The Project Gutenberg EBook of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 Author: Various Release Date: May 26, 2014 [EBook #45764] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY, JUNE 1852 *** Produced by Richard Tonsing, David Kline, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at the University of Michigan's Making of America collection.) 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. [Pg i] [Pg ii] 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 [Pg iii] 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; Negro 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 [Pg iv] 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. [Pg v] Life of Kirby; Longman's Announcements; Life of Lord Langdale; Wellington's Executor; Memoir of Dr. Pye Smith; Mary Howitt's New Juvenile Magazine; Niebuhr's Lectures; Oersted's Soul of Nature; Forthcoming Works by Tennyson, Thackeray, and Author of the Bachelor of Albany, 139. Ronge; Resignation of Professor Wilson; Demand for old Books in America; Criticisms on the Howadji; Leigh Hunt's Illness; Lady Morgan on a Monument to Moore; Emerson in French; Forgeries of Talleyrand's Letters, 140. Caudle Lectures; Anthon's Anabasis; Ik. Marvel; Resignation of Prof. Wilson; Candidates for his Chair, 279. Milton's Agreement for Paradise Lost; Cassagnac's [OE]uvres Litteraires; Fleury's Portraits Politiques et Révolutionnaires; Grimm's German Dictionary; MS. of Rempen; Leipzig Easter Catalogue, 280. Church Historians of England; Macdougall's Papers; Sermons by the Author of Alton Locke; Translation of Plato's Republic; Life of Moir; Life of Chalmers; Monument to Mackintosh; Literary Fund Anniversary; Notice of Sterling, 424. Queechy; The English Press on Curtis's Books; Authorship of the "Imitation of Christ," 425. The Germans on Margaret Fuller; Wagner's Scientific Expedition to America; Amulet of Byron; Prof. Lichtenstein; Medal to Swedenborg; Swedish Books; St. Hilaire's Resignation; St. Beauve's Causeries du Lundi; Dramatic Literature in France, 426. Signor Volpe's Lectures on the Italian Poets; Miss Lothrop's Dollars and Cents; Proposed Foreign Members of the Council of the Royal Society; Jared Sparks and Lord Mahon. Prof. Grimm on the English Language, 566. James Russell Lowell and American Literature; Lamartine's Constituent Assembly; Works by the Countess D'Orsay and Marquis de Foudres, 567. New Literary Society in France; New Editions of Buffon and Cuvier, Thiers's New Works; New Italian Books; Printing in England, Germany, and France; Oehlenschlager's and Temminck's Successors; Browning and Hawthorne in Germany; German Juvenile Literature; Edinburgh Review on Niebuhr's Life and Letters, 568. Literary Pensions, 714. Cyclopæedia Biographica; Stiles's Austria; Webster's Dictionary, Guizot's Republic in England, Relic of Burns; Translation of Gorgey's Memoirs, Chalmers's Correspondence; Macaulay's new Volume Gervinus's South American Republics: Lamartine's Sixth Volume of the Restoration; Resigning French Professors; European Litterateurs, 715. Saint Theresa's Works; George Sand; Buffon; New Edition of Luther's Works; German Publications, 716. Retrospective Review; Webster's Dictionary; Coleridge's Dramatic Works; Sonnet by Hartley Coleridge; Julian Fane; Lord Mahon and Mr. Sparks, 860. Professor Ferrier; Lang's New South Wales; Deacon's Annette; Merle D'Aubigne's new Volume; Statues to St. Pierre and Delavigne; New Members of the British Association, 860. OBITUARIES. John Young; B. B. Edwards; Solomon