor's Christmas	399
Beauties of the Law	543
Births:—Mrs. Meek of a Son	672
Birth of Crime	614
Bona Lombardi Brunoro	155
Carol for the New Year	396
Chapter on Bears	546
Chapter on Dreams	768
Chapter on Shawls	[39]
Chapter on Wolves	787
Charles Wolfe	734
Cheerful Views of Human Nature	242
Child Commodore	641
Climate of Canada	358
Colds and Cold Water	[110]
Conflict of Love	[63]
Courtesy of Americans	846
Crazed	401
Crisis in the Affairs of Mr. John Bull	235
Crocodile Battery	768
Crystal Palace	584
Curiosities of Railway Traveling	194
Curran, the Irish Orator	497
Dangers of Doing Wrong	226
Darling Dorel	843
Death of a Goblin	478
Death of Howard	298
Death of John Randolph	[80]
Dog and Deer of the Army	407
Domestic Life of Alexander, Emperor of Russia	[99]
Edible Birds'-Nests of China	397
Efforts of a Gentleman in search of Despair	521
Encounter with an Iceberg	406
England in 1850. By Lamartine	[46]
Escape of Queen Mary from Lochleven Castle	[22]
Fair in Munich	774
Fashions for December	[143]
Fashions for Early Winter	287
Fashions for Later Winter	431
Fashions for Early Spring	575
Fashions for Spring	719
Fashions for May	863
Fate of a German Reformer	[76]
Five Minutes too Late	647
Fidgety People	662
Flowers in the Sick Room	[52]
Freaks of Nature	356
French Revolutionists, Marat, Robespierre, and Danton	[27]
Gabrielle; or, The Sisters	801
Gamblers of the Rhine	[61]
General Rosas and the Argentine Republic	484
German Picture of the Scotch	[25]
Ghost-Stories of Chapelizod	499
Give Wisely! An Anecdote	[121]
Gunpowder and Chalk	[18]
Habits and Amusements of the London Costermongers	644
Haunts of Genius—Gray, Burke, Milton, Dryden, and Pope	[49]
Heart of John Middleton	449
History and Mystery of the Glass-House	308
Horrors of War	658
Household of Sir Thomas More	616, 818
How to be Idolized	640
Incident in the First French Revolution	622
Invitation to the Zoological Gardens	297
Jane Eccles; or, Confessions of an Attorney	677
Judge Not	626
Lamartine on the Religion of Revolutionary Men	598
Land, Ho!—A Sketch of Australia	357
Leaves from Punch
Preparatory Schools for Young Ladies; Ladies'Arithmetic; Netting for Ladies, 285. A FalseApple-ation; A Tête-à-Tête; Expected out soon;Going down to a Watering-place; Attraction;19th Cent'ry; Putting the Cart before the Horse;A Narrow Escape; Division of Labor; AnimalEconomy; A Holiday at the Public Offices, 429.Lectures on Letters; Punch on Special Pleading;Smithfield Club Cattle Show; Golden Opportunities;Universal Contempt of Court; StartlingFact, 569. 1851; Please, Sir, shall I hold yourHorse? The Affairs of Grease; The War on Hats;Peace Offering; The Best Law Book; Justicefor Bachelors; The Weather, a Drama for Every-DayLife; A Juvenile Party; the Kitchen Rangeof Art; Reward of Merit, 713. Encouragementto Book-Lenders; Diplomacy and Gastronomy,Supper at a Juvenile Party; One of the Juvenilesafter the Party; Conversation-Books for 1851;To find Room in a Crowded Omnibus; A File toSmooth Asperities; The Lowest Depth of Meanness;A Little Bit of Humbug, 859.
Letters and Letter Writing	[35]
Literary Notices.
The Salamander; Spencer's Pastor's Sketches;Abbott's Madame Roland; Stanton's Sketches ofReforms and Reformers; Gorree's Churches andSects of the United States; Cenotaph to a Womanof the Burman Mission; Fleetwood's Life ofChrist; Banbridge's Scripture History for theYoung; Poems by Grace Greenwood, [139].Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair; The GreenHand; The New Englander; Bibliotheca Sacra;Maturin's Lyrics of Spain and Erin; Holmes'sAstræa; De Quincey's Essays; Bigelow's Jamaicain 1851; Cantica Laudis; Young's Translationsfrom Beranger, [140]. Andersen's Tales;Gem of the Western World; Our Saviour withProphets and Apostles; Sacred Scenes; NationalCook-Book; Smith's Relations between Scriptureand Geology, [141]. Life and Works of JohnAdams; The Broken Bracelet; The Immortal;Boyd's edition of Paradise Lost; General Viewof the Fine Arts; Artist's Chromatic Hand-Book,[142]. Reveries of a Bachelor; Richard Edney;Washburn's Issue of Philosophic Thought, 281.The Memorial; Evening of Life; Mrs. Knight'sMemoir of Hannah More; Andrews' Latin Lexicon,282. Smith's Classical Dictionary; Mansfield'sAmerican Education; The Ministry of theBeautiful; Green's History and Geography ofthe Middle Ages; Christian Melodies; Sketch ofFowell Buxton; The Manhattaner in New Orleans,283. Redfield's Twelve Qualities of Mind;Winter in Madeira; Gems by the Wayside;The World's Progress; Vinet's Montaigne; Sumner'sOrations; The Broken Bud; Bardouac;Fadette; Memoir of Alexander Waugh; Chanticleer,284. Life and Times of Gen. Lamb; Memoirof James Handasyde Perkins; Humboldt'sReligious Thoughts and Opinions; Balmes'sProtestantism and Catholicity; Tappan's UniversityEducation, 425. Gilfillan's Bards of theBible; Webster's