HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. XII.—MAY, 1851—VOL. II.

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Contents

[THE NOVELTY WORKS.]
[CHARLES WOLFE.]
[MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.]
[THE UNNAMED SHELL.]
[THE STORY OF GIOVANNI BELZONI.]
[PHANTOMS AND REALITIES.—AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.]
[STORY OF SILVER-VOICE AND HER SISTER ZOE.]
[THE CROCODILE BATTERY.]
[A CHAPTER ON DREAMS.]
[A FAIR IN MUNICH.]
[THE WIFE'S STRATAGEM.]
[THE CHAMPION.]
[THE FARM-LABORER.—THE SON.]
[A CHAPTER ON WOLVES.]
[A SPECIMEN OF RUSSIAN JUSTICE.]
[NAPOLEON AND THE POPE.—A SCENE AT FONTAINEBLEAU.]
[GABRIELLE; OR, THE SISTERS.]
[THE WASTE OF WAR.]
[A NIGHT WITH AN EARTHQUAKE.]
[A PLEA FOR BRITISH REPTILES.]
[A DREAM, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF.]
[THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THO'S MORE.]
[THE STOLEN FRUIT.—A STORY OF NAPOLEON'S CHILDHOOD.]
[WILBERFORCE AND CHALMERS.]
[MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE.]
[UNCLE JOHN; OR, THE ROUGH ROAD TO RICHES.]
[DARLING DOREL.]
[COURTESY OF AMERICANS.]
[MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.]
[LITERARY NOTICES.]
[TWO LEAVES FROM PUNCH.]
[FASHIONS FOR MAY.]


THE NOVELTY WORKS, WITH SOME DESCRIPTION OF THE MACHINERY AND THE PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MARINE STEAM-ENGINES OF THE LARGEST CLASS.

BY JACOB ABBOTT.