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A good book for an artist, hobbyist, researcher or collector. 6.5" x 9.5". 864 pages with volume table of contents and list of illustrations. About $4 shipping within the US, $12 to many countries. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.         A. Bachelor's Reverie. By IK. MARVEL. . 620 A Child's Dream of a Star ............. 73 A Chip from a Sailors Log ............ 478 Adventure in a Turkish Harem ......... 321 Adventure with a Snake ............... 415 Aerial voyage of Earral and Bixio ....... 499 A few words on Corab ................ 251 A Five Days' Tour in the Odenwald. By WILLIAM HOWITT ................... 448 A Giraffe Chase ...................... 321 Alchemy and Gunpowder .............. 195 American Literature .................. 37 American Vanity ..................... 274 A Midnight Drive. .................... 820 Amusements of the Court of Louis XV. . . S7 Andrew Carson's Money: A Story of Gold 503 Anecdote of a Sinper. ................. 779 Anecdotes of Dr. Chalmers ............. 696 Anecdote of Lord Clive ................ 554 A Night in the Bell Inn. A Ghost Story. 252 A Paris Newspaper ................... 181 A Pilgrimage to the Cradle of Liberty. . . 721 Archibald Alison (with Portrait) ........ U4 A Shilling's Worth of Science .......... 597 Assyrian Sects ....................... 454 A Tale of the good Old Times. ......... 52 Atlantic Waves....................... 786 A True Ghost Story. .................. 801 A Tuscan Vintage .................... 600 A Word at the Start .................. 1 Bathing — Its Utility. By Dr. MOORE ... 215 Battle with Life (Poetry) .............. 731 Benjamin West. By LEIGH HUNT...... 194 Biographical Sketch of Zachary Taylor .. 298 Borax Lagoons of Tnscany ............. 397 Burke and the Painter Barry ........... 807 Charlotte Corday ...................... 262 Chemical Contradictions ............... 736 Christ-hospital Worthies. By LEIGH HUNT 200 Conflict with an Elephant.............. 352 Death of Cromwell (Poetry) ............ 257 Descent into the Crater of a Volcano .... 838 Diplomacy — Lord Chesterfield. . ........ 246 Doing (Poetry) ....................... 268 Dr. Johnson : his Religious Life and Death 71 Early History of the Use of Coal ........ 656 Early Rising......................... 52 Earth's Harvests (Poetry) .............. 297 Ebenezer Eliiott. ..................... 349 Education in America ................. 209 Elephant Shooting in South Africa ...... 393 Encounter with a Lioness .............. 303 Eruptions of Mount Etna ............... 35 Fashions for Early Summer ............ 142 Fashions for July ..................... 287 Fashions for August ................... 431 Fashions for Autu.nn .................. 719 Fashions for November ................ 863 Fate Days, and othei Superstitions ...... 729 Father and Son ....................... 243 Fearful Tragedy — A Man-eating Lion. . . 471 Fifty Years ago'. By LEIGH HUNT ..... 180 Fortunes of the Gardener's Daughter .... 832 Francis Jeffrey ....................... 66     Galileo and his Daughter ............... 347 Genius.............................. 65 Ghost Stories: Mademoiselle Clairon. ... 83 Glimpses of the East. By ALBERT SMITH 198 Globes, and how they are Made ......... 165 Greenwich Weather- wisdom. ........... 265 Habits of the African Lion ............. 480 Have great Poets become impossible ? . . . 340 History of Bank Note Forgeries. ........ 745 How to kill Clever Children ............ 789 How to make Home unhealthy. By HAR- RIET MARTINEAU. .................. 601 How We Went Whaling. .............. 844 Hydrophobia ......................... 846 lanorance of the English. .............. 205 illustrations of Cheapness. Lucifer Matches 75 Industry of the Blind .................. 848 Jenny Lind. By FREDRIKA BKEMER. . . . 657 Jewish Veneration .................... 119 Lack of Poetry in America. ............ 403 Lady Alice Daventry; or. the Night of Crime 642 Ledru Rollin.......... '............... 476 Leigh Hunt Drowning ................. 202 Lettice Arnold., By Mrs. MARSH, 13, 168 353 Lines. By ROBERT SOUTHEY .......... 206 Literary and Scientific Miscellany. ...... 