CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
| Amalie de Bourblanc, the Lost Child | 202 |
| American Arctic Expedition | [11] |
| Anecdotes and Aphorisms | 348 |
| Anecdotes of Leopards and Jaguars | 227 |
| Anecdotes of Monkeys | 464 |
| Artist's Sacrifice | 624 |
| Ass of La Marca | 354 |
| Benjamin Franklin. By Jacob Abbott | 145, 289 |
| Bird-hunting Spider | [78] |
| Black Eagle in a Bad Way | 217 |
| Bleak House. By Charles Dickens | 649, 809 |
| Blighted Flowers | 549 |
| Boston Tea-Party. By B. J. Lossing | [1] |
| Bow Window | [50] |
| Brace of Blunders | 540 |
| Chewing the Buyo | 408 |
| Child's Toy | 476 |
| Christmas as we grow Older. By Charles Dickens | 390 |
| Christmas in Company of John Doe. By Charles Dickens | 386 |
| Christmas in Germany | 499 |
| Clara Corsini—a Tale of Naples | [68] |
| Conspiracy of the Clocks | 185 |
| Crime Detected | 768 |
| Curious Page of Family History | 351 |
| Curse of Gold—A Dream | 335 |
| Czar of Russia at a Ball | 828 |
| Difficulty | [56] |
| Diligence in doing Good | 781 |
| Dream of the Weary Heart | 511 |
| Editor's Drawer. | |
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| Editor's Easy Chair. | |
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| Editor's Table. | |
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| Episode of the Italian Revolution | 771 |
| Esther Hammond's Wedding Day | 520 |
| Eyes made to Order | [91] |
| Fashionable Forger | 231 |
| Fashions for December | [143] |
| Fashions for January | 287 |
| Fashions for February | 431 |
| Fashions for March | 575 |
| Fashions for April | 719 |
| Fashions for May | 863 |
| Forgotten Celebrity | 778 |
| French Flower Girl | [54] |
| Gold—What, and Where from | [87] |
| Good Old Times in Paris | 395 |
| Great Objects attained by Little Things | 330 |
| Habits and Character of the Dog-Rib Indians | 690 |
| Helen Corrie | 391 |
| High Life in the Olden Time | 254 |
| How Gunpowder is Made | 643 |
| How Men Rise in the World | 211 |
| Hunting the Alligator | 668 |
| Impressions of England in 1851. By Fredrika Bremer | 616 |
| Indian Pet | [38] |
| Insane Philosopher | 647 |
| Introduction of the Potato into France | 622 |
| Keep Him Out | 515 |
| Knights of the Cross. By Caroline Chesebro' | 221 |
| Kossuth—A Biographical Sketch | [40] |
| Leaves From Punch. | |
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| Legend of the Lost Well | [47] |
| Legend of the Weeping Chamber | 358 |
| Life and Death. By the Author of Alton Locke | 216 |
| Literary Notices. | |
| BOOKS NOTICED. | |
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| PERSONAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. | |
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| OBITUARIES. | |
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| Louis Napoleon and his Nose | 833 |
| Love Affair at Cranford | 457 |
| Masked Ball at Vienna | 469 |
| Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune. By Charles Lever | [57], 187, 339 |
| Mazzini, the Italian Liberal | 404 |
| Miracle of Life | 500 |
| Monthly Record of Current Events. | |
| UNITED STATES. | |
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| SOUTHERN AMERICA. | |
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| GREAT BRITAIN. | |
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| FRANCE. | |
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| SOUTHERN EUROPE. | |
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| CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. | |
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| THE EAST. | |
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| Mr. Potts's New Years Adventures | 281 |
| My First Place | 489 |
| My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward BulwerLytton | [105], 239, 371, 525, 673, 793 |
| Mysteries | [65] |
| My Traveling Companion | 636 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte. By John S. C. Abbott | [22], 166, 310, 592, 736 |
