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HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

VOLUME V.

JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1852.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

329 & 331 PEARL STREET,

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MDCCCLII.

ADVERTISEMENT.

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE closes its Fifth Semi-annual Volume with a circulation of more than One Hundred Thousand copies. The Publishers have spared neither labor nor expense to render it the most attractive Magazine of General Literature ever offered to the public; and they confidently present this Volume as evidence that their efforts to add to the value and interest of the work have kept pace with the increase of its circulation.

Special arrangements have been made, and will continue to be made, to render the next Volume still more worthy of public favor than its predecessor has been. The abundant facilities at the command of the Publishers insure an unlimited field for the choice and selection of material, while the ample space within the pages of the Magazine enables the Editors to present matter suited to every variety of taste and mood of the reading community. The Pictorial Illustrations will maintain the attractive and varied character by which they have been heretofore distinguished, while their number will be still farther increased.

In the general conduct and scope of the Magazine no change is contemplated. Each Number will contain as hitherto:

_First._--ORIGINAL ARTICLES by popular American authors, illustrated, whenever the subject demands, by wood-cuts executed in the best style of the art.

_Second._--SELECTIONS from the current literature of the day, whether in the form of articles from foreign periodicals or extracts from new books of special interest. This department will include such serial tales by the leading authors of the time, as may be deemed of peculiar interest; but these will not be suffered to interfere with a due degree of variety in the contents of the Magazine.

_Third._--A MONTHLY RECORD, presenting an impartial condensed and classified history of the current events of the times.

_Fourth._--An EDITOR'S TABLE, devoted to the careful and elaborate discussion of the higher questions of principles and ethics.

_Fifth._--An EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR and DRAWER, containing literary and general gossip, the chat of town and country, anecdotes and reminiscences, wit and humor, sentiment and pathos, and whatever, in general, belongs to an agreeable and entertaining miscellany.

_Sixth._--CRITICAL NOTICES of all the leading books of the day. These will present a fair and candid estimate of the character and value of the works continually brought before the public.

_Seventh._--LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, concerning books, authors, art, and whatever is of special interest to cultivated readers.

_Eighth._--PICTORIAL COMICALITIES, in which wit and humor will be addressed to the eye; and affectations, follies, and vice, chastised and corrected. The most scrupulous care will be exercised that in this department humor shall not pass into vulgarity, or satire degenerate into abuse.

_Ninth._--THE FASHIONS appropriate for the season, with notices of whatever novelties in material or design may make their appearance.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

All Baggage at the Risk of the Owner 334

A Duel in 1830 399

A Dull Town 179

Animal Mechanics 524

A Possible Event 786

A Primitive People 111

Armory at Springfield. By JACOB ABBOTT. 145

Auld Robin Gray--a Ballad 1

A Terribly Strange Bed 202

Bleak House. By CHARLES DICKENS. 7, 229, 358, 505, 638, 791

British Museum and Zoological Gardens By FREDRIKA BREMER 201

Celebrated French Clockmaker 86

Church of the Cup of Cold Water 34

COMICALITIES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Smoking at a Railway Station, 141. The Childish Teetotal
Movement; Deference to the Sex, 142. Illustration of Humbug;
Rules for Health; Finance for Young Ladies, 281. Maine-Law
Petitioners, 282. Anti-Maine-Law Petitioners, 283. Matrimony
Made Easy, 284. Favorite Investments; An Agreeable Partner,
285. Delicacy; The Dog-Days; The American Crusaders; Poetical
Cookery-Book, 286. Mr. Bull's Ideas on the Musquito Question;
Starvation for the Delicate, 427. Young New York Hard-up; A
Victim of the Tender Passion, 428. A Striking Expression; Scene
in a Fashionable Ladies' Groggery, 429. Rather a Bad Look-out;
The Attentive Husband in August, 430. A Great Nuisance, 569.
Tea-Room before Tea, 570. Tea-Room after Tea, 571. A Midsummer
Night's Dream; Blow like sweet Roses, 572. New Illustrations
to Shakspeare, 573. A Superfluous Question; Children must be
paid for, 574. New Illustrations to Byron, 717. The Dog and
his Enemies; Scenes from a Dog's Life in Dog-Days, 718. Some
Punkins; Advice to the Poor Gratis, 861. A Natural Consequence;
Proper Prudence, 862.

Courage of a Man of Principle 765

Curiosity in Natural History 113

Dark Chapter from the Diary of a Law Clerk 688

Daughter of the Bardi 112

Down in a Silver Mine 772

Drops of Water 75

Drooping Buds. By CHARLES DICKENS 66

EDITOR'S DRAWER.

Legal Examinations; Anecdotes of Beau Brummell, 131. The
Disgusted Wife to her Husband; The extempore Hair-cutter, 132.
Sonnet on a Youth who died of eating Fruit-pie; Mussulman
Scruples; Letter from Algeria, 133. Steam in Palestine; The
Puzzled Chinaman; Hints on Popping the Question, 134. A new
Family of Plants; Lamartine as Conservative; As Traveler;
An Irish Joke; Doubling prohibited, 135. An original Crest;
Mr. Caw; The Scotch Blacksmith, 136. Bustles in Africa;
Skeleton for Poets; Wives in China; A Persian Fable; Gents and
Gentlemen; The Ugly Man, 271. The Queen's Dog; "Unused as I
am to Public Speaking;" The Sold Troop-Horse; Philosophical
Explanation; Differences in Childhood, 272. Execution of
Montrose; Rothschild; Hot Soup at Railway Stations, 273. A
"Sonnick," by Thackeray; What is Pleasure? Working Clothes;
Legal Maxims; The Mazurka; Miss Trephina and Miss Trephosa;
Spanish Self-Glorification; The Two Hogarths; Dionysius the
Tyrant; The Pope in a Dilemma; Anecdotes of Horne Tooke;
Orthography of English Names; E Pluribus Unum; The Statue
of Pasquin, 274. A Matter-of-Fact Man, 416. Gambling, a new
Species of it; Country Quietude; Mons. le General Court de
Boston, 417. A Needle-Eye for a Camel to go through; A Levy;
Squaring the Account; For Bachelors; Old Proverbs excepted to,
418. Model Presentation Verses; Modern Dictionary; Governor
Chittenden and the Thief; The Puzzled Publican; How do you
like the Doctor? 419. How to prevent Riches from flying;
Anecdote of Louis Philippe; Tongues _vs._ Tongs; Spilling
Water in the Street, 420. An Epigram; Sydney Smith's Son;
Hint to Shoppers, Borrowing Books; Head and Bonnets; Allen,
Internal and External Costumer; Hair changing Color; An
Epitaph, 421. About that "Tea-Room" and the Amateur Alderman,
557. A bad Head better than none; Patent Hen Persuader;
Difference between a Bull and a Bully; How to grow Rich; Taking
things Coolly, a Triad of Instances; Beautiful Superstition;
The Ruling Passion, 558. Humanity of Nelson; An accurate
Receipt; Firing Dutch Cheeses; Getting slewed; An unwelcome
Shower-Bath; Nautical Technicalities, 559. A Gem from Lydgate;
Examination in Anatomy; Becoming "Dark;" Betting to Win;
An inordinate Petition, 560. Try Again; Newport Notions;
Putting one's Foot in; A Story of a Hog; Catachresis, 561.
The Poetry of Ballooning; A Maniac's Voyage to the Moon, 706.
About Umbrellas; "Sucker" Office-seeker; Remedy for a Broken
Leg, 707. How to double your Wealth; The Biter bit--a Tale
of the Mustard-pot; The Lord and the Lackey; A Squint at a
Crooked Leg; The Miseries of Pic-nicking, 708. A Frenchman's
Experience in Ladies' Schools; Carlyle on Stars; Twisting; A
Belle, 709. Lays of the Cavaliers; Pursuit of Knowledge under
Difficulties; Partition of Turkey; A Second-hand President;
The Lazy Man; Odd Names, 710. Prevention better than Cure; The
Lady and the Doctor; Inscription; Epitaph; Gipsies; Hogg, 711.
An Artist's Gratitude; Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Juliet at
Verona, 712. A Lover's Letter; What's the Matter; A Professor
posed; Doctoring; Thanksgiving, 848. How to be Happy; the
Sheriff and the Peddler; Thoughts by a Tailor, 849. About
Matrimony; Negro Banking; Being Busted; Coughing Concert, 850.
Mr. Benton; A Poser; Voyage of Life; Gulliver; Johnson and
Smith on the Scotch, 851. A great Pity; First Glimpse in the
Glass; Desirable Ignorance; Witchcraft; A Simile, 852. Anecdote
of Whitfield; Hotel Scenes; Hint to the Married; Grace before
Meat; For Bachelors, 853. Doubly Mistaken; a Steamboat Race,
854.