556 Lord Jeffrey's Account of the Origin of the Edinburgh He view— Character of Sir Robert Peel— The Ownership of Land— A Self-Tau-ht Artist— Conversation of Liter- ary Men— Rewards of Literature— Scliamyl the Prophet of the Caucasus— The Colossal Statue —Wordsworth's Prose- Writings- Anecdotes of Bei-auger— The Paris Acade- my of Inscriptions. Bryant's Letters of a Traveler; Bayard Taylor's Eldorado, 140. Staiidish the Puri- tan ; Talbot and Vernon, 141. Smyth's Unity of the Human Races, 284. Talvi's Literature of the Slavic Nations ; Greeley's Hints toward Reforms, 285. Antonina Martinet's Solution of Groat Problems; Lossing's Field Book, 286, 427, 857. La- martine's Past Present and Future of the French Republic ; Lardner's Railway Economy; The Lone Dove; Mezzofanti's Method applied to the Study of the French Language; The Ojibway Conquest; Buf- fum's Six Months in the Gold Mines; The World as it is and as it appears; Drake's Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, 286. Campbell' s Life and Let- ters, 423. Life and Correspondence of An- drew Combe, 426. Dr. Johnson's Religious Life and Death; Sydney Smith's Sketches of Moral Philosophy; The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, 427. Mrs, Child's Rebels; Davies's Lopic and Utility of Mathematics; The Gallery of Illustrious Americans ; The Phantom World ; Chris- toplier under Canvas; Byrne's Dictionary of Mechanics ; Griffith's Marine and Navai Bridges, etc. on the U. S. Railroads ; M'Clin. lock's Second Book in Greek ; Baird's Im- pressions of the West Indies, and North America; Fleetwood's Life o Christ; The Shoulder Knot; Supplement to Foresters Fish and Fishing; The Morning Watch; Debates in the Convention of California; The Mothers of the Wise and Good, 429. Carlvle's Latter-Day Pamphlets, 430, 571. The' Illustrated Domestic Bible: Earnest LITERARY NOTICES — continued. ness ; Amy Harrington ; The Vale of Cedars ; Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange; Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; Poems by H. Ladd Spencer; Talvi's Heloise: The Initials; The Lorg- nette, 430. Tennyson's In Uumoriain, 570. Abbott's History of Darius; Fowler's En- glish Language in its Elements and forms ; Julia Howard ; Cumming's Five Years of a Hunter's Life; Moore's Health, Disease, and Remedy, Wright's Perforations of the Latter-day Pamphlets; Lanman'sHaw-Ho- Noo, 571. Leigh Hunt's Autobiography ; U. S. Railroad Guide and Steamboat Jour- nal; Ware's Hints to Young Men; The Iris; Irving's Conquest of Granada, 572. Life and Times of Gen. Jnhn Lamb , Progress of the Northwest ; Everett's Bunker Hill Oration; Walker's Phi Beta Kappa Ora- tion; Bayard Taylor's American Legend; Ungewitter's Europe, Past and Presen^; Downing's Architecture of Country Houses, 573. Jarvia'a Don Q,uixote ; Halliwell'fl Shakspeare ; Meyer's Universum ; The Night Side of Nature; Giles's Thoughts on Life; Hill's Lectures on Surgery; The National Temperance Offerint.-, 574. Rural Hours; Robinson's Greek "and English Lexicon; The Berber, 713. Works of Joseph Bellamy; Adelaide Lindsay; May- hew's Popular Education; Poems by Eliza- beth Barrett Browning; After Dinner Table Talk; Cooper's Deer Slayer; Stock- ton's Sermon on the Death of Zachary Taylor ; Raymond's Relations of the Ameri- can Scholar to Ins Country and his Times, 714. Loomis's Recent Progress of Astrono- biography of Goethe; Braithwaite's Retro- spect ; Mrs. Ellett'a Domestic History of the Revolution; Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men; Johnson's Cicero; Lady Willonghby's Diary"; The Young Woman's Book of Health, 715. Whittier's Songs of Labor; Nicbolson's Poems of the Heart; The Mariner's Vision; Collins's edition of ^Esop's Fables; Seba Smith's New Elements of Geometry, 716. Bucking- ham's Specimens of Newspaper Literature ; Edward Everett's Orations and Speeches, 717. Echoes of the Universe; Memoir of Anne Boleyn; The Lily and the Totem; Reminiscences of Congress ; Mental Hy- geiue, 718. Williams'8 Religious Progress ; Poetry of Science ; Footprints of the Cre- ator; Pre-Adamite Earth, 857. Household Surgery; Gray's Poetical Works ; Memoirs of Chalmers; History of Propellers and Steam Navigation; The Country Year- Book; Success in Life; Alton Locke, 858. The Builder's, and the Cabinet-maker and Uphohter's Companion; Lessons from tlie History of Medical Delusions; Lexicon of Terms used in Natural History; Lamar- tine's Additional Memoirs, and Genevieve ; Rose's Chemical Tables ; Pendennis T Stockkmlt's Principles of Chemistry; Petti- coat Government; Etchings to the Bridge of Sighs, 859. Bartlett's Natural Philoso- phy; Church's Calculus; Lonz Powers; Abbott's History of Xerxes ; Alexander's Dictionary of Weights and Measures; America Discovered ; Dwight's Christianity Revived in the East ; Grahame, 860. George Castriot; The Last of the Mohicans; Johns ton's Relations of Science and Agricul- ture; Descriptive Geography of Palestine; Life of Commodore Talbot ; American Bibli- cal Repository; North American Review, 861. Methodist Quarterly Review ; Chris- tiJn Review; Brownson's Quarterly, 862. Little Mary — A tale of the Irish Famine. 