Harper's New Monthly Magazine

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.

Letter Writing and Book Writing; Londoner on Ven-
ice; An Observer on New York Society; On Charita-
ble Societies, 119. Borrioboola-Gha and the Five Points;
Charity Concerts; Polyhymnia Baggs, 120. Theory of
Fashionable Charity; Dr. Abbott's Egyptian Museum,
121. What a Metropolis is; New York Fires, 122.
Flimsy Building; the Age of Tinsel; Music Coming;
Mario and Grisi, 123. Re-opening of the Crystal Pal-
ace-the Music and Speeches; The Useful and the
Beautiful, 124. Paris in the Spring; The New Palace;
The Palace of Industry; Diplomatic Clothing; The
French and English Coalition, 125. The Viviparous
Fish; The Abbé Lammenais; Sergeant Talfourd;
Death of the Gardener; Hospital Wagons, 126. Con-
scripts and Marriage; War-tidings; A French Play,

127. Romance of the Guardsman, 128. Experiences

of the Chair; No Enthusiasm behind the Scenes, 257.

Anonymous Blackguards; Mr. Grayquill's Correspond-

ent; Impersonality of the Chair, 258. A Fable; Truth-

fulness of the Newcomes, 259. Architecture in New

York, 260. The Fourth of July in City and Country,

261. Nicholas and his Family, 262. The Russian Po-

lice; A Story from Life, 263. The Imperial Family in

Rose Color, 264. A Touch of the Knout, 265. Flog-

ging in English Schools; Professor Wilson, 266. Death
of Rubini; Of James Montgomery; Duke of Cambridge
on his Way to the Wars, 267. Exodus of the Town;
Corydon, Ceres, and Flora, 406. Country Girls not
Nymphs; Living in the Country, 407. Death of Son-
tag, 408. Pasta and Siddons; Summer and Cholera;
Suspected Fruits, 409. Epistle General from Abroad;
Fashion and the Thermometer; Age and Dress, 410.
French Children; the Wood of Boulogne; Shop Win-
dows, 411. New Jewels; Conspiracy against the Mil-
liners; Professor of Dressing, 412. Beau Brummel;
The Deaf Suicide; Another Suicide, 413. The Mus-
tache Movement; The Buried Well-Digger, 414. Cry
for Beaux, 551. What the Men are about; Coming
down; Charity for Crime; Easiness of Selfishness, 552.
Beauty and Goodness; Grandfather's Advice; Dry, Sly,
and Lye, 553. New Failure of the Crystal Palace; The
Causes; College Commencements, 554. The Orators;
EDITOR'S TABLE.

The Position of the Clergy..
Shall the Murderer escape?
Union Saving

FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER

FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

FATHER AND SON..

FIRST GRENADIER OF FRANCE

FIVE SENSES

FLIGHT OF YOUTH

The Poem; Early Visions; The Viviparous Fish again,
555. Parisian Heats; The Weather and the Stocks;
The Bear and the Turk, 556. Going into the Country;
The Citizen and his Guests; The Abbé and the Arti-
chokes, 557. The Belle and the Billet; A Suicide; M.
Veron; The Ambitious Widow, 558. The Lost Alsa-
tian, 559. Wedding Advertisements, 560. The Drought;
Sympathies, 691. The Millerites Chuckling; Chaos
and Cabbages; Money tight; Expensively educated;
Spiritual Drought, 692. Grisi and Mario; Character-
istics of Grisi; Grisi and Rachel; The Mythic Mrs.
Coutts; Mr. Ruskin and Claude; Joy in the Beautiful,
693. Mr. Carden; Another Abduction; the French
Mother, 694. The Honest Rogue; A Debt of Con-
science, 695. Jules Lecomte, 696. M. Méry the Rain-

Maker; Broadway Bridges, 697. How one feels after

killing a Man; A Tale of Crime, 698. Railway Acci-

dents here and abroad, 699. Sir Charles Napier and

his Dinner-Table Victories; Cronstadt not to be taken

by Champagne; The Admiral coming Home; The

Countess and the Soldiers' Families; the Allies victo-

rious on Paper, 838. Back-Room Speculations on the

War; John Bull fighting for India; Print and Talk;

Able Editors but Men; Every Man his own Editor, 39.

