Chapter I: Front Matter

HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

VOLUME I.

JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1850.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

A Bachelor's Reverie. By IK. MARVEL 620
A Child's Dream of a Star 73
A Chip from a Sailor's Log 478
Adventure in a Turkish Harem 321
Adventure with a Snake 415
Aerial voyage of Barral and Bixio 499
A few words on Corals 251
A Five Days' Tour in the Odenwald. By WILLIAM HOWITT 448
A Giraffe Chase 329
Alchemy and Gunpowder 195
American Literature 37
American Vanity 274
A Midnight Drive 820
Amusements of the Court of Louis XV 97
Andrew Carson's Money: A Story of Gold 503
Anecdote of a Singer 779
Anecdotes of Dr. Chalmers 696
Anecdote of Lord Clive 554
A Night in the Bell Inn. A Ghost Story. 252
A Paris Newspaper 181
A Pilgrimage to the Cradle of Liberty 721
Archibald Alison (with Portrait) 134
A Shilling's Worth of Science 597
Assyrian Sects 454
A Tale of the good Old Times 52
Atlantic Waves 786
A True Ghost Story 801
A Tuscan Vintage 600
A Word at the Start 1
Bathing--Its Utility. By Dr. MOORE 215
Battle with Life (Poetry) 731
Benjamin West. By LEIGH HUNT 194
Biographical Sketch of Zachary Taylor 298
Borax Lagoons of Tuscany 397
Burke and the Painter Barry 807
Charlotte Corday 262
Chemical Contradictions 736
Christ-hospital Worthies. By LEIGH HUNT 200
Conflict with an Elephant 352
Death of Cromwell (Poetry) 257
Descent into the Crater of a Volcano 838
Diplomacy--Lord Chesterfield 246
Doing (Poetry) 268
Dr. Johnson: his Religious Life and Death 71
Early History of the Use of Coal 656
Early Rising 52
Earth's Harvests (Poetry) 297
Ebenezer Elliott 349
Education in America 209
Elephant Shooting in South Africa 393
Encounter with a Lioness 303
Eruptions of Mount Etna 35
Fashions for Early Summer 142
Fashions for July 287
Fashions for August 431
Fashions for early Autumn 575
Fashions for Autumn 719
Fashions for November 863
Fate Days, and other Superstitions 729
Father and Son 243
Fearful Tragedy--A Man-eating Lion 471
Fifty Years ago. By LEIGH HUNT 180
Fortunes of the Gardener's Daughter 832
Francis Jeffrey 66
Galileo and his Daughter 347
Genius 65
Ghost Stories: Mademoiselle Clairon 83
Glimpses of the East. By ALBERT SMITH 198
Globes, and how they are Made 165
Greenwich Weather-wisdom 265
Habits of the African Lion 480
Have great Poets become impossible? 340
History of Bank Note Forgeries 745
How to kill Clever Children 789
How to make Home unhealthy. By HARRIET MARTINEAU 601
How We Went Whaling 844
Hydrophobia 846
Ignorance of the English 205
Illustrations of Cheapness. Lucifer Matches 75
Industry of the Blind 848
Jenny Lind. By FREDRIKA BREMER 657
Jewish Veneration 119
Lack of Poetry in America 403
Lady Alice Daventry; or, the Night of Crime 642
Ledru Rollin 476
Leigh Hunt Drowning 202
Lettice Arnold. By Mrs. MARSH 13, 168, 353
Lines. By ROBERT SOUTHEY 206
Literary and Scientific Miscellany 556

Lord Jeffrey's Account of the Origin of the Edinburgh
Review--Character of Sir Robert Peel--The Ownership of Land--A
Self-Taught Artist--Conversation of Literary Men--Rewards of
Literature--Schamyl the Prophet of the Caucasus--The Colossal
Statue--Wordsworth's Prose-Writings--Anecdotes of Beranger--The
Paris Academy of Inscriptions.

LITERARY NOTICES.