Van Rensselaer; James A. Meriwether; Bishop Heading, 118. Dr. Pfaff, 280. Henry Clay, 402. M. Burnouf, 568. Marshal Excelmans, 698. Tony Johannot; Count D'Orsay; Gen. Gourgeaud; Dr. Wulfsberg, 716. Bishop Chase; Vanderlyn the Painter; Dr. McGuire, 835. The Duke of Wellington, 836. Herbert Mayo; Dr. Macgillivray; Napoleon Landais; M. Dize; Dr. Stieffel; Pompeo Litta, 860. Little French Beggars 537 Little Wood Gatherers 529 Memoirs of the Holy Land. By Jacob Abbott 289, 433, 577, 721 Memory and its Caprices 634 Midnight Mass in the Reign of Terror 340 Miser's Life and Death 222 Monsters of Faith 657 Monthly Record of Current Events. UNITED STATES. Congressional Caucuses, 116. Congressional Doings: Miscellaneous, 116, 255, 403, 543, 692; Intervention, 116; Collins Steamers, 116, 255, 543; Resolutions on the Compromise, 117; Japanese Expedition, 117; Free Land Bill, 255; Debate on the Fisheries, 544, 692; New Postage Law, 692; Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 694; Adjournment, 692. Adjournment of New York Legislature, 117. Whig Convention in Virginia, 117. Election in Connecticut, 117. Election in Rhode Island, 117. Mr. Webster on the Compromise, 117. Gen. Scott nominated by Whigs in N. Y. Legislature, 118. Whigs in North Carolina, 118. Floods at the West, 118. Steamboat Disasters, 118. Letter from Mr. Clay respecting Kossuth, 118. Kossuth, 118, 257, 403. California: Miscellaneous, 119, 257, 403, 546, 695; Governor's Message respecting Chinese, 257; Chinamen, 403; Affray in Court, 545. Correspondence with Hulsemann, 255. Democratic Convention at Baltimore, and Nomination of Pierce and King, 256. Mr. Webster in Boston, 256, 544. New York Canal Law pronounced unconstitutional, 256. State Convention in South Carolina, 256. Maine Law in Massachusetts, 257. Anniversary Week, 257. Presbyterian General Assemblies, 256. Arrival of Meagher, 257. Whig Convention at Baltimore, and Nomination of Scott and Graham, 402. Agricultural Convention, 403. Art-Union a Lottery, 403. Arrival of Alboni, 403. Indian and Mexican Disturbances in Texas, 403. New Mexico, 404. Utah, 404, 545. Oregon, 696. Mr. Webster on [Pg vi] the Fishery Question, 543. Lundy Lane Celebration, 544. Native American Nominations, 544. Case of Messrs. Stephens, Toombs, and others, 544. Case of Thomas Kaine, 544. Destruction of Life on board the Steamer Henry Clay, 544. Guano Question, 693. New Constitution for Louisiana, 695. Loss of Life on board the Steamer Atlantic, 695; and on board the Reindeer, 645. Free Democratic Convention at Pittsburgh, and Nomination of Hale and Julian, 695. Agricultural Convention of Southern States, 695. Floods in the Northwest, 696. Nominations in New York, 833. Liberty Party Nominations, 833. Webster Meeting in Boston, 833. Nominations in Massachusetts, 833. Mr. Hale's Acceptance, 833. Women's Rights Convention, 833. Elections in Vermont and Maine, 833. Southern Rights Nominations, 833. Odd Fellow's Meeting, 833. General Scott, at the West, 833. Dinner to Mr. Baring, 834. Mr. Graham's Letter, 834. Mr. Benton on the Tehuantepec Question, 834. Consul Rice, 834. Minister to England, 834. Anti- Rent Outrage, 834. The India-Rubber Case, 834. Billy Bowlegs, 835. Concerts, 835. Episcopal Bishop of New York, 835. Methodist Book Concern, 835. The Fisheries, 835. Canadian Intelligence, 835. SOUTHERN AMERICA. Mexico: Miscellaneous, 120, 257, 404, 545, 697, 836. Rejection of the Tehuantepec Treaty, 120, 257. Remonstrances of European Powers, 120. Laws respecting Foreigners, 120. Difficulties at Acapulco, 120, 404, 545. President's Address, 404. Tehuantepec Question, 836.