Chapter I: Preface

On completing the second volume of the International Magazine, the publishers appeal to its pages with confidence for confirmation of all the promises that have been made with regard to its character. They believe the verdict of the American journals has been unanimous upon the point that the _International_ has been the best journal of literary intelligence in the world, keeping its readers constantly advised of the intellectual activity of Great Britain, Germany, France, the other European nations, and our own country. As a journal of the fine arts, it has been the aim of the editor to render it in all respects just, and as particular as the space allotted to this department would allow. And its reproductions of the best contemporary foreign literature bear the names of Walter Savage Landor, Mazzini, Bulwer, Dickens, Thackeray, Barry Cornwall, Alfred Tennyson, R.M. Milnes, Charles Mackay, Mrs. Browning, Miss Mitford, Miss Martineau, Mrs. Hall, and others; its original translations the names of several of the leading authors of the Continent, and its anonymous selections the titles of the great Reviews, Magazines, and Journals, as well as of many of the most important new books in all departments of literature. But the _International_ is not merely a compilation; it has embraced in the two volumes already issued, original papers, by Bishop Spencer of Jamaica, Henry Austen Layard, LL.D., the most illustrious of living travellers and antiquaries, G.P.R. James, Alfred B. Street, Bayard Taylor, A.O. Hall, R.H. Stoddard, Richard B. Kimball, Parke Godwin, William C. Richards, John E. Warren, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Mary E. Hewitt, Alice Carey, and other authors of eminence, whose compositions have entitled it to a place in the first class of original literary periodicals. Besides the writers hitherto engaged for the _International_, many of distinguished reputations are pledged to contribute to its pages hereafter; and the publishers have taken measures for securing at the earliest possible day the chief productions of the European press, so that to American readers the entire Magazine will be as new and fresh as if it were all composed expressly for their pleasure.

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CONTENTS:

VOLUME II. DECEMBER TO MARCH, 1850-51.

Adams, John, upon Riches, 426

Ambitious Brooklet, The.--_By A.O. Hall_, 477

Accidents will Happen.--_By C. Astor Bristed_, 81

Anima Mundi.--_By R.M. Milnes_, 393

Astor Library, The. (Illustrated,) 436

Attempts to Discover the Northwest Passage, On the, 166

Audubon, John James.--_By Rufus W. Griswold_, 469

Age, Old.--_By Alfred B. Street_, 474

_Arts, The Fine._--Munich and Schwanthaler's "Bavaria," 26.--Art in
Florence, 27.--W.W. Story's Return from Italy, 27.--Les Beautes de la
France, 27.--History of Art Exhibitions, 28.--Enamel Painting at
Berlin, 28.--Portrait of Sir Francis Drake, 28.--The Vernets,
28.--Leutze, Powers, &c., 28.--Kaulbach, 28.--Illustrations of Homer,
28.--Old Pictures, 29.--Michael Angelo, 29.--Conversations by the
Academy of Design, 29.--David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 29.--Gift
from the Bavarian Artists to the King, 190.--Charles Eastlake,
190.--New Picture by Kaulbach, 190.--Russian Porcelain, 190.--Mr.
Healey, 191.--Von Kestner on Art, 191.--Russian Music in Paris,
191.--The Goethe Inheritance, 191.--Art Unions; their True Character
Considered, 191.--Waagner's "Art in the Future," 313.--Thorwaldsen,
313.--Heidel's "Illustrations of Goethe," 313.--A New Art,
313.--Albert Durer's Illustrations of the Prayer Book, 313.--Moritz
Rugendus, and his Sketches of American Scenery, 314.--An Art Union in
Vienna, 314.--New Picture by Kaulbach, 314.--Powers's "America,"
314.--Dr. Baun's Essay on the two Chief Groups of the Friese of the
Parthenon, 314.--Victor Orsel's Paintings in the Church of Notre Dame
de Lorelle, 314.--Ehninger's Illustrations of Irving, 314.--Wolff's
Paris, 314.--M. Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware,"
460.--Discovery of a Picture by Michael Angelo, 460.--The Munich Art
Union, 460.