Bryant's Letters of a Traveler; Bayard Taylor's Eldorado, 140.
Standish the Puritan; Talbot and Vernon, 141. Smyth's Unity of
the Human Races, 284. Talvi's Literature of the Slavic Nations;
Greeley's Hints toward Reforms, 288. Antonina Martinet's Solution
of Great Problems; Lossing's Field Book, 286, 427, 837.
Lamartine's Past Present and Future of the French Republic;
Lardner's Railway Economy; The Lone Dove; Mezzofanti's Method
applied to the Study of the French Language; The Ojibway
Conquest; Buffum's Six Months in the Gold Mines; The World as it
is and as it appears; Drake's Diseases of the Interior Valley of
North America, 286. Campbell's Life and Letters, 425. Life and
Correspondence of Andrew Combe, 426. Dr. Johnson's Religious Life
and Death; Sydney Smith's Sketches of Moral Philosophy; The
Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, 427. Mrs. Child's Rebels;
Davies's Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Gallery of
Illustrious Americans; The Phantom World; Christopher under
Canvas; Byrne's Dictionary of Mechanics; Griffith's Marine and
Naval Architecture, 428. Duggin's Specimens of Bridges, etc. on
the U.S. Railroads; M'Clintock's Second Book in Greek; Baird's
Impressions of the West Indies, and North America; Fleetwood's
Life of Christ; The Shoulder Knot; Supplement to Forester's Fish
and Fishing; The Morning Watch; Debates in the Convention of
California; The Mothers of the Wise and Good, 429. Carlyle's
Latter-Day Pamphlets, 430, 571. The Illustrated Domestic Bible;
Earnestness; Amy Harrington; The Vale of Cedars; Chronicles and
Characters of the Stock Exchange; Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail;
Poems by H. Ladd Spencer; Talvi's Heloise; The Initials; The
Lorgnette, 430. Tennyson's In Memoriam, 570. Abbott's History of
Darius; Fowler's English Language in its Elements and forms;
Julia Howard; Cumming's Five Years of a Hunter's Life; Moore's
Health, Disease, and Remedy; Wright's Perforations of the
Latter-day Pamphlets; Lanman's Haw-Ho-Noo, 571. Leigh Hunt's
Autobiography; U.S. Railroad Guide and Steamboat Journal; Ware's
Hints to Young Men; The Iris; Irving's Conquest of Granada, 572.
Life and Times of Gen. John Lamb, Progress of the Northwest;
Everett's Bunker Hill Oration; Walker's Phi Beta Kappa Oration;
Bayard Taylor's American Legend; Ungewitter's Europe, Past and
Present; Downing's Architecture of Country Houses, 573. Jarvis's
Don Quixote; Halliwell's Shakspeare; Meyer's Universum; The Night
Side of Nature; Giles's Thoughts on Life; Hill's Lectures on
Surgery; The National Temperance Offering, 574. Rural Hours;
Robinson's Greek and English Lexicon; The Berber, 713. Works of
Joseph Bellamy; Adelaide Lindsay; Mayhew's Popular Education;
Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; After Dinner Table Talk;
Cooper's Deer Slayer; Stockton's Sermon on the Death of Zachary
Taylor; Raymond's Relations of the American Scholar to his
Country and his Times, 714. Loomis's Recent Progress of
Astronomy; Loomis's Mathematical Course; Autobiography of Goethe;
Braithwaite's Retrospect; Mrs. Ellett's Domestic History of the
Revolution; Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men;
Johnson's Cicero; Lady Willoughby's Diary; The Young Woman's Book
of Health, 715. Whittier's Songs of Labor; Nicholson's Poems of
the Heart; The Mariner's Vision; Collins's edition of AEsop's
Fables; Seba Smith's New Elements of Geometry, 716. Buckingham's
Specimens of Newspaper Literature; Edward Everett's Orations and
Speeches, 717. Echoes of the Universe; Memoir of Anne Boleyn; The
Lily and the Totem; Reminiscences of Congress; Mental Hygiene,
718. Williams's Religious Progress; Poetry of Science; Footprints
of the Creator; Pre-Adamite Earth, 857. Household Surgery; Gray's
Poetical Works; Memoirs of Chalmers; History of Propellers and
Steam Navigation; The Country Year-Book; Success in Life; Alton
Locke, 858. The Builder's, and the Cabinet-maker and Upholster's
Companion; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Lexicon
of Terms used in Natural History; Lamartine's Additional Memoirs,
and Genevieve; Rose's Chemical Tables; Pendennis; Stockhardt's
Principles of Chemistry; Petticoat Government; Etchings to the
Bridge of Sighs, 859. Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Church's
Calculus; Lonz Powers; Abbott's History of Xerxes; Alexander's
Dictionary of Weights and Measures; America Discovered; Dwight's
Christianity Revived in the East; Grahame, 860. George Castriot;
The Last of the Mohicans; Johnston's Relations of Science and
Agriculture; Descriptive Geography of Palestine; Life of
Commodore Talbot; American Biblical Repository; North American
Review, 861. Methodist Quarterly Review; Christian Review;
Brownson's Quarterly, 862.