—South America: Affairs in Buenos Ayres, 257, 405, 696, 836. Executions in Chili, 257, 405. Yellow Fever in Brazil, 257, 836. Expedition of Flores, 258, 696, 836. Message of the President of Ecuador, 258. New Ministry in Peru, 546. Argentine Republic, 696, 836. Affairs in Brazil, 696. Military Preparations in Peru, 836.—Cuba: New Conspiracies, 696. Hostile Proceedings, 836.—South Seas: Miscellaneous, 119, 257. American Products free of Duty, 119. Eruption of Mauna Loa, 119. Revolt in Society Islands, 257, 546. Capture of American Vessel at the Galapagos, 546. GREAT BRITAIN. Miscellaneous, 120, 260, 405. Undecided Course of the Ministers, 120. Protection, 120. Loss of the Birkenhead, 120. The Crystal Palace, 120, 260, 697. Rumors of Sir John Franklin's Vessels, 121. Gold in Australia, 121. Meeting of Parliament, 258. Parliamentary Proceedings: Debate on India, 258; on Duties on Paper and Advertisements, 258; on the Militia Bill, 258, 405, 546; on Disfranchisement, 258; Tenant Right Bill, 259; Case of Mr. Murray, 259; The Chancellor's Budget, 259; Proposed Criminal Convention with France, 405; English Missionaries in Austria, 546; Chancery Reform, 546; Debate on Course of Ministry, 546; Prorogation, and Queen's Speech, 546. Royal Academy Dinner, 259. Dispute among Booksellers, 259. Starvation of Missionaries in Patagonia, 260. Petition for Pardon of Irish Exiles, 260. Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby on Protection, 405. Lord John Russell to his Constituents, 405. Case of Mr. Mather, 405. Irish Exhibition, 406. Proclamation against Catholic Ceremonies, 406. Elections for New Parliament, 547, 697. Royal Agricultural Society Dinner, 547. Riot at Stockport, 547. Emigration to Australia, 547, 697. Mazzini, 547. The Fishery Question, 697. Kossuth in England, 697. The Fisheries in the Colonies, 835. Canadian Politics, 836. Death of the Duke of Wellington, with a Sketch of his Life, 837. Report of the Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, 837. The Guano Question, 838. FRANCE. Meeting of the Legislative Bodies, and President's Speech, 121. The Budget, 121. Taking the Oaths, 121. Organization of the National Guard, 122. Reconstitution of the University, 122. Orleans Estates, 122, 261, 548. The Swiss Refugee Question, 122. The May Fêtes, 260. Charge by General Changarnier against the President, 260. Counter-charges against Changarnier by M. Cassagnac, 260. Refusal of Lamoriciere and Arago to take the Oaths, 261. Letter from the Count de Chambord, 261. Views of the Three Powers on the Empire, 261, 406, 698. Sale of Marshal Soult's Pictures, 262. Difficulties of the Press, 406. Message of the President, 547. Discussion on the Budget, 547. Executions, 548. Opening of the Strasbourg Railway, 697. Change in the Ministry, 697. Odilon Barrot abandons Public Life, 697. Recall of Exiles, 697. Indifference at Elections, 697. Fête of Napoleon's Birthday, 698. Anniversary of the Capture of the Bastille, 838. Petitions for the Establishment of the Empire, 838. President's Speech at Lyons, 838. French Press on the Duke of Wellington, 838. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE. Austria: Death of Schwarzenberg, and Formation of New Ministry, 122. Batthyani's Estates, 122. New Restraints on the Press, 406. Return of the Emperor from Hungary, 698. Deficit in the Revenue, 698. The Crown of St. Stephen, 838.