| New Discoveries in Ghosts | 512 |
| Old Maid's First Love | 360 |
| Orphan's Dream of Christmas | 385 |
| Our School. By Charles Dickens | [75] |
| Paradise Lost | 611 |
| Personal Sketches and Reminiscences. By Mary Russell Mitford | 503 |
| Pipe Clay and Clay Pipes | 688 |
| Pleasures and Perils of Ballooning | [96] |
| Poison Eaters | 364 |
| Potter of Tours | 219 |
| Promise Unfulfilled | [80] |
| Public Executions in England | 542 |
| Recollections of St. Petersburg | 447 |
| Rising Generationism | 478 |
| Rodolphus.—A Franconia Story. By Jacob Abbott | 433, 577, 721 |
| Short Chapter on Frogs | 791 |
| Sicilian Vespers | 790 |
| Sleep to Startle us | 830 |
| Stolen Bank Notes | 627 |
| Story of a Bear | 786 |
| Story of Oriental Love | [75] |
| Story of Rembrandt | 516 |
| Street Scenes of the French Usurpation | 399 |
| Suwarrow—Sketch of | 409 |
| Talk about the Spider | 200 |
| Taste of French Dungeons | 670 |
| Taste of Austrian Jails | 481 |
| The Bedoueen, Mahomad Alee, and the Bazaars. By George WilliamCurtis | 755 |
| The Brothers | 212 |
| The Expectant—A Tale of Life | [93] |
| The Game of Chess | 205 |
| The German Emigrants. By John Doggett, Jr. | 183 |
| The Little Sisters | 641 |
| The Lost Ages | 547 |
| The Mighty Magician | 772 |
| The Moor's Revenge. By Epes Sargent | 669 |
| The Mountain Torrent | 466 |
| The Night Train | 783 |
| The Opera. By Thomas Carlyle | 252 |
| The Ornithologist | 470 |
| The Point of Honor | 494 |
| The Sublime Porte | 332 |
| The Tub School | [85] |
| Thiers—Sketch of his Life | 214 |
| Thy Will be Done. By George P. Morris | [119] |
| Tiger Roche.—An Irish Character | 760 |
| To be Read at Dusk. By Charles Dickens | 235 |
| True Courage | 620 |
| Two Kinds of Honesty | 773 |
| Vagaries of the Imagination | [63] |
| Vatteville Ruby | 613 |
| Vision of Charles XI. | 397 |
| What becomes of the Rind? | 402 |
| What to do in the Mean Time | 545 |
| Who knew Best | 485 |
| Wives of Great Lawyers | 764 |
| Wonderful Toys | 634 |
| You're Another | [105] |
| Zoological Stories | 769 |
Tailing on; The John Jones Party; How many Times did the Hedge-pig mew? Touching the Tin, [134]. The Deformed's Hope; Looking out for Number One—Abroad and at Home; Leaves and Coats; The Mathematical Monomaniac, [135]. A puzzled Doctor, [136]. A Text for a Sermon; The entombed Racer; Cause and Effect; Vagaries of the Insane, 268. Munchausenism; Love and Mammon; Professional Enthusiasm, 269. Mind your P's and Q's; Sympathy thrown away; Winter Duties, 270. Experiments in Flying; Affair of Honor—almost, 271. Takin' Notes; Having One's Faculties; Great Talkers, 421. Witnesses and Counsel—with an Example; Physiognomy at Fault; Mercantile Drummers, 422. On Discontentment; Omnipresence of the Deity; To Snuffers and Chewers; The French and Death, 412. Rat and Owl Fight; Moralizing on Climbing a greased Pole; Inquisitiveness, with an Instance thereof, 565. Street Thoughts by a Surgeon; The Millionaire without a Sou; The Deaf-and-Dumb Boy; Workers in Worsted, 566. Subscribing Something; Bad Spelling; Lending Umbrellas, 567. Something about Music; The Workhouse Clock, 568. Sweets in Paris; Something about China, 569. Difference of Opinion; a Tale of other Times, 704. Stealing Sermons; About Snuff; Laughter; Looking-glass Reflections; Something from Sam Slick, 705. Turning the Tables: Youthful Age; Fools and Madmen; Under Canvas, 706. Joking in Letters; Welsh Card of Invitation; Chiffoniers in Paris, 707. Harrowing Lines, 708. Eating cooked Rain; Patent Medicine Toast; New Language of Flowers, 847. Song of the Turkey; Marks of Affection; Tired of Nothing to do; Lame and impotent Conclusion, 848. Orders is Orders; The Sleeping Child; Dickens's Denouements; Statistical Fellows, 849. Keep your Receipts; Giving a Look; About Dandies; Chawls Yellowplush on Lit'ry Men; Deep-blue Stockings, 850. A Climax; Some Love-Verses; A Criminal Curiosity-hunter; a Skate-vender on Thaws, 851.