Dictionary, 426. CelebratedSaloons; Home Ballads; History of my Pets;Cheever's Island World of the Pacific; Life ofSummerfield; Greek Exile; Carpenter's Useand Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors; Mother's Recompense;The Diosma; Poems by S.G. Goodrich,427. Woodbury's New Method of learningGerman; Poems by Frances A. and Metta V.Fuller; Lives of the Queens of Scotland; Pendennis;Southey's Life and Correspondence;Murray's Decline of Popery; Henry Smeaton,428. The Howadji; Crumbs from the Land o'Cakes; De Quincey's Miscellaneous Essays;Hayward's Faust; Lavengro, 565. Abbott'sMalleville; Practical Cook-Book; Foster's Discourseon Missions; Lewis's Restoration of theJews; Anderson's Geography; The Dove andthe Eagle; Carter's Publications, 566. Hildreth'sUnited States; Lossing's Field Book; DuBarry's Progress of the United States; Salanderand the Dragon, 567. The Prairie; Stanton'sAddress, and Street's Poem at Hamilton College;Lord Holland's Foreign Reminiscences; JaneBouverie; Mayhew's London Labor and LondonPoor; The Moorland Cottage, 568. Johnson'sCalifornia and Oregon, 709. Mount Hope, 710.Parnassus in Pillory, 711. Hawthorne's TwiceTold Tales; Time the Avenger; Porter's EducationalSystems of the Puritans and the Jesuits;Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines; Poetry fromthe Waverley Novels; Whipple's Essays andReviews; Loomis's Geometry and Calculus;The City of the Silent; Blunt's Shipmaster's Assistant,712. Hawthorne's House of the SevenGables, 855. Buttmann's Greek Grammar; Lee'sEcclesiastical Manual; Dixon's Life of Penn; TheRangers; Mulchinoch's Ballads; Foster's ChristianPurity; Lyra Catholica, 856. The Soldier ofthe Cross; Field's Irish Confederates; Schmitz'sHistory of Greece; Abbott's Franconia Stories;London Labor and the London Poor; Dwight'sRoman Republic; De Quincey's Cæsars; Lifeon the Plains of the Pacific; Hints to Sportsmen,857. Curran and His Contemporaries; Gayarre'sLouisiana; Monge's Statics; Warreniana; Jung-Stilling'sPneumatology; Tuckerman's Poems;Theory of Effect; Volcano Diggings; Cooper'sWing and Wing; Irving's Conquest of Florida;Banker's Common-Place Book, 858.
Lively Turtle	[52]
Lucy Cawthorne	633
Lunatic Asylum in Palermo	183
Madame Campan	153
Mathematical Hermit	627
Metal Founder of Munich	516
Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune. By Charles Lever	173, 364, 468, 737
Michelet, the French Historian	353
Milton and Wordsworth	201
Mistakes in Personal Identity	[69]
Modern Mummies	321
Monthly Record of Current Events.
UNITED STATES.
Political and General News.—State offeeling on the Compromise measures, [122]. Lettersof Washington Hunt to the Secession andAnti-Rent Conventions, [122]. Meeting at CastleGarden; Letter of Mr. Webster; Nominations,[122]. Constitution of Congress, [123]. State Conventionin Georgia, [123]. Meeting at Macon, [123].State of Feeling in Georgia, [123]. In South Carolina,[124]. In Alabama; Gov. Collier declines tocall a State Convention; Letter of Mr. Hilliard,[124]. In Mississippi, [124]. In Louisiana, [124].Letters of Senators Downs and Soulé; Letterfrom the Congressional delegation to the Governor,[124]. Correspondence between Isaac Hilland Mr. Webster, [125]. Dinner to Mr. Clayton,[125]. Opening of Congress, 263. Message ofPresident Fillmore, 133. Report of the Secretaryof War, 264. Of the Secretary of the Navy,265. Of the Postmaster General, 265. Of theSecretary of the Interior, 266. Bill for the protectionof fugitives in Vermont, 267. Messageof Gov. Ford of Virginia, 267. Of the Governorof Alabama, 267. Of Mississippi, 267. Unionmajority in Georgia, 267. Message of Gov. Bellof Texas, 268. Of Gov. Seabrook of South Carolina,268. Of Gov. Brown of Florida, 268. TheNashville Convention, 268. Various Union meetings;and letters and speeches of Messrs. Webster,Choate, Stuart, Woodbury, Hilliard, andothers, 268, 269, 270, 271. Reception of Mr. Clayin the Legislature of Kentucky, 271. Letters ofMessrs. Hamilton, Poinsett, and Rush, 272.Speech of Mr. Clayton, 272. George Thompson,272. General News from California, 272, 410, 556,701. General news from Oregon, 273. Webster'sreply to Hulsemann, 409, 848. Opening of the Legislatureof New York, and Message of Gov. Hunt,409. Message of Gov. Wright of Indiana, 410.Florida resolutions, 410. Of Gov. Johnston ofPennsylvania, 410. Boundary Commission, 411,556, 701. Safety of the Steamer Atlantic, 555.Progress of measures in Congress, 555. Actionof the Legislature of North Carolina in favor ofUnion, etc., 555. Indictment of Gov. Quitman,556. Thanksgiving in Texas, 556. Loss of theJohn Adams, 556. Inaugural of Gov. Fort ofNew Jersey, 556. Letter of Gen. Houston infavor of Union, 556. Action for Union in Delaware,556. Union meeting at Westchester, 556.Correspondence between a British consul