Chapter I: Part 1

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VOLUME I.
AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 1850.

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CONTENTS:

VOLUME I. AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 1850.

Advancement of Learning. Portrait of Sir David Brewster, 312

Advocate, The Young.--_Household Words_, 81

_Arts, The Fine._--Elliott's Portraits, 73.--Pictures by Mr.
Kellogg, 78.--Osgood's Portrait of Captain Sutter, 73.
--Horace Vernet, 112, 175.--Mr. Healy, in Paris. 141,--
Powers's Statue of Calhoun, 174.--M. Ingres and M. de
Luynes, 207.--Gallery of Illustrious Americans, 207.--
Dr. Waagen, in England, 207.--Art in Bavaria, 269.--
Exhibition at Valenciennes, 269.--Darley's Illustrations
of "Sleepy Hollow," 269.--Chaucer's Monument, 269.--
Lessing's new Picture, 269.--Mlle. Rachel, again, 270.--
Gigantic Statue by Schwanthaler, 270.--Publications
of Goupil & Co., 270.--Mr. Powell's Picture for the Capitol,
270, 324.--German Views of Art in America, 323.--
Plans for the Promotion of Catholic Art in Rome, 623.--
Charles Muller's Group of Statues, 323.--A Hundred
Statues in Paris, 323.--Powers and his Statues, 324.--
The Barberigo Gallery at Venice, 324.--Paintings and
Sculptures of Early Northern Artists, 324.--A Statue
to Larrey, the Surgeon, 324.--The Standish Gallery,
324.--Exhibition at Dusseldorf, 324.--Works in Antwerp
Churches, 324.--Leutze's New Works, 324.--
The Colossal Frescoes of Kaulbach, 482.--Fine Public
Groups at Berlin, 482.--The Dusseldorf "Album," 482.
--Statue of Columbus, 483.--Monument to Frederick
the Great, 483.--Philadelphia Art Union, 483.--Original
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Isaac Newton,
483.--Kellogg's Full-Length of General Scott, 483.--
Mount's New Picture, 483.--Archæological Institute,
483.--Sarah Biffen, 484.--Statues of Herder, Oudinot,
Professor Cooper, &c., 484.