Pestilence and Storms at the South; Kindly Feelings
aroused; Active Christian Sympathy; The North and
the South, 840. The Easy Chair as Confessional; Sy-
billa and her Suitor; Narcissus and his Novel; Life
the Material of Literature; Sanctity of Private Charac-
ter; Daguerreotyping Individuals; Example of Thack-
eray, 841. Shakspeare and Lady Macbeth; True Lim-
its of Individual Portraiture; The Easy Chair's Opin.
ion of the Whole Matter; Gossip of the Town; Hoops
and Street-Sweeping Skirts; Projects for Retrench-
ment, 842. Elise the Grisette; The new Idées Napoleon-
iennes; The New Guards, 843. French Sharpshoot-
ers; Guessing and Foreboding; The English in Paris;
The Coming Exhibition; Railway Responsibility, 844.
Murder will out; Jules Lecomte upon English Tour-
1sts, 845. What the English travel for; Murray ver-
ified; The Student and the Peasant-Girl, 846. The
Somnambulic Gamester, 847.

115 Is the Human Race One or Many?.
253 Are we One or Many?

402 The true Sources of our National Strength

FOURTH OF JULY UPON THE HUDSON

GALVANOPLASTY ...

GAMBLING HOUSES IN GERMANY

GENERAL TAYLOR'S RESIDENCE AT BATON ROUGE

548
687

830

GENERATIONS OF FASHIONS

749

GREEK CARNIVAL...

828

HAPPY FAILURE-A STORY OF THE RIVER HUDSON

HOLY WEEK AT ROME

196

20, 158, 317

HOW MACKEREL ARE CAUGHT.

674

IMITATION PEARLS AND DIAMONDS

INCIDENTS OF JURY TRIALS.

KIND OF PREACHING THAT DOES GOOD TO THE POOR

LADY AMBER MAYNE

LAST MOMENTS OF BEETHOVEN

LITERARY NOTICES.

LITERARY NOTICES-continued.

Heart; Greece and the Golden Horn, 276. Utah and

the Mormons; Wensley; Lyrics by the Letter II;

Wordsworth's Works; Recreations of Christopher

North; Fern Leaves; This, That, and the Other; The

Myrtle Wreath, 277; Morning Stars of the New World;

Tempest and Sunshine; Melbourne and the Chincha

Islands; The Catacombs of Rome; Sargent's First

Class Reader; Franchere's Voyage to the Northwest

Coast; Pycroft's English Reading; Queens of Scot-

land; Home Scenes and Home Sounds, 278. Mer-

cein's Natural Goodness; Fashion and Famine, 279;

Miss Mitford's Atherton and Other Tales; Burritt's

Thoughts and Things; Leather Stocking and Silk;

The Master's House; Ticonderoga; Hive of the Bee

Hunter; Sir Jasper Carew, 425. Elements of Charac-

ter; Footprints of Famous Men; Africa and the Amer-

ican Flag Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky;

Harper's Gazetteer of the World; History of Illinois;

Sandwich Island Notes, 426. Mills's Poets and Poetry

of the Ancient Greeks; Livermore's Discourses, 427;
Gan Eden; Maturin's History of Cuba; Na Motu; Easy
Nat; The British Poets; Bertha and Julia, 569. The
Practical Draughtsman; American Cottage Builder;
Youth of Jefferson; Nolte's Fifty Years in Both Hemi-
spheres; Abbott's History of Pyrrhus, Puddleford and
its People, 570. Captain Canot; Shakspeare's Scholar;
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, 709. School for Pol-
ities; Practical Draughtsman's Book of Design; Doch-
arty's Arithmetic'; Harrington's Memoirs and Sermons;
Hoppin's Notes of a Theological Student, 710. Gerald
Massey's Poems and Ballads; Willis's Famous Per-
sons and Things; Hermit's Dell, 711. Giles's Illus-
trations of Genius; Wood's Illustrated Natural His-
tory; Whittier's Literary Recreations and Miscellanies;
Baskerville's German Poetry, 857. Memorable Women;
The Captains of the Roman Republic; Life's Lesson;
Artificial Fish-Breeding; The Virginia Comedians,

LITTLE FLOWER

LOST ISLAND

LOVE AND SELF-LOVE

858. Birds of the Bible; Female Prose Writers of Amer-

ica; Ida Norman; Spenser and the Fairy Queen; Later

Years; Synonyms of the New Testament; Hickok's

Empirical Psychology, 859. Poems by T. W. Parsons;

Life and Epistles of the Apostle Paul; Jerusalem and

its Vicinity; Lamartine's Memoirs of Celebrated Char-

acters; Dr. Bell's Louisville Address; Stockton's Ser-

mons for the People; Lossing and Draper's Western

Histories, 860.