andthe Governor of South Carolina respecting imprisonmentof colored seamen, 556. Indian hostilitiesin California, 556, 701. Gold Bluffs onTrinity River, 556, 701. Amount of gold shipped,556. Adjournment of Congress, and notice ofmeasures acted upon, 700. Measures for the reliefof Kossuth, 700. The Postage bill, 700.Rescue of a fugitive slave in Boston, 701. Homesteadexemption in Illinois, 701. Exemption inDelaware, 701. Free negroes in Iowa, 701.Germans in Texas, 701. Manufactures at theSouth, 701. Quiet after Excitement, 847. NewYork Common school law, 847. Canal enlargementbill, 847. Legislative visit to New York,847. The sergeant-at-arms and the gamblers, 847.Ohio resolutions on the fugitive slave law, 847.Virginia Union resolutions, 847. General Unionfeeling at the South, 848. In South Carolina, 848.Mr. Hayne's disunion letter, 848. Senator Phelp'sletter, 848. Amin Bey, 848. New Constitutionof Ohio, 848. Virginia Constitutional Convention,849. Socorro tragedy, 849. Elections.—State elections in New York andNew Jersey, [122]. In Ohio and Massachusetts,[123]. General Congressional result, [123]. Electionof U.S. Senators, 555, 701. Mr. Fish in NewYork, 555, 847.
MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA.
Capture of slaves at Rio, [127]. General newsfrom Mexico, 273, 411, 557, 701, 849. Message ofHerera, 457. Inauguration and speech of Aristaas President, 557. Affairs in Nicaragua; discoveryof gold; proceedings of Mr. Chatfield, theBritish consul, 557. Intelligence from Valparaiso,557. Hostilities between Guatemala and SanSalvador, 702. Gold in New Grenada, 702.Route across the isthmus through Lake Nicaragua,702. Earthquake at Carthagena, 702. Peru,702. Banishment of Buenos Ayreans from Bolivia,702. Prohibition of the landing of liberatedslaves in Brazil, 702.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Establishment of Catholic sees in England;Letter of Dr. Ullathorne, [125]. Speech of LordStanley on Protection, [125]. Tenant right in Ireland,[126]. The Synod of Thurles, [126]. Increaseof Crime, [126]. Submarine telegraph, [126], 132.Illumination on Arthur's Seat, [126]. Speech ofPrince Albert at York, [126]. Consuming smokeat Manchester, [127]. Emigration, [127]. Movementsfor independence in New South Wales,[127]. The Exhibition, [132], 274, 278, 419, 558,704, 851. Bridge at Westminster, [133]. NewCollege at Glasgow, [133]. Catholic excitement,273, 558. Lord John Russell's Durham Letter,273. Cardinal Wiseman's Appeal, 273. LawReform, 273. Cotton in India, 274. Ornamentalcemeteries in London, 278. Tax on telegraphs,278. General view of the state of England, 411.Progress of the Catholic excitement, 413. Variousaddresses, speeches, deputations, etc., 414.Attempts to increase the supply of Cotton or todiscover a substitute, 414. Famine in the Highlands,415. Opposition of the Cunarders to theAmerican steamers, 415. Increased value ofsilver, 415. Protest of the Bishops of the EpiscopalChurch in Ireland, 558. The surplus, 558.Austria demands the punishment of the assailantsof Haynau, 558. Disturbances at the Cape ofGood Hope, 558. Opening of Parliament; theQueen's Speech, 702. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill;Free-trade motion; unsatisfactory Budget, 703.Defeat of Ministers on franchise question; resignationof Ministers; attempt to form new cabinet,704. Queen Adelaide's pension, 704. Petitionfor constitution for Cape of Good Hope, 704.Protestants of Dublin and Duke of Wellington,704. Viceroyalty of Ireland, 704. Return ofCabinet to office, 848. Ecclesiastical Titles Billmutilated, 849. Checks to Ministers, 850. ArsenicBill, 850. Kaffir revolt, 850. RevolutionaryCommittee, 850. Miss Talbot and the ConventBill, 850. Public execution, 850. Monsteraddress, 850. Charges against Lord Torrington,850. Coal-pit disaster, 850. Adulteration of food,850. Hungarian refugees, 850. New expeditionin search of Sir John Franklin, 851.
FRANCE.
Pretended Republican plot, [127]. The President'sattempt to secure the army, [127]. Quarrelbetween him and Changarnier, and between theAssembly and Gen. Hautpoul, who resigns, [128].Opening of the Assembly, and Message of thePresident, 275. Cavaignac and the President,276. Letter from the Duke of Nemours, 276.General view of the state of France, 412. Creditpassed for the army, 415. Public baths, 415.Bill for the observance of the Sabbath, 415.Luxury at the Elysée, 415. Progress of thequarrel between the President and the Assembly;dismissal of Changarnier; dissolution of the Ministries;President's tactics, 558, 704. Dotation tothe President refused, and his consequent action,704. Bill for the return of the Bourbons lost, 851.Speech of M. Dufraisse, 851. The Orleanists andLegitimists, 851. The Archbishop of Paris andthe Bishop of Chartres, 851. Censure of M.Michelet, 851.