518 Lizzie Leigh. BY CHARLES DICKENS .. 38 Longfellow .......................... 74 Lon; Byron. Wordsworth, and Lamb . . 233     Lord Coke and Lord Bacon ............. 239 Madame Grandin .... ................. 135 Married Men ......................... 106 Maurice Tiernav. By Charles Lever 2, 219, 329, 487, 627, 790 Memoirs of the First Duchess of Orleans . . 56 Memories of Miss Jane Porter. By Mrs. S. C. HALL........................ 433 Men and Women. .................... 89 Metal in Sea Water. .................. 71 Milking in Australia .................. 37 Mirabeau. Anecdote of his Private Life . 648 MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS. of Cuba, 275. Mr. Webster's letter on the delivery of fugitive slaves ; Reply of Hon. Horace Mann, 275. Prof. Stuart's pamph- let, 275. The Nashville Convention, 275. New Southern Paper at Washington, 275. Connecticut resolutions in favor of the Com- promise Bill, 375. Dinner to Senator Dick- enson, 275. Dinner to Hon. Edward Gil- bert, of California, 276. Constitutional con- ventions in Ohio ami Michigan; Governors Crittenden and Wright, 276. Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 276. Seizure of a vessel for violation of the neutality act, 276. Death of President Taylor; succes- sion of Mr. Fillmore, and the new Cabinet, 416. Release of the Contoy prisoners, 417. Incorrect rumor of an insult to the U. S. Minister to Spain, 417, 703. Fire in Phila- delphia, 417. Will saltpetre explode, 417. Cholera at the West, 417. Professor Web- ster's confession, 418. The Collins steam- ers, 418. Mr. Squier's researches in Central America, 418. Measures for a direct trade from the South to Liverpool, 418. Free School System in New York, 418. Medal to Colonel Fre'iiont, 418. U..S. Boundary Commission, 4 ' 3. State Convention in New Mexico, 419. Fourth of July Addresses a- various places, 420. Celebration of the Cap- ture of Stony Point, 420. AftMrs at Liberia, 420. American claims on Portugal, 424. Courtesies between the Corporations of Baf- fa!o and Toronto, 563. Suffering the growth of the Canada thistle made penal in Wis- consin, 5ti3. Report of the West Point Board of Visitors, 563. Project for shortening the passage of the Atlantic, 563. Gen. ttuit- man's letter, 702. Re-election of Mr. Rusk as Senator from Texas, indicating a disposi- tion to accept the U. 8. proposals, 702, Ar- rival of a Turkish Commissioner, 702. Changes in the Cabinet, 702. Mr. Conrad's letter to his constituents on the slavery question, 702. Execution of Prof. Webster, 703. Arrival of Jenny Lind, 703. Opening of the Gallery of the Art Union, 704. Pas- sage of the Pacific from Liverpool, the shortest ever mode, 707. Whig State Con- vention at Syracuse; Convention of the seceders atUtica; Letter of Washington Hunt, 849. Anti-Renters' convention at Albany, 849. Feeling at the South in rela- tion to the admission of California, 850. Hon. C. J. Jenkins on disunion, 850. New Collins steamers, Arctic and Baltic, 850 Property in N. Y. City, 850. Swedish col- ony in Illinois, 850. Working of the Fugi- tive Slave Bill, 850. Jenny Lind's con- certs, 850. New York a Catholic Arch- episcopal See, 850. The Boundary Bill in Texas; Mr. Kaufman's letter. 851. Policy of Government in relation to the transit of the Isthmus, 851. Earthquake at Cleve- land, 851. CONGRESSIONAL.— The Compromise Bill in the Senate, 275. Webster's speech on the Bill, 416. The Galpliin Claim. 416. Fi- MONTHLY RECORD— continued. Bill, 561. Protest of Southern Senators against the admission of California, 561. Proposals to Texas, in relation to the bound ary, 562. Discussion in the House on the Appropriation Bill, 562. President's Mes sage on Texas and New Mexico, with Web ster's letter to Gov. Bell, of Texas, 562. Nominations to the Cabinet, 563. Passage of the Texas Bill, and analysis of the votes, 700. Passage of the California Bill ; of the Fugitive Slave Bill ; of Bill abolishing the Slave trade in the District, 701. Passage of the Appropriation Bills, with provisions for abolishing flogging in the navy, and grant ing bounties to soldiers ; Adjournment of Congress, 849. ELECTIONS.