_Authors and Books._--Rev. Dr. Smyth, 13.--Gen. Pepe's
New Work, 13.--Mr. Mayne Reed, 13.--J. E. Warren,
13.--Dr. Hawks, 13.--The Princess Belgioioso, 13.--Eugene
Scribe, 13.--Alice and Phoebe Carey, 14.--Mrs.
Oaksmith, 14.--Prof. Nichol on America, 14.--Dr. Croly,
14.--Sir James Alexander, 14.--Mr. James and Copyright,
39.--Albert Smith and "Protection," 39.--R. H.
Stoddard, 39.--Inedited Correspondence of Goethe and
Schiller, 39.--Margaret Fuller, 39.--Dr. Hoefer _vs._ Dr.
Layard, 40.--Mr. Boker's New Play, 40.--George Sand,
71.--G. P. R. James, 71.--Botta's Nineveh, 71.--Arago,
71.--Miss Fenimore Cooper, 72.--Prof. Agassiz, 72.--
Dr. Layard, 72.--Rogers, 72.--Harro Harring, 72, 112.--
Dr. Gutzlaff, 73.--Literature in Paris, 73.--E. P. Whipple,
105.--Evelyn's History of Religion, 105.--Leigh
Hunt and the Laureateship, 105.--E. G. Squier, 105.--
Monument to Wordsworth, 105.--Francis Bowen, &c.,
105.--Mrs. Child, 112.--The Literature of Supernaturalism,
138.--Remains of Poe, 138.--Dudley Bean, 138.--
Mr. Young's "Beranger," 138.--Livermore on Libraries,
139.--Prof. Johnson, Charlotte Cushman, Elihu Burritt,
Perley Poore, Mr. Mountford, &c., 139.--Rev. James H.
Perkins, 175.--Mrs. Esling, 175.--M. St. Hillaire and
his Spanish History, 175.--The Author of "Dr. Hookwell,"
175.--John Mills, 175.--Mr. Prescott, 175.--Maginn's
Homeric Ballads, 175.--George Wilkins Kendall,
176.--Mrs. Trollope and her Son, 176.--Dr. Wm. R.
Williams, 176.--Dr. Buckland, 176.--Dr. Wayland's
Tractate on Education, 176.--Charles Eames, 176.--
Chateaubriand, &c., 176.--Parke Godwin and his Translation
of Goethe's Autobiography, 194.--A new Life of
John Randolph, 194.--Scotch Bookseller's Society, 194.
--Prof. Dickson's Return to Charleston, 194.--John R.
Bartlett and the Boundary Commission, 194.--William
C. Richards, 194.--Guilliame Tell Poussin, 194.--Dr.
John W. Francis, 195.--Illustrated Edition of Gray's
Poems, 195.--M. Libri, Burns, Dr. Wiseman, &c., 195.--
Wordsworth's Posthumous Poem, 196.--Miss Cooper's
Rural Hours, 196.--Sydney Smith's Sketches of Modern
Philosophy, 196.--Beranger and the People, 232.--
Audubon and Washington Irving, 232.--Seba Smith in
Mathematics, 232.--M. Flandin, on Persian Antiquities,
233.--Girardin and Chateaubriand, 233.--Guizot's Poverty,
233.--History of Art, by Schasse, 233.--History of
Spain, 233.--The Paris Academy of Inscriptions, 234.--
Leverrier on the Telegraph, 234.--Works of Rev. Dr.
Woods, 234.--Orville Dewey, 234.--The Author of the
Amber Witch, 235.--The Night Side of Nature, 235.--
Milne Edwards, 235.--Miss Strickland, 235.--Sir E. L.
Bulwer, 235.--Mr. Herbert's Sporting Books, 236.--
Works in Press, 236.--Meyerbeer, 236.--A German
Prince in New Orleans, 265.--An Arabian Newspaper,
265.--Mrs. Loud's Poems, 265.--Literature of Socialism,
265.--Ebenezer Elliot, 266.--Memorial to Mrs. Osgood,
266.--Rev. Walter Colton on California, 267.--Gallery of
Illustrious Americans, 267.--Max Schlesinger, 267.--
Mayo's "Berber," 267.--French Periodicals, 268.--The
Vienne University, 268.--Works of the Asiatic Society at
Paris, 318.--The French Academy and its Prizes, 318.--
Edward Everett, 319.--Mackay's "Progress of the Intellect."
319.--Lamartine, 319.--Theodore Parker, 319.--Sir
Edward Belcher, 319.--Guizot, 319.--John G. Saxe, 319.
--Eliza Cook, 319.--Institute of Goethe, 320.--Books on
the Slave Trade, 320.--Jules Lechevalier, 320.--The
Doctrinal Tract and Book Society's Publications, 320.--
Novel by Otto Muller, 320.--New Translation of M.
Rochefoucauld's Maxims, 320.--"Armanese," 320.--
Thackery on the Literary Profession, 321.--M. de
Luynes on the Antiquities of Cyprus, 321.--Sir Robert
Peel's Memoirs, 321.--John P. Brown, 321.--
Burnet de Pesle on Egyptian Dynasties, 322.--Washington
Irving a British Subject, 322.--Arago and
Cremieux in History, 322.--New Poem by Holmes,
322.--Mr. Duganne's Satire, 322.--South Carolinian
Epics, 322.--John Neal, 322.--The Baroness Blaze
de Bury, 322.--Dr. Elliot on Slavery, 322.--Dacotah
Dictionary, 322.--Judge Breeze on the History of
Illinois, 322.--Mr. Layard, 322.--Mr. Wilson's Transted
Hindu Hymns, 322.--Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, 322.--
Paris Editions of Greek Authors, 471.--MSS. of Schiller
and Goethe, 471.--Henry Wheaton, 471.--_La Hongrie
Pittoresque_, 472.--Contributions to Science
by French Surgeons, 472.--Walter Scott in France, 472.--
Herman Melville, 472.--The Original Dr. Faust, 472.--
Rev. Albert Barnes, 473.--Ledru Rollin, 473.--Mr. Bigelow's
"Jamaica in 1850," 473.--Mr. Prescott in England,
473.--Dr. Schoolcraft's Great Work on the Indian
Tribes, 473.--Schools in American Literature,
473.--Leon de Wailly's "Stella and Vanessa," 474.--
Alaric A. Watts, "in bankruptcy," 474.--"The Lily
and the Totem," by Dr. Simms, 475.--Dr. Wainwright
on the Holy Land, 475.--Mr. Raymond's Discourse at
Burlington, 475.--E. V. Childe's Translation of "Santarem
on Americus Vespucius," 475.--Dr. Latham on
the Natural History of Man, 475.--John Britton, the
Antiquary, 476.--Dr. Layard, 476.--The "Vladika,"
476.--Mr. Bancroft, 476.--Hebrew Translations at
Padua, 476.--Theories of Light, 476.--Mr. Hildreth's
History, 476.--Hungarian Tales, 476.--Yankee Hill,
476.--Criticisms by Dr. O. A. Brownson, 477.--James
Nack, 477.--New Volume of Poems by Bryant, 477.--Science
in America, 477.--Shiller's "Anthologie," 477.
Griepenkerl, 477.--Mr Kimball's St. Leger, 477.--Etchings
by Ehninger, 477.--The Weimar Festival, 478.--M.
Bastiat, 478--Edinburgh Review for October, 478.--N.
Lenau, 478.--"The Eclectic" upon Mr. Melville,
478.--"Lonz Powers." 478.--New English Reviewals
of Ticknor, 479.--M. Villaume's History, 479.--Longfellow
Illustrated, 479.--Thackeray, 479.--London Medical
Schools, 480.--Robberies of the Vatican, 480.--Mr.
Gallagher, 480.--Mr. McLaughlin, 480.--Lamartine in
England, 480.--Discoveries in Africa, 480.--Louis Nicolardet,
480.--Hebrew Library, 480.--Berlin University,
480.--New Books, by Parke Godwin, Miss Dupuy,
Timothy Pitkin, Dr. Ruffner, Mr. Putnam, De Quincy,
J. I. Bailey, Grace Greenwood, and W. W. Lord,
481.

Author of "Ion," The. A Biographical Speech, 170

Balzac, and the Oration of Victor Hugo on his Death, 315

Beauty.--_The Leader_, 591

Belgian Lace-Makers.--_Household Words_, 123

Beranger, Jean Pierre. With a Portrait, 454

Brooks, Maria, and Southey, 67

Brougham, Lord, Anecdote of, 304

Brougham, Lord, Memoir of. (Portrait,) 305

Catching a Lion.--_C. Astor Bristed.--Fraser's Magazine_, 512

Chase, The.--_Miss Cooper's Rural Hours_, 77

Chemistry of a Candle.--_Household Words_, 292

Chinese, Remarkable Work by a 141

Church of the Vasa D'Agua.--_Eliza Cook's Journal_, 400

Class Opinions.--_Household Words_, 104

Cooling a Burning Spirit.--_De Vere_, 303

_Correspondence, Original_.--Letter from Dr. Layard, upon
Ancient Art, 5.--Rambles in the Peninsula, by John
E. Warren, 6, 37, 136

Count Monte-Leone, or the Spy in Society.--_From the
French of Saint Georges_, 494

Crime, in England and France, 224

Csikos of Hungary,--_Max Schlesinger_, 258

Death and Sleep.--_From the German of Krummacher_, 255

_Deaths Recent_--Miss Jane Porter, 10.--Matthew L. Davis,
11.--Joseph S. C. F. Frey, 11.--Count de Vittré, 11.--Richard
Wyatt, the Sculptor, 42.--Dr. Griffith, 104.--F.
Mansell Reynolds, 104.--John Roby, 104.--Professor
Canstatt, 104,--S. S. Prentiss, 140.--Nathaniel Silsbee,
140.--Sir Robert Peel, 172.--Boyer, Ex-President
of Hayti, 172.--The Duke of Cambridge, 172.--George
W. Erving, 173.--Professor John Burns, 174.--Horace
Sumner, 174.--Mr. Kirby, the Entomologist, 206.--Rev.
Dr. Gray, 207.--Augustus William Neander, 237.--Jacob
Jones, U.S.N., 237.--Julia Betterton Glover, 239.--Madame
Gavaudan, 240.--General Bertrand, 240.--Robert
R. Baird, 250.--S. Joseph, the Sculptor, 240.--James
Wright, 240.--M. Mora, 270.--B. Simmons, 290.--Louis
Philippe, 338.--Dr. Judson, 340.--John Luman, 339.--Sir
Martin Archer Shee, 341.--Gerard Troost, 342.--Professor
White, 340.--Perceval W. Banks, 342.--Bishop
Bascomb, 342.--Robert Hunt, 342.--John Comly,
342.--Count Pire, 342.--Admiral Dudley Oliver, 600.--Rev.
Dr. Ingram, President of Trinity College, 600.--Professor
Kolderup, 601.--M. Chedanau, 601.--Daniel
Belknap, 601.