GERMANY, ETC.
Hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, [128]. Catastropheat Herrgott, [129]. Forest conflagration inPoland, [129]. Constitutions for Galicia and Bukowina,[129]. Detailed statement of the Germanquestion, 274. Warlike aspect, 275. Generalview of the continent of Europe, 412. Peaceprospects; Conference at Dresden, 415. Returnof the Elector of Hesse Cassel, 416. Internalaffairs of Austria, 416. Progress of affairs in theDresden Conference; understanding betweenAustria and Prussia for the depreciation of theminor powers, 558, 705. Dresden Conference atfault, 851. Policy of Austria and Prussia, 852.
SPAIN, ITALY, AND PORTUGAL.
Address of Mazzini, [127]. Overthrow of theConstitution and of liberty of the press in Tuscany,[129]. Brigandage in the Roman States,[130], 705. General view of the state of the southof Europe, 413. Foreign troops in Rome, 416,705. The Austrians in Venice, 416. Conditionof Sardinia, 416. Disruption of the SpanishCabinet, 416. Conspiracy under Mazzini, 705.Archbishop Hughes at Rome, 705. Liberal ministryin Piedmont, 705. Austrian movements,852. Proclamations against political pamphlets,852. Washington's birthday at Rome, 852. Protestantchapel, 852.
THE EAST.
Contributions preparing for the Exhibition, [128].Affairs in India, [128]. Mortality at Hong Kong,[129]. Cotton in Bombay, [129]. Insurrection inChina, [129]. The Hungarian refugees in Turkey,[129]. Conspiracy at Teheran, [130]. Collisionsbetween the Turks and Christians, 276. Persecutionsin Aleppo, 276. Disturbances in Syria,276. Canal between the Mediterranean and RedSeas, 419. Napier's farewell, 705. Prospectiveannexations, 705. Suppression of insurrection inChina, 705. Death of Lin, 705. Difficulties inEgypt, 705. Troubles at Bagdad, 705. Massacresin Southern Africa, 705.
LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND PERSONAL.
United States.—Dinner to Mr. Webster athis native place, [130]. Amin Bey, [130]. M. Vattemare;Statue of Calhoun; Wm. W. Story;Wm. D. Gallagher, Prof. Filopanti; Daniel D.Barnard, [130]. Crawford's Washington; bust ofAllen; monument to Warren; movements ofartists, [131]. Gift-books and Annuals, 276. Lessing'sMartyrdom of Huss, 277. Ehninger'setchings, 277. Academy of Design lectures, 277.Hawthorne, 277. Greek Slave, 277. JennyLind, 277, 852. Third ring of Saturn, 277. Cultivationof tea, 277. Darley's outlines, 277. Healey'sportraits of Calhoun and Webster, 277. Power'sstatue of America, 279. Mr. Webster on theMayflower, 416. Stephenson's statue of theWounded Indian, 416. Panorama of Pilgrim'sProgress, 417. Mount's Lucky Throw, 417.Powell's Burial of Fernando de Soto, 417. Prof.Hart's Female Prose Writers, 417. Mrs. Hale'sFemale Biography, 417. Mr. Putnam's newpublications, 417. The Opera, 417. Paine'sWater-gas, 417. Dembinski, 417. Public lecturesby various individuals, 277, 559, 705. Presidentiallibrary, 559. Burns's birthday, 559.Dinner to Mr. Hoe, 559. Books, 559. Papers ofCitizen Genet, 559. Talvi, 559. Panoramas, 705.Arrival of Tupper, 705. Celebration of Washington'sbirth-day, 706. Irving to Ichabod Crane,706. Opening of Exhibition of Academy of Design,852. Greenough's Pioneer, 852. Healey'sCalhoun, 852. Pictures by Wright, Duggan,Stearns, and Richards, 852. Tupper as a lion,853. Calhoun's Life and Works, 853. Worksof Alexander Hamilton, 853. Taylor's El-Doradoin German, 853. First cotton sent to Liverpool,853. Dr. Goadby's insects, 853. Acquittal of theCuban invaders, 853. Foreign.