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.

Still more about the Weather; Spring Floods, 126. Rapid
Changes; Niagara in Winter; Spring again; New Park; Kossuth;
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, 127. Summer Traveling; Western Scenery;
Autograph Lottery, and Dumas's Sequel, 128. An Old Gentleman's
Letter--The Bride of Landeck, 129, 269, 414, 554, 702, 844. A
July Chair, 265. Parks; Imaginary Rambles; A Duo and a Triad of
Verses; Leafy June; The Washington Monument Intermittent Fever;
Political Conventions; Ole Bull, 266. The Maine Law at Watering
Places; Home-made Wines; Pleasuring to the Rocky Mountains; New
Lake in Minnesota; Summer Contentments, 267. Authors becoming
Millionaires; Dying for Love, 268. Provincials in Paris, 411.
Americans Abroad; The Grand Tour in Six Weeks; M. de Broglie's
Description of Washington, 412. A little Mule will grow; The
Town at Midsummer, 413. Fruits and Flowers; Poor Generals;
Alboni, with a Hint to Musical Critics; Monkeys at the Opera
House, 414. The Tender Passion in French Courts of Justice,
552. Summer at Saratoga; Saratoga out of Season, and a Glance
at the Good Time coming, 553. Back to Town, 842. The Opera and
Concerts; Alboni, Sontag, and Paul Jullien; The new Hotels, and
what will come of them, 843. Relief for Broadway; Our World's
Fair; Our own Political Position; Letter from the Editor, 844.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

On Education, 123. A Nation's Birthday, 262. Moral Influences
of the Theatre, 406. The Ideal of the Statesman, 548. The
Sabbath, 699. Morality of Steamboat Accidents, 836.

Edward Drysdale 77

Exaggeration 780

Fashions for June 145

Fashions for July 287

Fashions for August 431

Fashions for September 575

Fashions for October 719

Fashions for November 863

Fragments from a Young Wife's Diary 627

Franconia Mountains. By WM. MACLEOD 4

From Gold to Gray 115

Gambler's End 770

Garden of Flowers 781

Gossip about Great Men 667

Habits of Distinguished Authors 174

Henry Clay--Personal Anecdotes, etc. 393

Hunting Adventures in Le Morvan 466

Infidel Rebuked 464

Insect Wings 470

John Randolph of Roanoke 531

Last of the Fairies 810

Leaf from a Traveler's Note-Book.
By MAUNSEL B. FIELD 329

Life and Death of Paganini 659

Life in Paris 748

Life of Blake, the Great Admiral 197

LITERARY NOTICES.

ORIGINAL NOTICES.

Life and Correspondence of Niebuhr; Weber's Romance of Natural
History; Ivar, or, the Skjuts-Boy; Queechy; The Daltons;
Brace's Hungary in 1851; James's Pequinillo; English Synonyms,
137. Sargent's Standard Speaker; Spring's Glory of Christ;
Anthon's Manual of Grecian Antiquities; Works of President
Olin; Mountford's Thorpe; Life of Burns; Fancies of a Whimsical
Man; Alice Carey's Lyra; McMullen's Hand-Book of Wines, 138.
Stuart's Naval Dry Docks; Hervey's Principles of Courtesy;
Harrison's Laws of the Latin Language; Fasquelle's New French
Method; The Two Families; Owen's Greek Reader; Lamartine's
Restoration, 277. Clifton; Fourth Volume of Cosmos; Dollars
and Cents; Trench's Study of Words; Life and Correspondence of
Jeffrey, 278. Clarke's Eleven Weeks in Europe; Waverley Novels,
279. Curtis's Lotus-Eating; Strong's Harmony of the Gospels;
Fox and Hoyt's Quadrennial Register; Abbott's Mother at Home;
Waverley Novels; Herbert's Knights of England, France, and
Scotland, 422. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Woodbury's
Shorter German Course; Todd's Summer Gleanings; Hildreth's
United States; Halleck's Poems; Elliott's Mysteries, 423. Life
of Dr. Chalmers, 4th vol., 564. Meyer's Universum; Niebuhr's
Lectures on Ancient History; Atlantic and Transatlantic;
Sketches Afloat and Ashore; Butler's Analogy; The Napoleon
Dynasty, 565. Waverley Novels; Shaw's Outlines of English
Literature, with a Sketch of American Literature; Personal
Adventures of "Our Own Correspondent" in Italy; St. Helena and
the Cape of Good Hope; Haydock's Catholic Family Bible; The New
Rhetorical Reader, 566. Parisian Sights and French Principles;
The Discarded Daughter; The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints;
Tusculan Questions, Anthon's edition; Sargent's Life of Henry
Clay, 713. Stray Meditations; Anna Hammer; Mrs. Judson's Olio
of Domestic Verses; Life and Works of Burns, Vol. IV.; The
Master Builder; Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Upjohn's Rural
Architecture; The Dodd Family Abroad; The Old Engagement;
Single Blessedness; Lydia, A Woman's Book; De Bow's Industrial
Resources of the Southern and Western States, 714. Goodrich's
Select British Eloquence; Buckingham's Personal Memoirs, 856.
Guizot's Corneille and his Times; Chasles's Anglo-American
Literature; Philosophers and Actresses; Hawthorne's Life of
Pierce; Tuckerman's Sicily; Champlin's and Kuehner's Greek
Grammars; James's Life of Vicissitudes; Mrs. Hale's New Book
of Cookery, 857. Docharty's Algebra; Oehlschlaeger's German
Dictionary; The School for Fathers; March's Webster and his
Contemporaries; New Editions of Dickens; Morse's Geography;
Anthon's Cornelius Nepos, 858.