Death's Jest-Book: The Fool's Tragedy, 229

Decay of Great Families.--_Burke's Aristocracy_, 260

Democracy.--_The Age and its Architects_, 592

Dom of Dantzic, The.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 43

Duke of Queensbury.--_Burke's Aristocracy_, 260

Duke Lewis of Donauworth.--_Madame Blaze de Bury_, 584

Dust, or Ugliness Redeemed.--_Household Words_, 243

Ebba, or The Emigrants of Sweden.--_E. Marmier_, 345

Egypt and its Government.--_Sharpe's Magazine_, 524

Eldorado.--_John G. Whittier_, 74

Excellent Opportunity, An.--_Household Words_, 249

Fashions, Autumn, (Illustrated,) 602

Fire in the Woods.--_Miss Fenimore Cooper_, 95

Fitch, John, Life of, by Miss Leslie, 68

Frank Hamilton.--_W. H. Maxwell_, 145

Fuller, Margaret, Marchesa D'Ossoli, 162

Estimate of her Works and Genius, _by E. A. Poe_, 162

Poem upon her Death, _by G. P. R. James_, 165

Garibaldi, Life of General, 224

George Sand and Chateaubriand, 65

German Criticism of English Female Writers, 161

Germany in the Summer of 1850.--_The Leader_, 594

Ghost Stories: The Female Wrecker, and the House
of Mystery.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 402

Greece and Turkey.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 255

Grote's History of Greece.--_The Times_, 10

Gutzlaff, the Missionary, 317

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, the _Athenæum_ upon, 102

Henry Lisle: A Story of the Civil War.--_G. P. R James_, 555

High Prices to Artists of the Opera, 165

Hunt, Leigh, Autobiography of, 35, 130

Hunter, on the Pilgrims Fathers.--_Literary Gazette_, 599

Hussar of Hungary, The Wild, 263

Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages, 69

Irving, Washington, and Campbell.--_The Albion_, 230

Is Love Blind?--_The Leader_, 536

Ivory Mine. The, a Tale of the Frozen Sea, 117, 156, 210

Jenny Lind at the Castle Amphitheatre. Illustrated, 448

Jones on Chantrey: A Biographical Criticism, 413

"Junius," New Discussions respecting, 469

Jurisprudence of the Moguls.--_Spectator_, 271

Kanasz, The.--_Max Schlesinger_, 262

Kane's Discourse on the Mormons, 36

Kemble's, Fanny, Readings of. (Illustrated,) 310

Killing a Giraffe.--_Cummings' Adventures_, 304

Kolombeski, The Veteran.--__, 304

Lady Lucy's Secret.--_The Ladies' Companion_, 409

Lamartine's Apology for his Confidences, 314

Lamartine's Introduction to "Genevieve," 132

Lamartine's "Genevieve" Reviewed, 466

Lamennais, The Abbe. (Portrait,) 449

Landor, Savage, Letter from.--_The Examiner_, 271

Landor, Savage, upon Savage Haynau.--_Examiner_, 586

Last of a Long Line, The.--_Dickens's Household Words_, 373

Latham on the Aborigines of America, 467

Lessons in Life.--_Eliza Cook's Journal_, 241

Lewis, George Cornewell, 4

Literary Coteries in Paris, 97

Literary Prizes in France, 458

Literature in Africa, 311

Lorgnette, The. (Portrait,) 459

Loss and Gain.--_Maria J. MacIntosh_, 548

Love, Is it Blind?--_The Leader_, 536

Man Ever the Same.--_Pendennis_, 580

Mansfield, The Great Lord.--_The Times_, 419

Marks of Barhamville.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 7

Marriage Ceremonies of the Kandians.--_Sirr's Ceylon_, 590

Memnon, The Sounding Statue of.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 528