—Miss Howard's donation for hospitalfor widows, [126]. Sir John Franklin, [126],[132]. Levi's Commercial Law, [131]. Wordsworth;Mazzini; Southey; Sir Robert Peel, [131].Idiots, [132]. Delaroche's Napoleon crossing theAlps, [132]. Monument to Elliott; Tindal, [132].Artists at Rome, [133]. Duke of Wellington'ssanctum, [133]. Gutzlaff, [133]. Government ofthe Sandwich Islands, [133]. French exhibitionof pictures, [134]. Theatrical censorship, [134].Joan of Arc, [134]. Madame de Genlis, [134]. Thewoorari, [134]. Suspension bridge across theStraits of Dover, [134]. Barral and Bixio, [135].Sundry German books, [135], 422. Statues toThaer, Gustavus Adolphus, Tegner, and Plettenberg,[135]. Lessing's Martyrdom of Huss, [135].Literary Society at Jerusalem, [135]. Polish literature,[135]. Ticknor's Spanish Literature inGerman, [136]. Portrait of Constantine, [136]. Newlocomotive, [136]. Meyerbeer, [136]. Statue ofBavaria, [136]. Kinkel, [136]. Miscellanies, [137],[138], 278. Literary pensions, 278, 560. ThePrincess D'Este and the literary fund, 278.French voting machine, 279. New aerostaticmachine, 279. Rossini; Armand Marrast; Jehanle Bel, 279. A common meridian, 279. Snailtelegraph, 279. Beranger, 280. Mock Messageof the President of France, 280. Theatrical quarrelsin Brussels, 280. Heinrich Heine, 280.Works of art for the King of Bavaria and theEmperor of Russia, 280. Written language inWestern Africa, 418. Earl of Carlisle's lectures,418. Walter Savage Landor, 418. The Napiers,418. Dr. Johnson and the Welsh bard, 418.Lawrence's portrait of Peel, 418. Copyright toforeigners in England, 418. Copying telegraph,419. Monument to the Duke of Cambridge, 419.London charities, 419. Windsor Reward Society,419. Ragged Schools, 419. Sale of theeffects of O'Connell, 419. French telegraphs,419. Guizot on Washington and Monk, 420.Toussaint Louverture, 420. St. Prix on ConstitutionalLaw, 420. Effect of the French Revolutionon newspapers, 420. Cemeteries in Paris,420. Carl Ferd. Becker, 420. Bruno Bauer,421. Brockhaus, 421. The Leipzig Book-Fair,422. Rauch's Monument to Frederick theGreat, 422. Tunnel under the Neva, 422.Translations into Russian, 422. Books prohibitedin Italy, 423. Destruction of vase in the Vatican,423. Oersted, 423. Passion-play at Ammergau,423. Life of Foscolo, 423. D'Arlincourt's L'ItalieRouge, 423. Statue to Olbers, 423. Scandinavianliterature, 423. Lamartine, 560, 706. Badspelling, 560. St. Peter's chair, 560. Layard,560. Last survivor of Cook's voyages, 561. SirRoger de Coverley's chaplain redivivus, 561.Fossils as manure, 561. New classical works inGermany, 561. Mohammedan histories, 561.Ewald's Commentary, 561. Miss Martineau'snew work, 706. Mrs. Sherwood, 706. Knowlesas a controversialist, 706. England as it is, 706.Austrian view of Hungarian affairs, 706. Newton'sway of living, 706. Sundry Books, 706.Remuneration of literature, 706. Talmudicrefinements, 707. Knight and Chambers onpaper-tax, 707. MSS. of Richelieu, 707. Georgethe Fourth, and the library in the Museum, 707.Appleyard on the Kaffir language, 707. Signalsin fog, 708. Velocity of light, 707. Hail in India,708. Essence of milk, 708. Deutches Museum,853. Causeries du Lundi, 853. Rare old editions,853. Unique edition of La Fontaine, 853.Victor Hugo, 853. New work of Origen, 853.Germania, 1850, 853. Yeast: a Problem, 854.Landor to Duncan, 854. Dahomey and the Dahomans,854. Dynamical Theory of the Earth,854. Memoirs of a Literary Veteran, 854. HartleyColeridge, 854.
OBITUARIES.
Richard M. Johnson, [125]. Watkins; Lenau;Becker; Rottman; Thomaschek, [133]. Garnier,[134]. Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, 279. GustavSchwab; Count Brandenburgh; M. Alexandre;M. Sauve; Gen. Bonnemain; Sir L. St. G. Skeffington;Mr. Raphall; M. Motteley; Lord Nugent;Karl Aug. Espe; Martin D'Auche, 424.D.S. Kaufman, 556. Mr. Ritchie, 560. Audubon,561. Bem, 563. Viscount Alford; Duke ofNewcastle; Bastiat; Maxwell the novelist; Prof.Schumacher, 564. Commissioner Lin, 705. Marquisof Northampton; John Pye Smith; CharlesCoquerel; Spontini, 708. Mrs. Shelley; JoannaBaillie, 709. Isaac Hill; Mordecai M. Noah,854. General Brooke; Commodore Wadsworth;Samuel F. Jarvis; John S. Skinner, 855.
