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HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

VOLUME IV.

DECEMBER, 1851, TO MAY, 1852.


NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1852.


ADVERTISEMENT.

The Fourth Volume of Harper's New Monthly Magazine is completed by the issue of the present number. The Publishers embrace the opportunity of renewing the expression of their thanks to the public and the press, for the extraordinary degree of favor with which its successive Numbers have been received. Although it has but just reached the close of its second year, its regular circulation is believed to be at least twice as great as that of any similar work ever issued in any part of the world.

The Magazine will be continued in the same general style, and upon the same plan, as heretofore. Its leading purpose is to furnish, at the lowest price, and in the best form, the greatest possible amount of the useful and entertaining literary productions of the present age. While it is by no means indifferent to the highest departments of culture, it seeks primarily to place before the great masses of the people, in every section of the country, and in every walk of life, the most attractive and instructive selections from the current literature of the day. No degree of labor or expense will be spared upon any department. The most gifted and popular authors of the country write constantly for its pages; the pictorial illustrations by which every Number is embellished are of the best style, and by the most distinguished artists; the selections for its pages are made from the widest range and with the greatest care; and nothing will be left undone, either in providing material, or in its outward dress, which will tend in any degree to make it more worthy the remarkable favor with which it has been received.

The Magazine will contain regularly as hitherto:

First.—One or more original articles upon some topic of general interest, written by some popular writer, and illustrated by from fifteen to thirty wood engravings, executed in the highest style of art:

Second.—Copious selections from the current periodical literature of the day, with tales of the most distinguished authors, such as Dickens, Bulwer, Lever, and others—chosen always for their literary merit, popular interest, and general utility:

Third.—A Monthly Record of the events of the day, foreign and domestic, prepared with care, and with entire freedom from prejudice and partiality of every kind:

Fourth.—Critical Notices of the Books of the day, written with ability, candor, and spirit, and designed to give the public a clear and reliable estimate of the important works constantly issuing from the press:

Fifth.—A Monthly Summary of European Intelligence concerning Books, Authors, and whatever else has interest and importance for the cultivated reader:

Sixth.—An Editor's Table, in which some of the leading topics of the day will be discussed with ability and independence:

Seventh.—An Editor's Easy Chair, or Drawer, which will be devoted to literary and general gossip, memoranda of the topics talked about in social circles, graphic sketches of the most interesting minor matters of the day, anecdotes of literary men, sentences of interest from papers not worth reprinting at length, and generally an agreeable and entertaining collection of literary miscellany.

The Publishers trust that it is not necessary for them to reiterate their assurances that nothing shall ever be admitted to the pages of the Magazine in the slightest degree offensive to delicacy or to any moral sentiment. They will seek steadily to exert upon the public a healthy moral influence, and to improve the character, as well as please the taste, of their readers. They will aim to make their Magazine the most complete repertory of whatever is both useful and agreeable in the current literary productions of the day.


CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

Amalie de Bourblanc, the Lost Child202
American Arctic Expedition11
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 Spider78
Black Eagle in a Bad Way217
Bleak House. By Charles Dickens649, 809
Blighted Flowers549
Boston Tea-Party. By B. J. Lossing1
Bow Window50
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 Naples68
Conspiracy of the Clocks185
Crime Detected768
Curious Page of Family History351
Curse of Gold—A Dream335
Czar of Russia at a Ball828
Difficulty56
Diligence in doing Good781
Dream of the Weary Heart511
Editor's Drawer.

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.

Editor's Easy Chair.

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.

Editor's Table.

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.

Episode of the Italian Revolution771
Esther Hammond's Wedding Day520
Eyes made to Order91
Fashionable Forger231
Fashions for December143
Fashions for January287
Fashions for February431
Fashions for March575
Fashions for April719
Fashions for May863
Forgotten Celebrity778
French Flower Girl54
Gold—What, and Where from87
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 Pet38
Insane Philosopher647
Introduction of the Potato into France622
Keep Him Out515
Knights of the Cross. By Caroline Chesebro'221
Kossuth—A Biographical Sketch40
Leaves From Punch.

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.

Legend of the Lost Well47
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; 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.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

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.

OBITUARIES.

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.

Louis Napoleon and his Nose833
Love Affair at Cranford457
Masked Ball at Vienna469
Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune. By Charles Lever57, 187, 339
Mazzini, the Italian Liberal404
Miracle of Life500
Monthly Record of Current Events.
UNITED STATES.