—Prussia: Famine in Silesia, 122. Debate on abolishing the Constitution, 262. Settlement of the Danish Succession, 262. The Zollverein, 838. The Cholera, 838.—Netherlands: Railroad Amalgamation, 698. Speech of King of Holland, 837.—Affairs in Switzerland, 698.—Spain: Dismissal of Concha, 122. Postal Convention with Austria, 838—Italy: Abolition of the Constitution in Tuscany 262. Arrests in Venice and Mantua, 698. Funeral of Mazzini's Mother, 698. Restrictions on Petitions in Piedmont, 698. Closing of Protestant School in Naples, 698. Envoy from England, 838. Conspiracy, 838. Eruption of Etna, 838.—Greece: Case of Dr. King, 122, 698, 838.—Turkey: [Pg vii] [Pg viii] Reinstatement of Reshid Pacha, 122. Settlement of the Egyptian Question, 262, 838. New Discoveries in Nineveh, 698. My Brother Tom 526 My Little French Friend 227 My Novel; or Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, 36, 179, 377, 494, 669, 813 Napoleon Bonaparte. By J. S. C. Abbott, 11, 162, 304, 609 Notes from the Barbary States 451 Number Nineteen in our Street 663 Ocean Life. By J. S. C. Abbott 61 Ostriches—How they are Hunted 177 Palaces of France. By J. S. C. Abbott, 304, 596, 739 Panther Hunt 481 Personal Habits and Appearance of Robespierre 345 Philosophy of Laughter 253 Posthumous Portrait 775 Prison Scene in the Reign of Terror 82 Record of a Madness not Insanity 212 Reminiscence of a Bow-street Officer 483 Results of an Accident.—The Gum Secret 225 Satisfaction of a Gentleman 783 Short Chapter on Rats 686 Soldier's First Battle 632 Stories about Beasts and Birds 219 Swept away by an Avalanche 788 Tale of Mid Air 218 The Ant or Emmet 540 The Counter-Stroke 248 The Ghost Raiser 106 The Incendiary 352 The Last Revel 69 The Little Gray Gossip 185 The Mourner and the Comforter 187 The Salamander 763 The Three Sisters 473 The Two Sisters 347 Three Visitors of Saint Pierre 108 Too Exclusive Attention to Business 504 Ventriloquism 351 What the Sunbeam Does 210 Who Murdered Downie 625 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE [Pg ix] [Pg x] 1. Auld Robin Gray.—The Courtship 1 2. Death of Auld Robin Gray 3 3. Franconia Notch 4 4. Profile Mountain 5 5. The Old Man of the Mountain 6 6. Eagle Cliff 7 7. Eastern Front of Profile Mountain 8 8. The Basin 9 9. The Flume 10 10. View on the Pemigewasset 11 11. Map of Marengo 13 12. Drawing a Gun over Great St. Bernard 15 13. Napoleon Ascending the Alps 17 14. Passing the Fort of Bard 18 15. Napoleon planning a Campaign 24 16. Map of Hohenlinden 26 17. Death at Hohenlinden 27 18. The Infernal Machine 29 19. Starting of an Ocean Steamer 61 20. The Visit at the Brickmaker's 93 21. In Re Guppy:—Extraordinary Proceedings 101 22. Smoking at a Railway Station 141 23. The Childish Teetotal Movement 142 24. Deference to the Sex 142 25. Costumes for June 143 26. Full Dress for Evening 144 27. Caps 144 28. The Armory at Springfield 145 29. The Middle Water Shops 147 30. The Welding Room 148 31. Straightening the Barrels 150 32. Grinding the Barrels 155 33. Exterior of the Proving House 154 31. Interior of the Proving House 155 35. Testing the Bayonets 155 36. The Blacksmith's Shop 156 37. Assembling the Musket 158 38. The New Arsenal 159 39. Quarters of the Commanding Officer 160 40. Mr. Guppy's Desolation 243 41. The Family Portraits at Mr. Badger's 246 42. Illustration of Humbug 281 43. Maine-Law Petitioners 282 44. Anti-Maine-Law Petitioners 283 45. Articles on Hand at Matrimonial Office 284 46. Favorite Investments 285 47. An Agreeable Partner 285 48. Delicacy 286 49. The Dog-Days 