Morning with Moritz Retzsch	509
My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton	[85], 251, 382, 524, 682, 825
Mysteries of a Tea-Kettle	246
New Phase of Bee-Life	488
Napoleon and the Pope	791
Night of Terror in a Polish Inn	[41]
Night with an Earthquake	810
Not all Alone	554
Notes on the Nile	491
Novelty Iron Works; with Description of Marine Steam Engines, and their construction. By Jacob Abbott	721
Passion for collecting Books	397
Personal Appearance and Habits of Robert Southey	145
Phantoms and Realities	457, 601, 753
Pilchard Fishery on the Coast of Cornwall	630
Plate Glass	668
Plea for British Reptiles	813
Prison Anecdote	628
Procrastination	155
Public Opinion and the Press	192
Punch on Birds, Balloons, and Boluses	396
Rattlin the Reefer's Dream	[31]
Rats and Rat-Killers	202
Recollections of Chantrey	322
Recollections of Sir Robert Peel	328
Reminiscence of the French Revolution	480
Robber Outwitted	544
Robber's Revenge	195
Sailing in the Air	168, 323
Saturday in a London-Market	656
Sketches from Life	372
Sketch of a Miser	620
Sketch of my Childhood. By De Quincey	156, 302
Sloped for Texas	187
Spring. By James Thomson	433
Story of Fine-Ear	482
Story of Giovanni Belzoni	947
Story of Silver-Voice and her Sister Zoë	762
Street Music in London	[67]
Tale of Shipwreck	335
Talleyrand	215
The Broken Heart; or, the Well of Pen-Morfa	205
The Champion.—An Incident in Spanish History	781
The Deserted Village. By Goldsmith	[1]
The Dumb Child	194
Factory Boy	660
The Fairy Queen	517
The Farm Laborer.—The Father	674
The Farm Laborer.—The Son	784
The Fugitive King at Boscobel	[10]
The Ghost that appeared to Mrs. Wharton	[72]
The Gipsy in the Thorn-Bush	338
The Golden Age	[120]
The Kaffir Trader	341
The Marriage Settlement	330
The Queen's Tobacco-Pipe	513
The Stolen Fruit.—A Story of Napoleon's Childhood	822
The Talisman.—A Fairy Tale	348
The Traveler. By Goldsmith	289
The Unlawful Gift	[55]
The Unnamed Shell	747
The Watcher	665
The Wife's Stratagem	778
The Woodstream	346
Thomas Harlowe	599
Uncle John; or, The Rough Road to Riches	840
Victims of Science	698
Visit to a Colliery	340
Visit to a Copper Mine	652
Visit to an English Dairy	165
Volcano Girl	188
Voyage in Search of Sir John Franklin	588
Waiting for the Post	238
Washington Irving	577
Waste of War	810
What becomes of all the pins?	597
Wilberforce and Chalmers	824
William Cullen Bryant	581
William Penn's Conversion to Quakerism	613
Winter Vision	359
Wordsworth and Carlyle	201
Young Man's Counselor	213

Preparatory Schools for Young Ladies; Ladies' Arithmetic; Netting for Ladies, 285. A False Apple-ation; A Tête-à-Tête; Expected out soon; Going down to a Watering-place; Attraction; 19th Cent'ry; Putting the Cart before the Horse; A Narrow Escape; Division of Labor; Animal Economy; A Holiday at the Public Offices, 429. Lectures on Letters; Punch on Special Pleading; Smithfield Club Cattle Show; Golden Opportunities; Universal Contempt of Court; Startling Fact, 569. 1851; Please, Sir, shall I hold your Horse? The Affairs of Grease; The War on Hats; Peace Offering; The Best Law Book; Justice for Bachelors; The Weather, a Drama for Every-Day Life; A Juvenile Party; the Kitchen Range of Art; Reward of Merit, 713. Encouragement to Book-Lenders; Diplomacy and Gastronomy, Supper at a Juvenile Party; One of the Juveniles after the Party; Conversation-Books for 1851; To find Room in a Crowded Omnibus; A File to Smooth Asperities; The Lowest Depth of Meanness; A Little Bit of Humbug, 859.

The Salamander; Spencer's Pastor's Sketches; Abbott's Madame Roland; Stanton's Sketches of Reforms and Reformers; Gorree's Churches and Sects of the United States; Cenotaph to a Woman of the Burman Mission; Fleetwood's Life of Christ; Banbridge's Scripture History for the Young; Poems by Grace Greenwood, [139]. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair; The Green Hand; The New Englander; Bibliotheca Sacra; Maturin's Lyrics of Spain and Erin; Holmes's Astræa; De Quincey's Essays; Bigelow's Jamaica in 1851; Cantica Laudis; Young's Translations from Beranger, [140]. Andersen's Tales; Gem of the Western World; Our Saviour with Prophets and Apostles; Sacred Scenes; National Cook-Book; Smith's Relations between Scripture and Geology, [141]. Life and Works of John Adams; The Broken Bracelet; The Immortal; Boyd's edition of Paradise Lost; General View of the Fine Arts; Artist's Chromatic Hand-Book, [142]. Reveries of a Bachelor; Richard Edney; Washburn's Issue of Philosophic Thought, 281. The Memorial; Evening of Life; Mrs. Knight's Memoir of Hannah More; Andrews' Latin Lexicon, 282. Smith's Classical Dictionary; Mansfield's American Education; The Ministry of the Beautiful; Green's History and Geography of the Middle Ages; Christian Melodies; Sketch of Fowell Buxton; The Manhattaner in New Orleans, 283. Redfield's Twelve Qualities of Mind; Winter in Madeira; Gems by the Wayside; The World's Progress; Vinet's Montaigne; Sumner's Orations; The Broken Bud; Bardouac; Fadette; Memoir of Alexander Waugh; Chanticleer, 284. Life and Times of Gen. Lamb; Memoir of James Handasyde Perkins; Humboldt's Religious Thoughts and Opinions; Balmes's Protestantism and Catholicity; Tappan's University Education, 425. Gilfillan's Bards of the Bible; Webster's Dictionary, 426. Celebrated Saloons; Home Ballads; History of my Pets; Cheever's Island World of the Pacific; Life of Summerfield; Greek