FOREIGN NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE.

Life of Kirby; Longman's Announcements; Life of Lord Langdale;
Wellington's Executor; Memoir of Dr. Pye Smith; Mary Howitt's
New Juvenile Magazine; Niebuhr's Lectures; Oersted's Soul of
Nature; Forthcoming Works by Tennyson, Thackeray, and Author of
the Bachelor of Albany, 139. Ronge; Resignation of Professor
Wilson; Demand for old Books in America; Criticisms on the
Howadji; Leigh Hunt's Illness; Lady Morgan on a Monument
to Moore; Emerson in French; Forgeries of Talleyrand's
Letters, 140. Caudle Lectures; Anthon's Anabasis; Ik. Marvel;
Resignation of Prof. Wilson; Candidates for his Chair, 279.
Milton's Agreement for Paradise Lost; Cassagnac's OEuvres
Litteraires; Fleury's Portraits Politiques et Révolutionnaires;
Grimm's German Dictionary; MS. of Rempen; Leipzig Easter
Catalogue, 280. Church Historians of England; Macdougall's
Papers; Sermons by the Author of Alton Locke; Translation of
Plato's Republic; Life of Moir; Life of Chalmers; Monument to
Mackintosh; Literary Fund Anniversary; Notice of Sterling,
424. Queechy; The English Press on Curtis's Books; Authorship
of the "Imitation of Christ," 425. The Germans on Margaret
Fuller; Wagner's Scientific Expedition to America; Amulet of
Byron; Prof. Lichtenstein; Medal to Swedenborg; Swedish Books;
St. Hilaire's Resignation; St. Beauve's Causeries du Lundi;
Dramatic Literature in France, 426. Signor Volpe's Lectures on
the Italian Poets; Miss Lothrop's Dollars and Cents; Proposed
Foreign Members of the Council of the Royal Society; Jared
Sparks and Lord Mahon. Prof. Grimm on the English Language,
566. James Russell Lowell and American Literature; Lamartine's
Constituent Assembly; Works by the Countess D'Orsay and Marquis
de Foudres, 567. New Literary Society in France; New Editions
of Buffon and Cuvier, Thiers's New Works; New Italian Books;
Printing in England, Germany, and France; Oehlenschlager's
and Temminck's Successors; Browning and Hawthorne in Germany;
German Juvenile Literature; Edinburgh Review on Niebuhr's
Life and Letters, 568. Literary Pensions, 714. Cyclopæedia
Biographica; Stiles's Austria; Webster's Dictionary, Guizot's
Republic in England, Relic of Burns; Translation of Gorgey's
Memoirs, Chalmers's Correspondence; Macaulay's new Volume
Gervinus's South American Republics: Lamartine's Sixth Volume
of the Restoration; Resigning French Professors; European
Litterateurs, 715. Saint Theresa's Works; George Sand;
Buffon; New Edition of Luther's Works; German Publications,
716. Retrospective Review; Webster's Dictionary; Coleridge's
Dramatic Works; Sonnet by Hartley Coleridge; Julian Fane;
Lord Mahon and Mr. Sparks, 860. Professor Ferrier; Lang's New
South Wales; Deacon's Annette; Merle D'Aubigne's new Volume;
Statues to St. Pierre and Delavigne; New Members of the British
Association, 860.

OBITUARIES.

John Young; B. B. Edwards; Solomon Van Rensselaer; James A.
Meriwether; Bishop Heading, 118. Dr. Pfaff, 280. Henry Clay,
402. M. Burnouf, 568. Marshal Excelmans, 698. Tony Johannot;
Count D'Orsay; Gen. Gourgeaud; Dr. Wulfsberg, 716. Bishop
Chase; Vanderlyn the Painter; Dr. McGuire, 835. The Duke of
Wellington, 836. Herbert Mayo; Dr. Macgillivray; Napoleon
Landais; M. Dize; Dr. Stieffel; Pompeo Litta, 860.

Little French Beggars 537

Little Wood Gatherers 529

Memoirs of the Holy Land. By JACOB ABBOTT 289, 433, 577, 721

Memory and its Caprices 634

Midnight Mass in the Reign of Terror 340

Miser's Life and Death 222

Monsters of Faith 657

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.

UNITED STATES.

Congressional Caucuses, 116. _Congressional Doings_:
Miscellaneous, 116, 255, 403, 543, 692; Intervention, 116;
Collins Steamers, 116, 255, 543; Resolutions on the Compromise,
117; Japanese Expedition, 117; Free Land Bill, 255; Debate
on the Fisheries, 544, 692; New Postage Law, 692; Isthmus of
Tehuantepec, 694; Adjournment, 692. Adjournment of New York
Legislature, 117. Whig Convention in Virginia, 117. Election in
Connecticut, 117. Election in Rhode Island, 117. Mr. Webster
on the Compromise, 117. Gen. Scott nominated by Whigs in N.
Y. Legislature, 118. Whigs in North Carolina, 118. Floods at
the West, 118. Steamboat Disasters, 118. Letter from Mr. Clay
respecting Kossuth, 118. Kossuth, 118, 257, 403. _California_:
Miscellaneous, 119, 257, 403, 546, 695; Governor's Message
respecting Chinese, 257; Chinamen, 403; Affray in Court, 545.
Correspondence with Hulsemann, 255. Democratic Convention
at Baltimore, and Nomination of Pierce and King, 256. Mr.
Webster in Boston, 256, 544. New York Canal Law pronounced
unconstitutional, 256. State Convention in South Carolina,
256. Maine Law in Massachusetts, 257. Anniversary Week, 257.
Presbyterian General Assemblies, 256. Arrival of Meagher, 257.
Whig Convention at Baltimore, and Nomination of Scott and
Graham, 402. Agricultural Convention, 403. Art-Union a Lottery,
403. Arrival of Alboni, 403. Indian and Mexican Disturbances in
Texas, 403. New Mexico, 404. Utah, 404, 545. Oregon, 696. Mr.
Webster on the Fishery Question, 543. Lundy Lane Celebration,
544. Native American Nominations, 544. Case of Messrs.
Stephens, Toombs, and others, 544. Case of Thomas Kaine, 544.
Destruction of Life on board the Steamer Henry Clay, 544.
Guano Question, 693. New Constitution for Louisiana, 695. Loss
of Life on board the Steamer Atlantic, 695; and on board the
Reindeer, 645. Free Democratic Convention at Pittsburgh, and
Nomination of Hale and Julian, 695. Agricultural Convention
of Southern States, 695. Floods in the Northwest, 696.
Nominations in New York, 833. Liberty Party Nominations, 833.
Webster Meeting in Boston, 833. Nominations in Massachusetts,
833. Mr. Hale's Acceptance, 833. Women's Rights Convention,
833. Elections in Vermont and Maine, 833. Southern Rights
Nominations, 833. Odd Fellow's Meeting, 833. General Scott, at
the West, 833. Dinner to Mr. Baring, 834. Mr. Graham's Letter,
834. Mr. Benton on the Tehuantepec Question, 834. Consul Rice,
834. Minister to England, 834. Anti-Rent Outrage, 834. The
India-Rubber Case, 834. Billy Bowlegs, 835. Concerts, 835.
Episcopal Bishop of New York, 835. Methodist Book Concern, 835.
The Fisheries, 835. Canadian Intelligence, 835.