FOREIGN NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE.

Death of Professor Wilson; The Chronicles of Merry

England; Ages of the Reviews; Progress of Punch,

139; New Publications, 140. Works of Arago; Lamar-

tine's projected Works; New Work by Michelet;

Eternity Unveiled; Bulletin des Sociétés Savants;

Manuscript of Spinoza; The Brownings; Poems by

Tennyson, Praed, and Kingsley; Chevalier Bunsen;

Insanity of Genius; Maurice's Theological Essays, 140.

Death of Montgomery; of Professor Jameson, 279. Of
William Pickering; of Lord Cockburn; Health of Ro-
gers; Mrs. Crowe; Lamartine's History of Turkey,
280. Sketch of Carlyle; Sydenham Palace Portrait
Gallery, 427. Dr. Raffles in Italy; Monument to Wil-
sox; Death of Lady Dacre; Lamartine's Celebrated
Characters; French Literary Notabilities; Hans Chris-
tian Andersen, 428. The English Journals on Todd's
Student's Manual, 570. On Fern Leaves; On Hervey's
Rhetoric of Conversation; On Bates's Poems; On
American Female Authors; On Mrs. Stowe's Sunny
Memories; Sketch of Hazlitt, 571. George Gilfillan;
Miss Mitford's Village; Sonnet to Dickens, 572. No-
tice of Comte; Of John Chapman, 711. Characteristics
of Charles Lamb; Fashion and Famine; Bancroft's
new Volume, 712. White's Shakspeare's Scholar;
American Artists at Rome; Lines by Landor to Miss
Mitford, 713.

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.

UNITED STATES.

The Treaty with Mexico, 110. Veto of the Insane

Appropriation Bill, 110. Motion to suspend the Neu-

trality Laws in the case of Spain, 110. Speech of Mr.

Benton against the Nebraska Bill, 110. Meeting of the

Association for the Advancement of Science, 111.

Southern Convention at Charleston, 111. The Ward

Murder Trial, 111. Breach of the Neutrality Law by

the French Consul in San Francisco, 111. Walker's

Sonora Expedition, 111, 250. Passage of the Nebraska

Bill; the final Debate and Analysis of the Vote, 249.

Speech of Mr. Cass on Religious Liberty, 250. Mr.

Mallory's Resolution on the Africanization of Cuba;

United States Senator from Massachusetts, 250. The

President's Neutrality Proclamation, 250. Indictment

of the French Consul at San Francisco, 250. Indian

War in Oregon, 231. Question of Annexation in the

Sandwich Islands, 251, 545. Indian Murders in New

Mexico, 251. Protest against the Nebraska Bill, by

Members of Congress, 398. Speeches of Messrs. Jones,

Rockwell, Sumner, Toucey, and Gillette on the Protest,

398. Provisions of the Gadsden Treaty with Mexico,

399. The Reciprocity Treaty with Great Britain, 399.

The Japanese Treaty, 399. Appointments for Kansas

and Nebraska, 393. New Hampshire Resolutions on

the Nebraska Bill, 400. Connecticut Law for Personal

Freedom, 400. Riots in New York and Brooklyn, 400.

Adjournment of Congress, 513. Batchelder Pension,

543. President's Message on our Relations with Spain,

514. Report of the Committes to whom it was referred,

544. Veto of the Internal Improvement Bill, 544. The

Homestead Bill, 544. Neutrality Treaty with Russia,

541. Bombardment of Greytown, 544. Fires in Cal-

ifornia, 515. Elections in Vermont, North Carolina,

and Maine, 683, Anti-Nebraska Convention at Sara-

toga, 683. Democratic State Conventions in New York,

683. Whig and Free Soil Conventions in Massachu-

setts, 633. The Neutrality Question with France and

England, 683. Political Conventions in California, 684.

Feuds among the Chinese Emigrants, 684. Neutrality

of the Sandwich Islands, 684. Loss of the Steamer

Arctic, 830. Elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 830.

Political Conventions in New York. 830. The Dem-

ocratic Candidates and the Liquor Law, 830. Dem-

ocratic Convention in Massachusetts, 830. State Agri-

cultural Fairs, 830. Death of Bishop Wainwright, 830.