Little Mary--A tale of the Irish Famine 518
Lizzie Leigh. By CHARLES DICKENS 38
Longfellow 74
Lord Byron, Wordsworth, and Lamb 293
Lord Coke and Lord Bacon 239
Madame Grandin 135
Married Men 106
Maurice Tiernay. By CHARLES LEVER 2, 219, 329, 487, 627, 790
Memoirs of the First Duchess of Orleans 56
Memories of Miss Jane Porter. By Mrs. S.C. HALL 433
Men and Women 89
Metal in Sea Water 71
Milking in Australia 37
Mirabeau. Anecdote of his Private Life. 648

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.

DOMESTIC.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.--The invasion of Cuba, 275. Mr. Webster's
letter on the delivery of fugitive slaves; Reply of Hon. Horace
Mann, 275. Prof. Stuart's pamphlet, 275. The Nashville
Convention, 275. New Southern Paper at Washington, 275.
Connecticut resolutions in favor of the Compromise Bill, 275.
Dinner to Senator Dickenson, 275. Dinner to Hon. Edward Gilbert,
of California, 276. Constitutional conventions in Ohio and
Michigan; Governors Crittenden and Wright, 276. Anniversary of
the Battle of Bunker Hill, 276. Seizure of a vessel for violation
of the neutrality act, 276. Death of President Taylor; succession
of Mr. Fillmore, and the new Cabinet, 416. Release of the Contoy
prisoners, 417. Incorrect rumor of an insult to the U.S. Minister
to Spain, 417, 703. Fire in Philadelphia, 417. Will saltpetre
explode, 417. Cholera at the West, 417. Professor Webster's
confession, 418. The Collins steamers, 418. Mr. Squier's
researches in Central America, 418. Measures for a direct trade
from the South to Liverpool, 418. Free School System in New York,
418. Medal to Colonel Fremont, 418. U.S. Boundary Commission,
418. State Convention in New Mexico, 419. Fourth of July
Addresses at various places, 420. Celebration of the Capture of
Stony Point, 420. Affairs at Liberia, 420. American claims on
Portugal, 424. Courtesies between the Corporations of Buffalo and
Toronto, 563. Suffering the growth of the Canada thistle made
penal in Wisconsin, 563. Report of the West Point Board of
Visitors, 563. Project for shortening the passage of the
Atlantic, 563. Gen. Quitman's letter, 702. Re-election of Mr.
Rusk as Senator from Texas, indicating a disposition to accept
the U.S. proposals, 702. Arrival of a Turkish Commissioner, 702.
Changes in the Cabinet, 702. Mr. Conrad's letter to his
constituents on the slavery question, 702. Execution of Prof.
Webster, 703. Arrival of Jenny Lind, 703. Opening of the Gallery
of the Art Union, 704. Passage of the Pacific from Liverpool, the
shortest ever made, 707. Whig State Convention at Syracuse;
Convention of the seceders at Utica; Letter of Washington Hunt,
849. Anti-Renters' convention at Albany, 849. Feeling at the
South in relation to the admission of California, 850. Hon. C.J.
Jenkins on disunion, 850. New Collins steamers, Arctic and
Baltic, 850. Property in N.Y. City, 850. Swedish colony in
Illinois, 850. Working of the Fugitive Slave Bill, 850. Jenny
Lind's concerts, 850. New York a Catholic Archepiscopal See, 850.
The Boundary Bill in Texas; Mr. Kaufman's letter, 851. Policy of
Government in relation to the transit of the Isthmus, 851.
Earthquake at Cleveland, 851.

CONGRESSIONAL.--The Compromise Bill in the Senate, 275. Webster's
speech on the Bill, 416. The Galphin Claim, 416. Final action of
the Senate on the Compromise Bill, 561. Protest of Southern
Senators against the admission of California, 561. Proposals to
Texas, in relation to the boundary, 562. Discussion in the House
on the Appropriation Bill, 562. President's Message on Texas and
New Mexico, with Webster's letter to Gov. Bell, of Texas, 562.
Nominations to the Cabinet, 563. Passage of the Texas Bill, and
analysis of the votes, 700. Passage of the California Bill; of
the Fugitive Slave Bill; of Bill abolishing the Slave-trade in
the District, 701. Passage of the Appropriation Bills, with
provisions for abolishing flogging in the navy, and granting
bounties to soldiers; Adjournment of Congress, 849.