SOUTHERN AMERICA.

MEXICO: Miscellaneous, 120, 257, 404, 545, 697, 836. Rejection
of the Tehuantepec Treaty, 120, 257. Remonstrances of European
Powers, 120. Laws respecting Foreigners, 120. Difficulties at
Acapulco, 120, 404, 545. President's Address, 404. Tehuantepec
Question, 836.--SOUTH AMERICA: Affairs in Buenos Ayres, 257,
405, 696, 836. Executions in Chili, 257, 405. Yellow Fever in
Brazil, 257, 836. Expedition of Flores, 258, 696, 836. Message
of the President of Ecuador, 258. New Ministry in Peru, 546.
Argentine Republic, 696, 836. Affairs in Brazil, 696. Military
Preparations in Peru, 836.--CUBA: New Conspiracies, 696.
Hostile Proceedings, 836.--SOUTH SEAS: Miscellaneous, 119, 257.
American Products free of Duty, 119. Eruption of Mauna Loa,
119. Revolt in Society Islands, 257, 546. Capture of American
Vessel at the Galapagos, 546.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Miscellaneous, 120, 260, 405. Undecided Course of the
Ministers, 120. Protection, 120. Loss of the Birkenhead,
120. The Crystal Palace, 120, 260, 697. Rumors of Sir John
Franklin's Vessels, 121. Gold in Australia, 121. Meeting of
Parliament, 258. Parliamentary Proceedings: Debate on India,
258; on Duties on Paper and Advertisements, 258; on the Militia
Bill, 258, 405, 546; on Disfranchisement, 258; Tenant Right
Bill, 259; Case of Mr. Murray, 259; The Chancellor's Budget,
259; Proposed Criminal Convention with France, 405; English
Missionaries in Austria, 546; Chancery Reform, 546; Debate on
Course of Ministry, 546; Prorogation, and Queen's Speech, 546.
Royal Academy Dinner, 259. Dispute among Booksellers, 259.
Starvation of Missionaries in Patagonia, 260. Petition for
Pardon of Irish Exiles, 260. Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby on
Protection, 405. Lord John Russell to his Constituents, 405.
Case of Mr. Mather, 405. Irish Exhibition, 406. Proclamation
against Catholic Ceremonies, 406. Elections for New Parliament,
547, 697. Royal Agricultural Society Dinner, 547. Riot at
Stockport, 547. Emigration to Australia, 547, 697. Mazzini,
547. The Fishery Question, 697. Kossuth in England, 697. The
Fisheries in the Colonies, 835. Canadian Politics, 836. Death
of the Duke of Wellington, with a Sketch of his Life, 837.
Report of the Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, 837.
The Guano Question, 838.

FRANCE.

Meeting of the Legislative Bodies, and President's Speech, 121.
The Budget, 121. Taking the Oaths, 121. Organization of the
National Guard, 122. Reconstitution of the University, 122.
Orleans Estates, 122, 261, 548. The Swiss Refugee Question,
122. The May Fêtes, 260. Charge by General Changarnier against
the President, 260. Counter-charges against Changarnier by
M. Cassagnac, 260. Refusal of Lamoriciere and Arago to take
the Oaths, 261. Letter from the Count de Chambord, 261. Views
of the Three Powers on the Empire, 261, 406, 698. Sale of
Marshal Soult's Pictures, 262. Difficulties of the Press, 406.
Message of the President, 547. Discussion on the Budget, 547.
Executions, 548. Opening of the Strasbourg Railway, 697. Change
in the Ministry, 697. Odilon Barrot abandons Public Life, 697.
Recall of Exiles, 697. Indifference at Elections, 697. Fête of
Napoleon's Birthday, 698. Anniversary of the Capture of the
Bastille, 838. Petitions for the Establishment of the Empire,
838. President's Speech at Lyons, 838. French Press on the Duke
of Wellington, 838.

SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE.

AUSTRIA: Death of Schwarzenberg, and Formation of New Ministry,
122. Batthyani's Estates, 122. New Restraints on the Press,
406. Return of the Emperor from Hungary, 698. Deficit in the
Revenue, 698. The Crown of St. Stephen, 838.--PRUSSIA: Famine
in Silesia, 122. Debate on abolishing the Constitution, 262.
Settlement of the Danish Succession, 262. The Zollverein,
838. The Cholera, 838.--NETHERLANDS: Railroad Amalgamation,
698. Speech of King of Holland, 837.--Affairs in Switzerland,
698.--SPAIN: Dismissal of Concha, 122. Postal Convention
with Austria, 838--ITALY: Abolition of the Constitution in
Tuscany 262. Arrests in Venice and Mantua, 698. Funeral of
Mazzini's Mother, 698. Restrictions on Petitions in Piedmont,
698. Closing of Protestant School in Naples, 698. Envoy from
England, 838. Conspiracy, 838. Eruption of Etna, 838.--GREECE:
Case of Dr. King, 122, 698, 838.--TURKEY: Reinstatement of
Reshid Pacha, 122. Settlement of the Egyptian Question, 262,
838. New Discoveries in Nineveh, 698.