Exile; Carpenter's Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors; Mother's Recompense; The Diosma; Poems by S.G. Goodrich, 427. Woodbury's New Method of learning German; Poems by Frances A. and Metta V. Fuller; Lives of the Queens of Scotland; Pendennis; Southey's Life and Correspondence; Murray's Decline of Popery; Henry Smeaton, 428. The Howadji; Crumbs from the Land o' Cakes; De Quincey's Miscellaneous Essays; Hayward's Faust; Lavengro, 565. Abbott's Malleville; Practical Cook-Book; Foster's Discourse on Missions; Lewis's Restoration of the Jews; Anderson's Geography; The Dove and the Eagle; Carter's Publications, 566. Hildreth's United States; Lossing's Field Book; Du Barry's Progress of the United States; Salander and the Dragon, 567. The Prairie; Stanton's Address, and Street's Poem at Hamilton College; Lord Holland's Foreign Reminiscences; Jane Bouverie; Mayhew's London Labor and London Poor; The Moorland Cottage, 568. Johnson's California and Oregon, 709. Mount Hope, 710. Parnassus in Pillory, 711. Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales; Time the Avenger; Porter's Educational Systems of the Puritans and the Jesuits; Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines; Poetry from the Waverley Novels; Whipple's Essays and Reviews; Loomis's Geometry and Calculus; The City of the Silent; Blunt's Shipmaster's Assistant, 712. Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, 855. Buttmann's Greek Grammar; Lee's Ecclesiastical Manual; Dixon's Life of Penn; The Rangers; Mulchinoch's Ballads; Foster's Christian Purity; Lyra Catholica, 856. The Soldier of the Cross; Field's Irish Confederates; Schmitz's History of Greece; Abbott's Franconia Stories; London Labor and the London Poor; Dwight's Roman Republic; De Quincey's Cæsars; Life on the Plains of the Pacific; Hints to Sportsmen, 857. Curran and His Contemporaries; Gayarre's Louisiana; Monge's Statics; Warreniana; Jung-Stilling's Pneumatology; Tuckerman's Poems; Theory of Effect; Volcano Diggings; Cooper's Wing and Wing; Irving's Conquest of Florida; Banker's Common-Place Book, 858.

Political and General News.—State of feeling on the Compromise measures, [122]. Letters of Washington Hunt to the Secession and Anti-Rent Conventions, [122]. Meeting at Castle Garden; Letter of Mr. Webster; Nominations, [122]. Constitution of Congress, [123]. State Convention in Georgia, [123]. Meeting at Macon, [123]. State of Feeling in Georgia, [123]. In South Carolina, [124]. In Alabama; Gov. Collier declines to call a State Convention; Letter of Mr. Hilliard, [124]. In Mississippi, [124]. In Louisiana, [124]. Letters of Senators Downs and Soulé; Letter from the Congressional delegation to the Governor, [124]. Correspondence between Isaac Hill and Mr. Webster, [125]. Dinner to Mr. Clayton, [125]. Opening of Congress, 263. Message of President Fillmore, 133. Report of the Secretary of War, 264. Of the Secretary of the Navy, 265. Of the Postmaster General, 265. Of the Secretary of the Interior, 266. Bill for the protection of fugitives in Vermont, 267. Message of Gov. Ford of Virginia, 267. Of the Governor of Alabama, 267. Of Mississippi, 267. Union majority in Georgia, 267. Message of Gov. Bell of Texas, 268. Of Gov. Seabrook of South Carolina, 268. Of Gov. Brown of Florida, 268. The Nashville Convention, 268. Various Union meetings; and letters and speeches of Messrs. Webster, Choate, Stuart, Woodbury, Hilliard, and others, 268, 269, 270, 271. Reception of Mr. Clay in the Legislature of Kentucky, 271. Letters of Messrs. Hamilton, Poinsett, and Rush, 272. Speech of Mr. Clayton, 272. George Thompson, 272. General News from California, 272, 410, 556, 701. General news from Oregon, 273. Webster's reply to Hulsemann, 409, 848. Opening of the Legislature of New York, and Message of Gov. Hunt, 409. Message of Gov. Wright of Indiana, 410. Florida resolutions, 410. Of Gov. Johnston of Pennsylvania, 410. Boundary Commission, 411, 556, 701. Safety of the Steamer Atlantic, 555. Progress of measures in Congress, 555. Action of the Legislature of North Carolina in favor of Union, etc., 555. Indictment of Gov. Quitman, 556. Thanksgiving in Texas, 556. Loss of the John Adams, 556. Inaugural of Gov. Fort of New Jersey, 556. Letter of Gen. Houston in favor of Union, 556. Action for Union in Delaware, 556. Union meeting at Westchester, 556. Correspondence between a British consul and the Governor of South Carolina respecting imprisonment of colored seamen, 556. Indian hostilities in California, 556, 701. Gold Bluffs on Trinity River, 556, 701. Amount of gold shipped, 556. Adjournment of Congress, and notice of measures acted upon, 700. Measures for the relief of Kossuth, 700. The Postage bill, 700. Rescue of a fugitive slave in Boston, 701. Homestead exemption in Illinois, 701. Exemption in Delaware, 701. Free negroes in Iowa, 701. Germans in Texas, 701. Manufactures at the South, 701. Quiet after Excitement, 847. New York Common school law, 847. Canal enlargement bill, 847. Legislative visit to New York, 847. The sergeant-at-arms and the gamblers, 847. Ohio resolutions on the fugitive slave law, 847. Virginia Union resolutions, 847. General Union feeling at the South, 848. In South Carolina, 848. Mr. Hayne's disunion letter, 848. Senator Phelp's letter, 848. Amin Bey, 848. New Constitution of Ohio, 848. Virginia Constitutional Convention, 849. Socorro tragedy, 849.