ELECTIONS.--In Virginia for members of constitutional convention;
contest between the eastern and western sections, 463. In
Missouri, partial success of the Whigs, 463. In North Carolina,
success of the Democrats, 463. In Indiana, giving the Democrats
the control of the legislature and constitutional convention,
463. In Vermont, success of the Whigs, 703. Election of Hon.
Solomon Foot as Senator, 850.

CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, AND OREGON.--Tax on foreigners, 276.
Excitement at the delay of admission to the Union, 276. Riot at
Panama, 276. Fires at San Francisco, 419. Gold, 419. Indian
hostilities, 419. Bill for the admission of California as a state
into the Union, passed the Senate, and protest of Southern
Senators, 561. Line of stages between Independence, Mo., and
Santa Fe, 563. Continued discoveries of gold, 566. Disturbances
with Foreigners and Indians, 566. Steam communication between San
Francisco and China, 566. Rumors of gold in Oregon, 566.
Resignation of Gov. Lane, 566. News from the Boundary Commission,
702. Disturbances on account of Sutter's claims, 705. Cholera on
board steamers, 706. New rumors of gold in Oregon, 706. Arrival
of Senators from New Mexico; conflict of authorities; Indian
outrages, 706. State of affairs in California, up to Sept. 15,
851. In Oregon to Sept. 2, 852.

MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA.--Presidential Election in Mexico,
Cholera; Right of Way across the Isthmus, 418. Ravages of the
Indians in Mexico, 566. Transit of the Isthmus; Opening of the
Port of San Juan, 851. Steamers proposed between Valparaiso and
Panama, 851.

LITERARY.--Agassiz and Smyth on the Unity of the Human Race;
Address of Professor Lewis; Bishop Hughes on Socialism. Walter
Colton's book on California; Professor Davies's Logic and Utility
of Mathematics, 276. Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Mansfield on
American Education, 277. De Quincey's writings: Poems by
Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell; Giles's Christian Thoughts on
Life; Bristed's Reply to Mann; Gould's Comedy, The Very Age, 277.
Historical Society in Trinity College, Hartford, 420. March's
Reminiscences of Congress, 564. Torrey's translation of Neander,
564. Life of Randolph, 565. Kendall's work on the Mexican War,
565. Commencement Exercises at various Colleges, 565. G.P.R.
James's Lectures, 704. Andrews's Latin Lexicon, 704. Hildreth's
new volume of American History, 705. Dr. Wainwright's Our Saviour
with Prophets and Apostles; Miss McIntosh's Evenings at Donaldson
Manor, 853.

SCIENTIFIC.--Paine's Water-gas, 277, 564. Forshey's Essay on the
deepening of the channel of the Mississippi, 563. Professor
Page's experiments in electro-magnetism, 564. Mathiot's
experiment's at illuminating with hydrogen, 564. Meeting of the
American Scientific Association at New Haven, 564. Astronomical
Expedition under Lieutenant Gillis; Humboldt's Notice of American
Science, 705.

PERSONAL.--Arrival of G.P.R. James, 419. Arrival of Gen.
Dembinski, 419. Emerson, Prescott, Hudson, Garibaldi, 420. Hon.
D.D. Barnard, 563. Henry Clay at Newport, 563. Intelligence from
the Franklin Expedition, 564. Messrs. Lawrence and Rives at the
Royal Agricultural Society, 567. Messrs. Duer, Spaulding, and
Ashmun, decline re-election to Congress, 702. Ammin Bey, 702.
Jenny Lind, 703. Nomination of George N. Briggs for re-election
as Governor of Mass., 850. Hamlet the fugitive Slave, 850.
Archbishop Hughes, 851. Bishop Onderdonk, 851. G.P.R. James and
the Whig Review, 853.

DEATHS.--Adam Ramage; S. Margaret Fuller, 420. Commodore Jacob
Jones, 563. Mr. Nes; Professor Webster; Dr. Judson; Bishop H.B.
Bascom; John Inman, 703. Gen. Herard, ex-President of Haiti, 706.

FOREIGN.