Kossuth; Louis Napoleon; A Workingman for President, [131]. Musical Chit-chat; Lumley and Rossini; America in the Exhibition, [132]. A very French Story of Love and Devotion; Another of Devotion and Smuggling, [133]. Kossuth and our Enthusiasm for him, 265. On Lola Montez; Dumas and the French Censorship; Signor Braschi; Female Stock-brokers; The consoled Disconsolates, 266. An Italian Romance, 267. Louis Napoleon's Coup d'état; Kossuth Talk, 418. Paris Gossip; Cavaignac and his Bride elect; The Lottery of Gold, 419. Home Gossip; How Mr. Coper sold a horse, 420. The Hard Winter; The Forrest Trial, 563. The French Usurpation; President-making and Morals in the Metropolis; A Bit of Paris Life; Legacies to Litterateurs, 564. Now; Close of the Carnival; the Cooper Testimonial; Lectures; Exemplary Damages, 702. Congressional Manners; The Maine Liquor Law; Reminiscence of Maffit; French Writers, 703. The Chevalier's Stroke for a Wife, 704. More about the Weather, 843. Sir John Franklin; Free Speech; Lola in Boston; Jenny Goldschmidt, 844. Marriage Associations; About Punch; Magisterial Beards; An equine Passport, 845. Matrimonial Confidence; Dancing in the Beau Monde; Major M'Gowd's Story, 846.
Time and Space, [128]. Testimony of Geology to the Supernatural, [130]. The Year, 262. The Pulpit and the Press, 265. The Value of the Union, 415. The Seventh Census, 557. The Immensity of the Universe, 562. The Spiritual Telegraph, 699. History the World's Memory, 700. Mental Alchemy:—Credulity and Skepticism, 839.
Better Luck next Time; Doing one a Special Favor; Etymological Inventions, [141]. Off Point Judith; Singular Phenomenon; A Slight Mistake; New Biographies, [142]. Arrant Extortion; Mr. Booby in the New Costume, 285. A Bloomer in Leap Year; Strong-minded Bloomer, 286. A Horrible Business; Rather too much of a Good Thing, 429. Mrs. Baker's Pet, 430. Signs of the Times; France is Tranquil, 573. The Road to Ruin; New Street-sweeping Machines, 574. Going to Cover, 173. Revolution on Bayonets; Thoughts on French Affairs; Early Publication in Paris, 714. Scene from the President's Progress, 715. Touching Sympathy; Sound Advice, 716. Effects of a Strike, 717. Perfect Identification; Calling the Police; The Seven Wonders of a Young Lady, 718. Butcher Boys of the Upper Ten, 857. The Inquisitive Omnibus Driver; The Flunky's Idea of Beauty, 858. A Competent Adviser; Scrupulous Regard for Truth, 859. Awful Effects of an Eye-glass; Penalties; Rather Severe, 860. What I heard about Myself in the Exhibition; The Peer on the Press, 861. The Interior of a French Court of Justice in 1851, 862.
Melville's Moby Dick; Putnam's Hand-books; Rural Homes; Hawthorne's Wonder-Book, [137]. Greeley's Glances at Europe; Stoddard's Poems; Neander on Philippians; Heavenly Recognition; Lindsay and Blackiston's Gift-Books; Bishop McIlvaine's Charge, [138]. Taylor's Wesley and Methodism, 272. Boyd's Young's Night Thoughts; Mrs. Lee's Florence; Words in Earnest; Herbert's Captains of the Old World; Ida Pfeiffer's Voyage Round the World, 273. Reveries of a Bachelor; James's Aims and Obstacles; Simm's Norman Maurice; Richard's Claims of Science; Greenwood Leaves; Winter in Spitzbergen; Dream-land by Daylight, 274. Memoir of Mary Lyon; Woods's Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings; Wainwright's Land of Bondage; Mrs. Kirkland's Evening Book; The Tutor's Ward; Thompson's Hints to Employers, 275. Layard's Nineveh; Saunders's Great Metropolis; Ik. Marvel's Dream-life; Florence Sackville; Clovernook, 424. Salander and the Dragon; Spring's First Woman; Edwards's Select Poetry; Sovereigns of the Bible; Hawthorne's Snow Image; Summerfield; The Podesta's Daughter; Ross's What I saw in New York; Curtis's Western Portraiture; Stephen's Lectures on the History of France, 425. Chambers's Life and Works of Burns, 569. Abbott's Corner Stone; Browne's History of Classical Literature; Dickson's Life, Sleep, and Pain; Head's Faggot of French Sticks; Hudson's Shakspeare; Simmon's Greek Girl; House on the Rock; Companions of my Solitude; Wright's Sorcery and Magic; Ravenscliffe; Mitford's Recollections of a Literary Life, 570. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Edwards's Charity and its Fruits, 708. Richardson's Arctic Searching Expedition; Bonynge's Future Wealth of America; Copland's Dictionary of Medicine; Cheever's Reel in the Bottle; The Head of the Family; Neander's Exposition of James; Men and Women of the Eighteenth Century; Bon Gaultier's Book of Ballads; Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, 709. Stiles's Austria in 1848-49, 852. Forester's Field Sports; Simms's Golden Christmas; Falkenburg; Isa; The Howadji in Syria, 853. Stuart's Commentary on Proverbs; Parker's Story of a Soul; Arthur and Carpenter's Cabinet Histories; Mosheim's Christianity before Constantine; Pulszky's Tales and Traditions of Hungary; Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers; Barnes's Notes on Revelation, 854. Kirwan's Romanism at Home, 855.