_Authors and Books._--A Visit to Henry Heine, 15.--Dr. Zirckel's
"Sketches from and concerning the United States," 16.--Aerostation,
17.--New Works by M. Guizot, 17.--Works on the German Revolution,
18.--Dr. Zimmer's Universal History, 18.--Schlosser, 18.--MS. of Le
Bel Discovered, 19.--M. Bastiat alive, and plagiarizing,
19.--Caesarism, 19.--Songs of Carinthia, 20.--Mr. Bryant, 20.--Dr.
Laing, 20.--French Reviewal of Mr. Elliot's History of Liberty,
20.--Dr. Bowring, 21.--Henry Rogers and Reviews, 21.--Rabbi Schwartz
on the Holy Land, 21.--Mr. John R. Thompson, 21.--German Reviewal of
"Fashion," 22.--Ruskin's New Work, 21.--Oehlenschlager's Memoirs,
22.--Planche on Lamartine, 22.--Prosper Merimee, his Book on America,
&c., 22.--Hawthorne, 22.--Matthews, the American Traveller,
23.--Professor Adler's Translation of the Iphigenia in Taurus,
23.--The Pekin Gazette, 23.--New Book by the author of "Shakespeare
and his Friends," 23.--Vaulabelle's French History, 23.--Sir Edward
Belcher, 23.--Guizot an Editor again, 23.--Life of Southey,
23.--Bulwer's _Ears_, 23.--The Count de Castelnau on South America,
23.--Diplomatic and Literary Studies of Alexis de Saint Priest,
24.--Mrs. Putnam's Review of Bowen, 24.--Herr Thaer, 24.--New Work
announced in England, 24.--"Sir Roger de Coverley; by the Spectator,"
25.--Memoir of Judge Story, 25.--Garland's Life of John Randolph,
25.--Sir Edgerton Brydges's edition of Milton's Poems, 25.--The
Keepsake, 25.--Gray's Poems, 25.--Rev. Professor Weir, 25.--Douglas
Jerrold's Complete Works, 25.--Memoirs of the Poet Wordsworth, by his
Nephew, 25.--New German books on Hungary, 173.--"Polish Population in
Galicia," 173.--Travels and Ethnological works of Professor Reguly,
174.--Works on Ethnology, published by the Austrian Government,
174.--Karl Gutzlow, 174.--Neandar's Library, 174.--Karl Simrock's
Popular Songs, 175.--Belgian Literature, 175.--Prof. Johnston's Work
on America, 175.--Literary and Scientific Works at Giessen,
175.--Beranger, 175.--The House of the "Wandering Jew," 176.--The
Count de Tocqueville upon Dr. Franklin, &c., 176.--Audubon's Last
Work, 176.--Book Fair at Leipsic, 176.--Baroness von Beck,
177.--Berghaus's Magazine, Albert Gallatin, &c., 177.--Auerback's
Tales, 177.--Baron Sternberg, 177.--"The New Faith Taught in Art,"
177.--Freiligrath, 177.--New Adventure and Discovery in Africa,
178.--French Almanacs, 178.--The _Algemeine Zeitung_ on Literary
Women, 178.--Cormenin on War, 178.--Writers of "Young France,"
179.--George Sand's Last Works, 179.--New Books on the French
Revolution, Mirabeau, Massena, &c., 179.--Cousin, 179.--Tomb of
Godfrey of Bouillon, 179.--Maxims of Frederic the Great, 179.--New
Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 180.--Rectorship of Glasgow
University, 180.--Tennyson, 180.--Mayhew, D'Israeli, Leigh Hunt, The
Earl of Carlisle, &c., 180.--New Work by Joseph Balmes, 180.--The late