ENGLAND.--Birth of Prince Arthur, 123. Mr. Gibson's motion in
Parliament to abolish all taxes on knowledge; bearing of these
taxes; motion negatived; evasion of the excise on paper by the
publisher of the "Greenock Newscloth," 124. Education Bill
introduced, discussed, and postponed, 124. Defeat of ministers on
unimportant measures, 124. Preparations for Industrial
Exhibition, 125, 280, 852, 853. Expeditions in search of Sir John
Franklin, 125, 855. The Greek quarrel, 277. Consequent action of
Russia and Austria in relation to British subjects, 278.
University reform, 278. Imprisonment of British colored seamen at
Charleston, 278. Sinecures in the ecclesiastical courts, 278.
Motion in Parliament to give the Australian colonies the full
management of their own affairs, lost, 278. Bill passed reducing
the parliamentary franchise in Ireland, and speech of Sir James
Graham in its favor, 279. Various bills for Sanitary and Social
reform, 279. Bill to abolish the Viceroyalty in Ireland, 280.
Commission of inquiry into the state of the Universities, 280.
Death of Sir Robert Peel, 420. Discussions on the Greek question;
remarkable speeches of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell,
421. Sunday labor in the Post-office, 421. Bill lost for
protecting free sugar; Intra-mural interments Bill passed, 422.
Assault on the Queen, 422. Wrecks in the Northern Atlantic; wreck
of the Orion, 422. The Rothschild case, 566. Foreign policy of
ministers sustained, 566. Sundry Bills for social and political
reform lost, 567. Grants to the Duke of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary, 567. Explosion of a coal-mine, 567. Gen. Haynau
mobbed, 706. Prorogation of Parliament, 706. Lord Brougham's
vagaries, 706. Extent of railways in Great Britain, 707. The
Times and Gen. Haynau, 852. The Arctic Expedition, 852. Cotton in
Siberia, 852. Lord Clarendon in Ireland, 852. Queen's University
and the bishops, 852, 855. Shipwrecks, 853. The Sea Serpent in
Ireland, 853. Punishment of naval officers for carelessness, 853.
Amount of Irish crop, 855. Cunard steamers, 855.

FRANCE.--Contest in Paris for election of Member of Assembly;
election of Eugene Sue, 122. Mutiny in the 11th Infantry, 122.
Destruction of the suspension-bridge at Angers, and terrible loss
of life, 122. Arrest of M. Proudhon, 123. Capture of Louis Pellet, a
notorious murderer, 123. Bill for restricting the suffrage, 283.
Stringent proceedings against the Press, 283. Recall of the
French embassador to England, 283. Increase voted to the salary
of the President, 424. New laws for the restriction of the Press,
424. Walker's attempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon, 424. M.
Thiers's visit to Louis Philippe, 424. Tax on feuilletons, 569.
The President's tour, 707. Death of Louis Philippe, and notice of
his life, 708. Decision of a majority of the departments in favor
of a revision of the constitution, 709. Duel between MM. Chavoix
and Dupont, 711. Death of Balzac, and notice of his life and
works, 711. The President's plans; revision of the Constitution,
856.

GERMANY.--Convocations at Frankfort and Berlin, 284. Attempt on
the life of the King of Prussia, 284. Dissolution of the Saxon
Chambers, and of the Wurtemberg Diet, 424. Peace Convention at
Frankfort, 424, 712. Restrictions on the Press in Prussia, 424.
Fresh hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, Battle of Idstedt, 570.
Proceedings of Austria, respecting the Act of Confederation, 712.
Inundations in Belgium, 712. General Krogh rewarded by the
Emperor of Russia for his bravery at the battle of Idstedt, 712.
Extension of telegraphs, 855. Hungarian musicians expelled from
Vienna, 855. Colossal statue completed, 855. Revolutions in Hesse
Cassel and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 856.

ITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL.--The Pope's return, and adhesion to the
Absolutists, 128. State of affairs in Italy, 284. Intrigues in
Spain, 284. Rain after a five years' drought, 284. Explosion of a
powder-mill, 284. Claims of the United States on Portugal, and
consequent difficulties, 424, 569. Birth and death of an heir to
the Spanish Crown, 569. Disturbances in Piedmont, 712. Disquiets
in Rome, 712. Inundation in Lombardy, 855. Prisons at Naples,
855.

INDIA, AND THE EAST.--Disturbances among the Affredies; their
villages destroyed by Sir Charles Napier, 128. Arrangements of
the Pasha of Egypt for shortening the passage across the desert,
128. Establishment of a new journal in China, 129. Permission
granted the Jews for building a temple on Mount Zion, 129.
University in New South Wales, 129. Terrible explosion at
Benares, 570. Sickness at Canton, 570. The great diamond, 570.
Revolt at Bantam, 570. Sulphur mines in Egypt, 856.

