CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

Amalie de Bourblanc, the Lost Child202
American Arctic Expedition[11]
Anecdotes and Aphorisms348
Anecdotes of Leopards and Jaguars227
Anecdotes of Monkeys464
Artist's Sacrifice624
Ass of La Marca354
Benjamin Franklin. By Jacob Abbott145, 289
Bird-hunting Spider[78]
Black Eagle in a Bad Way217
Bleak House. By Charles Dickens649, 809
Blighted Flowers549
Boston Tea-Party. By B. J. Lossing[1]
Bow Window[50]
Brace of Blunders540
Chewing the Buyo408
Child's Toy476
Christmas as we grow Older. By Charles Dickens390
Christmas in Company of John Doe. By Charles Dickens386
Christmas in Germany499
Clara Corsini—a Tale of Naples[68]
Conspiracy of the Clocks185
Crime Detected768
Curious Page of Family History351
Curse of Gold—A Dream335
Czar of Russia at a Ball828
Difficulty[56]
Diligence in doing Good781
Dream of the Weary Heart511
Editor's Drawer.

Tailing on; The John Jones Party; How manyTimes did the Hedge-pig mew? Touching theTin, [134]. The Deformed's Hope; Looking outfor Number One—Abroad and at Home; Leavesand Coats; The Mathematical Monomaniac, [135].A puzzled Doctor, [136]. A Text for a Sermon;The entombed Racer; Cause and Effect; Vagariesof the Insane, 268. Munchausenism; Love andMammon; Professional Enthusiasm, 269. Mindyour P's and Q's; Sympathy thrown away; WinterDuties, 270. Experiments in Flying; Affairof Honor—almost, 271. Takin' Notes; HavingOne's Faculties; Great Talkers, 421. Witnessesand Counsel—with an Example; Physiognomy atFault; Mercantile Drummers, 422. On Discontentment;Omnipresence of the Deity; To Snuffersand Chewers; The French and Death, 412.Rat and Owl Fight; Moralizing on Climbing agreased Pole; Inquisitiveness, with an Instancethereof, 565. Street Thoughts by a Surgeon; TheMillionaire without a Sou; The Deaf-and-DumbBoy; Workers in Worsted, 566. SubscribingSomething; Bad Spelling; Lending Umbrellas,567. Something about Music; The WorkhouseClock, 568. Sweets in Paris; Something aboutChina, 569. Difference of Opinion; a Tale of otherTimes, 704. Stealing Sermons; About Snuff;Laughter; Looking-glass Reflections; Somethingfrom Sam Slick, 705. Turning the Tables: YouthfulAge; 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 theTurkey; Marks of Affection; Tired of Nothingto do; Lame and impotent Conclusion, 848. Ordersis Orders; The Sleeping Child; Dickens'sDenouements; Statistical Fellows, 849. Keep yourReceipts; Giving a Look; About Dandies; ChawlsYellowplush on Lit'ry Men; Deep-blue Stockings,850. A Climax; Some Love-Verses; A CriminalCuriosity-hunter; a Skate-vender on Thaws,851.

Editor's Easy Chair.

Kossuth; Louis Napoleon; A Workingman forPresident, [131]. Musical Chit-chat; Lumley andRossini; America in the Exhibition, [132]. A veryFrench Story of Love and Devotion; Another ofDevotion and Smuggling, [133]. Kossuth and ourEnthusiasm for him, 265. On Lola Montez; Dumasand the French Censorship; Signor Braschi;Female Stock-brokers; The consoled Disconsolates,266. An Italian Romance, 267. Louis Napoleon'sCoup d'état; Kossuth Talk, 418. ParisGossip; Cavaignac and his Bride elect; The Lotteryof Gold, 419. Home Gossip; How Mr. Copersold a horse, 420. The Hard Winter; The ForrestTrial, 563. The French Usurpation; President-makingand Morals in the Metropolis; A Bit ofParis Life; Legacies to Litterateurs, 564. Now;Close of the Carnival; the Cooper Testimonial;Lectures; Exemplary Damages, 702. CongressionalManners; The Maine Liquor Law; Reminiscenceof Maffit; French Writers, 703. TheChevalier's Stroke for a Wife, 704. More about theWeather, 843. Sir John Franklin; Free Speech;Lola in Boston; Jenny Goldschmidt, 844. MarriageAssociations; About Punch; MagisterialBeards; An equine Passport, 845. MatrimonialConfidence; Dancing in the Beau Monde; MajorM'Gowd's Story, 846.