286 50. Costumes for July 287 51. Bonnet 288 52. Carriage Costume 288 53. Cap 288 54. Sleeve 288 55. View of Mount Carmel 289 56. Map of Mount Carmel 289 57. Map of Mount Carmel and Bay of Acre 291 58. Defense of Acre 292 59. Horseman of Acre 293 60. The Ascent of the Mountain 295 61. The Discovery of Glass 296 62. Elijah and the Gardener 297 63. The Hermits of Mount Carmel 300 64. The Elijah of the Basilians 301 65. The Authorized Elijah 302 66. The Serpent 302 67. The Panther 303 68. Napoleon's Reception at the Tuileries 310 69. Malmaison 311 70. Election for Consul for Life 312 71. Napoleon and the British Embassador 314 72. Review at Lyons 317 73. Sea Combat 318 74. The Louvre 321 75. Inner Court of the Louvre 322 76. The Tuileries 325 77. Grand Avenue of the Tuileries 327 78. The Dancing Room 362 79. Consecrated Ground 376 80. Mr. Bull's Ideas on the Musquito Question 427 81. Young New York Hard Up 428 82. A Victim of the Tender Passion 428 83. A Striking Expression 429 84. Scene in a Fashionable Ladies' Groggery 429 85. Rather a bad Look-out 430 86. The Attentive Husband in August 430 87. Costumes for August 431 88. Bonnet of Taffeta and Blond 432 89. Bonnet of Tulle and Taffeta 432 90. Bonnet of Tulle, Blond, and Taffeta 432 91. Source of the Jordan 433 92. Map of the Jordan 434 93. The Grapes of Eshcol 436 94. The Return of the Spies 437 95. The Crossing of Jordan 438 96. En Rogel 440 97. The Well 440 98. The Landing at Haifa 443 99. The Caravan 444 100. The Cascades 446 101. The Encampment 447 102. The Bowl 450 103. Portrait of the Bey of Tunis 451 104. Moorish Costumes 454 105. Military Costume at Tunis 454 106. The Bazaar 456 107. Barber's Shop 458 108. Moorish School 459 109. The Bastinado 462 110. Japanese Portraits 489 111. Caddy's Flowers 510 112. The Little Church in the Park 515 113. A Great Nuisance 569 114. Tea Room—Before Tea 570 115. Tea Room—After Tea 571 116. A Midsummer Night's Dream 572 117. Blow like sweet Roses 572 118. All Places yield to him 573 119. Speak to him, Ladies 573 120. A Superfluous Question 574 121. Costumes for September 575 122. Walking Dress 576 123. Home Costume 576 124. Departure of Lot from Sodom 579 125. The Plain 580 126. The Valley of Arabah 581 127. Map of the Dead Sea 582 128. Caves of Engedi 583 129. The Descent 584 130. The Cavern of Usdum 586 131. The Ford 588 132. Turahbeh 591 133. The Leveling Party 594 134. Death of Costigan 595 135. Plan of Versailles 597 136. Louis XIV 598 137. Old Chateau of Versailles 599 138. Court Entrance at Versailles 600 [Pg xi] 139. Death of Louis XIV 601 140. Louis XIV. hunting 603 141. Madame Maintenon 604 142. Cascades of Versailles 606 143. Fountain of Fame 607 144. Fountain of the Star 609 145. Fountain of the Pyramid 608 146. Parterre of Versailles 608 147. The Grand Trianon 609 148. Scene in the Louvre 610 149. Arrest of Cadoudal 612 150. Arrest of the Duke D'Enghien 614 151. Napoleon's Hut at Boulogne 616 152. Execution of the Duke D'Enghien 618 153. Madame Polignac interceding for her Husband 620 154. Mr. Guppy's Entertainment 640 155. The Smallweed Family 645 156. Throne of the Mighty 717 157. But in thy Lineaments I trace 717 158. The Dog and his Enemies 718 159. Four Scenes in a Dog's Life 718 160. Costumes for October 719 161. Girl's Toilet 720 162. Cap 720 163. The Cedars of Lebanon 721 164. Evergreens in the Forest 724 165. Evergreens in the Field 724 166. The Workmen in the Mountains 725 167. The Caravans 725 168. Map of Sources of Jordan 726 169. The Two Strangers 