LITERARY.--Postponement of the French Exhibition of Paintings,
129. Goethe's Manuscripts, 423. Mr. Hartley's bequests set aside,
423. History of Spain, by St. Hilaire, 568. Sir Robert Peel's
MSS., 568, 712. Miss Strickland's forthcoming Lives of the Queens
of Scotland, 569. Bulwer's new novel, 710. Copyright of
foreigners, 710. Sale of the Paintings of the King of Holland,
710. Lamartine's Confidences, 710. Notice of Ticknor's Spanish
Literature in the Morning Chronicle, 710. The North British
Review, 711. Sale of the Barbarigo Gallery at Venice, 711. A new
singer, 711. New edition of Owen's Works, 853. Copyrights paid to
American Authors, 854. Theological Faculties in Germany, 854.
Translation of Dante and Ovid into Hebrew, 854. Books issued,
126, 282, 422, 564, 710.

SCIENTIFIC.--Papers read by Murchison and Lepsius before the
Geological Society, 125. Before the Royal Society, by O'Brien,
Faraday, and Mantell, 125. The _Pelorosaurus_, 125. Lead for
statues, 126. Operations of Mr. Layard, 126, 280, 854. Discovery
of ancient Roman coins in the Duchy of Oldenburg, 128. Opening of
the submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais, 129.
Experimental slips dropped from balloons, 129. Box Tunnel,
London, 129. Transplantation of a full grown tree, 129. Glass
pipes for gas, 129. International railway commission, 129.
Russian expedition for exploring the Northern Ural, 129.
Invention for extinguishing tires, 280. Experiments on light and
heat, 281. Discovery of a new comet, 281. Unswathing a mummy,
423. Society for investigating epidemics; for observations in
Meteorology, 423. Depredations on Assyrian and Egyptian
antiquities, 568. Apparatus to render sea-water drinkable, 568.
Improved mode of producing iron, 569. Prof. Johnston on American
Agriculture, 569. Telegraphic wire between Dover and Calais, 711.
Iron unsuitable for vessels of war, 853. New submarine telegraph,
853. The atmopyre, 854. A new star, 854. The Britannia bridge,
855. Ascent of Mount Blanc, 855.

SOCIAL.--Great project for agricultural emigration, 129. English
criminal cases, 129. Building for the Industrial exhibition, 567.
Lord Campbell on the Sunday Letter Bill, 707. Extension of the
Franchise in Ireland, 707. Introduction of laborers into the West
Indies, 707. Tenant-right conference in Dublin, 707. Peace
Congress at Frankfort, 424, 712.

PERSONAL.--Monument to Jeffrey, 125. Absence of mind of Bowles,
133. Degree of Doctor of Music conferred upon Meyerbeer, 422.
Gutzlaff, Corbould, Gibson, 422. Baptism of the infant prince,
422. Accident to Rogers, 423. Monument to Wordsworth, 423. Sir
Robert Peel's injunction to his family not to accept titles or
pensions, 567. Barral and Bixio's balloon ascent, and Poitevin's
horseback ascent, 568. Poverty of Guizot, 568. Meinhold fined for
libel, 569. Guizot's refusal to accept a seat in the Council of
Public Instruction, 569. Bulwer a candidate for the House of
Commons; his new play, 569. Ovation to Leibnitz and Humboldt,
569. Haynau mobbed, 706. Movements of the Queen, 707. Duel
between MM. Chavoix and Dupont, 711. Viscount Fielding embraces
Catholicism, 855. Prospective liberation of Kossuth, 855.

DEATHS.--Wordsworth, Bowles, 125; Sir James Bathurst, Madame
Dulcken, Sir Archibald Galloway, Admiral Hills, Dr. Prout, Madame
Tussaud, 127; Dr. Potts, inventor of the hydraulic pile-driver,
129. Gay Lussac, 282; M.P. Souyet, the Emperor of China, Earl of
Roscommon, Sir James Sutherland, Mrs. Jeffrey, 283; Sir Robert
Peel, 420; Duke of Cambridge, 422; Dr. Burns, Dr. Gray, Rev. W.
Kirby, B. Simmons, 568; Neander, 569; Louis Philippe, 708;
Balzac, 711; Sir Martin Archer Shee, 711. Gale the aeronaut, 854.