My Brother Tom 526

My Little French Friend 227

My Novel; or Varieties in English Life.
By SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, 36, 179, 377, 494, 669, 813

Napoleon Bonaparte. By J. S. C. ABBOTT, 11, 162, 304, 609

Notes from the Barbary States 451

Number Nineteen in our Street 663

Ocean Life. By J. S. C. ABBOTT 61

Ostriches--How they are Hunted 177

Palaces of France. By J. S. C. ABBOTT, 304, 596, 739

Panther Hunt 481

Personal Habits and Appearance of Robespierre 345

Philosophy of Laughter 253

Posthumous Portrait 775

Prison Scene in the Reign of Terror 82

Record of a Madness not Insanity 212

Reminiscence of a Bow-street Officer 483

Results of an Accident.--The Gum Secret 225

Satisfaction of a Gentleman 783

Short Chapter on Rats 686

Soldier's First Battle 632

Stories about Beasts and Birds 219

Swept away by an Avalanche 788

Tale of Mid Air 218

The Ant or Emmet 540

The Counter-Stroke 248

The Ghost Raiser 106

The Incendiary 352

The Last Revel 69

The Little Gray Gossip 185

The Mourner and the Comforter 187

The Salamander 763

The Three Sisters 473

The Two Sisters 347

Three Visitors of Saint Pierre 108

Too Exclusive Attention to Business 504

Ventriloquism 351

What the Sunbeam Does 210

Who Murdered Downie 625

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

1. Auld Robin Gray.--The Courtship 1

2. Death of Auld Robin Gray 3

3. Franconia Notch 4

4. Profile Mountain 5

5. The Old Man of the Mountain 6

6. Eagle Cliff 7

7. Eastern Front of Profile Mountain 8

8. The Basin 9

9. The Flume 10

10. View on the Pemigewasset 11

11. Map of Marengo 13

12. Drawing a Gun over Great St. Bernard 15

13. Napoleon Ascending the Alps 17

14. Passing the Fort of Bard 18

15. Napoleon planning a Campaign 24

16. Map of Hohenlinden 26

17. Death at Hohenlinden 27

18. The Infernal Machine 29

19. Starting of an Ocean Steamer 61

20. The Visit at the Brickmaker's 93

21. In Re Guppy:--Extraordinary Proceedings 101

22. Smoking at a Railway Station 141

23. The Childish Teetotal Movement 142

24. Deference to the Sex 142

25. Costumes for June 143

26. Full Dress for Evening 144

27. Caps 144

28. The Armory at Springfield 145

29. The Middle Water Shops 147

30. The Welding Room 148

31. Straightening the Barrels 150

32. Grinding the Barrels 155

33. Exterior of the Proving House 154

31. Interior of the Proving House 155

35. Testing the Bayonets 155

36. The Blacksmith's Shop 156

37. Assembling the Musket 158

38. The New Arsenal 159

39. Quarters of the Commanding Officer 160

40. Mr. Guppy's Desolation 243

41. The Family Portraits at Mr. Badger's 246

42. Illustration of Humbug 281

43. Maine-Law Petitioners 282

44. Anti-Maine-Law Petitioners 283

45. Articles on Hand at Matrimonial Office 284

46. Favorite Investments 285

47. An Agreeable Partner 285

48. Delicacy 286

49. The Dog-Days 286

50. Costumes for July 287

51. Bonnet 288

52. Carriage Costume 288

53. Cap 288

54. Sleeve 288

55. View of Mount Carmel 289

56. Map of Mount Carmel 289

57. Map of Mount Carmel and Bay of Acre 291

58. Defense of Acre 292

59. Horseman of Acre 293

60. The Ascent of the Mountain 295

61. The Discovery of Glass 296

62. Elijah and the Gardener 297

63. The Hermits of Mount Carmel 300

64. The Elijah of the Basilians 301

65. The Authorized Elijah 302

66. The Serpent 302

67. The Panther 303

68. Napoleon's Reception at the Tuileries 310

69. Malmaison 311

70. Election for Consul for Life 312

71. Napoleon and the British Embassador 314

72. Review at Lyons 317

73. Sea Combat 318

74. The Louvre 321

75. Inner Court of the Louvre 322

76. The Tuileries 325

77. Grand Avenue of the Tuileries 327

78. The Dancing Room 362

79. Consecrated Ground 376

80. Mr. Bull's Ideas on the Musquito Question 427

81. Young New York Hard Up 428

82. A Victim of the Tender Passion 428

83. A Striking Expression 429

84. Scene in a Fashionable Ladies' Groggery 429

85. Rather a bad Look-out 430

86. The Attentive Husband in August 430

87. Costumes for August 431

88. Bonnet of Taffeta and Blond 432

89. Bonnet of Tulle and Taffeta 432

90. Bonnet of Tulle, Blond, and Taffeta 432

91. Source of the Jordan 433

92. Map of the Jordan 434

93. The Grapes of Eshcol 436

94. The Return of the Spies 437

95. The Crossing of Jordan 438

96. En Rogel 440

97. The Well 440

98. The Landing at Haifa 443

99. The Caravan 444

100. The Cascades 446

101. The Encampment 447

102. The Bowl 450

103. Portrait of the Bey of Tunis 451

104. Moorish Costumes 454

105. Military Costume at Tunis 454

106. The Bazaar 456

107. Barber's Shop 458

108. Moorish School 459

109. The Bastinado 462

110. Japanese Portraits 489

111. Caddy's Flowers 510

112. The Little Church in the Park 515

113. A Great Nuisance 569

114. Tea Room--Before Tea 570

115. Tea Room--After Tea 571

116. A Midsummer Night's Dream 572

117. Blow like sweet Roses 572

118. All Places yield to him 573

119. Speak to him, Ladies 573

120. A Superfluous Question 574

121. Costumes for September 575

122. Walking Dress 576

123. Home Costume 576

124. Departure of Lot from Sodom 579

125. The Plain 580

126. The Valley of Arabah 581

127. Map of the Dead Sea 582

128. Caves of Engedi 583

129. The Descent 584

130. The Cavern of Usdum 586

131. The Ford 588

132. Turahbeh 591

133. The Leveling Party 594

134. Death of Costigan 595

135. Plan of Versailles 597

136. Louis XIV 598

137. Old Chateau of Versailles 599

138. Court Entrance at Versailles 600

139. Death of Louis XIV 601

140. Louis XIV. hunting 603

141. Madame Maintenon 604

142. Cascades of Versailles 606

143. Fountain of Fame 607

144. Fountain of the Star 609

145. Fountain of the Pyramid 608

146. Parterre of Versailles 608

147. The Grand Trianon 609

148. Scene in the Louvre 610

149. Arrest of Cadoudal 612

150. Arrest of the Duke D'Enghien 614

151. Napoleon's Hut at Boulogne 616

152. Execution of the Duke D'Enghien 618

153. Madame Polignac interceding for her Husband 620

154. Mr. Guppy's Entertainment 640

155. The Smallweed Family 645

156. Throne of the Mighty 717

157. But in thy Lineaments I trace 717

158. The Dog and his Enemies 718

159. Four Scenes in a Dog's Life 718

160. Costumes for October 719

161. Girl's Toilet 720

162. Cap 720

163. The Cedars of Lebanon 721

164. Evergreens in the Forest 724

165. Evergreens in the Field 724

166. The Workmen in the Mountains 725

167. The Caravans 725

168. Map of Sources of Jordan 726