Hawthorne; Literary Gazette on Hitchcock; The News on Vestiges of Civilization; Westminster Review; New Works announced; Assyrian Sculptures; Pension to Reid; Christopher North; Map of France; Manuscripts of Lalande; Dumas's Memoirs, [139]. Documents on the Thirty Years' War; Douglas Jerrold's Works, 275. Lady Bulwer; Rise of Bunsen; New College, Edinburgh; Madame Pfeiffer; Richardson's Arctic Expedition, 276. Plays by Jerrold and Marston; Stephen's Lectures; Critique on Hildreth; On Moby Dick; Shakspeare for Kossuth; Landor on Kossuth; Critique on Springer's Forest Life; On Layard's Nineveh, 277. Alison; Works denounced; Brougham; Translations of Scott; New Works in France, 278. M. Vattemare; The Elzevirs; Daguerre; Heine; Leipzig Easter Fair; Papers in Germany; Japanese Dictionary; Excavations at Athens; Ximenes; Spanish Classics; Ida Hahn-Hahn; Professor Nuylz; Oriental MSS.; Proscription in Italy; Discovery of Old Paintings in Münster; Jeffrey; Mr. Jerdan; Brougham; Gutzlaff, 425. Carlyle's Sterling; Yeast; Blake; Dickens in Danish; Delta; Stephen: M'Cosh; Hahn-Hahn; Junius; Kossuth's Eloquence; Beresford, 426. Guizot; Revolutionary Walls; Migne's Book Establishment; French Works; Bonaparte and Literature; Silvio Pellico; German Novels; Oersted; Oehlenschläger; Menzel; Heine, 427. Schiller Festival; Zahn; Kosmos; Servian Poetry; Shakspeare in Swedish; Italian Book on America; Chinese Geography; Turkish Grammar and Dictionary; Ticknor in Spanish, 428. Westminster Review; New Books; Benedict; Macaulay, 570. Browning's Shelley; Junius; Budhist Monuments; Freund's German-English Lexicon; Bulwer's Works; The Head of the Family; Lossing's Field-Book; Hawthorne; Eliot Warburton, 571. French Literary Exiles; Lamartine; Count Ficquelmont; Works on the Coup d'Etat; Louis Philippe and Letters; George Sand; Humboldt; Schiller's Library; Hagberg; Translations into Spanish, 572. Theological Translations; Bohn's New Publications; Greek Professorship in Edinburgh; Dr. Robinson; Talvi, 710. Moby Dick; Tests in Scottish Universities; Montalembert; Cavaignac; The Press in Paris; Posthumous Work by Meinhold, 711; Lamartine's Civilisateur; Eugene Sue; Neuman's English Empire in Asia; English Literature in Germany; Nitzsch on Hahn-Hahn; Gutzkow; The Rhenish Times; Hebrew Books; Literature of Hungary; Monument to Oken, 712. Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey; Grote's History of Greece; Farini's History of the Roman State; The Shelley Forgeries; James R. Lowell; Papers of Margaret Fuller, 855. Life of Fox; Sale of rare Books; Greek Professor at Edinburgh; Bleak House in German; Macaulay in German; Barante's Histoire de la Convention Nationale; Pierre Leroux; Chamfort; George Sand; Stuart of Dunleath in French; Epistolary Forgeries; Anselm Feuerbach; Bust of Schelling; Goethe and Schiller Literature; Count Platen-Hallermünde; Lives of the Sovereigns of Russia, 856.
