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[PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND HABITS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY.]
[MADAME CAMPAN.]
[PROCRASTINATION.]
[BRUNORO.]
[A SKETCH OF MY CHILDHOOD.]
[VISIT TO AN ENGLISH DAIRY.]
[SAILING IN THE AIR.—HISTORY OF AERONAUTICS.]
[MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE]
[A LUNATIC ASYLUM IN PALERMO.]
[SLOPED FOR TEXAS.—A TALE OF THE WEST.]
[THE_VOLCANO-GIRL.]
[PUBLIC OPINION AND THE PUBLIC PRESS.]
[THE DUMB CHILD.]
[CURIOSITIES OF RAILWAY TRAVELING.]
[THE ROBBERS' REVENGE.—FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A POLICE-OFFICER.]
[WORDSWORTH AND CARLYLE.]
[MILTON AND WORDSWORTH.]
[RATS AND RAT-KILLERS IN ENGLAND.]
[THE BROKEN HEART; OR, THE WELL OF PEN-MORFA.]
[THE YOUNG MAN'S COUNSELOR.]
[TALLEYRAND.]
[THE DANGERS OF DOING WRONG. A TALE OF THE SEA-SIDE.]
[ANECDOTES OF NAPOLEON.]
[A CRISIS IN THE AFFAIRS OF MR. JOHN BULL.]
[WAITING FOR THE POST.—INTERESTING ANECDOTES.]
[CHEERFUL VIEWS OF HUMAN NATURE.]
[THE MYSTERIES OF A TEA-KETTLE.]
[MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE.]
[MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.]
[LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, PERSONAL MOVEMENTS, ETC.]
[LITERARY NOTICES.]
[A LEAF FROM PUNCH.]
[WINTER FASHIONS.]
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
No. VIII.—JANUARY, 1851.—VOL. II.