Editor's Table.

Time and Space, [128]. Testimony of Geologyto the Supernatural, [130]. The Year, 262. ThePulpit and the Press, 265. The Value of theUnion, 415. The Seventh Census, 557. TheImmensity of the Universe, 562. The SpiritualTelegraph, 699. History the World's Memory,700. Mental Alchemy:—Credulity and Skepticism,839.

Episode of the Italian Revolution771
Esther Hammond's Wedding Day520
Eyes made to Order[91]
Fashionable Forger231
Fashions for December[143]
Fashions for January287
Fashions for February431
Fashions for March575
Fashions for April719
Fashions for May863
Forgotten Celebrity778
French Flower Girl[54]
Gold—What, and Where from[87]
Good Old Times in Paris395
Great Objects attained by Little Things330
Habits and Character of the Dog-Rib Indians690
Helen Corrie391
High Life in the Olden Time254
How Gunpowder is Made643
How Men Rise in the World211
Hunting the Alligator668
Impressions of England in 1851. By Fredrika Bremer616
Indian Pet[38]
Insane Philosopher647
Introduction of the Potato into France622
Keep Him Out515
Knights of the Cross. By Caroline Chesebro'221
Kossuth—A Biographical Sketch[40]
Leaves From Punch.

Better Luck next Time; Doing one a SpecialFavor; Etymological Inventions, [141]. Off PointJudith; Singular Phenomenon; A Slight Mistake;New Biographies, [142]. Arrant Extortion; Mr.Booby in the New Costume, 285. A Bloomer inLeap Year; Strong-minded Bloomer, 286. A HorribleBusiness; 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 toCover, 173. Revolution on Bayonets; Thoughtson French Affairs; Early Publication in Paris,714. Scene from the President's Progress, 715.Touching Sympathy; Sound Advice, 716. Effectsof a Strike, 717. Perfect Identification;Calling the Police; The Seven Wonders of aYoung Lady, 718. Butcher Boys of the UpperTen, 857. The Inquisitive Omnibus Driver; TheFlunky's Idea of Beauty, 858. A Competent Adviser;Scrupulous Regard for Truth, 859. AwfulEffects of an Eye-glass; Penalties; Rather Severe,860. What I heard about Myself in the Exhibition;The Peer on the Press, 861. The Interiorof a French Court of Justice in 1851, 862.

Legend of the Lost Well[47]
Legend of the Weeping Chamber358
Life and Death. By the Author of Alton Locke216
Literary Notices.
BOOKS NOTICED.