Elections.—State elections in New York and New Jersey, [122]. In Ohio and Massachusetts, [123]. General Congressional result, [123]. Election of U.S. Senators, 555, 701. Mr. Fish in New York, 555, 847.

Capture of slaves at Rio, [127]. General news from Mexico, 273, 411, 557, 701, 849. Message of Herera, 457. Inauguration and speech of Arista as President, 557. Affairs in Nicaragua; discovery of gold; proceedings of Mr. Chatfield, the British consul, 557. Intelligence from Valparaiso, 557. Hostilities between Guatemala and San Salvador, 702. Gold in New Grenada, 702. Route across the isthmus through Lake Nicaragua, 702. Earthquake at Carthagena, 702. Peru, 702. Banishment of Buenos Ayreans from Bolivia, 702. Prohibition of the landing of liberated slaves in Brazil, 702.

Establishment of Catholic sees in England; Letter of Dr. Ullathorne, [125]. Speech of Lord Stanley on Protection, [125]. Tenant right in Ireland, [126]. The Synod of Thurles, [126]. Increase of Crime, [126]. Submarine telegraph, [126], 132. Illumination on Arthur's Seat, [126]. Speech of Prince Albert at York, [126]. Consuming smoke at Manchester, [127]. Emigration, [127]. Movements for independence in New South Wales, [127]. The Exhibition, [132], 274, 278, 419, 558, 704, 851. Bridge at Westminster, [133]. New College at Glasgow, [133]. Catholic excitement, 273, 558. Lord John Russell's Durham Letter, 273. Cardinal Wiseman's Appeal, 273. Law Reform, 273. Cotton in India, 274. Ornamental cemeteries in London, 278. Tax on telegraphs, 278. General view of the state of England, 411. Progress of the Catholic excitement, 413. Various addresses, speeches, deputations, etc., 414. Attempts to increase the supply of Cotton or to discover a substitute, 414. Famine in the Highlands, 415. Opposition of the Cunarders to the American steamers, 415. Increased value of silver, 415. Protest of the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Ireland, 558. The surplus, 558. Austria demands the punishment of the assailants of Haynau, 558. Disturbances at the Cape of Good Hope, 558. Opening of Parliament; the Queen's Speech, 702. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill; Free-trade motion; unsatisfactory Budget, 703. Defeat of Ministers on franchise question; resignation of Ministers; attempt to form new cabinet, 704. Queen Adelaide's pension, 704. Petition for constitution for Cape of Good Hope, 704. Protestants of Dublin and Duke of Wellington, 704. Viceroyalty of Ireland, 704. Return of Cabinet to office, 848. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill mutilated, 849. Checks to Ministers, 850. Arsenic Bill, 850. Kaffir revolt, 850. Revolutionary Committee, 850. Miss Talbot and the Convent Bill, 850. Public execution, 850. Monster address, 850. Charges against Lord Torrington, 850. Coal-pit disaster, 850. Adulteration of food, 850. Hungarian refugees, 850. New expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 851.

Pretended Republican plot, [127]. The President's attempt to secure the army, [127]. Quarrel between him and Changarnier, and between the Assembly and Gen. Hautpoul, who resigns, [128]. Opening of the Assembly, and Message of the President, 275. Cavaignac and the President, 276. Letter from the Duke of Nemours, 276. General view of the state of France, 412. Credit passed for the army, 415. Public baths, 415. Bill for the observance of the Sabbath, 415. Luxury at the Elysée, 415. Progress of the quarrel between the President and the Assembly; dismissal of Changarnier; dissolution of the Ministries; President's tactics, 558, 704. Dotation to the President refused, and his consequent action, 704. Bill for the return of the Bourbons lost, 851. Speech of M. Dufraisse, 851. The Orleanists and Legitimists, 851. The Archbishop of Paris and the Bishop of Chartres, 851. Censure of M. Michelet, 851.

Hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, [128]. Catastrophe at Herrgott, [129]. Forest conflagration in Poland, [129]. Constitutions for Galicia and Bukowina, [129]. Detailed statement of the German question, 274. Warlike aspect, 275. General view of the continent of Europe, 412. Peace prospects; Conference at Dresden, 415. Return of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, 416. Internal affairs of Austria, 416. Progress of affairs in the Dresden Conference; understanding between Austria and Prussia for the depreciation of the minor powers, 558, 705. Dresden Conference at fault, 851. Policy of Austria and Prussia, 852.

Address of Mazzini, [127]. Overthrow of the Constitution and of liberty of the press in Tuscany, [129]. Brigandage in the Roman States, [130], 705. General view of the state of the south of Europe, 413. Foreign troops in Rome, 416, 705. The Austrians in Venice, 416. Condition of Sardinia, 416. Disruption of the Spanish Cabinet, 416. Conspiracy under Mazzini, 705. Archbishop Hughes at Rome, 705. Liberal ministry in Piedmont, 705. Austrian movements, 852. Proclamations against political pamphlets, 852. Washington's birthday at Rome, 852. Protestant chapel, 852.