_Miscellanies_.--Lord Brougham, 8.--A Mock Guillotine,
&c., 8.--Ledru Rollin on the Decline of England, 9.--The
Catastrophe of the Griffith, 9.--Poetical Composition,
29.--Death-Bed Superstitions, 30.--Arab Game,
30.--Marriage in America, 30.--Arabian Nights, 31.--Ambassadors,
32.--Guizot, 32.--Canning, 32.--The Cell
of the Bee, 41.--Letter from the Duke of Wellington,
42.--Laughing in the Sleeve, 64.--Antiquarian Discovery,
&c., 64.--Circumnavigating a Pope, 78.--Curious
Titles of German Papers, 79.--Remarkable Trio, 79.--True
Progress, 79.--Coffee among the Savans, 79.--Bad
Cookery, a Cause of Drunkenness, 79.--The Monkey
and the Watch, 79.--A Syrian Christian and Philosopher,
79.--The British Hierarchy, 79.--French Eulogy,
96.--What's in a Name? 104.--Names High Inscribed,
104.--Golden Rules of Life, 128.--Progress of
Milton's Blindness, 128.--Once Caught, Twice Shy,
&c., 128.--A Street Character of Cairo, 142.--Mendelssohn's
Skill as a Conductor, 142.--Manuel Godoy,141.--Superstition
in France, 143.--Libraries in Cambridge,
143.--Romantic History of the Two English Lovers,
143.--Modern School of Athens, 255.--The _Athenæum_
on American Reporting, 443.--The Emperor of
Hayti, 443.--Louis Napoleon at Lady Blessington's,
443.--American Mummies, 443.--Daniel Webster in
England, 443.--Coffins of the Chaldeans, 444.--Ancient
Prices of Labor, 444.--Making the Postman Wait, 441.--The
Restaurant of the Sister of M. Thiers, 444.--Languages
of Africa, 444.--Richardson, the Traveller,
444.--The Peace Congress at Frankfort, 445.--Project
for a Zoological Garden, 445.--Is D'Israeli a Jew? 445.--Dr.
Gross, the Surgeon, 445.--The Herder Festival at
Weimar, 445.--The Wordsworth Monument, 445.--Revolutionary
Stamps, 445.--Descendants of Warren
Hastings, 445.--Mr. Pennington's Steam Balloon, 445.--Catlin,
the Indian Traveller, 445.--Ages of Public
Men, 446.--Ancient Discovery of California, 446.--Mr.
Gliddon's Mummy, 446.--Rachel, 446.--India Rubber
in 1772, 446.--Convenient Umbrella, 446.--Irish Emigration,
447.--Dwarkanth Tagore, 447.--Madame Boulanger,
447.--Traveling in France, 447.--The Lowell
Institute, 447.--M. Libri, 447.--Guizot and Ledru Rollin,
447.--Dr. Southwood Smith, &c., 447.--Anecdote of
Guizot, 601.--Dr. Spencer, as a Monk, 601.--Slavery,
treated by _The Times_, 601.--Marshal Haynau and _The
Times_, 601.--English Titles, 601.--Guizot on Politics,
601--Anecdote of Stenterello, 601.

_Miscellanies, Scientific_.--Remingten's Bridge, 12.--Paine's
Hydro-Electric Light, 12.--New Planet, &c., 12.--The
Hair, 103.--Experiments by Lord Brougham, 112.--The
Spanish Academy of Sciences, 264.--Improvements in
the Telegraph, 264.--The British Association, 312.--American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
313.--An American Academy, 313.

Morris, George P. Review of his Songs, 487

Music, or Home and Abroad, 484

My Novel.--_Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton_, 439, 566

Mysterious Compact, The.--_Dublin Univ. Mag._, 185

New Prophet in the East.--_Athenæum_, 300

Nimrod, A Mightier Hunter than.--_Household Words_, 218

Numismatic Archæology, 257

Old Brank, the Forger.--_Dickens's Household Words_, 521

Old Churchyard Tree, The.--_Household Words_, 254

Old Man's Bequest, The.--_Dublin University Magazine_, 106

Oriental Caravans.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 42

Outspreading of the British People.--_Fraser's Mag._, 593

Peasant Life in Germany.--_The Leader_, 288

Peel, Life of Sir Robert.--_The Times_, 196

Phantom World, The, 76

Poe, Edgar A.--_Rufus W. Griswold_, 325

_Poetry, Original_.--The Bride's Farewell, _M. E. Hewitt_ 37--To
----, _Mrs. R. B. K._, 37.--The Child of Fame, _Mrs.
Hewitt_, 73.--Bob Fletcher, _Townsend Haines_, 104.--Azela,
_Alice Carey_, 135.--Country Sonnets, _William C. Richards_,
136.--Retrospect, _Hermann_, 170.--Horoscope, _Elizabeth
Oakes Smith_, 264.--Friendship, _William C. Richards_, 264.--The
Balance of Life, _Herma_, 264.--Leonora to Tasso,
_Mary E. Hewitt_, 488.--Forest Burial, _Sidney Dyer_, 488.--The
Passionate Pilgrim, _Mary E. Hewitt_, 489.--A
Rainy Morning, _W. C. Richards_, 489.--In Absence, 489.--Cradle
and Coffin, _Elizabeth Oakes Smith_, 489.--The
Hermit's Dell, _Hermann_, 489.

_Poetry, Selected_.--Nineveh, _Edwin Atherstone_, 16.--The Garden
Gate, _Charles Mackay_, 29.--The Last Year's Leaf,
_Philip Taylor_, 31.--The Ship "Extravagance," _Charles
Swain_, 64.--Death, _Leigh Hunt_, 64.--Verses from the Bohemian
of Wraitsell, 70.--"Press on," 92.--Flowers,
96.--Old Feelings, 112.--To the Memory of Mrs. Osgood,
_Anne C. Lynch_, 114.--To W. G. R. with an Autograph
of Poe, _R. H. Stoddard_, 192.--Our "In Memoriam,"
_Punch_, 192.--The Actual, _R. B. Kimball_, 192.--English
Hexameters, _Walter Savage Landor_, 219.--Manuela,
_Bayard Taylor_, 221.--Morning Song, _Barry Cornwall_,
241.--On a Portrait of Cromwell, _James T. Fields_, 271.--Summer
Pastime, 287.--An Old Haunt, 303.--"Laugh
and Get Fat, _John Kenyon_, 344.--The Speaker Asleep,
Arminius, _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_, 230.--Legend of
the Teufal Haus, Stanzas written under a Drawing at
Cambridge, Ballad Teaching how Poetry is Best Paid
For, Covenanter's Lament for Bothwell Brigg, Hope
and Love, Private Theatricals, Alexander and Diogenes,
_W. M. Praed_, 396.--Cassandra, My Little Cousins,
_W. M. Praed_, 623.--The Convict, _Alice Carey_, 543.--Song,
_George H. Boker_, 546.--Helen, _R. H. Stoddard_, 546.--Twilight,
_Edith May_, 546.--The Tryst, _Alice Carey_,
546.--The First Doubt, _Grace Greenwood_, 548.--Sappho
to the Sybil, _Mary E. Hewitt_, 548.--Thoughts at the
Grave of a Departed Friend, Despondency, Thoughts
on Parting, _John Inman_, 555.--Two Sonnets from the
German of _Lenau_, 592.