169. The Two Strangers 727

170. The Abduction of the Idols 728

171. The Terebinth at Banias 730

172. The Ruins 732

173. Hasbeiyah 732

174. Commerce of the Druses 733

175. Fakardin a Fugitive 734

176. The Presents 735

177. Ruins of Baalbec 736

178. Preparations for a Journey 737

179. Visiting the Cedars 738

180. Palace of St. Germain 749

181. Convent of St. Jacques 740

182. St. Germain from the Terrace 741

183. Interior of St. Denis 741

184. Christening of the Dauphin 742

185. Church of St. Denis 743

186. Palace of St. Cloud 744

187. Palace of Fontainebleau 745

188. Court-Yard of Fontainebleau 746

189. Paris from Nôtre Dame 749

190. Shopping in Paris 750

191. Marriage by the Magistrate 750

192. Marriage by the Priest 751

193. Through the Rain 752

194. Business before Pleasure 752

195. The Bow Audacious 754

196. Bows, Natural and Stiff 754

197. Bows, Proud and Sad 754

198. Bows, Gallant, and not Uncommon 754

199. Bows, Unquiet and Miserable 754

200. Bows, Good-Natured and Insulting 755

201. Bows, Benevolent and Cold 755

202. Bows, Humiliating and Humble 755

203. Church of the Madeleine 756

204. On the Boulevards 757

205. Cafés on the Boulevards 757

206. Maison du Grand Balcon 758

207. Boulevard Montmartre 758

208. Boulevard du Temple 758

209. Hebrew Quarter 759

210. The Column of July 759

211. The Quay of the Louvre 761

212. Floating Wash-Houses 761

213. Aristocratic Bathing-House 761

214. Baths for Four Sous 761

215. A Comfortable Bath 762

216. Swimming School 762

217. Hair-dressing and Corn-cutting 763

218. Bathing Costume For Ladies 763

219. In the Bath 763

220. Ready for the Bath 763

221. A Model of Parental Deportment 795

222. Improving a Tough Subject 807

223. Some Punkins 861

224. Advice to the Poor Gratis 861

225. A Natural Consequence 862

226. Proper Prudence 862

227. Costume for November (Equestrian) 863

228. Walking Toilet 864

229. Cap 864

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

NO. XXV.--JUNE, 1852.--VOL. V.

AULD ROBIN GRAY.

When the sheep are in the fauld, when the cows come hame,
When a' the weary warld to quiet rest are gane;
The woes of my heart fa' in showers frae my ee,
Unken'd by my gudeman, who soundly sleeps by me.

Young Jamie loo'd me weel, and sought me for his bride;
But saving ae crown piece, he'd naething else beside,
To make the crown a pound, my Jamie gaed to sea;
And the crown and the pound, O they were baith for me!

Before he had been gane a twelvemonth and a day,
My father brak his arm, our cow was stown away;
My mother she fell sick--my Jamie was at sea--
And Auld Robin Gray, oh! he came a-courting me.

My father cou'dna work--my mother cou'dna spin;
I toil'd day and night, but their bread I cou'dna win;
Auld Rob maintain'd them baith, and, wi' tears in his ee,
Said, "Jenny, oh! for their sakes, will you marry me?"

My heart it said na, and I looked for Jamie back;
But hard blew the winds, and his ship was a wrack:
His ship it was a wrack! Why didna Jamie dee?
Or, wherefore am I spar'd to cry out, Woe is me!

My father argued sair--my mother didna speak,
But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break;
They gied him my hand, but my heart was in the sea;
And so Auld Robin Gray, he was gudeman to me.

I hadna been his wife, a week but only four,
When mournfu' as I sat on the stane at my door,
I saw my Jamie's ghaist--I cou'dna think it he,
Till he said, "I'm come hame, my love, to marry thee!"

O sair, sair did we greet, and mickle say of a';
Ae kiss we took, nae mair--I bad him gang awa.
I wish that I were dead, but I'm no like to dee;
For O, I am but young to cry out, Woe is me!

I gang like a ghaist, and I carena much to spin,
I darena think o' Jamie, for that wad be a sin.
But I will do my best a gude wife aye to be,
For Auld Robin Gray, oh! he is sae kind to me,

THE CONTINUATION.

The wintry days grew lang, my tears they were a' spent;
May be it was despair I fancied was content.
They said my cheek was wan; I cou'dna look to see--
For, oh! the wee bit glass, my Jamie gaed it me.

My father he was sad, my mother dull and wae;
But that which griev'd me maist, it was Auld Robin Gray;
Though ne'er a word he said, his cheek said mair than a',
It wasted like a brae o'er which the torrents fa'.

He gaed into his bed--nae physic wad he take;
And oft he moan'd and said, "It's better for her sake."
At length he look'd upon me, and call'd me his "ain dear,"
And beckon'd round the neighbors, as if his hour drew near.

"I've wrong'd her sair," he said, "but ken't the truth o'er late;
It's grief for that alone that hastens now my date;
But a' is for the best, since death will shortly free
A young and faithful heart that was ill matched wi' me.

"I loo'd, and sought to win her for mony a lang day;
I had her parents' favor, but still she said me nay;
I knew na Jamie's luve; and oh! it's sair to tell--
To force her to be mine, I steal'd her cow mysel!

"O what cared I for Crummie! I thought of naught but thee,
I thought it was the cow stood 'twixt my luve and me.
While she maintain'd ye a' was you not heard to say,
That you would never marry wi' Auld Robin Gray?

"But sickness in the house, and hunger at the door,
My bairn gied me her hand, although her heart was sore.
I saw her heart was sore--why did I take her hand?
That was a sinfu' deed! to blast a bonnie land.

"It was na very lang ere a' did come to light;
For Jamie he came back, and Jenny's cheek grew white.
My spouse's cheek grew white, but true she was to me;
Jenny! I saw it a'--and oh, I'm glad to dee!

"Is Jamie come?" he said, and Jamie by us stood--
"Ye loo each other weel--oh, let me do some good!
I gie you a', young man--my houses, cattle, kine,
And the dear wife hersel, that ne'er should hae been mine."

We kiss'd his clay-cold hands--a smile came o'er his face;
"He's pardon'd," Jamie said, "before the throne o' grace.
Oh, Jenny! see that smile--forgi'en I'm sure is he,
Wha could withstand temptation when hoping to win thee?"

The days at first were dowie; but what was sad and sair,
While tears were in my ee, I kent mysel nae mair;
For, oh! my heart was light as ony bird that flew,
And, wae as a' thing was, it had a kindly hue.

But sweeter shines the sun than e'er he shone before,
For now I'm Jamie's wife, and what need I say more?
We hae a wee bit bairn--the auld folks by the fire--
And Jamie, oh! he loo's me up to my heart's desire.

THE SUMMER TOURIST.--SCENERY OF THE FRANCONIA MOUNTAINS, N.H.