Mrs. Bell Martin, 181.--The _Athenaeum_ on Mrs. Mowatt's Novels,
181.--New work by Mrs. Southworth, 181.--Charles Mackay, sent to
India, 182.--Pensions to Literary Men, 182.--German Translation of
Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature, 182.--David Copperfield,
183.--D.D. Field and the English Lawyers, 183.--Louisiana Historical
Collections, 183.--Elihu Burritt's Absurdities, 184.--John Mills,
184.--Dr. Latham's "Races of Men," 184.--Homoeopathic Review,
184.--Bohn's Publications, 184.--Professor Reed's Rhetoric, 185.--Mr.
Bancroft's forthcoming History, 185.--Dr. Schoolcraft, 185.--MS. of
Dr. Johnson's Memoirs, 185.--Literary "Discoveries," 185.--M.
Girardin, 185.--Vulgar Lying of the last English Traveller in America,
186.--The Real Peace Congress, 186.--Milton, Burke, Mazzini, Webster,
187.--Sir Francis Head, 187.--Dr. Bloomfield, 187.--New Book by Mr.
Cooper, 187.--Mr. Judd's "Richard Edney," 187.--E.G. Squier,
Hawthorne, &c., 187.--The Author of "Olive," on the Sphere of Woman,
188.--Flemish Poems, 188.--"Lives of the Queens of Scotland,"
188.--John S. Dwight, 188.--History of the Greek Revolution, 188.--New
Edition of the Works of Goethe, 188.--W.G. Simms, Dr. Holmes, &c.,
188.--The Songs of Pierre Dupont, 189.--Arago and Prudhon,
189.--Charles Sumner, 189.--"The Manhattaner in New Orleans,"
189.--"Reveries of a Bachelor," "Vala," &c., 189.--Of Personalities,
297.--Last Work of Oersted, 298.--New Dramas, 299.--German Novels,
300.--Hungarian Literature, 301.--New German Book on America,
301.--Ruckert's "Annals of German History," 301.--Zschokke's Private
Letters, 301.--Works by Bender and Burmeister, 301.--The Countess
Hahn-Hahn, 302.--"Value of Goethe as a Poet," 302.--Hagen's History of
Recent Times, 302.--Cotta's Illustrated Bible, 302.--Wallon's History
of Slavery, 302.--Translation of the Journal of the U.S. Exploring
Expedition into German, 302.--Richter's Translation of Mrs. Barbauld,
302.--Bodenstet's New Book on the East, 302.--Third Part of Humboldt's
"Cosmos," &c., 303.--Dr. Espe, 303.--The Works of Neander, 303.--Works
of Luther, 303.--_L'Universe Pittoresque_, 303.--M. Nisard,
303.--French Documentary Publications, 303.--M. Ginoux, 303.--M.
Veron, 304.--Eugene Sue's New Books, 304.--George Sand in the Theatre,
304.--Alphonse Karr, 304.--Various new Publications in Paris,
304.--The Catholic Church and Pius IX., 305.--Notices of Hayti,
305.--Work on Architecture, by Gailhabaud, 305.--Italian Monthly
Review, 305.--Discovery of Letters by Pope, 305.--Lord Brougham,
305.--Alice Carey, 305.--Mrs. Robinson ("Talvi"), 306.--New Life of
Hannah More, 306.--Professor Hackett on the Alps, 306.--Mrs. Anita
George, 307.--Life and Works of Henry Wheaton, 308.--R.R. Madden,
308.--Rev. E.H. Chapin on "Woman," 308.--Discovery of Historical
Documents of Quebec, 308.--Professor Andrews's Latin Lexicon,
309.--"Salander," by Mr. Shelton, 309.--Prof. Bush on Pneumatology,