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.

SOUTHERN AMERICA.

Election of Montt as President of Chili, 123. Attempt at insurrection, 123, 412. Contest against Rosas in Buenos Ayres, 124, 694, 835. Difficulties growing out of the Tehuantepec right of way in Mexico, 124. Insurrection in the northern departments under 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. Defeat and flight of Rosas, 836. Peruvian expedition against Ecuador, 836. Gold in New Grenada, 836.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Arrival of Kossuth at Southampton, 124. Speech of Kossuth at Winchester, 125. Close of the Great Exhibition, 126. Disturbances in Ireland, 126. War at the Cape of Good Hope, 126, 554, 696. Opposition of the Sultan of Turkey to the Suez Railway, 126. Kossuth at Birmingham, Manchester, London, and Southampton, 259. Embarkation for America, 259. Resignation of Lord Palmerston and appointment of Earl Granville as Foreign Secretary, 412. Deputation of merchants to Lord John Russell, 412. Dinner to Mr. Walker, 412. From Ireland, 412. Petitions from Scotland against the Maynooth grant, 413. Burning of the steamer Amazon, 554. The national defenses, 554. Controversy between workmen and employers, 554. Movements of the Reformers, 554. Gold in Australia, 554. Destruction of Lagos in Africa by the British, 554, 696. Meeting of Parliament and the Queen's Speech, 694. Explanations as to the retirement of Lord Palmerston, 694. Defeat and resignation of the Russell Ministry, 695. Appointment of a Protectionist Ministry, 696. Correspondence with Austria respecting political refugees, 696. Disaster from water, 696. New expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 697. Attitude of the Derby Ministry, 836. Position of Lord John Russell, 837. Mr. Disraeli's address to his constituents, 837. Revival of the Anti Corn-Law League, 837. Mr. Layard declines to continue in office, 837.

FRANCE.

The President demands the repeal of the election law of May 31; the Ministers refuse their assent and resign, 126. Formation of a new Ministry, 127. Insults to the Republican members of Assembly, 127. Meeting of the Assembly, Message of the President, demanding the restoration of universal suffrage, and its rejection by the Assembly, 260. Progress of the struggle between the President and Assembly, 261. President's speech on distributing prizes to exhibitors, 261. The President dissolves the Assembly and assumes the sole powers of government, 413. His decree, 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 English and French Governments, 414. Celebration at the 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 of State, 556. Seizure of the property of the Orleans family, 556. Measures limiting discussion, 556. New Legislative law, 697. Letter of the Orleans princes, 697. The Ministry of Police, 697. Dinner by the President to English residents, 697. Decree regulating the press, 697. Correspondence between the government and the Emperor of Russia, 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 military medal and pension, 838. French demands upon Belgium refused, 838. Correspondence between Austria, 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 the American prisoners in Spain, 414. Attempt to assassinate the Queen of Spain, 698. Change in the government of the Spanish colonies, 839.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE.

Preparations in Prussia, 127. Telegraphic arrangements in Germany, 127. The Polish provinces of Prussia excluded from the Confederation, 127. The Emperor of Austria declares himself absolute, 127. Elections in Switzerland, 261. Critical state of affairs in Austria, 261, 414. Austria and France, 414. Annulling of the Constitution of 1849 in Austria, 556. General Intelligence, 556. Attitude assumed by the European powers toward France, 678. Demands of France upon 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 in Turkey respecting the Holy Sepulchre, 414. Hostilities in India, 415. Changes of Ministry in Greece and Turkey, 698. Generosity of the Porte toward rebels, 839. High interest forbidden in Turkey, 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 Bulwer Lytton105, 239, 371, 525, 673, 793
Mysteries65
My Traveling Companion636
Napoleon Bonaparte. By John S. C. Abbott22, 166, 310, 592, 736
New Discoveries in Ghosts512
Old Maid's First Love360
Orphan's Dream of Christmas385
Our School. By Charles Dickens75
Paradise Lost611
Personal Sketches and Reminiscences. By Mary Russell Mitford503
Pipe Clay and Clay Pipes688
Pleasures and Perils of Ballooning96
Poison Eaters364
Potter of Tours219
Promise Unfulfilled80
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 Love75
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 William Curtis755
The Brothers212
The Expectant—A Tale of Life93
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 School85
Thiers—Sketch of his Life214
Thy Will be Done. By George P. Morris119
Tiger Roche.—An Irish Character760
To be Read at Dusk. By Charles Dickens235
True Courage620
Two Kinds of Honesty773
Vagaries of the Imagination63
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 Another105
Zoological Stories769