"Poets and Poetry of America."--_Fraser's Magazine_, 165

Poets in Parliament.--_The Leader_, 144

Pompadour, Madame de.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 389

Porter, Jane, Life of. Illustrated.--_The Art Journal_, 201

Portrait of Cromwell.--_By J. T. Fields_, 271

Pottery and Porcelain.--_The Spectator_, 596

Power of Mercy, The.--_Household Words_, 85

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 230, 372, 523

Present Religion of Persia.--_Lieut. Colonel Chesney_, 259

Prentiss, Sergent S., Reminiscences of.--_T. B. Thorpe_, 289

Railway Wonders of the last year.--_Household Words_, 583

Religious Sects and Socialism in Russia, 461

Report of the British Registrar General.--_The Times_, 588

Rollin, Life of Ledru.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 222

Russian Serf, The, 160

Santa Cruz, General.--_Illustrated News_, 40

Serf of Pobereze, The.--_Household Words_, 177

Serpent Charming.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 470

Sketches of the Town.--_Engraving after Darley_, 33

Snow Image, The.--_Nathaniel Hawthorne_, 537

Society in Turkey.--_Princess Belgiviso_, 595

Something about a Murder.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 24

Spanish Senate, The.--_Clarke's Guzpacho_, 261

Spirit of the Annuals for 1851, 488

Spotted Bower Bird, The.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 386

Summer Night, The.--_From Jean Paul Richter_, 38

Summer Vacation.--_The Fourth Canto of Wordsworth's
Posthumous Poem_, 208

Suwarrow, The Great Marshal.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 87

Tea Smuggling in Russia, 129

Telegraph from New York to London.--_Mechanics Magazine_, 587

Tennyson's New Poem, "In Memoriam."--_Spectator_, 34

The Theatre in Russia and Poland, 225

The Three Gifts.--_By E. Oakes Smith_, 646

The Three Visits.--_From the French of Vitu_, 490

The White Lady, 309

Tomb of Lady Blessington.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 126

Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 2

Undertaker, An, to the Trade.--_Household Words_, 93

Versification, English, 485

Virginia Two Hundred Years Ago.--_The Athenæum_, 416

Ward, the Author of "Tremaine."--_Spectator_, 113

Warilows of Welland, The.--_Household Words_, 560

Weber, Miss, and her Writings.--_Miss Harriet Sargent_, 463

Webster, as a Statesman and as a Man of Letters, 297

Wilde, Richard Henry, and Dante, 2

Wilde, Sir Thomas, the New Chancellor, 240

Willisen, General, of the Schleswig-Holstein Army, 585

Window Love.--_By Charles G. Leland_, 544

Women and Literature in France, 193

Wordsworth's New Poem.--_The Examiner_, 271

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MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER.

The recent appearance of some half dozen editions--some of them very beautiful in typography and pictorial illustrations--of The Proverbial Philosophy of Mr. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, reminds us of the observation of Dana, that something "resembling poetry" is oftentimes borne into instant and turbulent popularity, while a work of genuine character may be lying neglected by all except the poets. But "the tide of time," says the profound essayist, "flows on, and the former begins to settle to the bottom, while the latter rises slowly and steadily to the surface, and goes forward, for a spirit is in it." We are not without the hope that Richard H. Dana will one day be in as frequent demand as Martin Farquhar Tupper is now.

The merits of this "gentleman of acknowledged genius and sovereign popularity," we have never been able to discover. If oddity were always originality, if quaintness and beauty were synonymous, if paradox were necessarily wisdom, we should be ready to grant that Mr. Tupper is a wise, beautiful and original thinker. But thought, after all, is an affair of mind, and though a man of genius may write what is far more brilliant than common sense ever is, yet no man can utter valuable truth on mortal and prudential subjects, unless he possesses a vigorous and powerful understanding. Now Mr. Tupper's art consists in contriving, not thought, but things that look like thoughts; fancies, in imitation of truths. The Proverbial Philosophy, in fact, appears to us one of the most curious impositions we have ever met with. When you first read one of the aphorisms, it strikes you as a sentiment of extraordinary wisdom. But look more closely at it; try to apply it; and you will find that it is merely a trick of words. What flashed upon you as a profound distinction in morals, turns out to be nothing but a verbal antithesis. What was paraded, as a kind of transcendental analogy between things not before suspected of resemblance, discovered by the "spiritual insight" of the moral seer, is in fact no more than a grave clench,--a solemn quibble,--a conceit; arising not from the perfection of mind, but the imperfection of language. Those conceptions, fabricated by Fancy out of the materials that Fancy deals in, and colored by the rays of a poetic sentiment, wear the same relation to truths, that the prismatic hues of the spray of a fountain in the sunshine bear to the gems which it perhaps outshines. It dazzles and delights, but if we try to apprehend it we become bewildered; and finally discover that we were deceived by a brilliant phantom of air. You may admire Mr. Tupper; you may enjoy him; but you cannot understand him: the staple of his sentences is not stuff of the understanding. Take one of Mr. Tupper's and one of Lord Bacon's aphorisms; they flash with an equal bravery. But try them upon the glassy surface of life. Bacon's cut it as if it were air: Tupper's turn into a little drop of dirty water. One was a diamond, the other but an icicle: one was the commonest liquor artificially refrigerated; the other was a crystal in form, but in its substance the pure carbon of truth. If these bright delusions which Mr. Tupper turns out to the wonder and praise of his admirers, were really _thoughts_, is it to be supposed that he would go on in this way, stringing them together, or evolving one out of the other, as a spider weaves its unending line, or as a boy blows soap bubbles from the nose of a tobacco pipe! Fancies, conceits, intellectual phantoms, may be engendered out of the mind, brooding in self-creation upon its own suggestions: but _truth_ is to be mined from Nature, to be wrung from experience, to be seized as the victor's trophy on the battlefield of action and suffering. The flowers of poetry may bud spontaneously around the meditative spirit of genius, but the harvest of Truth, though, to be reaped by mind, must grow out of Reality.

RICHARD HENRY WILDE AND DANTE.