BY WILLIAM M'LEOD.

The approach of summer will turn the thoughts and steps of thousands toward those sections of our wide country whose picturesque beauty makes them ample amends for comparative sterility of soil and poverty of population. New Hampshire, with due allowance for the exaggerations of patriotism, may well be styled the Switzerland of America; and, although they are inferior in magnificent sublimity to the regal Alps, few tourists through the Northern States would leave the White Mountains unvisited.

Though it forms part of this great chain, the inhabitants of the Franconia range, jealously claim for their hills a separate name, character, and interest, having no connection with the more eminent firm of Washington, Adams, and Co. Like the latter, the Franconians boast a chief to their clan--_Mount Lafayette_, a "_Notch_," and other important features of a distinct and complete establishment, which combine to make it no mean rival to the great _Patriot Group_. We propose, with pen and pencil, to make a brief excursion through these picturesque localities.

These remarkable scenes are chiefly comprised within the extraordinary defile, or "_notch_," formed by the Franconia Mountains for a distance of five miles. The northern and southern approaches to this singular pass, have their peculiar advantages. Coming from the south, the tourist, from a very great distance, sees the outlines of its grander features rising far above the beautiful valley he follows; but, perhaps, this long and constantly visible approach, interesting as it is, begets a familiarity that weakens the impression of their sublimity when he finally confronts their more palpable magnificence. Not so with the approach from the north, where the views being more abrupt, shifting, and at times wholly concealed, their effect is the more startling upon the traveler, brought suddenly before them. Thus, in approaching the Franconia Notch from Bethlehem, we shall find the slow ascent of the dull steep hill eastward of that village, to be an excellent preparative for the superb prospect that bursts upon our vision, on reaching its top. Across the Franconia Valley lying beneath us, we see the lofty summits, forming the "Notch," "swell from the vale," and receding in peaks of picturesque irregularity--

"like giants stand
To sentinel enchanted land!"

There is no general view in the White Mountains equal to this distant prospect of the Franconia Notch, in respect to picturesque majesty of outline and massive breadth. Descending into the valley, our road suddenly turns eastward, and as we begin the opposite slow ascent to the _Notch_, the view before us assumes a finely-grouped concentrated character--losing that _diffuseness_ so destructive of picturesqueness and point in the American landscape generally. This scene is attempted in the accompanying sketch, showing Mount Lafayette filling the centre of the view, the irregular peaks of the _Notch_ on the right, while below, the eye is cheered with the snug farm-house by the road-side, and other rural accessories charmingly arranged for the artist's purpose.

Keeping the grander points of this fine prospect before us as we continue our ascent, every step reveals more distinctly the volcano-like crest and seamed bosom of Lafayette, than which not Washington himself, though five hundred feet taller, presents a form of more august character. Lafayette is not only distinguished over his fellows by his height, but also by the rocky bareness of his peaked summit, that descends with converging rows of ravines and hemlock-topped cliffs into an immense verdant basin presented toward us. In fine weather, the dry rocks of these ravines shine like bars of silver, and after heavy rains they glisten with the torrents disappearing into the vast shadowy basin below.

No tourist that has made this ascent to the _Notch_ during the dog-days, can forget the grateful change of the hot, treeless road, for the shady coolness of the wooded avenue he enters at the top, and through whose green twilight his now recruited steeds drag him merrily for two miles to the _Lafayette House_ at the entrance of the Notch. Just before reaching the hotel, we see through the fine birchen groves, skirting our avenue, _Echo Lake_, a small sheet of water of great depth and transparency, the mountainous sides of which clothed with an unbroken forest of dreary hemlock, deprive it of all beauty of _setting_, or of interest aside from its marvelously distinct echoes.

The Franconia _Notch_ hardly deserves more than the name of a _pass_--even for its narrowest point near the Lafayette House, where it is about a quarter of a mile in width. It has no such _jaws_--projecting _tusks_, and other palpable signs of violent disrupture, as make the expressive title of "_Notch_" so fitly applied to its great rival in the White Mountains. Still its features are distinctive, and grandly _unique_, and though not so sublimely rugged as those of its rival, they are infinitely more picturesque, and this peculiar difference of character extends to all the scenery lying within the two rival regions. But the wonder and pride of the Franconia Notch is the "_Old Man_" of the Profile Mountain, that forms its western wall, and which, ascending on the north side with a gradual wooded slope, to a height of two thousand feet, abruptly terminates in a perpendicular rocky precipice, five hundred feet high, which in a bare "granite front" extends along the eastern face of the mountain for two miles. An exquisite sheet of water, in size and purity similar to Echo Lake, lies between the mountain and our road, from which through a clearing, we have an admirable view of the mountain, rising wave-like from its lake--its rich rolling groves, overtopped by a pinnacle of rock, like the comb of a breaking billow, and in the fantastic outlines of that granite crest, juts out as perfect an outline of an _old man's head_, as human hand itself could execute!

Every tourist through the White Mountains knows the propensity of the natives to increase the interest of their region, by pointing out all sorts of fancied zoological likenesses in their rocks and mountains--so that before he sees the "_Old Man_," he will be apt to rank him, in advance, with the facial pretensions he has already seen. But, no! this time the artist has made a hit, and the likeness is admirable. There is nothing vague, imperfect, or disproportioned about him. You are not forced to _imagine_ a brow to the nose, or go in search of a chin to support the mouth. They are all there!--a bent, heavy brow, not stern, but earnest--a straight, sharp nose--lips thin and with the very weakness of extreme senility in their pinched-up lines--and a chin, long and massive, thrown forward with a certain air of obstinacy, that completes the character of the likeness!

The mass of rock forming this extraordinary profile is said to be eighty feet in height; is fifteen hundred feet above the lake, and about half a mile from a spectator in the road--from which point it appears to be at the top of the mountain though it is really five hundred feet below the summit. The "Old Man" does not change his countenance under the closest scrutiny of the spy-glass, constantly leveled at him by the starers "beneath his notice." Under such inspection the likeness loses none of its human character, though the cheeks of the veteran appear woefully cut-up and scarred. But it seems rude to peer thus impertinently into the wrinkles and "crow's-feet" of his grim visage that has faced, perhaps, centuries of sun and tempest. Nor is it advisable to take your first look at him when the sun lights up the chasms of his granite cheek, and the cavernous mystery of his bent brow. Go to him when in the solemn light of evening the mountain heaves up from the darkening lake its vast wave of luxuriant foliage--sit on one of those rocks by the road-side, and look, if you can, without awe, at the Granite Face hung against the luminous sky--human in its lineaments--supernatural in size and position--weird-like in its shadowy mystery, but its sharp outline wearing an expression of mortal sadness that gives it the most fascinating interest! If this singular profile has existed long enough, it must have been an object of veneration to the aborigines. Mr. Oakes, in his _White Mountain Scenery_, says it was first publicly made known to the whites only as far back as forty years ago. It is curious to observe the odd changes of the profile, as we advance or recede along the road. Now it resembles an old woman--now it flattens like a negro's face, and now its nose presents an "eagle-beak," like the Duke of Wellington's! A peculiar feature of beauty in the Profile Mountain is the rare luxuriance of its forest of birch and beech, with an occasional hemlock rising spire-like from its groves. The "Old Man" has a remarkable echo, with which (after a becoming deliberate pause) he will _retort_ every appeal, grave, quizzical, and sentimental that may be shouted up to him by the gay idlers on the lake side.