Moorish Domestic Life 161
Morning in Spring 87
Moscow after the Conflagration 137
Mrs. Hemans 116
My Novel; or Varieties in English Life. By SIR EDWARD
BULWER LYTTON 659, 761
My Wonderful Adventures in Skitzland 258
Neander. A Biographical Sketch 510
Obstructions to the use of the Telescope 699
Ode to the Sun. By HUNT 189
Papers on Water, No. 1 50
Physical Education 106
Peace (Poetry). By CHAS. DRYDEN. 194
Pilgrimage to the Home of Sir Thomas More. By Mrs. S.C. HALL 289
Portrait of Charles I. By VANDYCK 137
Poverty of the English Bar 218
Presence of Mind. By DE QUINCEY 467
Rapid Growth of America 237
Recollections of Dr. Chalmers 383
Recollections of Eminent Men. By LEIGH HUNT 184
Recollections of Thomas Campbell 345
Scenery on the Erie Railroad 213
Scenes in Egypt 210
Shooting Stars and Meteoric Showers 439
Short Cuts Across the Globe 79
Singular Proceedings of the Sand Wasp. By WILLIAM HOWITT 592
Sir Robert Peel. A Biographical Sketch 405
Sketches of English Character--The Old Squire--The Young
Squire. By WILLIAM HOWITT 460
Sketches of Life. By a Radical 803
Snakes and Serpent Charmers 680
Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth 218
Sonetto 72
Sonnets from the Italian 114
Sophistry of Anglers. By LEIGH HUNT 164
Sorrows and Joys (Poetry) 627
Spider's Silk 824
Sponges 406
Steam 50
Steam Bridge of the Atlantic 411
Story of a Kite 750
Summer Pastime (Poetry) 524
Sydney Smith 584
Sydney Smith on Moral Philosophy 107
Terrestrial Magnetism 651
The American Revolution. By GUIZOT 178
The Appetite for News 249
The Approach of Christmas (Poetry) 454
The Australian Colonies 118
The Blind Sister 826
The Brothers Cheeryble 551
The Chapel by the Shore 74
The Character of Burns. By ELLIOTT 114
The Chemistry of a Candle 524
The Circassian Priest Warrior and his White Horse (Poetry) 98
The Communist Sparrow--An Anecdote of Cuvier 317
The Corn Law Rhymer 135
The Countess 816
The Death of an Infant (Poetry) 183
The Disasters of a Man who wouldn't trust his Wife. By WILLIAM
HOWITT 512
The Doom of the Slaver 846
The Enchanted Baths 139
The Enchanted Rock 639
The English Peasant. By HOWITT 483
The Every-Day Married Lady 777
The Every-Day Young Lady 742
The Flower Gatherer 78
The Force of Fear 640
The Genius of George Sand. The Comedy of Francois le Champi 95
The Gentleman Beggar. An Attorney's Story 588
The German Meistersingers 81
The Haunted House in Charnwood Forest 472
The Household Jewels (Poetry) 692
The Imprisoned Lady 551
The Iron Ring 808
The Laboratory in the Chest 673
The Light of Home 842
The Literary Profession--Authors and Publishers 548
The Little Hero of Haarlem 414
The Magic Maze 684
The Mania for Tulips in Holland 758
The Miner's Daughters. A Tale of the Peak 150
The Modern Argonauts (Poetry) 120
The Mother's First Duty 105
The Mysterious Preacher 452
The Old Church-yard Tree--A Prose-poem 483
The Old Man's Bequest. A Story of Gold 387
The Old Well in Languedoc 521
The Oldest Inhabitant of the Place de Greve 749
The Orphan's Voyage Home (Poetry) 272
The Paris Election 116
The Planet-Watchers of Greenwich 233
The Pleasures of Illness 697
The Pope at Home again 117
The Power of Mercy 395
The Prodigal's Return 836
The Quakers during the American War. By HOWITT 595
The Railway (Poetry) 826
The Railway Station (Poetry) 163
The Railway Works at Crewe 408
The Return of Pope Pius IX. to Rome 90
The Rev. William Lisle Bowles 86
The Salt Mines of Europe 759
The Schoolmaster of Coleridge and Lamb. By LEIGH HUNT 207
The Snowy Mountains in New Zealand 65
The State of the World before Adam 754
The Steel Pen. Illustration of Cheapness 677
The Sun 689
The Tea Plant 693
The Two Guides of the Child 672
The Two Thompsons 479
The Young Advocate 304
The Uses of Sorrow (Poetry) 193
The Wahr-Wolf 797
The Wife of Kong Tolv. A Fairy Tale 324
Thomas Babington Macaulay 136
Thomas Carlyle. By GEORGE GILFILLAN 586
Thomas de Quincey, the "English Opium Eater" 145
Thomas Moore 248
Trial and Execution of Mad. Roland 732
Truth 137
Tunnel of the Alps 77
Two-handed Dick, the Stockman. A Tale of Adventure in Australia 190
Ugliness Redeemed--A Tale of a London Dust-Heap 455
Unsectarian Education in England 100
Villainy Outwitted 781
Wallace and Fawdon (Poetry). By LEIGH HUNT 400
What becomes of all the clever Children? 402
What Horses Think of Men. From the Raven in the Happy Family 593
When the Summer Comes 780
William H. Prescott 138
William Pitt. By S.T. COLERIDGE 202
William Wordsworth 103
Women in the East 10
Work! An Anecdote 88
Wordsworth--His Character and Genius. By GEORGE GILFILLAN 577
Wordsworth's Posthumous Poem 546
Writing for Periodicals 553
Young Poet's Plaint. By ELLIOTT 113
Young Russia--State of Society in the Russian Empire 269

