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  HARPER'S

  NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE

  VOLUME III.

  JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1851.


  NEW YORK:

  HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

  NOS. 329 AND 331 PEARL STREET,

  (FRANKLIN SQUARE.)

  1852.




ADVERTISEMENT.


This Number closes the Third Volume of HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. In
closing the Second Volume the Publishers referred to the distinguished
success which had attended its establishment, as an incentive to further
efforts to make it worthy the immense patronage it had received:--they
refer with confidence to the Contents of the present Volume, for proof
that their promise has been abundantly fulfilled.

The Magazine has reached its present enormous circulation, simply
because it gives _a greater amount of reading matter, of a higher
quality, in better style, and at a cheaper price_ than any other
periodical ever published. Knowing this to be the fact, the Publishers
have spared, and will hereafter spare, no labor or expense which will
increase the value and interest of the Magazine in all these respects.
The outlay upon the present volume has been from five to ten thousand
dollars more than that upon either of its predecessors. The best talent
of the country has been engaged in writing and illustrating original
articles for its pages:--its selections have been made from a wider
field and with increased care; its typographical appearance has been
rendered still more elegant; and several new departments have been added
to its original plan.

The Magazine now contains, regularly:

_First._ One or more original articles upon some topic of historical or
national interest, written by some able and popular writer, and
illustrated by from fifteen to thirty wood engravings, executed in the
highest style of art.

_Second._ Copious selections from the current periodical literature of
the day, with tales of the most distinguished authors, such as DICKENS,
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popular interest, and general utility.

_Third._ A Monthly Record of the events of the day, foreign and
domestic, prepared with care and with the most perfect freedom from
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_Fourth._ Critical Notices of the Books of the Day, written with
ability, candor, and spirit, and designed to give the public a clear and
reliable estimate of the important works constantly issuing from the
press.

_Fifth._ A Monthly Summary of European Intelligence, concerning books,
authors, and whatever else has interest and importance for the
cultivated reader.

_Sixth._ An Editor's Table, in which some of the leading topics of the
day will be discussed with ability and independence.

_Seventh._ An Editor's Easy Chair or Drawer, which will be devoted to
literary and general gossip, memoranda of the topics talked about in
social circles, graphic sketches of the most interesting minor matters
of the day, anecdotes of literary men, sentences of interest from papers
not worth reprinting at length, and generally an agreeable and
entertaining collection of literary miscellany.

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and INTEREST, with the greatest possible UTILITY. Special care will
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influence, by the most attractive means.

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especially for the universally flattering commendations of the Press,
the Publishers desire to express their cordial thanks, and to renew
their assurances, that no effort shall be spared to render the work
still more acceptable and useful, and still more worthy of the
encouragement it has received.




CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.


  Adventure with a Grizzly Bear                                    101
  Ally Somers                                                      610
  American Notabilities                                            834
  Anecdotes of Curran                                              108
  Anecdotes of Paganini                                             39
  Application of Electro-Magnetism to Railway Transit              786
  Autobiography of a Sensitive Spirit                              479
  Bear-Steak                                                       484
  Blind Lovers of Chamouny                                          68
  Bookworms                                                        628
  Bored Wells in Mississippi                                       539
  Breton Wedding                                                    87
  Brush with a Bison                                               218
  Captain's Self-Devotion                                          689
  Chapter on Giraffes                                              202
  Coffee-Planting in Ceylon                                         82
  Conversation in a Stage Coach                                    105
  Cricket                                                          718
  Convict's Tale                                                   209
  Daughter of Blood                                                 74
  Deserted House                                                   241
  Eagle and Swan                                                   691
  Eclipse in July, 1851                                            239

  EDITOR'S DRAWER.