On the opposite side of the Notch, and immediately overhanging the hotel, a tremendous cliff is separated from the crest of the mountain by a huge chasm, and with its numerous jagged and splintered rocks, seems every moment about to topple down. This is the famous _Eagle Cliff_--so called from a pair of eagles having made their habitation a few seasons since on its topmost crag; and a prouder eyry for that majestic bird can not be imagined. It is this noble cliff, with its adjacent craggy peaks, that furnishes that picturesque irregularity of outline we have already described as peculiar to the Franconia Notch, and which is visible for such a great distance to the traveler coming either from the north or south. The latter approach, however, furnishes the finest view of Eagle Cliff. When within a mile of it, its stupendous crags fill up the centre of the view above the road before us, and the luxuriant birches on either side form a graceful framework, whose light airy boughs contrast finely with the massive riven cliff they inclose. In the evening, when the sun's rays are withdrawn from the valley below, and the rosy light falls alone on its rocky crags, vividly relieved by the broad shadows of its chasm, Eagle Cliff forms indeed a worthy _pendant_ to the "Old Man" over the way. The accompanying sketch is taken from this point in the road, to the left of which is seen a portion of the exquisite lake "sweetly slumbering" between these magnificent mountains.

But the glories of the Notch are not fully seen, unless the tourist visit it when that unrivaled colorist, Jack Frost, has lavished upon its foliage the hues of his gorgeous pallet--their tempered brilliancy glowing through the voluptuous haze of autumn! What a singular contrast the opposite sides of the Notch then present! Eagle Cliff allows no motley-dressed dandies to vegetate upon his stern crags--exclusively a mass of granite and sombre evergreens; and the hemlock-covered eastern wall into which he extends, has its funereal vestments only here and there _slashed_ with stripes of bright yellow birches that mark the mountain torrents and land-slides. But Frost, the artist, has a fairer field for his brush on the opposite side, where the rich rolling groves of the Profile Mountain present a bravely variegated mantle descending from the very neck of the "Old Man," who, with grim visage, unmoved by so rare "a coat of many colors," seems as indisposed as ever to bend down that obstinate chin and take a look at himself and his finery in the lake lying like a mirror at his feet! And even after the glory of the leaf has passed, it is well worth a trip to see these peaks in their cloudy costume, when the wind howls through the defile with a force shaking the hemlock "moored in the rifted rock," but not silencing the muffled roar of the unseen mountain torrents. Nor as one of the attractions of a late season must be omitted the chance of seeing Lafayette peering with whitened head over his clansmen's shoulders, while perhaps the defile reposes in groves of bright and brilliant foliage. But in spite of splendid foliage, and fresh, bracing weather, but few tourists visit the Franconia Notch when in its heightened glory. The artist, the wood-cutter, and the _partridge_ have it chiefly to themselves, and so "mine host" of the Lafayette House shuts up his best rooms, brings from one lake his oars, from the other his swivel, and that other echo-waking instrument--the long _tin horn_, now "hangs silent on the wall," until the hot weather of next summer brings the crowds of travelers who know not _when_ to travel. This scant attendance of tourists during the finest season of the year may be attributed to a false impression that because this Notch is confessedly one of the coldest spots in America in winter, it must be disagreeably cold during the early autumn. This is a mistake; the weather there being quite as mild till the close of October as it is in the open lower country.

Proceeding southwardly through the Notch, we find its precipitous walls gradually recede and break up into gently-sloping summits, which, at the distance of five miles, terminate the defile, and debouch into a wide valley, whose great descent proves the great elevation of the defile we are now threading. For two miles we keep in view the Profile Mountain, whose eastern front resembles the Hudson River _Palisades_ on a gigantic scale. Nothing can be more imposing than the front it presents--half of it a sheer precipice of bare granite, seamed, ribbed, and riven in every fantastic shape, resting on a sloping mass of broken rock, amid which flourish sturdy rows of evergreens, in spite of the showers of granite from the crumbling crags above--and which foretell the destruction that will inevitably overtake the lineaments of the "Old Man" long before "mighty oceans cease to roar." The annexed sketch will convey some idea of this stupendous front of the Profile Mountain, and also of the best general view of the Notch. which last, unfortunately, does not from any point present its features in sufficient concentration to do justice to their magnitude in detail.

We are now separated from the Profile Mountain by the _Pemigewasset_--a beautiful brook flowing from the lake at the feet of the "Old Man," whose tripping Indian name, though of unknown meaning, in sound, well describes its course of cascades, with which it follows us through the whole length of the defile--now dancing along our path, and now plunging again into the "listening woods," where it "singeth a quiet tune." Four miles from the Notch, it suddenly rushes out to the very edge of our road, and after foaming over several rocky ledges, collects its torn waters, and in a solid jet piercing a narrow fissure of granite, flings itself over into a deep pool, whose extraordinary shape and structure have constituted it the most charming curiosity of these mountains, under the name of _The Basin_. This singular pool is about twenty feet wide, and is inclosed in a circular basin of granite, one half of which rising to a height of fifteen feet, projects over the imprisoned waters. Undoubtedly the way in which the solid jet of the cascade strikes the side of the basin, giving a strong whirling motion to the pool, has gradually excavated the rock in its present regular, mason-like shape. Graceful birches bend over and embower this exquisite pool, that never fails to elicit bursts of delight from visitors first gazing upon its transparent water of the most brilliant emerald, shading off into an intense blue-black, where the cascade strikes its surface. Its greatest depth is about fifteen feet ordinarily, but nearly all the bed of the pool is distinctly visible through its indescribable emerald purity, although its surface is constantly agitated with tiny wavelets. Nature never fashioned such a darling nook as this exquisite Basin, in which Diana might have bathed, and issued purer from its transparent tide! The water escapes from the pool by another narrow fissure in the lower part of its granite rim, a projecting mass of which is said, by the ingenious Mr. Oakes, to resemble the half-immersed "_leg of some Hydropathic Titan_!" There are not wanting those who carry the fancied resemblance still further. At present the delicate beauty and graceful contour of the Basin are impaired and obscured somewhat by a clumsy foot-bridge flung across its curved margin, which, it is to be hoped, the next freshet will sweep away; and in anticipation of such wished-for fate to the unsightly and unnecessary structure, it is omitted in the annexed sketch.