309.--Satire on the Rappers, by J.R. Lowell, 309.--Henry C. Phillips
on the Scenery of the Central Regions of America, 310.--Sam. Adams no
Defaulter, 310.--Mr. Willis, 310.--Life of Calvin, 310.--Notes of a
Howadje, 310.--Mr. Putnam's "World's Progress," 310.--Mr. Whittier,
310.--New Volume of Hildreth's History of the United States, 311.--The
Memorial of Mrs. Osgood, 311.--Fortune Telling in Paris,
311.--Writings of Hartley Coleridge, 311.--New Books forthcoming in
London, 312.--Mr. Cheever's "Island World of the Pacific," 312.--Works
of Bishop Onderdonk, 312.--Moreau's _Imitatio Christi_, 312.--New
German Poems, 312.--Schroeder on the Jews, 312.--Arago on Ballooning,
312.--Books prohibited at Naples, 312.--Notices of Mazzini,
313.--Charles Augustus Murray, 313.--New History of Woman,
313.--Letters on Humboldt's Cosmos, 446.--German Version of the
"Vestiges of Creation," 447.--Hegel's _Aesthetik_, 447.--New Work in
France on the Origin of the Human Race, 448.--Lelewel on the Geography
of the Middle Ages, 448.--More German Novels, 448.--"Man in the Mirror
of Nature," 449.--Herr Kielhau, on Geology, 449.--Proposed Prize for a
Defence of Absolutism, 449.--Werner's Christian Ethics, 449.--William
Meinhold, 449.--Prize History of the Jews, 449.--English Version of
Mrs. Robinson's Work on America, 449.--Poems by Jeanne Marie,
449.--General Gordon's Memoirs, 449.--George Sand's New Drama,
449.--Other New French Plays, 451.--M. Cobet's History of France,
451.--Rev. G.R. Gleig, 451.--Ranke's Discovery of MSS. by Richelieu,
451.--George Sand on Bad Spelling, 451.--Lola Montes,
451.--Montalembert, 451.--Glossary of the Middle Ages, 451.--A Coptic
Grammar, 451.--The Italian Revolution, 452.--Italian Archaeological
Society, 452.--Abaddie, the French Traveller, 452.--The Vatican
Library, 452.--New Ode by Piron, 452.--Posthumous Works of Rossi,
452.--Bailey, the Author of "Festus," 453.--Clinton's _Fasti_,
453.--Captain Cunningham, 453.--Dixon's Life of Penn, 453.--Literary
Women in England, 453.--Miss Martineau's History of the Last Half
Century, 453.--The Lexington Papers, 453.--Captain Medwin, 453.--John
Clare, 454.--De Quincy's Writings, 454.--Bulwer's Poems,
454.--Episodes of Insect Life, 454.--Dr. Achilli, 454.--Samuel Bailey,
454.--Major Poussin, and his Work on the United States, 454.--French
Collections in Political Economy, 455.--Joseph Gales, 456.--Rev. Henry
T. Cheever, 456.--Job R. Tyson on Colonial History, 456.--Henry James,
456.--Torrey and Neander, 457.--Works of John C. Calhoun,
457.--Historic Certainties respecting Early America, 457.--Mr.
Schoolcraft, 457.--Dr. Robert Knox, 458.--Mr. Boker's Plays, 458.--The
_Literary World_ upon a supposed Letter of Washington, 458.--Dr.
Ducachet's Dictionary of the Church, 458.--Edith May's Poems,
458.--The American Philosophical Society, 458.--Professor Hows,
458.--Mr. Redfield's Publications, 458.--Rev. William W. Lord's New
Poem, 450.