     Preliminary; Word-painting; Grandiloquence; Memories of
     Childhood; Good-nature, 282. Englishman's independence; Parodies;
     Done twice; Punctuation; Epitaph; Personification, 284. Small
     courtesies; Home California; Grumblers; Rachel Baker, 421. Take
     physic, doctor; Moralizing; Curiosity, 422. Sabbath morning;
     Pictures of Napoleon; Libraries; Booing; Childlike temper; Pretty
     spry, 423. The sea; Old Eben; Harvest time; Long Island ghosts,
     571. Alleged lunatic; Musical elephant, 572. The Bible; New use
     of a note of hand; The Ship of Death; Taste in tombstones;
     Tennyson's Word-painting, 573. Western eloquence; John Bull of
     old; Interrupting conversation, 575. Ollapod on October; The
     Virtues too cheap, 704. Charms of the incomprehensible; Harriet
     Martineau on love; The fire annihilator, 705. Originality;
     Eccentricities of Swift; The Iron Duke in Rhyme; On
     reminiscences, 706. Taking an interest; Determination of the
     Will, 707. In France without French; Mrs. Ramsbottom; The
     Disbanded Volunteer, 851. Baron Vondullbrainz; Domestic Remedies;
     Dr. Johnson on Scotland, 852. Hopeful Pupils; Lord Timothy
     Dexter; Adjutant-birds, 853. Dinner-giving; Keep cool; Peter
     Funk; Titles of songs; John Bull as a beat-ee, 854.

  EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.

     Ex cathedra; The commercial and romantic way of telling a thing,
     707. The winning loser, 708. Equestrianism as a beautifyer, 709.
     Advent of autumn; Retrospective and prospective; Hard times; The
     Arctic expedition, 849. Catherine Hayes; Madame Thillon; Mrs.
     Warner; Healy's Webster; The Art Union; Leutze's Washington
     Crossing the Delaware; American clippers, 850. French gossip;
     Borrel and his wife, 851. Albert Smith, 852.

  EDITOR'S TABLE.

     The indestructibleness of the religious principle in the human
     soul, 701. Night as represented by the Poets: Homer, Apollonius
     Rhodius, Virgil, Byron, Job, 702. Pedantic fallacies on
     education, 703. Progression of Ancestry and Posterity, 704.
     Westward course of empire, 851. Marriage: the nuptial torch,
     woman's rights, divorces, 846. True Charity: St. Augustine
     thereupon, 848.

  Episode in the Life of John Rayner                               510
  Escape from a Mexican Quicksand                                  481
  Execution of Fieschi, Pepin, and Morey                            76
  Fairy's Choice                                                   800
  Faquir's Curse                                                   375
  Fashions for June                                                143
  Fashions for July                                                287
  Fashions for August                                              431
  Fashions for September                                           575
  Fashions for October                                             719
  Fashions for November                                            863
  Feet-Washing in Munich                                           349
  Floating Island                                                  781
  Fortunes of the Reverend Caleb Ellison                           680
  Francis's Life Boats and Life Cars. By JACOB ABBOTT              161
  French Cottage Cookery                                           369
  Frenchman in London                                              236
  Gallop for Life                                                  802
  Hartley Coleridge                                                334
  Highest House in Wathendale                                      521
  Household of Sir Thomas More             42, 183, 310, 498, 623, 757
  Hunter's Wife                                                    388
  Ice-Hill Party in Russia                                          66
  Incident during the Mutiny of 1797                               652
  Incidents of Dueling                                             630
  Incident of Indian Life                                           80
  Infirmities of Genius                                            327
  Joanna Baillie                                                    88
  Jeweled Watch                                                     96
  Joe Smith and the Mormons                                         64
  Josephine at Malmaison                                           222
  Joys and Sorrows of Lumbering                                    517
  Lamartine on the Restoration                                     685
  Last days of the Emperor Alexander                               565
  Last Priestess of Pele                                           354

  LEAVES FROM PUNCH.

     Tired of the World; Pleasure Trip of Messrs. Robinson and Jones;
     A Perfect Wretch, 141. Facts and Comments by Mr. Punch;
     Comparative Love; Taking the Census; Mysterious Machine, 