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; BishopMcIlvaine's Charge, [138]. Taylor's Wesley andMethodism, 272. Boyd's Young's Night Thoughts;Mrs. Lee's Florence; Words in Earnest; Herbert'sCaptains of the Old World; Ida Pfeiffer'sVoyage Round the World, 273. Reveries of aBachelor; James's Aims and Obstacles; Simm'sNorman Maurice; Richard's Claims of Science;Greenwood Leaves; Winter in Spitzbergen;Dream-land by Daylight, 274. Memoir of MaryLyon; 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'sNineveh; Saunders's Great Metropolis; Ik. Marvel'sDream-life; Florence Sackville; Clovernook,424. Salander and the Dragon; Spring'sFirst Woman; Edwards's Select Poetry; Sovereignsof the Bible; Hawthorne's Snow Image;Summerfield; The Podesta's Daughter; Ross'sWhat I saw in New York; Curtis's Western Portraiture;Stephen's Lectures on the History ofFrance, 425. Chambers's Life and Works of Burns,569. Abbott's Corner Stone; Browne's History ofClassical Literature; Dickson's Life, Sleep, andPain; Head's Faggot of French Sticks; Hudson'sShakspeare; Simmon's Greek Girl; House on theRock; Companions of my Solitude; Wright's Sorceryand Magic; Ravenscliffe; Mitford's Recollectionsof a Literary Life, 570. Memoirs of MargaretFuller Ossoli; Edwards's Charity and itsFruits, 708. Richardson's Arctic Searching Expedition;Bonynge's Future Wealth of America;Copland's Dictionary of Medicine; Cheever's Reelin the Bottle; The Head of the Family; Neander'sExposition of James; Men and Women ofthe Eighteenth Century; Bon Gaultier's Bookof Ballads; Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, 709.Stiles's Austria in 1848-49, 852. Forester's FieldSports; Simms's Golden Christmas; Falkenburg;Isa; The Howadji in Syria, 853. Stuart's Commentaryon Proverbs; Parker's Story of a Soul;Arthur and Carpenter's Cabinet Histories; Mosheim'sChristianity before Constantine; Pulszky'sTales and Traditions of Hungary; Aytoun's Laysof the Scottish Cavaliers; Barnes's Notes on Revelation,854. Kirwan's Romanism at Home, 855.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Hawthorne; Literary Gazette on Hitchcock;The News on Vestiges of Civilization; WestminsterReview; New Works announced; AssyrianSculptures; Pension to Reid; Christopher North;Map of France; Manuscripts of Lalande; Dumas'sMemoirs, [139]. Documents on the ThirtyYears' War; Douglas Jerrold's Works, 275. LadyBulwer; Rise of Bunsen; New College, Edinburgh;Madame Pfeiffer; Richardson's Arctic Expedition,276. Plays by Jerrold and Marston;Stephen's Lectures; Critique on Hildreth; OnMoby Dick; Shakspeare for Kossuth; Landor onKossuth; Critique on Springer's Forest Life;On Layard's Nineveh, 277. Alison; Works denounced;Brougham; Translations of Scott; NewWorks in France, 278. M. Vattemare; The Elzevirs;Daguerre; Heine; Leipzig Easter Fair;Papers in Germany; Japanese Dictionary; Excavationsat Athens; Ximenes; Spanish Classics;Ida Hahn-Hahn; Professor Nuylz; OrientalMSS.; Proscription in Italy; Discovery of OldPaintings in Münster; Jeffrey; Mr. Jerdan;Brougham; Gutzlaff, 425. Carlyle's Sterling;Yeast; Blake; Dickens in Danish; Delta; Stephen:M'Cosh; Hahn-Hahn; Junius; Kossuth'sEloquence; Beresford, 426. Guizot; RevolutionaryWalls; Migne's Book Establishment; FrenchWorks; 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 inSpanish, 428. Westminster Review; New Books;Benedict; Macaulay, 570. Browning's Shelley;Junius; Budhist Monuments; Freund's German-EnglishLexicon; Bulwer's Works; The Headof the Family; Lossing's Field-Book; Hawthorne;Eliot Warburton, 571. French Literary Exiles;Lamartine; Count Ficquelmont; Works on theCoup d'Etat; Louis Philippe and Letters; GeorgeSand; Humboldt; Schiller's Library; Hagberg;Translations into Spanish, 572. TheologicalTranslations; Bohn's New Publications; GreekProfessorship in Edinburgh; Dr. Robinson; Talvi,710. Moby Dick; Tests in Scottish Universities;Montalembert; Cavaignac; The Press in Paris;Posthumous Work by Meinhold, 711; Lamartine'sCivilisateur; Eugene Sue; Neuman's EnglishEmpire in Asia; English Literature in Germany;Nitzsch on Hahn-Hahn; Gutzkow; The RhenishTimes; Hebrew Books; Literature of Hungary;Monument to Oken, 712. Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey;Grote's History of Greece; Farini's Historyof the Roman State; The Shelley Forgeries;James R. Lowell; Papers of Margaret Fuller,855. Life of Fox; Sale of rare Books; GreekProfessor at Edinburgh; Bleak House in German;Macaulay in German; Barante's Histoire de laConvention Nationale; Pierre Leroux; Chamfort;George Sand; Stuart of Dunleath in French;Epistolary Forgeries; Anselm Feuerbach; Bustof Schelling; Goethe and Schiller Literature;Count Platen-Hallermünde; Lives of the Sovereignsof Russia, 856.