It appears that our accomplished and lamented countryman, Richard Henry Wilde, whose "Researches and Considerations concerning the Love and Imprisonment of Tasso" have been made use of with so discreditable a freedom by a recent English biographer of that poet, is--if another pretender prove not less successful--to be deprived also of the fame he earned by his discoveries in regard to Dante. A correspondent of _The Spectator_, under the signature of G. AUBREY BEZZI, writes as follows:--

"The questions are, what share Mr. Kirkup had in the recovery of
the fresco of Giotto in the chapel of the Palazzo del Podesta at
Florence, and whether directly or indirectly I have been the means
of depriving him, or any of the coöperators in that good work, of
the merit due to their labors. I shall best enable those who take
an interest in this matter to arrive at a fair conclusion, by
giving a short history of the recovery of that beautiful fresco. It
was Mr. Wilde, and not Mr. Kirkup, who first spoke to me of this
buried treasure. Mr. Wilde, an American gentleman respected by all
that knew him, was then in Florence, engaged in a work on Dante and
his times, which unfortunately he did not live to complete. Among
the materials he had collected for this purpose, there were some
papers of the antiquarian Moreni, which he was examining when I
called one day, (I had then been three or four months in Florence,)
to read what he had already written, as I was in the habit of doing
from time to time. It was then that a foot-note of Moreni's met his
eye, in which the writer lamented that he had spent two years of
his life in unceasing and unavailing efforts to recover the
portrait of Dante, and the other portions of the fresco of Giotto
in the Bargello, mentioned by Vasari; that others before him had
been equally anxious and equally unsuccessful; and that he hoped
that better times would come, (verranno tempi migliori,) and that
the painting, so interesting both in an artistic and historical
point of view, would be again sought for, and at last recovered. I
did not then understand how the efforts of Moreni and others could
have been thus unsuccessful; and I thought that with common energy
and diligence they might have ascertained whether the painting, so
clearly pointed out by Vasari, was or was not in existence: several
months, however, of wearisome labors in the same pursuit taught me
to judge more leniently of the failures of my predecessors. Mr.
Wilde put Moreni's note before me, and suggested and urged, that
being an Italian by birth, though not a Florentine, and having
lived many years in England and among the English, I had it in my
power to bring two modes of influence to bear upon the research;
and that such being the case I ought to undertake it. My thoughts
immediately turned to Mr. Kirkup, an artist who had abandoned his
art to devote himself entirely to antiquarian pursuits, with whom I
was well acquainted, and who, having lived many years in Florence,
(I believe fifteen,) would weigh the value of Moreni's testimony on
this matter, and effectually assist me in every way, if I took it
in hand. So I called upon him, either that same day or the next;
and I found that he, like most other people, had read the passage
in Vasari's life of Giotto, in which it is explicitly said, that
the portrait of Dante had been painted with others in the Palazzo
del Podesta, and was to be seen at the time the historian was
writing; but that he had not read, or had not put any confidence
in, the note of the Florence edition of Vasari published in
1832--1838, in which it is stated, that the Palazzo del Podesta had
now become a prison--the Bargello; that the Chapel had been turned
into a _dispensa_, (it was more like a coal-hole where the rags and
much of the filth of the prison was deposited); that the walls of
this dispensa exhibited nothing but a dirty coating, and that
Moreni speaks of the painting in some published work; the annotator
concluding thus--'It is hoped that some day or other we shall be
able to see what there is under the coating of the walls.' So
everybody hoped that some day or other the thing would be done, but
nobody set about heartily to do it; and it is inconceivable to me
that Mr. Kirkup, who shows in this letter, if it be his, such
jealousy for the credit of the recovery, should have lived so many
years in Florence either entirely ignorant of that which every
shop-boy knew, or knowing there were chances of bringing such a
treasure to light, that he should have never moved one step for
that purpose. That Mr. Kirkup took no active part in this matter at
any time, is quite proved by two admissions I find in the letter of
your correspondent. He first says, 'I remember that the first time
I passed to the Bargello to see it, I found Marini on a scaffold,'
&c. The fact is, that several months had elapsed between the first
presentation of the memorial and the erection of the scaffold,
during which Mr. Kirkup admits that he never thought of visiting
the place, while I had spent hours and hours there, under not very
pleasant circumstances, and had detected raised aureolas and other
evidences of old fresco. But he continues--'Marini was permitted to
return to the work on account of the government; and at that point
Bezzi returned to England. It was _some months afterwards that I
heard that Marini had found certain figures_, and soon afterwards
the discovery of Dante himself" (sic.) These two passages
sufficiently show the nature of Mr. Kirkup's labors, and how far he
was really eager in the pursuit of this object, both during the
time when I was most deeply engaged in it, and also for 'some
months' after I had quitted Florence. But to resume: Mr. Kirkup,
however ignorant, or culpably negligent, or a little of both, he
might previously have been on the subject, yet when I brought it
before him, he at once admitted its importance, and made a liberal
offer of money, if any should be required, to carry out the
experiment. Thus encouraged by Mr. Wilde and by Mr. Kirkup, I
sought and found among English, American, and Italian friends and
acquaintances, many that were ready to assist the plan. Then it was
that I drew up a memorial to the Grand Duke; not because I am an
'advocate,' as your correspondent is pleased to call me, for that
is not the case, but simply because, having taken pains to organize
the means of working out the common object, the coöperators thought
that I could best represent what this common object was. In the
memorial, I stated that, according to what Vasari, Moreni, and
others had written, it was just possible that a treasure was lying
hidden under the dirty coatings of the walls of the dispensa in the
Bargello; that a society was already formed for the purpose of
seeking with all care for this treasure; that all expenses would be
gladly borne by the society; that should anything be found, we
would either leave the paintings untouched, or have them removed at
our expense to the gallery of the Uffizi, and that we begged of the
Grand Duke the necessary sanction to begin our operations. The
answer was favorable, and I was referred to Marchese Nerli, and to
the Director of the Academy, to make the necessary arrangements.
Then the real difficulties began: first, I was put off on account
of the precautions that were to be taken in working in a prison;
then, the Director was ill, or unavoidably engaged, or absent; I
found, in short, that the object was to tire me out, and that I had
to contend with the same power that had defeated Moreni and my
other predecessors in the attempt. This battle continued many
months. I have already spoken too much of my share in the pursuit
of this object, and I will not enter into further details--some of
them ludicrous--of this contention; but I will say explicitly,
that, besides his encouragement, and his repeated offers of money,
(which were not accepted because money was not wanted, at least not
to any amount, and what was wanted I furnished myself,) Mr. Kirkup
did not afford me any assistance. At this stage of the business, I
met indeed with a most valuable ally, without whom I believe I
should have been beaten; and that was Paolo Feroni, a Florentine
nobleman and artist, to whom I have before expressed and now repeat
my best acknowledgments. At the end of this long contention against
obstacles which often eluded my grasp, the Grand Duke, in
consequence of a second memorial I presented to him, issued a
decree appointing a commission to carry out the proposed
experiments. This commission was composed of two members I had
myself proposed, viz. the sculptor Bartolini, and the Marchese
Feroni, of myself, of the Direttore of the Edifizi Pubblici Machese
Nerli, and of the Direttore of the Accademia delle Arti, the two
latter ex-officio: further, the decree declines the proposed
voluntary subscriptions, and places at the disposal of the
Commissioners a sum of money which proved more than sufficient to
cover all the expenses of the restoration of the fresco. The
Commissioners employed the painter Marini, and the happy result of
his carefulness and ability is now before the world.