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PORTRAIT OF ARCHIBALD ALISON 134
PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 136
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT 138
THE PYRAMIDS 210
SECTION OF THE GREAT PYRAMID 211
THE GREAT HALL AT KARNAK 212
VIEW FROM PIERMONT (ERIE RAILROAD) 213
VALLEY OF THE NEVERSINK (FROM THE ERIE RAILROAD) 214
STARUCCA VIADUCT (ERIE RAILROAD) 215
PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS MORE 289
BOX CONTAINING THE SKULL OF MORE 289
CLOCK HOUSE AT CHELSEA 290
HOUSE OF SIR THOMAS MORE 292
CHELSEA CHURCH 293
TOMB OF SIR THOMAS MORE 294
HOUSE OF ROPER, MORE'S SON-IN-LAW 295
SIR THOMAS MORE AND HIS DAUGHTER 296
PORTRAIT OF ZACHARY TAYLOR 298
PORTRAIT OF JANE PORTER 433
JANE PORTER'S COTTAGE AT ESHER 437
TOMB OF JANE PORTER'S MOTHER 438
SHOOTING STARS (SIX ILLUSTRATIONS) 439

INITIAL LETTER. METEORIC SHOWERS IN GREENLAND. METEORS AT THE
FALLS OF NIAGARA. FALLING STARS AMONG THE CORDILLERAS. THE
NOVEMBER METEORS. DIAGRAM.

NEANDER IN THE LECTURE ROOM 510
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 577
WORDSWORTH'S HOME AT RYDAL MOUNT 581
PORTRAIT OF SYDNEY SMITH 584
PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CARLYLE 586
REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIALS (FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS) 721

INITIAL LETTER. MONUMENT AT CONCORD. MONUMENT AT LEXINGTON. NEAR
VIEW OF LEXINGTON MONUMENT. PORTRAIT OF JONATHAN HARRINGTON.
WASHINGTON'S HEAD-QUARTERS AT CAMBRIDGE. THE RIEDESEL HOUSE AT
CAMBRIDGE. AUTOGRAPH OF THE BARONESS RIEDESEL. BUNKER HILL
MONUMENT. CHANTREY'S STATUE OF WASHINGTON. MATHER'S VAULT.
HANDWRITING OF COTTON MATHER. SPEAKER'S DESK AND WINTHROP'S
CHAIR. PHILIP'S SAMP-PAN. CHURCH'S SWORD.

PORTRAIT OF MADAME ROLAND 732
FASHIONS FOR EARLY SUMMER (SIX ILLUSTRATIONS) 143

BALL AND VISITING DRESSES. STRAW HATS FOR PROMENADE. STRAW
BONNET. TULIP BONNET. LACE JACQUETTE.

FASHIONS FOR SUMMER (THREE ILLUSTRATIONS) 287

CARRIAGE COSTUME. BRIDAL DRESS. RIDING DRESS.

FASHIONS FOR LATER SUMMER (FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS) 435

PROMENADE DRESS. PELERINES. LITTLE GIRL'S COSTUME. HOME DRESS.
BALL DRESS.

FASHIONS FOR EARLY AUTUMN (FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS) 573

PROMENADE DRESS. COSTUME FOR A YOUNG LADY. MORNING CAPS. MORNING
COSTUME.

FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN (THREE ILLUSTRATIONS) 718

EVENING COSTUME. MORNING COSTUME. PROMENADE DRESS.

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER (THREE ILLUSTRATIONS) 863

PROMENADE AND CARRIAGE COSTUME. MORNING COSTUME. OPERA COSTUME.

HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

NO. I--JUNE, 1850--VOL. I.

A WORD AT THE START.

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, of which this is the initial number, will be published every month, at the rate of three dollars per annum. Each number will contain as great an amount and variety of reading matter, and at least as many pictorial illustrations, and will be published in the same general style, as the present.

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[From the Dublin University Magazine.]

MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.