OBITUARIES.

Archibald Alexander, D. D.; J. Kearney Rodgers,M. D.; Granville Sharp Pattison, M. D.;Gardner G. Howland, [122]. Dr. Wingard; Byron'sSister; H. P. Borrell; Dr. Gutzlaff; Mrs. Sherwood,140. King of Hanover, 261. ProfessorsWolff and Humbert, 280. Joel R. Poinsett; MosesStuart, 411. Marshal Soult, 414. WilliamWyon; 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. ThomasMoore; Archbishop Murray; Sir Herbert JennerFust, 837. Marshal Marmont; Armand Marrast,838.

Louis Napoleon and his Nose833
Love Affair at Cranford457
Masked Ball at Vienna469
Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune. By Charles Lever[57], 187, 339
Mazzini, the Italian Liberal404
Miracle of Life500
Monthly Record of Current Events.
UNITED STATES.

The November Elections: success of the UnionParty in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi,and Alabama, [120]. Adoption of the New Constitutionin Virginia, [120]. Election in Pennsylvania,[120]. Return of the Arctic Expedition, [121]. Dinnerto Mr. Grinnell, [121]. Imprisonment of JohnS. Thrasher in Havana, [121], 258, 553. Appeal ofMr. Tyler in behalf of the Cuban prisoners, [121].Inauguration of Gov. Campbell of Tennessee, [121].Convention of Cotton-planters in Macon, [121]. Decisionin favor of Morse's Telegraph, [122]. Decisionof the Methodist Book-fund case, [122]. Letterof Mr. Clay on the Compromise, [122]. Electionsin California, [122]. General Intelligence from California,[122], 258, 411, 553, 693, 835. General Intelligencefrom Oregon, [122], 411, 693. VolcanicEruption in the Sandwich Islands, [123]. GeneralIntelligence from New Mexico, [123], 259, 411, 553,693,835. Arrival of Kossuth, and reception in NewYork, 255. Speech of Kossuth at the Corporationbanquet in New York, 255. At the Press dinner,256. Opening of the Thirty-second Congress, 256.Abstract of the President's Message, 256. Correspondencewith foreign Powers respecting Cuba,258. Official vote in New York, 258. Speech ofKossuth at the Bar dinner in New York, 410.Kossuth at Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, andWashington, 410. Opening of the New YorkLegislature and Message of Governor Hunt, 410.Opening of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 411.Mr. Clay resigns his seat in the Senate, 411. Destructionof the Congressional Library, 411. Americanexpedition to the Sandwich Islands, 411.Kossuth at the West, 551. Esterhazy, Batthyanyi,Pulszky, and Szemere on Kossuth, 551. Speechesin Congress on Intervention, 552. Outrage atGreytown 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. Letterof Mr. Buchanan, 553. Of Mr. Benton, 553.General proceedings in Congress, 692. Correspondencerespecting Kossuth, 692. Mr. Webster'sdiscourse before the Historical Society, 693.Commemorative meeting to J. Fenimore Cooper.693. Archbishop Hughes's lecture on Catholicismin the United States, 693. Whig State Conventionin Kentucky, 693. In Indiana, 693. Webstermeeting in New York, 693. Washington'sbirthday at the Capital, 693. Mormon disturbancesin Utah, 694. Debates in the Senate on Intervention;speech of Mr. Soulé, 834. Abstraction ofpublic papers, 834. Mr. Cass on the Wilmot Proviso,834. Presidential speeches in the House,834. Political Conventions in various States, andnominations for the Presidency, 834. Proceedingsin the Legislature of Mississippi, 834. Statedebt of Pennsylvania, 835. Mr. Webster at Trenton,835. Accident at Hell-gate, 835. Return ofCuban prisoners, 835. Letter of Mr. Clay on thePresidency, 835. Expedition to Japan, 835. Lossof steamer North America, 835. Col. Berzenczey'sexpedition to Tartary, 835.