Archibald Alexander, D. D.; J. Kearney Rodgers, M. D.; Granville Sharp Pattison, M. D.; Gardner G. Howland, [122]. Dr. Wingard; Byron's Sister; H. P. Borrell; Dr. Gutzlaff; Mrs. Sherwood, 140. King of Hanover, 261. Professors Wolff and Humbert, 280. Joel R. Poinsett; Moses Stuart, 411. Marshal Soult, 414. William Wyon; Rev. J. H. Caunter; Chevalier Lavy; M. de St. Priest; Paul Erman; Professor Dunbar; Dr. Sadleir; Basil Montague, 426. T. H. Turner, 570. Baron D'Ohsen; Robert Blackwood; Serangelli, 712. Hon. Jeremiah Morrow, 836. Thomas Moore; Archbishop Murray; Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, 837. Marshal Marmont; Armand Marrast, 838.
The November Elections: success of the Union Party in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama, [120]. Adoption of the New Constitution in Virginia, [120]. Election in Pennsylvania, [120]. Return of the Arctic Expedition, [121]. Dinner to Mr. Grinnell, [121]. Imprisonment of John S. Thrasher in Havana, [121], 258, 553. Appeal of Mr. Tyler in behalf of the Cuban prisoners, [121]. Inauguration of Gov. Campbell of Tennessee, [121]. Convention of Cotton-planters in Macon, [121]. Decision in favor of Morse's Telegraph, [122]. Decision of the Methodist Book-fund case, [122]. Letter of Mr. Clay on the Compromise, [122]. Elections in California, [122]. General Intelligence from California, [122], 258, 411, 553, 693, 835. General Intelligence from Oregon, [122], 411, 693. Volcanic Eruption in the Sandwich Islands, [123]. General Intelligence from New Mexico, [123], 259, 411, 553, 693,835. Arrival of Kossuth, and reception in New York, 255. Speech of Kossuth at the Corporation banquet in New York, 255. At the Press dinner, 256. Opening of the Thirty-second Congress, 256. Abstract of the President's Message, 256. Correspondence with foreign Powers respecting Cuba, 258. Official vote in New York, 258. Speech of Kossuth at the Bar dinner in New York, 410. Kossuth at Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, 410. Opening of the New York Legislature and Message of Governor Hunt, 410. Opening of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 411. Mr. Clay resigns his seat in the Senate, 411. Destruction of the Congressional Library, 411. American expedition to the Sandwich Islands, 411. Kossuth at the West, 551. Esterhazy, Batthyanyi, Pulszky, and Szemere on Kossuth, 551. Speeches in Congress on Intervention, 552. Outrage at Greytown disavowed by the English government, 553. Legislative nominations for the Presidency, 553. Message of Gov. Farwell of Wisconsin, 553. The U.S. Indemnity in Texas, 553. Letter of Mr. Buchanan, 553. Of Mr. Benton, 553. General proceedings in Congress, 692. Correspondence respecting Kossuth, 692. Mr. Webster's discourse before the Historical Society, 693. Commemorative meeting to J. Fenimore Cooper. 693. Archbishop Hughes's lecture on Catholicism in the United States, 693. Whig State Convention in Kentucky, 693. In Indiana, 693. Webster meeting in New York, 693. Washington's birthday at the Capital, 693. Mormon disturbances in Utah, 694. Debates in the Senate on Intervention; speech of Mr. Soulé, 834. Abstraction of public papers, 834. Mr. Cass on the Wilmot Proviso, 834. Presidential speeches in the House, 834. Political Conventions in various States, and nominations for the Presidency, 834. Proceedings in the Legislature of Mississippi, 834. State debt of Pennsylvania, 835. Mr. Webster at Trenton, 835. Accident at Hell-gate, 835. Return of Cuban prisoners, 835. Letter of Mr. Clay on the Presidency, 835. Expedition to Japan, 835. Loss of steamer North America, 835. Col. Berzenczey's expedition to Tartary, 835.