— In Virginia for members of constitutional convention ; contest between the eastern and western sections, 463. In Missouri, partial success of the Whigs, 463. In North Carolina, success of the Demo crats, 463. In Indiana, giving the Demo crats the control of the legislature and con stitutional convention, 463. In Vermont, success of the Whigs, 703. Election of Hon. Solomon Foot as Senator, 850. CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, AND ORE GON. — Tax on foreigners, 276. Excitement at the delay of admission to the Union, 276. Riot at Panama, 276. Fires at San Fran- cisco, 419. Gold, 410. Indian hostilities, 419. Bill for the admission of California as a state into the Union, passed the Senate, and protest of Southern Senators, 561. Line of stages between Independence, Mo., and SantaFe, 563. Continueddiscoveriesofgold, San Francisco and China, 566. Humors of gold in Oregon, 566. Resignation of Gov. Lane, 566. News from the Boundary Com mission, 703. Disturbances on account of Slitter's claims, 705. Cholera on board steamers, 706. New rumors of gold in Oregoa, 706. Arrival of Senators from New Mexico ; conflict of authorities ; Indian out- rages, 706. State of affairs in California, np to Sept. 15, 851. In Oregon to Sept. 2, 852. MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA. — Presi- dential Election in Mexico, Cholera; Right of Way across the Isthmus, 418. Ravages of the Indians in Mexico, 566. Transit of the Isthmus; Opening of the Port of San Juan, 85!. Steamers proposed between Valparaiso and Panama, 851. LITERARY. — Agassiz and Smyth on the Unity of the Human Race; Address of Pro- fessor Lewis ; Bishop Hughes on Socialism. Walter Col ton's book on California; Profes- sor Davies's Logic and Utility of Mathe- matics, 276. Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Mansfield on American Education, 277. Do Quincey's writings: Poems by Lonsfellow, WMttier, and Lowell; Giles's Christian Thoughts on Life ; Bristed's Reply to Mann ; Gould's Comedy, The Very Age, 277. His- torical Society in Trinity College, Hartford, 420. March's Reminiscences of Congress, 564. Torrey's translation of Neander, 564. Life of Randolph, 565. Kendall'8 work on the Mexican War, 563. Commencement Exercises at various Colleges, 5G5. G. P . R". James's Lectures, 704. Andrews's Latin Lesicon, 704. Hildreth's new volume of American History, 705. Dr. Wain w right' a Our Saviour with Prophets and Apostles ; Miss Mclntosh's Eveoings at Donaldson Manor, 853. SCIENTIFIC. — Paine'a Water gas, 277, 564. Forshey's Essay on the deepening of the channelo'f the Mississippi, 563. Profes- sor Page's experiments in electro magnet- ism, 564. Mathiot'a experiment's at illu- minating with hydrogen, 564. Meeting of           MONTHLY RECORD— continued. Haven, 561. Astronomical Expedition un- der Lieutenant Gillis ; Humboldt's Notice of American Science, 705. PERSONAL.— Arrival of G. P. R. James, 419. Arrivalof Gen. Dembinski, 419. Em- erson, Preacott, Hudson, Garibaldi, 420. Hon. D. D. Barnard. 563. Henry Clay at Newport, 563. Intelligence from the Frank- lin Expedition, 564. Messrs. Lawrence and Rives at the Royal Agricultural Society, 567. Messrs. Duer, Spaulding, and Ashmun, de- cline re election to Congress, 702. Ammin Bey, 702. Jenny Lind, 703. Nomination of George N. Briggs for re election as Gov- ernor of Mass., 850. Hamlet the fugitive Slave, 850. Archbishop Hughes, 851. Bish- op Onderdonk, 851. G. P. B . James and the Whig Review, 853. DEATHS.— Adam Ramage; S.Margaret Fuller, 420. Commodore Jacob Jones, 563. Mr. Nes ; Professor Webster ; Dr. Judson ; Bishop H. B. Bascom; John Inman, 703. Gen. Herard, ex President of Haiti, 706. FOREIGN. ENGLAND.— Birth of Prince Arthur, 123. Mr. Gibson's motion in Parliament to abolish all taxes on knowledge; bearing of these excise on paper by the publisher of the " Greenock Newscloth," 124. Education Bill introduced, discussed, and postponed, 124. Defeat of ministers on unimportant measures, 124. Preparations for Industrial Exhibition, 125, 280, 852, 853. Expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin, 125, 855. The Russia and Austria in relation to British subjects, 278. University reform, 278. Im- prisonment of British colored seamen at Charleston, 278. Sinecures in the ecclesi- astical courts, 278. Motion in Parliament to give the Australian colonies the full man- agement of their own affairs, lost, 278. Bill passed reducing the parliamentary franchise in Ireland, and speech of Sir James Graham in its favor, 