LIST OF ILLUSTRATION

 PAGE
1.Casting the Tea over in Boston Harbor1
2.Boston in 1770-743
3.Faneuil Hall4
4.Portrait of Governor Hutchinson5
5.Portrait of the Earl of Dartmouth5
6.House of John Hancock6
7.Province House7
8.The Old South Church, Boston7
9.Portrait of David Kinnison9
10.Portrait of George R. T. Hewes10
11.Pouring Tea down the Throat of America10
12.Route of the Arctic Expedition (Map)12
13.Vessels beating to Windward of Iceberg12
14.Perilous Situation of the Advance and Rescue13
15.Discovery Ships near the Devil's Thumb14
16.The Advance leading the Prince Albert15
17.The Advance stranded at Cape Riley16
18.Anvil-Block, and Guide-Board17
19.Three Graves at Beechy17
20.The Advance and Rescue at Barlow's Inlet18
21.The Advance in Barrow's Straits19
22.The Advance and Rescue drifting19
23.The Advance and Rescue in the Winter20
24.The Advance in Davis's Straits20
25.The Advance among Hummocks21
26.Stern of the Rescue in the Ice21
27.The Passage of the Tagliamento24
28.The Gorge of Neumarkt26
29.The Venetian Envoys27
30.The Conference dissolved30
31.The Court at Milan31
32.The Triumphal Journey33
33.The Delivery of the Treaty34
34.Portrait of Kossuth40
35.Better Luck next Time141
36.Doing One a Special Favor141
37.Off Point Judith142
38.Singular Phenomenon142
39.A Slight Mistake142
40.Costumes for December143
41.Parisian, Frileuse, and Camara Cloaks144
42.Child's Costume144
43.Portrait of Franklin145
44.The Franklin Smithy145
45.Franklin at Ten Years of Age146
46.Building the Pier at the Mill-pond146
47.Franklin reading in his Chamber147
48.The Franklin Family147
49.Franklin studying in the Printing-office147
50.Franklin's First Literary Essay148
51.Franklin ill-used by his Brother149
52.Franklin plans to escape149
53.The Sloop at Sea149
54.Franklin traveling through the Storm150
55.The old Woman's Hospitality150
56.Franklin with his Penny Rolls150
57.Franklin gives the Bread to a poor Woman151
58.Franklin asleep in the Meeting-house152
59.Franklin with Bradford and Keimer152
60.The Quakeress's Counsel153
61.Franklin showing his Money153
62.Franklin and the Governor of New York154
63.Collins flung overboard154
64.Reading on the Banks of the River155
65.Franklin's Courtship155
66.Franklin takes Leave of Miss Read155
67.Franklin delivers his Letter156
68.Franklin at the Book-store156
69.Franklin carrying Type Forms157
70.The Widow Lady of Duke-street157
71.The Recluse Lodger157
72.Franklin looking out of the Window158
73.The Copper-plate Press158
74.Franklin's First Job159
75.The Junto Club160
76.Meredith on a Spree160
77.Grief of Miss Read161
78.Franklin with the Wheelbarrow161
79.The Library162
80.Industry of Mrs. Franklin162
81.The China Bowl and Silver Spoon162
82.The Gardener at work163
83.Grinding the Ax163
84.The Widow carrying on Business164
85.Franklin playing Chess164
86.Franklin takes Charge of his Nephew165
87.Portrait of Whitefield165
88.The Expedition to Egypt166
89.Napoleon embarking for Egypt169
90.Napoleon looking at the distant Alps170
91.The Disembarkation in Egypt173
92.The March through the Desert175
93.The Battle of the Pyramids178
94.The Egyptian Ruins183
95.Mr. Potts makes his Toilet281
96.Mr. Potts suffers—Inexpressibly281
97.Mr. Potts is discomposed281
98.Mr. Potts in the wrong Apartment282
99.Mr. Potts enchanted283
100.Mr. Potts assumes a striking Attitude283
101.Mr. Potts makes a Sensation283
102.Mr. Potts tears himself away284
103.Mr. Potts receives a Lecture284
104.Arrant Extortion285
105.Mr. Booby in the New Costume285
106.A Bloomer in Leap Year286
107.The Strong-minded Bloomer286
108.Winter Costumes287
109.Walking Dress288
110.Hood and Head-dress288
111.Preparing the Regimental Colors290