"I will now conclude by asserting, that I had nothing to do with
what has been said or written at Florence of this recovery, either
in the _Strenna_, or at the meeting of the Scienziati, which was
held in 1841, I believe, and at which the fresco of Giotto was
naturally a great object of interest. I left Florence in May 1840,
before the portrait of Dante was actually uncovered, so that I only
saw a portion of the fresco. I have never heard, or read, or said,
or written, anything tending to disparage the real coöperation of
Mr. Kirkup, or of my late lamented friend Mr. Wilde, or of anybody
else in this matter,--nay, that it was at my request that the
editor of the English translation of Kugler's Handbook of the
History of Painting, published in 1842, has in the preface of that
book mentioned Mr. Kirkup as having assisted materially in the
recovery. Besides the Marchese Feroni and the artist Signor Marini,
there are many disinterested witnesses who have stated, and if
called upon will repeat again, all the material points of my
narrative; but, better than all, there is now in London an English
gentleman, whom I am happy to be allowed to call my friend, who was
in Florence part of the time, and saw with his own eyes the share I
had in this laborious undertaking, which ought not to have brought
this bitter contention upon me: he was an intimate friend of Mr.
Wilde, with whom he had a long correspondence on this very subject,
after Mr. Wilde's return to America."

We believe Mr. Bezzi is in error as to the incompleteness of Mr. Wilde's Life of Dante. Mr. Wilde, more than a year before his death, informed us that his work was nearly ready for the printer; and at the same time he confided to us for perusal his admirable translations of specimens of Italian Lyric Poets. We hope the descendants of our learned and ingenious friend will place these works, so creditable to his temper, scholarship, and genius, before the world.

GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS.

A work on _The Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion_ has lately attracted much and apparently well-deserved attention in England. It is by George Cornewall Lewis, M.P. for Herefordshire, and Under Secretary of State for the Home Department. He is the eldest son of the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, Bart., M.P. for Radnor District, was born in London, in 1806, and received his school education at Eton, which he entered in 1819, and where he was a pupil of Doctor Hawtrey, the present head master. The _Illustrated London News_ furnishes the following particulars of his subsequent career:

At Christmas, 1824, he left Eton, and in the following year entered Christ Church, Oxford, where as a student he was one of the few who gave attention to modern languages, and especially German, from which, jointly with Mr. Tufnell, he translated Müller's "Dorians." In 1828 he took his University degree as a first-class man in classics, and a second-class in mathematics. In the same year he entered the Middle Temple, and in 1831 was called to the bar, and joined the Oxford Circuit. He had studied for the bar with no less diligence than at the University; but in consequence of weakness of the chest, was obliged, after his first circuit, to abandon the profession, in which, had health allowed him, his success was certain. In 1835 he was placed upon the commission of inquiry into the relief of the poor, (on the report of which was founded the Irish Poor-law,) and the state of the Church in Ireland; and afterward drew up an able report on the condition of the Irish in Great Britain. In 1836 he was appointed, with Mr. John Austin, a Commissioner to inquire into the Government of the Island of Malta, especially as to its tariff and expenditure. The Commission laid an elaborate report before Parliament, in accordance with the recommendations of which, such reductions were made as rendered the tariff of Malta one of the least restrictive in the world, and materially extended its trade; and they succeeded in establishing the freedom of the press in the island.

In January, 1839, Mr. Lewis was appointed a Poor-Law Commissioner, and held the office until July, 1847; when, determining to enter Parliament, he resigned, and was returned, with Mr. Joseph Bailey, Jr., and Mr. Francis Wegg Prosser, both Conservatives and Protectionists, without opposition, for Herefordshire. In November, 1847, he was appointed joint secretary of the Board of Control, with Mr. James Wilson, M.P. for Westbury, and early in the following year made his first speech in the House, in opposition to a motion for the production of papers in the case of the lately deposed Rajah of Sattara. In April, 1848, Mr. Lewis was appointed Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, and was succeeded in the secretaryship of the Board of Control by the Hon. John E. Elliot, M.P. for Roxburghshire. In his present office Mr. Lewis has served on the Smithfield Market Commission, appointed in November, 1849, which has just brought up its report; and upon that subject, the Irish Poor-Law, and Mr. Disraeli's motion as to local burdens, has spoken in the House. Last year he brought forward a road bill to consolidate the management of highways, and dispose of the question of turnpike trusts and their advances. The bill was not proceeded with last session, and has again been brought forward this year, with reference, however, only to highways. Mr. Lewis has earned reputation as the translator of "Boukli's Public Economy of Athens," which, as well as the "Dorians," has become a textbook, and passed through a second edition; and is known as author of an able essay on the "Use and Abuse of Political Terms," published in 1832; on the "Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages," published in 1835; on "Local Disturbances in Ireland, and the Irish Church Question," in 1836; on the "Government of Dependencies," in 1841; and "On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion," in 1849.

ORIGINAL LETTER FROM DR. LAYARD UPON ANCIENT ART, &c.

We present in this number of the _International_ a communication from the most celebrated traveler of the nineteenth century, AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, upon the sources of _Ancient Art_. It was addressed by the distinguished author to his friend and ours, Mr. MINOR K. KELLOGG, the well-known painter, who was for some time with DR. LAYARD in the East.