727 170. The Abduction of the Idols 728 171. The Terebinth at Banias 730 172. The Ruins 732 173. Hasbeiyah 732 174. Commerce of the Druses 733 175. Fakardin a Fugitive 734 176. The Presents 735 177. Ruins of Baalbec 736 178. Preparations for a Journey 737 179. Visiting the Cedars 738 180. Palace of St. Germain 749 181. Convent of St. Jacques 740 182. St. Germain from the Terrace 741 183. Interior of St. Denis 741 184. Christening of the Dauphin 742 [Pg xii] 185. Church of St. Denis 743 186. Palace of St. Cloud 744 187. Palace of Fontainebleau 745 188. Court-Yard of Fontainebleau 746 189. Paris from Nôtre Dame 749 190. Shopping in Paris 750 191. Marriage by the Magistrate 750 192. Marriage by the Priest 751 193. Through the Rain 752 194. Business before Pleasure 752 195. The Bow Audacious 754 196. Bows, Natural and Stiff 754 197. Bows, Proud and Sad 754 198. Bows, Gallant, and not Uncommon 754 199. Bows, Unquiet and Miserable 754 200. Bows, Good-Natured and Insulting 755 201. Bows, Benevolent and Cold 755 202. Bows, Humiliating and Humble 755 203. Church of the Madeleine 756 204. On the Boulevards 757 205. Cafés on the Boulevards 757 206. Maison du Grand Balcon 758 207. Boulevard Montmartre 758 208. Boulevard du Temple 758 209. Hebrew Quarter 759 210. The Column of July 759 211. The Quay of the Louvre 761 212. Floating Wash-Houses 761 213. Aristocratic Bathing-House 761 214. Baths for Four Sous 761 215. A Comfortable Bath 762 216. Swimming School 762 217. Hair-dressing and Corn-cutting 763 218. Bathing Costume For Ladies 763 219. In the Bath 763 220. Ready for the Bath 763 221. A Model of Parental Deportment 795 222. Improving a Tough Subject 807 223. Some Punkins 861 224. Advice to the Poor Gratis 861 225. A Natural Consequence 862 226. Proper Prudence 862 227. Costume for November (Equestrian) 863 228. Walking Toilet 864 229. Cap 864 [Pg 1] HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. XXV.—JUNE, 1852.—Vol. V. AULD ROBIN GRAY AULD ROBIN GRAY. When the sheep are in the fauld, when the cows come hame, When a' the weary warld to quiet rest are gane; The woes of my heart fa' in showers frae my ee, Unken'd by my gudeman, who soundly sleeps by me. Young Jamie loo'd me weel, and sought me for his bride; But saving ae crown piece, he'd naething else beside, To make the crown a pound, my Jamie gaed to sea; And the crown and the pound, O they were baith for me! Before he had been gane a twelvemonth and a day, My father brak his arm, our cow was stown away; My mother she fell sick—my Jamie was at sea— And Auld Robin Gray, oh! he came a-courting me. My father cou'dna work—my mother cou'dna spin; I toil'd day and night, but their bread I cou'dna win; Auld Rob maintain'd them baith, and, wi' tears in his ee, Said, "Jenny, oh! for their sakes, will you marry me?" My heart it said na, and I looked for Jamie back; [Pg 2] But hard blew the winds, and his ship was a wrack: His ship it was a wrack! Why didna Jamie dee? Or, wherefore am I spar'd to cry out, Woe is me! My father argued sair—my mother didna speak, But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break; They gied him my hand, but my heart was in the sea; And so Auld Robin Gray, he was gudeman to me. I hadna been his wife, a week but only four, When mournfu' as I sat on the stane at my door, I saw my Jamie's ghaist—I cou'dna think it he, Till he said, "I'm come hame, my love, to marry thee!" O sair, sair did we greet, and mickle say of a'; Ae kiss we took, nae mair—I bad him gang awa. I wish that I were