279. Various bills for Sanitary and Social reform, 279. Bill to abolish the Viceroyalty in Ireland, 280. Commission of inquiry into the state of the Universities, 280. Death of Sir Robert Peel, 420. Dis- cussions on the Greek question ; remarka- ble speeches of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, 421. Sunday labor in the Post office, 421. Bill lost for protecting free sugar; Infra mural interments Bill passed, 422. Assault on the Queen, 422. Wrecks in the Northern Atlantic ; wreck of the Orion, 422. The Rothschild case, 566. Foreign policy of ministers sustained, 566. Sundry Bills for social and political reform lost, 567. Grants to the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, 567. Explosion of a coal- mine, 567. Gen. Haynau mobbed, 706, Pro- rogation of Parliament, 706. Lord Brough- am's vagaries, 706. Extent of railways in Great Britain, 707. The Times and Gen. Haynau, 852. The Arctic Expedition, 852. Cotton in Siberia, 852. Lord Clarendon in Ireland, 852. Queen's University and the bishops, 852, 855. Shipwrecks, 853. The Sea Serpent in Ireland, 853. Punishment of naval ofliners for carelessness, 853. Amoant of Irish crop, 855. Cunnrrt steamers, 855. FRANCE. — Contest in Paris for election of Member of Assembly; election of Eugene Sue, 122. Mutiny in the llth Infantry, 123. Destruction, of the suspension bridge at An- gers, and terrible loss of life, 122. Arrest M.Proudhon,]23. Capture of Louis Pellet, a notorious murderer, 123. Bill for restrict- ing the suffrage, 283. Stringent proceedings against the Press, 283. Recall of the French embassador to England, 283. Increase voted to the salary of the President, 424. New MONTHLY RECORD — continued. noleon, 424. M. Tbiers's visit to Louis Phi lippe, 424. Tax on feuilletons, 569. The President's tour, 707. Death of Louis Phi lippe, and notice of his life, 708. Decision of a majority of the departments in favor of (t revision of the constitution, 709. Duel be tweenMM.ChavoisandDupont.711. Death of Balzac, and notice of Ma life and works, 711. The President's plans ; revision of the Constitution, 806. GERMANY. — Convocations at Frankfort and Berlin. 284. Attempt on the life of the King of Prussia, 284 Dissolution of the Saxon Chambers, and of the Wartemberg Diet, 424. Peace Convention at Frankfort, 424, 712. Restrictions on the Press in Prussia, 424. Fresh hostilities in Schles wig Hoi stein, Battle of Idstedt, 570. Proceedings of Austria, respecting the Act of Confedera tion, 712. Inundations in Belgium, 712. General Krogh rewarded by the Emperor of Russia for his bravery at the battle of Idstedt, 712. Extenaionof telegraphs, 855. Hungarian musicians expelled from Vienna, $55. Colossal statue completed, 855. Rev olutions in Hesse Caasel and Mecklenburg Schwerin, 856. ITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL. — The Pope's return, and adhesion to the Absolutists, 128. State of affairs in Italy, 284. Intrigues in Spain, 284. Rain after a five years' drought, 284. Explosion of a powder mill, 284. Claims of the United States on Por tugal, and consequent difficulties, 424, 569. Birth and death of an heir to the Spanish Crown, 569. Disturbances in Piedmont, 712. Disquiets in Rome, 712. Inundation in Lombardy, 855. Prisons at Naples, 855. INDIA, AND THE EAST. — Disturbances among the Affredies; their villages de- stroyed by Sir Charles Napier, 128. Ar- rangements of the Pasha of Egypt for shortening the passage across the desert, 128. Establishment of a new journal in China, 129. Permission granted the Jews for building a temple on Mount Zion, 129. University in New South Wales, 129. Ter- rible explosion at Benares, 570. Sickness at Canton, 570. The great diamond, 570. Revolt at Bantam, 570. Sulphur mines in Egypt, 856. LITERARY. — Postponement of the French Exhibition of Paintings, 129. Goethe's Ma- nuscripts, 423. Mr. Hartley's bequests set aside, 423. History of Spain, by St. Hilaire, 668. Sir Robert Peel's MSS., 568, 712. Miss Strickland's forthcoming LivesoftheUueeos of Scotland, 569. Balwer s new novel, 710. Copyright of foreigners, 710. Sale of the Paintings of the King of Holland, 710. La martine's Confidences, 710, Notice of Tick nor'8 Spanish Literature in the Morning Chronicle, 710. The North British Review, 711. Saleof the Barbarigo Gallery at Venice, 711. A new singer, 711. New edition of Owen's Works, 853. Copyrights paid to American Authors, 854. Theological Fac nicies in Germany, 854. Translation of Dante and Ovid into Hebrew, 854. Books issued, 126, 282, 422, 564, 710. SCIENTIFIC.