SOUTHERN AMERICA.

Election of Montt as President of Chili, [123].Attempt at insurrection, [123], 412. Contest againstRosas in Buenos Ayres, [124], 694, 835. Difficultiesgrowing out of the Tehuantepec right of wayin Mexico, [124]. Insurrection in the northern departmentsunder Caravajal, [124], 412, 553, 694, 835.Letters to the Governors of the departments, [124].General Intelligence from Mexico, [124], 412, 553,835. Message of the President of Venezuela, 694.Disturbance in Chili penal settlements, 694, 835.Mexican claims for Indian depredations, 835. Defeatand flight of Rosas, 836. Peruvian expeditionagainst Ecuador, 836. Gold in New Grenada,836.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Arrival of Kossuth at Southampton, [124]. Speechof Kossuth at Winchester, [125]. Close of theGreat Exhibition, [126]. Disturbances in Ireland,[126]. War at the Cape of Good Hope, [126], 554,696. Opposition of the Sultan of Turkey to theSuez Railway, [126]. Kossuth at Birmingham,Manchester, London, and Southampton, 259. Embarkationfor America, 259. Resignation of LordPalmerston and appointment of Earl Granville asForeign Secretary, 412. Deputation of merchantsto Lord John Russell, 412. Dinner to Mr. Walker,412. From Ireland, 412. Petitions from Scotlandagainst the Maynooth grant, 413. Burning of thesteamer Amazon, 554. The national defenses,554. Controversy between workmen and employers,554. Movements of the Reformers, 554. Goldin Australia, 554. Destruction of Lagos in Africaby the British, 554, 696. Meeting of Parliamentand the Queen's Speech, 694. Explanations asto the retirement of Lord Palmerston, 694. Defeatand resignation of the Russell Ministry, 695.Appointment of a Protectionist Ministry, 696.Correspondence with Austria respecting politicalrefugees, 696. Disaster from water, 696. Newexpedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 697.Attitude of the Derby Ministry, 836. Position ofLord John Russell, 837. Mr. Disraeli's addressto his constituents, 837. Revival of the Anti Corn-LawLeague, 837. Mr. Layard declines to continuein office, 837.

FRANCE.

The President demands the repeal of the electionlaw of May 31; the Ministers refuse their assentand resign, [126]. Formation of a new Ministry,[127]. Insults to the Republican members ofAssembly, [127]. Meeting of the Assembly, Messageof the President, demanding the restorationof universal suffrage, and its rejection by the Assembly,260. Progress of the struggle betweenthe President and Assembly, 261. President'sspeech on distributing prizes to exhibitors, 261.The President dissolves the Assembly and assumesthe sole powers of government, 413. Hisdecree, 413. Arrest of members of Assembly,413. Unsuccessful attempts at resistance, 413.Great majorities returned in favor of the President,414, 554. Correspondence between the Englishand French Governments, 414. Celebration atthe result of the election, 554. Speech of M. Baroche,555. Proceedings of the President, 555.The new Constitution decreed by the President,555. Formation of a Ministry of Police and ofState, 556. Seizure of the property of the Orleansfamily, 556. Measures limiting discussion, 556.New Legislative law, 697. Letter of the Orleansprinces, 697. The Ministry of Police, 697. Dinnerby the President to English residents, 697.Decree regulating the press, 697. Correspondencebetween the government and the Emperor ofRussia, 697. Proceedings in relation to Belgium,698. Success of the government in the elections,837. Presidential decree for mortgage banks,837. Decree respecting the College of France,837. Judges superannuated at seventy years,837. Prize for adaptation of Voltaic pile, 838.Donation to M. Foucauld, 838. New militarymedal and pension, 838. French demands uponBelgium refused, 838. Correspondence betweenAustria, Prussia, and Russia respecting France,838. French demands upon Switzerland, 839.

