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  HARPER'S

  NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

  VOLUME V.

  JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1852.


  NEW YORK:

  HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

  329 & 331 PEARL STREET,

  FRANKLIN SQUARE.

  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.

The Publishers here renew the expression of their thanks to the Press
and the Public in general, for the favor which has been accorded to the
New Monthly Magazine, and solicit such continuance of that favor as the
merits of the successive Numbers may deserve.




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; <DW64> 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;
     