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MY DEAR FRIEND:

I frequently wish that you were here with me; I could find you subjects which would astonish you. However, I suppose you are desirous of hearing something about my proceedings. When I said that the arts may have passed from Egypt into Greece, I merely alluded to the popular opinion, without adhering to it. It is not altogether improbable that they came from another source. Phoenicia was too much of a trading province to devote any great attention to the higher branches of the arts, and I am not aware of any monuments existing which can be traced to that people, and show a very high knowledge of architecture or sculpture. The designs we have on their early coins, and particularly if the coins called "the unknown of Celicia," and those belonging to cities on the southern coast of Asia Minor, were introduced by the Phoenician colonists, evidently show that Phoenicia had borrowed from the Assyrians and not from the Egyptians. Indeed, as their language and written character (for the cuneiform, you must remember, appears only to have been a monumental character, perhaps Semetic, like the hieroglyphics of Egypt), coincided with those of the Assyrian, it is most probable that their sympathies were with that people.

I assume that the language of the two nations was the same; this may have been the case at one period, but whether throughout the existence of the Assyrian empire, may be doubtful. At any rate, I believe the real Assyrians and the Phoenicians, like all the nations occupying Syria and Mesopotamia, to have been of the pure Semetic stock. I regret that I have not time to make you a sketch of a bas-relief. A specimen of this kind would at once show you how much nearer allied the arts of Greece are with those of Assyria, than with those of Egypt. One thing appears now to be pretty certain--that all Western Asia, Persia, Susiana, Media, Asia Minor, &c. were fundamentally indebted to Assyria for their knowledge of the arts. Persepolis is a mere copy of an Assyrian monument, as far as the sculpture and ornaments are concerned, with the addition of external architecture, of which, as far as I am yet able to judge, the Assyrians appear to have been almost entirely ignorant.

There is no reason, therefore, to reject altogether the supposition that the Arts may have been transmitted from Assyria, through Phoenicia, into Greece, or, indeed, that the Arts may have passed into that country through Asia Minor. The Assyrians, in the extreme elegance and taste displayed in their ornaments, in their study of anatomy, and in their evident attempts at composition, had much in common with the Greeks. I think artists will be surprised when they see the collection of drawings I have been able to make, and that one of the results of the discoveries at Nimroud will be new views with regard to the early history of the arts.

When I first came here, all the Arabs around told me that Nimroud was built by Athur, or Assur, and that it was the ancient capital of Assyria. Great faith may generally be placed in such traditions in the East. In Mesopotamia, and in the country watered by the Tigris and Euphrates, it is astonishing how names have been preserved, even when, during Greek, Roman, or other dominion, other cities were built on the site and named anew. The new names have long been lost, and the old are this day to be found in the mouth of the Bedouin. I need only mention Tadmor and Harran. In a religious point of view, there is no doubt that much important information may be expected from a careful investigation of the monuments of Assyria. During my labors, without being able to devote much thought or attention to the subject, I have been continually struck with the curious illustrations of little understood passages in the Bible which these records afford. In an historical and archæological point of view, I know nothing more interesting and more promising than the examination of the ruins of Assyria. One of the vastest empires that ever existed--the power of whose king extended, at one period, over the greater part of Assyria--whose advance in civilization and knowledge is the theme of ancient historians--disappeared so suddenly from the face of the earth, that it has left scarcely a trace, save its name, behind. Even the names of its kings are not satisfactorily known, and out of the various dynastic lists preserved, we are unable to select one worthy of credit. As to their deeds, we have been in the most profound darkness, and were it not for the record of their strength and greatness which we find in the Scriptures, we should scarcely credit the few traditions which the Greeks have preserved to us. After the lapse of two thousand five hundred years, a mere chance has thrown their history in our way, and we have now their deeds chronicled in writing and in sculpture.

Were I much given to the explanation of such things by a reference to superhuman interference, I should be inclined to think that the Almighty had designedly kept these monuments buried in the Earth, until the time had arrived when man had sufficient leisure and knowledge to discover the contents of records, written in an unknown character, that He might prove to them how great was the power which He so suddenly destroyed, and how fully the prophecies upon the subject were fulfilled. Had these sculptures and inscriptions remained above ground, they would have utterly disappeared long ere any records could have been made of their former existence. Had they been casually discovered before the present century, they would most probably have been used for cement in the construction of the walls of a city. In fact, the moment for their discovery has, in every way, been most propitious. However, I will not enter into such speculations, but leave them to those who are that way inclined. A. H. L.

_ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE._

WANDERINGS IN THE PENINSULA.

GRENADA, May 18, 1850.

MY DEAR FRIEND--It affords me much pleasure to write you from the midst of the terrestrial paradise into which my romantic wanderings have at length brought me. Almost every one who sets out from home with the object of travel, looks forward to some one or two spots, which, in the light of imagination, glitter like stars in the bright prospective. To me, the two cities which most aroused my curiosity and pleased my fancy, were first, Grenada, in which I now am, and Venice, to which I still look forward with a brighter hope, gilded with the rays of memory, and clustering with the rosebuds of coming days. In Grenada, my expectations, sanguine as they were, have been more than realized. It is the nearest approach to paradise that I have yet seen: a spot that cannot disappoint any one, as the best part of its beauty, like that of a beautiful woman, is of a nature, that not even genius itself can describe. I visit the "Alhambra" daily, and write a letter within its sacred precincts. Externally the "Alhambra" has a severe and forbidding appearance, like that of an ancient fortress, but within, it exceeds in beauty all one's preconceptions, however warm and extravagant they may be. The terrace which conducts to it, after having passed through the huge gate which opens into its jurisdiction, is embowered with tall, straight, and overhanging elms, nicely trimmed and of the richest foliage, while here and there a fountain marks the bends in the road. Along this enchanting walk marble seats are arranged, where one can repose for a moment to listen to the notes of the nightingales in the adjacent groves, and charm his fancy with the melodious rippling of water at his feet. If one has any feeling in his soul, in such a spot as this he is sure to find it. If he has a woman with him he is certain to fall in love, and if he has not, he may perhaps fall--_asleep_!