Battle of the Churches in England, 327

Ballad of Jessie Carol.--_By Alice Carey_, 230

Barry Cornwall's Last Song, 392

Bereaved Mother, To a.--_By Hermann_, 476

Biographies, Memoirs, &c., 425

Black Pocket-Book, The, 89

Bombay, A View of.--_By Peter Leicester_, 130

Boswell, The Killing of Sir Alexander, 329

Bronte and her Sisters, Sketches of Miss, 315

Burke, Edmund, His Residences and Grave.--_By Mrs. S.C. Hall._
(Illustrated.) 145

Bunjaras, The, 377

Burlesques and Parodies, 426

Byron, Scott, and Carlyle, Goethe's Opinions of, 461

Camille Desmoulins, 326

Carey, Henry C.--_By Rufus W. Griswold_, 402

Castle in the Air, The.--_By R.H. Stoddard_, 474

Chatterton, Thomas. (Illustrated.) 289

Classical Novels, 161

Count Monte-Leone. Book Second, 45
" " " Third, 216
" " " Third, concluded, 349
" " " Fourth, 495

Cow-Tree of South America, The, 128

Correspondence, Original: A Letter from Paris, 170

Cyprus and the Life Led There, 216

Davis on the Half Century: Etherization, 317

Dacier, Madame, 332

Dante.--_By Walter Savage Landor_, 421

Death, Phenomena of, 425

_Deaths, Recent._--Hon. Samuel Young, 141.--Robinson, the
Caricaturist, 141.--The Duke of Palmella, 142.--Carl Rottmann,
142.--The Marquis de Trans, 142.--Ch. Schorn, 142.--Hon. Richard M.
Johnson, 142.--Wm. Blacker, 142.--Mrs. Martin Bell, 142.--Signor
Baptistide, 142.--Gen. Chastel, 142.--Dr. Medicus, and others,
142.--Rev. Dr. Dwight, 195.--Count Brandenburgh, 196.--Lord Nugent,
196.--M. Fragonard, 196.--M. Droz, 197.--Professor Schorn,
197.--Gustave Schwab, 197.--Francis Xavier Michael Tomie,
427.--Governors Bell and Plumer, 427.--Birch, the Painter,
427.--Professor Sverdrup, W. Seguin, Mrs. Ogilvy, 427.--W. Howison,
428.--H. Royer-Collard, 428.--Col. Williams, 428.--William Sturgeon,
428.--J.B. Anthony, 428.--Mr. Osbaldiston, 428.--Professor Mau,
428.--Madame Junot, Mrs. Wallack, &c., 428.--Herman Kriege,
429.--Madame Schmalz, 429.--George Spence, 429.--General Lumley,
429.--Robert Roscoe, 429.--Richie, the Sculptor, 429.--Martin d'Auch,
429.--Rev. Walter Colton, 568.--Major d'Avezac, 569.--M. Asser,
569.--M. Lapie, 569.--Professor Link, 569.--General St. Martin,
570.--Frederick Bastiat, 570.--Benjamin W. Crowninshield,
571.--Professor Anstey, 571.--Donald McKenzie, 572.--Horace Everett,
LL.D., 572.--James Harfield, 572.--Wm. Wilson, 572.--Professor James
Wallace, 572.--Joshua Milne, 572.--General Bem, 573.--T.S. Davies,
F.R.S., 573.--H.C. Schumacher, 573.--W.H. Maxwell, 573.--Alexander
McDonald, 573.

Dickens, To Charles.--_By Walter Savage Landor_, 75

Drive Round our Neighborhood, in 1850, A.--_By Miss Milford_, 270

Duty.--_By Alfred B. Street_, 332

Duchess, A Peasant, 169

Edward Layton's Reward.--_By Mrs. S.C. Hall_, 201

Editorial Visit, An, 421

Egypt under the Pharaohs.--_By John Kinrick_, 322

Encouragement of Literature by Governments, 160

Exclusion of Love from the Greek Drama, 123

Fountain in the Wood, The, 129

French Generals of To-Day, 334

Gateway of the Oceans, 124

Ghetto of Rome, 393

Gleanings from the Journals, 285

Grief of the Weeping Willow, 31

Haddock, Charles B., Charge d'Affaires to Portugal. (With a
Portrait on steel.) 1

Hecker, Herr, described by Madame Blaze de Bury, 30

_Historical Review._--The United States, 560.--Europe, 564.--Mexico,
565.--British America, 566.--The West Indies, 566.--Central America,
the Isthmus, 566.--South America, 567.--Africa, 567.

Hunt, Leigh, upon G.P.R. James, 30

Ireland in the Last Age: Curran, 519

Journals of Louis Philippe, 377

Kellogg's, Mr., Exploration of Mt. Sinai, 462

Kimball, Richard B., the Author of "St. Leger." (Illustrated.) 156

Layard's Recent Gifts from Nimroud. (Illustrated.) 4

Layard, Austen Henry, LL.D. (With a Portrait,) 433

Lafayette, Talleyrand, Metternich, and Napoleon.--_Sketched
by Lord Holland_, 465

Last Case of the Supernatural, 481

Lectures, Popular, 319

Life at a Watering Place.--_By C. Astor Bristed_, 240

Lionne at a Watering Place, The, 533

Lost Letter, The, 522

Mazzini on Italy, 265

Mackay, Charles, Last Poems by, 348

Marvel, Andrew. (Illustrated.) 438

Mother's Last Song, The.--_By Barry Cornwall_, 270

_Music and the Drama.--The Astor Place Opera, Parodi, 29.--Mrs. Oake
Smith's New Tragedy, 30.

Mystic Vial, The, Part i. 61
" " Part ii. 249
" " Part iii. 378

My Novel, Or Varieties in English Life.--_By Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton_, Book II. Chapters i. to vi. 109
Book II. Chapters vii. to xii. 273
Book III. Chapters i. to xii. 407