SOUTHERN EUROPE.

Neapolitan answer to Mr. Gladstone's letter,[127]. New Colonial Council in Spain for Cuba,[127]. Austrian rigor in Italy, 261. Pardon of theAmerican prisoners in Spain, 414. Attempt toassassinate the Queen of Spain, 698. Change inthe government of the Spanish colonies, 839.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE.

Preparations in Prussia, [127]. Telegraphic arrangementsin Germany, [127]. The Polish provincesof Prussia excluded from the Confederation,[127]. The Emperor of Austria declares himselfabsolute, [127]. Elections in Switzerland, 261.Critical state of affairs in Austria, 261, 414. Austriaand France, 414. Annulling of the Constitutionof 1849 in Austria, 556. General Intelligence,556. Attitude assumed by the Europeanpowers toward France, 678. Demands of Franceupon Switzerland in relation to political refugees,698. Transferrence of Holstein to Denmark, 698.Switzerland menaced by a commercial blockade,839.

THE EAST.

General Intelligence, [127]. Negotiations inTurkey respecting the Holy Sepulchre, 414. Hostilitiesin India, 415. Changes of Ministry inGreece and Turkey, 698. Generosity of the Portetoward rebels, 839. High interest forbidden inTurkey, 839. Death of the Persian Vizier, 839.Hostilities between the English and Burmese, 839.

Mr. Potts's New Years Adventures281
My First Place489
My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward BulwerLytton[105], 239, 371, 525, 673, 793
Mysteries[65]
My Traveling Companion636
Napoleon Bonaparte. By John S. C. Abbott[22], 166, 310, 592, 736
New Discoveries in Ghosts512
Old Maid's First Love360
Orphan's Dream of Christmas385
Our School. By Charles Dickens[75]
Paradise Lost611
Personal Sketches and Reminiscences. By Mary Russell Mitford503
Pipe Clay and Clay Pipes688
Pleasures and Perils of Ballooning[96]
Poison Eaters364
Potter of Tours219
Promise Unfulfilled[80]
Public Executions in England542
Recollections of St. Petersburg447
Rising Generationism478
Rodolphus.—A Franconia Story. By Jacob Abbott433, 577, 721
Short Chapter on Frogs791
Sicilian Vespers790
Sleep to Startle us830
Stolen Bank Notes627
Story of a Bear786
Story of Oriental Love[75]
Story of Rembrandt516
Street Scenes of the French Usurpation399
Suwarrow—Sketch of409
Talk about the Spider200
Taste of French Dungeons670
Taste of Austrian Jails481
The Bedoueen, Mahomad Alee, and the Bazaars. By George WilliamCurtis755
The Brothers212
The Expectant—A Tale of Life[93]
The Game of Chess205
The German Emigrants. By John Doggett, Jr.183
The Little Sisters641
The Lost Ages547
The Mighty Magician772
The Moor's Revenge. By Epes Sargent669
The Mountain Torrent466
The Night Train783
The Opera. By Thomas Carlyle252
The Ornithologist470
The Point of Honor494
The Sublime Porte332
The Tub School[85]
Thiers—Sketch of his Life214
Thy Will be Done. By George P. Morris[119]
Tiger Roche.—An Irish Character760
To be Read at Dusk. By Charles Dickens235
True Courage620
Two Kinds of Honesty773
Vagaries of the Imagination[63]
Vatteville Ruby613
Vision of Charles XI.397
What becomes of the Rind?402
What to do in the Mean Time545
Who knew Best485
Wives of Great Lawyers764
Wonderful Toys634
You're Another[105]
Zoological Stories769

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.