112.Franklin on Military Duty290
113.Franklin's Colloquy with the Quaker291
114.The Indian Pow-wow291
115.The Female Street-sweeper292
116.The Horse and Packages for Camp293
117.The precipitous Flight293
118.March to Gnadenhütten294
119.Franklin's military Escort295
120.Portrait of Buffon296
121.Franklin and the new Governor296
122.Sign of St. George and the Dragon297
123.The Ship in Peril of the Rocks297
124.Franklin writing to his Wife298
125.The Old Man from the Desert298
126.Portrait of Mrs. Franklin299
127.Franklin on his Tour of Inspection300
128.Bees swarming301
129.Franklin's Departure from Chester301
130.Reception of the Satin302
131.Franklin transformed by his new Dress302
132.Franklin repulsed from Lord Hillsborough's303
133.The Boston Riot304
134.Portrait of Lord Chatham304
135.Portrait of Lord Camden304
136.Franklin at Chess with the Lady305
137.Drafting the Declaration of Independence306
138.Old Age307
139.Feeling toward Franklin in Paris308
140.Portrait of Lafayette309
141.Franklin's Amusement in Age309
142.Napoleon's Escape from the Red Sea310
143.The Dromedary Regiment312
144.The Plague Hospital at Acre317
145.The Bomb-shell exploding320
146.Arrival of the Courier326
147.Napoleon and Kleber328
148.The Return from Egypt329
149.A Horrible Business429
150.Mrs. Baker's Pet430
151.Costumes for February431
152.Evening Dress432
153.Full Dress for Home432
154.The Rabbit House433
155.The Pursuit437
156.The Raft439
157.Up the Ladder441
158.The Yard at Mr. Randon's442
159.Plan of Mr. Randon's House444
160.The Great Room444
161.Inundation at St. Petersburg449
162.Russian Ice Mountains452
163.Punishment for Drunkenness454
164.Russian Isvoshtshiks455
165.The Easter Kiss—agreeable456
166.The Easter Kiss—as matter of Duty456
167.The Easter Kiss—under Difficulties456
168.The Easter Kiss—disagreeable456
169.France is tranquil573
170.The President's Road to Ruin574
171.New Parisian Street-sweeping Machine574
172.Costumes for March575
173.Young Lady's Toilet576
174.Morning Toilet576
175.Ellen Asleep578
176.The Snow-shoes579
177.The Funeral583
178.The Boys and the Boat585
179.The Evasion587
180.Raising the Hasp591
181.The Corn-barn591
182.Napoleon's Return from Egypt595
183.Napoleon and the Atheists596
184.Napoleon's Landing at Frejus598
185.Napoleon's Reconciliation with Josephine602
186.Napoleon on the Way to St. Cloud608
187.Napoleon in the Council of Five Hundred609
188.The Little Old Lady662
189.Miss Jellyby667
190.Going to Cover711
191.Revolutionary Inquiries714
192.Early Publication of a Paper in Paris714
193.Scene from the President's Progress715
194.Touching Sympathy716
195.Sound Advice716
196.Effects of a Strike717
197.Perfect Identification718
198.Calling the Police718
199.Fashions for April719
200.Dress Toilet720
201.Child's Fancy Costume720
202.The Drag Ride722
203.The Well724
204.The Conflagration726
205.The barred Window727
206.Antonio's Picture728
207.The Court Room729
208.The Arrest732
209.The Governor735
210.The Consuls and the Gold737
211.Napoleon in the Temple739
212.Napoleon's Entrance into the Tuileries742
213.Napoleon and the Vendeean Chief746
214.Napoleon and the Duchess of Guiche750
215.Napoleon and Bourrienne751
216.Unavailing Intercession of Josephine753
217.The Lord Chancellor copies from Memory814
218.Coavinses821
219.Butcher-Boys of the Upper Ten857
220.The Inquiring Omnibus Driver857
221.Flunky's Idea of Beauty858
222.A Competent Adviser859
223.Regard for the Truth859
224.Awful Effect of Eye-glasses860
225.Rather Severe860
226.Portrait of a Gentleman861
227.The Peer on the Press861
228.Interior of a French Court of Justice862
229.Fashions for May863
230.Visiting Dress864
231.Home Toilet864