Of Bishon Gartland, 830. Election in California, 830.

Chinese Emigration to California, 831.

SOUTHERN AMERICA.

394

648

Revolt of Alvarez in Mexico, 111, 251. New Expedi-

tion of Count Raousset Boulbon, 684. Its Defeat, and

Execution of the Leader, 831. Outbreak on the Rio

Grande, 684. Its Suppression, 831. Address of Santa

Anna, 831. Action at Mogotes, 831. Russian Loan,

831. Revolution in New Granada, 400. Bombardment

of Greytown, 544.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Ultimatum to Russia rejected, and Declaration of

War, 111. Lords Clarendon and Aberdeen and the

Earl of Derby on the War, 112. Lord John Russell,

Messrs. Layard, Bright, and others in the House, 112.

Speech of Lord Palmerston, 112. Declaration respect-

ing Neutrals, 113. Withdrawal of the Reforın Bill, 113.

Debates on the War, 252. The Jews in Parliament,

252. Financial Projects, 252. Changes in the Cabinet,

400. Lord John Russell, Lord Clarendon, the Earl of

Aberdeen, and others on the Continuance of the War,

400. Opening of the New Crystal Palace, 400. Speech

of Kossuth on the War, 401, 546, 685. Discussion on

the Neutrality Question, 545. The Earl of Clarendon

on the Course of Austria, 546. Lord John Russell's

Statement of the Progress and Objects of the War, 546.

Mr. Disraeli's Attack upon the Ministry, 546. Debate

on Canadian Affairs, 684. New Copyright Decision,

684. Statement as to the Slave Trade in Cuba, 684.

Marquis Clanricarde and the Earl of Clarendon on the

Conduct of the War, 685. Mazzini's Appeal to the Re-

volutionists, 685.

MONTHLY RECORD-continued.

the three Powers, 832. Declaration of the Russian
Government, 113. Circular Notes of Count Nesselrode
to Austria and Prussia, 832. Commotions in Spain,
252. The Black Warrior Case, 252. Insurrection in
Spain, 547. Proclamation of O'Donnell, 547. Consti-
tution and Measures of the New Government, 685. De-
parture of the Queen Mother, 831. Action against her,
831. Charges against Mr. Soulé, 831. His Letter to
the Press, 831. Ledru Rollin on Spanish Affairs, 831.
Apprehensions for Cuba, 832.

THE EASTERN WAR.

Declaration of War by Great Britain, 112. English

Declaration respecting Neutrals, 113. Proceedings of

the French Government, 113. The Convention be-

tween France and England, 113. Declaration of the

Russian Government, 113. Blockade of the Baltic

Ports, and Capture of Prizes, 114. Russian Forces

cross the Danube, 114. Confiscation of the Property

of the Mosques by the Sultan, 114. The Russians in

the Dobrudscha, 251. The Position and Forces of the

Combatants, 252. Bombardment of Odessa, 252. Sir

Charles Napier at Stockholm, 252. Captures in the

MORE FACTS WORTH KNOWING..

MOSQUITO WAR...

Gulf of Bothnia, 401. The Capture of the British
Steamer Tiger, 401. Siege of Silistria, 401. Retreat
of the Russians, 401. Cronstadt pronounced impreg-
nable, 547. Continued Retreat of the Russians in the
Principalities, 547. Capture of Bomarsund, 686. En-
trance of the Austrians into the Principalities, 686.
Cholera in the Allied Camp, 686. Turkish Defeat in
Asia, 686. Correspondence between Russia and Aus-
tria, 686. Reply of the French Minister, 686. Austrian
Circular, 686. Further Correspondence between Aus-
tria, Prussia, and Russia, 832. Expedition to the Cri-
mea, 833. Affairs in the Baltic, 833. Russian Evacua-
tion of Moldavia, 833.

THE EAST.

Confiscation of the Property of the Mosques, 114.

Hostile Movements in Greece, 114. Russian Move-

ments near Japan, 114. The American Fleet in Japan,

114. Formation of a new Ministry in Greece, 686.

Visit of the American Commissioner to Nankin, 633.

Progress of the Insurrection in China, 833. Ex-Com-

missioner Marshall's View of the state of Affairs in

China, $33.

MOUNTAIN STORMS.-TRAGEDY ON THE SENTIS

MY BROOCH...

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. By JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.