— Papers read by Murchison and Lepsius before the Geological Society, 125. Before the Royal Society, by O'Brien, Farraday, and Mantell, 125. The Pdoro saui us, 125. Lead for statues, 126. Op- erations of Mr. Layard, 126, 280, 854. Dis- covery of ancient Roman coins in the Dachy of Oldenbnrgh, 128. Opening of the sub- marine telegraph between Dover and Ca- lais, 129. Experimental slips dropped from balloons, 129. Box Tunnel, London, 129. Transplantation of a full grown tree, 129. Glaas pipes for gas, 129. International vailwav commission, 129. Russian expe- dition for exploring Hie Northern Ural, 129.           MONTHLY RECORD— continued. periments on light and heat, 281. Discov ery of a new comet, 281. Unswathing a mummy, 423. Society for investigating epidemics; for observations in Meteorology, 423. Depredations on Assyrian and Egypt- ian antiquities, 568. Apparatus to render sea water drinkable, 568. Improved mode of producing iron, 569. Prof. .Tohnston on American Agriculture, 5fi9. Telegraphic wire between Dover and Calais, 711. Iron unsuitable for vessels of war, 853. New submarine telegraph, 8.13. The atmopyre, 854. A new star, 854. The Britannia bridge, 855. Ascent of Mount Blanc, 855. SOCIAL. — Great project for agricultural emigration, 129. English criminal cases, 129. Building for the Industrial exhibition, 567. Lord Campbell on the Sunday Letter Bill, 707. Extension of the Franchise in Ireland, 707, Introduction of laborers into the West Indies, 707. Tenant right confer ence in Dublin, 707. Peace Congress at Frankfort, 424, 712. PERSONAL. —Monument to Jeffrey, 125. Absence of mind of Bowles, 133. Degree of Doctor of Music conferred upon Meyer- beer, 422. Gutzlaff, Corbould, Gibson, 422. B aptism of the infant prince, 422. Accident to Rogers, 423. Monument to Wordsworth, 423. Sir Robert Peel's injunction to his family not to accept titles or pensions, 567, Barral and Bixio's balloon ascent, and Poitevin's horseback ascent, 568. Poverty of Guizot, 568. Meinhold fined for libel, 569, Guizot's refusal to accept a seat in the Council of Public Instruction, 569. Bulwer a candidate for the House of Commons : his new play, 569. Ovation to Leibnitz nnd Humboldt, 569. Haynau mobbed, 706. Movements of the Q.ueen, 707. Duel be- tween MM. Chavoix and Dnpont, 711. Viscount Fielding embraces Catholicism, 855. Prospective liberation of Kossnth, 855. DEATHS.— Wordsworth, Bowles, 125; Sir James Bat hurst, Madams Duicken, Sir Archibald Galloway, Admiral Hills, Dr. Prout, Madnrae Tussaud, 127; Dr. Potts, inventor of the hydraulic pile driver, 129 Gay Lussac, 282; M. P. Sonyet, the Empe ror of China, Earl of Roscommon, Sir James Sutherland, Mrs. Jeffrey, 283 ; Sir Robert Peel, 420; Duke of Cambridge, 422; Dr. Burns, Dr. Gray, Rev. W. Kirby, B. Sim mons, 568; Neander, 5fi9; Louis Philippe, 708; Balzac. 711 ; Sir Martin Archer Shee, 711. Gale the aeronaut, 854. Moorish Domestic Life ................ 161 Morning in Spring .................... 87 Moscow after the Conflagration ......... 137 Mrs. Hemans ........................ 116 My Novel ; or Varieties in English Life. BY SIK EDWARD BULWER LYTTON 659, 761 My Wonderful Adventures in Skltzland . . 258 NeanJer. A Biographical Sketch ...... 510 Obstructions to the use of the Telescope . 699 Ode to the Sun. By HWNT ............ 189 Papers on Water, Ho. 1 ............... 50 Physical Education ................... 106 Peace (Poetry). By CHAS. DRYDEN .... 194 Pilgrimage to the Home of S=r Thomas More. By Mrs. S. C. HALL, ........ 289 Portrait of Charles I. By VANDYCK ..... 137 Poverty of the English Bar ............ 218 Presence of Mind. By DE QUINCEY .... 467 Rapid Growth of America ............. 237 Recollections of Dr. Chalmers .......... 3S3 Recollections of Eminent Men. By LEIGH HUNT.. ......................... 181 Recollections of Thomas Campbell ...... 345 Scenery on the Erie Railroad .......... 213 Scenes in Egypt ...................... 210 Shooting Stars and Meteoric Showers . . . 439 Short Cuts Across the Globe ........... 79 Singular Proceedings of the Sand Wasp. By WILLIAM HOWITT ........... .... 592 Sir Robert Peel. A Biographical Sketch 405 Sketches of English Character — The Old Squire — The Young Squire. By WIL LIAM HOWITT ...................... 460 Sketches of Life. By a Radical ........ 803 Snakes and Serpent Charmers .......... 680 Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth ..... 218 Sonetto ............................. 