dead, but I'm no like to dee; For O, I am but young to cry out, Woe is me! I gang like a ghaist, and I carena much to spin, I darena think o' Jamie, for that wad be a sin. But I will do my best a gude wife aye to be, For Auld Robin Gray, oh! he is sae kind to me, THE CONTINUATION. The wintry days grew lang, my tears they were a' spent; May be it was despair I fancied was content. They said my cheek was wan; I cou'dna look to see— For, oh! the wee bit glass, my Jamie gaed it me. My father he was sad, my mother dull and wae; But that which griev'd me maist, it was Auld Robin Gray; Though ne'er a word he said, his cheek said mair than a', It wasted like a brae o'er which the torrents fa'. He gaed into his bed—nae physic wad he take; And oft he moan'd and said, "It's better for her sake." At length he look'd upon me, and call'd me his "ain dear," And beckon'd round the neighbors, as if his hour drew near. "I've wrong'd her sair," he said, "but ken't the truth o'er late; It's grief for that alone that hastens now my date; But a' is for the best, since death will shortly free A young and faithful heart that was ill matched wi' me. "I loo'd, and sought to win her for mony a lang day; I had her parents' favor, but still she said me nay; I knew na Jamie's luve; and oh! it's sair to tell— To force her to be mine, I steal'd her cow mysel! "O what cared I for Crummie! I thought of naught but thee, I thought it was the cow stood 'twixt my luve and me. While she maintain'd ye a' was you not heard to say, That you would never marry wi' Auld Robin Gray? "But sickness in the house, and hunger at the door, My bairn gied me her hand, although her heart was sore. I saw her heart was sore—why did I take her hand? That was a sinfu' deed! to blast a bonnie land. "It was na very lang ere a' did come to light; For Jamie he came back, and Jenny's cheek grew white. My spouse's cheek grew white, but true she was to me; Jenny! I saw it a'—and oh, I'm glad to dee! "Is Jamie come?" he said, and Jamie by us stood— "Ye loo each other weel—oh, let me do some good! [Pg 3] I gie you a', young man—my houses, cattle, kine, And the dear wife hersel, that ne'er should hae been mine." We kiss'd his clay-cold hands—a smile came o'er his face; "He's pardon'd," Jamie said, "before the throne o' grace. Oh, Jenny! see that smile—forgi'en I'm sure is he, Wha could withstand temptation when hoping to win thee?" The days at first were dowie; but what was sad and sair, While tears were in my ee, I kent mysel nae mair; For, oh! my heart was light as ony bird that flew, And, wae as a' thing was, it had a kindly hue. But sweeter shines the sun than e'er he shone before, For now I'm Jamie's wife, and what need I say more? We hae a wee bit bairn—the auld folks by the fire— And Jamie, oh! he loo's me up to my heart's desire. THE SUMMER TOURIST.—SCENERY OF THE FRANCONIA MOUNTAINS, N.H. BY WILLIAM M'LEOD. The approach of summer will turn the thoughts and steps of thousands toward those sections of our wide country whose picturesque beauty makes them ample amends for comparative sterility of soil and poverty of population. New Hampshire, with due allowance for the exaggerations of patriotism, may well be styled the Switzerland of America; and, although they are inferior in magnificent sublimity to the regal Alps, few tourists through the Northern States would leave the White Mountains unvisited. Though it forms part of this great chain, the inhabitants of the Franconia range, jealously claim for their hills a separate [Pg 4]