DECEMBER.
Vol. IV. No. 5
THE
INTERNATIONAL
MAGAZINE.

[Contents for December.]

NAUVOO AND DESERET: THE MORMONS. Six Engravings,[577]
WINDSOR CASTLE AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. Two Engravings,[585]
M. JULES GERARD AND THE BARON MUNCHAUSEN, IN AFRICA,[587]
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, AND HIS WORKS: Portrait,[588]
SLIDING SCALES OF DESPAIR,[592]
DEATH IN YOUTH: By H. W. Parker,[593]
A GERMAN HAND-BOOK OF AMERICA,[593]
GONDOLETTAS: TWO SONGS: By Alice B. Neal,[597]
THE DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW AMSTERDAM: By J. R. Brodhead,[597]
AN AUTUMN BALLAD: By W. A. Sutliffe,[598]
CARLYLE'S LIFE OF JOHN STERLING,[599]
SONGS OF THE CASCADE: By A. Oakey Hall,[602]
HERMAN MELVILLE'S NEW NOVEL OF "THE WHALE,"[602]
A STORY WITHOUT A NAME: By G. P. R. James. Concluded,[604]
CALCUTTA: SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, POLITICAL.—Bentley's Miscellany,[611]
REVOLUTIONS IN RUSSIA. By Alexander Dumas.—Sharpe's Magazine,[616]
DRINKING EXPERIENCES: A Temperance Lecture by "Nimrod,"[621]
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SCENERY COMPARED: By the late J. F. Cooper,[625]
A BULL FIGHT AT RONDA.—United Service Magazine,[631]
VAGARIES OF THE IMAGINATION.—Chambers's Edinburgh Journal,[638]
THE FRENCH FLOWER GIRL.—Dickens's Household Words,[641]
THE THREE ERAS OF OTTOMAN HISTORY.—The Antheneum,[643]
THE CAPTAIN AND THE NEGRO.—United Service Magazine,[646]
THE VEILED PICTURE: A TRAVELLER'S STORY.—New Monthly Magazine,[648]
THE SPENDTHRIFT'S DAUGHTER: In Six Chapters.—Household Words,[664]
MY NOVEL: By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Continued,[683]
AUTHORS AND BOOKS:
Pendant to Professor Creasy's Decisive Battles of the World, [693].—Correspondence respecting the Thirty Years' War, [693].—German collection of English Songs, [693].—German Philologists, [693].—Weil's History of the Califs, [693].—The Germans in Bohemia, [693].—Andree's Work on America, [694].—Works on Spinoza, [694].—New Gœthean Literature, [694].—The British Empire in Europe, by Meidinger, [694].—The Play of the Resurrection, [694].—German History of French Literature, [694].—New work on German Knighthood, &c., [694].—German Romance in the 18th Century, 695.—Madame Blaze de Bury's New Novel, [695].—Richter's History of the Evangelical German Churches, [695].—German Life of Sir Robert Peel, [695].—Zimmermann on the English Revolution, [695].—History of Norway, [695].—Reguly, the Hungarian Traveller, [695].—Political Notabilities of Hungary, [695].—Speeches, &c., by King William of Prussia, [695].—Pictures from the North, [695].—History of the Swiss Confederation, [695].—Bern's System of Chronology, by Miss Peabody, [695].—French Almanacs, [695].—M. Croce-Spinelli's Work on Popular Government, [696].—Works by the Paris Asiatic Society, [696].—Cæsar Daly on Parisian Architecture, [696].—Figuier's Modern Discoveries, [696].—The Annuaire des Deux Mondes, [696].—Calvin's Inedited Letters, [697].—Lacretelle, [697].—Critical Studies of Socialism, [697].—Memoirs of Mademoiselle Mars, [697].—The Institute of France, [697].—Grille, on the War in La Vendée, [697].—History of the Bourgeoisie of Paris, [697].—Archives des Missions Scientifiques, &c., [697].—Travels in Africa, [698].—Spirit of New Roman Catholic Literature, [698].—Gardin de Tassy on Mr. Salisbury's Unpublished Arabic Documents, [699].—New Travels in Palestine, [698].—The Abbadie Travellers, [699].—French, English, and American Missionaries, as Scholars, [699].—The Westminster Review, [690].—A Grandson of Robert Burns, [699].—Friends in Council, &c., by Mr. Helps, [699].—New English Announcements, [700].—New Dissenters' College, [700].—Sir Charles Lyell, and the "Free Thinkers," [700].—Professor Wilson, [700].—Miss Kirkland's Evening Book, [700].—Works by Mrs. Lee, [701].—Mr. Boyd's edition of Young's Night Thoughts, [702].—"Injustice to the South," [702].—Splendid American Gift Books for 1852, [703].—New American Works in Press, 703, &c.
THE FINE ARTS:
Leutze's Washington, [703].—Colossal Statue of Washington at Munich, [703].—Kaulbach's Frescoes, [703].—Cadame's Compositions of the Seasons, [703].—Portraits of Bishop White and Daniel Webster, [703].
HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE MONTH:
The American Elections, [704].—Kossuth In England, [704].—Europe, and the East, [704].
RECENT DEATHS:
Archibald Alexander. D. D., [705].—J. Kearney Rogers, M. D., [705].—Rev. William Croswell, D. D., [706].—Granville Sharpe Pattison, M. D., [706].—Mr. Stephens, author of The Manuscripts of Erdely, [706].—Mr. Gutzlaff, the Missionary, [707].—Don Manuel Godoy, the Prince of the Peace, [708].—George Baker, [708].—M. De Savigny, [708].—Archbishop Wingard, [708].—Samuel Beaseley, author of The Roué, [708].—H. P. Borrell, [708].—James Tyler. R. D., [708].—Emma Martin, [709].—Yar Mohammed, [709].—Alexander Lee, [710].—Prince Frederick of Prussia, [710].
GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. Seven Engravings,[718]

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