72 Sophistry of Anglers. By LEIGH HUNT . . 164 Sorrows and Joys (Poetry) ............. C27 Spider's Silk ......................... 824 Sponges ............................. 406 Steam. .............................. 50 Steam Bridge of the Atlantic ........... 411 Story of a Kite ....................... 750 Summer Pastime (Poetry) ............. 524 Sydney Smith ........................ 584 Sydney Smith on Moral Philosophy ..... 107 Terrestrial Magnetism ................ 651 The American Revolution. By GUIZOT . 178 The Appetite for News ............... 249 The Approach of Christmas (Poetry) .... 454 The Australian Colonies ............... 118 The Blind Sister. ..................... 826 The Brothers Cheeryhle ............... 551 The Chapel by the Shore .............. 74 The Character of Burns. By ELLIOTT . . 114 The Chemistry of a Candle ............ 524 The Circassian Priest Warrior and his White Horse (Poetry) ............... 98 The Communist Sparrow — An Anecdote of Cuvier.......................... 317 The Corn Law Rhymer ............... 135 The Countess ........................ 816 The Death of an Infant (Poetry) ........ 183 The Disasters of a Man who wouldn't trust his Wife. By WILLIAM HOWITT ..... 512 The Doom of the Slaver ............... 846 The Enchanted Baths ................. 139 The Enchanted Rock ................. 639 The English Peasant. By HOWITT ..... 483 The E very-Day Married Lady. . ........ 777 The Every-Day Young Lady ........... 742 The Flower Gatherer ................. 78 The Force of Fear .................... 640 The Genius of George Sand. The Com edy of Francois le Champi ........... 95 The Gentleman Beggar. An Attorney's Story ............................. 588 The German Meistersingers ........... 81 The Haunted House in Charnwood Forest 472 The Household Jewels (Poetry) ........ 692 The Iron Ring..., .................... 8118 The Laboratory in the Chest ........... 6 73 The Light of Home. .................. 542 The Literary Profession — Authors and Publishers ......................... 54$ The little Hero of Haarlem............. 414 The Magie Maze ........... ........ 684 The Mania for Tulips in Holland ........ 758     The Miner's Daughters. A Talc of the Peak .............................. 150 The Modern Argonauts (Poetry) ........ 120 The Mother's First Duty ............... 105 The Mysterious Preacher .............. 452 The Old Church-yard Tree — A Prose-poem 483 The Old Man's Bequest. A Slory of Gold 387 The Old Well in Languedoc ............ 521 The Oldest Inhabitant of the Place dc G reve 742 The Orphan's Voyage Home (Poetry) . . . 272 The Paris Election .................... 116 The Planet- Watchers of Greenwich ...... 233 The Pleasures of Illness ............... 697 The Pope at Home again .............. 117 The Power of Mercy .................. 395 The Prodigal's Return. ................ 836 The Quakers during the American War. By HowrrT........................ 595 The Railway (Poetry) ................. 826 The Railway Station (Poetry) .......... 163 The Railway Works at Crewe .......... 408 The Return of Pope Pius IX. to Rome. . . 90 The Rev. William Lisle Bowles ......... 86 The Salt Mines of Europe ............. 759 The Schoolmaster of Coleridge and Lamb. By LEIGH HUNT .................... 207 The Snowy Mountains in New Zealand . . 65 The State of the World before Adam .... 754 The Steel Pen. Illustration of Cheapness 677 The Sun.................... ...... ... 689 The Tea Plant ....................... 693 The Two Guides of the Child ........... 672 The Two Thompsons .................. 479 The Young Advocate. ................. 304 The Uses of Sorrow (Poetry) ........... 193 The Wahr-Wolf ...................... 797 The Wife of Kong Tolv. A Fairy Tale 324 Thomas Babington Macaulay. .......... 130 Thomas Carlyle. By GEORGE GILFILLAN . 586 Thomas de Quincey, the " English Opium Eater" ............................ 145 Thomas Moore. . ..................... 248 Trial and Execution of Mad. Roland .... 732 Truth............................... 137 Tunnel of tho Alps. .................... 77 Two-handed Dick, the Stockman. A Tale of Adventure in Australia. ........... 190 Ugliness Redeemed — A Tale of a London Dust-Heap ........................ 455 Unsectarian Education in England. ...... 100 Villainy Outwitted .................... 781 Wallace and Fawdon (Poetry). By LEIGH HUNT............................. 400 What becomes of all the clever Children ? . 402 What Horses Think of Men. From the Raven in the Happy Family. ......... 593 When the Summer Comes ............. 780 William H. Preseott. .................. 138 William Pitt- By S. T. COLERIDGE ..... 202 William Wordsworth .................. 103 Vnmen in the East. ................... 10 W..rk ! An Anecdote ................. 88 W'*Js worth —His Character and Genius. By GEORCE GILFILLAN .............. 577 Wordsworth's Posthumous Poem ........ 546 Writing for Periodicals ................ 553 Young Poet's Plaint. By EI.LIOTT. ..... 113 Young Rus&ia — State of Society in the Russian Empire .................... 269 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.   PORTRAIT OF ARCHIBALD ALISON ............................. .......... 134 PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. ......................... 136 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT ..................................... 138 THE PYRAMIDS .............................................................210 SECTION OF THE GREAT PYRAMID ........................................ 211 THE GREAT HALL AT KARNAK ........................................... 212 VIEW FROM PIERMONT (ERIE RAILROAD) .................................... 213 VALLEY OF THE NEVERSINK (FROM THE E«i» RAILROAD).. ................... 214 STARUCCA VIADUCT (ERIE RAILROAD) ....................................... 813 PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS MORE ......................................... 289 BOX CONTAINING THE SKULL OF MORE. .................................. 289 CLOCK HOUSE AT CHELSE A ............................................... 290 HOUSE OF SIR THOMAS MORE. ............................................ 292 CHELSEA CHURCH .......................................................... 293 TOMB OF SIR THOMAS MORE ............................................... 294 HOUSE OF ROPER, MORE'S SON-IN-LAW. ................................... 295 SIR THOMAS MORE AND HIS DAUGHTER .................................. 296 PORTRAIT OF Z ACHARY TAYLOR ......................................... 298 PORTRAIT OF JANE PORTER ............................................... 433 JANE PORTER'S COTTAGE AT ESHER ..................................... 437 TOMB OF JANE PORTER'S MOTHER. ....................................... 438 SHOOTING STARS (Six ILLUSTRATIONS) .........................................439 INITIAL LETTER. METEORIC SHOWERS IN GREENLAND. METEORS AT THE FALLS of NIAGARA. FALLING STARS AMONG THE CORDILLERAS. THE NOVEMBER METEORS. DIAGRAM. ME ANDER IN THE LECTURE ROOM ....................................... 510 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ................................... 577 WORDSWORTH'S HOME AT RYDAL MOUNT ............................... 581 PORTRAIT OF SYDNEY SMITH ............................................. 584 PORTRAIT OF THOMAS C ARLYLE ......................................... 586 REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIALS (FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS) ...................... 721 INITIAL LETTER. MONUMENT AT CONCORP. MONUMENT AT LEXINGTON. NEAR VIEW OF LEXINGTON MONUMENT. PORTRAIT OF JONATHAN HABRINGTON. WASHING- TOM'S HEAD-QUARTERS AT CAMBRIDGE. THE RIEDESEL HOUSE AT CAMBRIDGE. AUTO GRAPH OF THE BARONESS RIEDESEL. BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. CHANTREY'S STATUE of WASHINGTON. MATHER'S VAULT. HANDWRITING OF COTTON MATHER. SPEAEER'S DESK AND WINTHROP'S CHAIR. PHILIP'S SAMP-PAN. CHURCH'S SWORD. PORTRAIT OP MADAME ROLAND. ......................................... 732 FASHIONS FOR EARLY SUMMER (Six ILLUSTRATIONS) ........................ 143 BALL AND VISITING DRESSES. STRAW HATS FOR PROMENADE. STRAW BONNET. TULIP BONNET. LACE JACQUETTE. FASHIONS FOR SUMMER (THESE ILLUSTRATIONS) ............................. 287 CARRIAGE COSTUME. BRIDAL DRESS. RIDING DRESS. FASHIONS FOR LATER SUMMER (FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS) ....................... 437 PROMENADE DRESS. PELERINES. LITTLE GIRL'S COSTUME. HOME DRESS. BALL DRESS. FASHIONS FOR EARLY AUTUMN (FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS) ....................... 573 PROMENADE DBESS. COSTUME FOR A YOUNO LADY. MORNING CAPS. MORNING COSTUME. FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN (THREE ILLUSTRATIONS) .............................. 718 EVENING COSTUME. MORNING COSTUME. PROMENADE DRESS. FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER (THREE ILLUSTRATIONS) ........................... 863 PROMENADE AND CARRIAGE COSTUME. MORNING COSTUME OPERA COSTUME Place a Bid!