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NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

VOLUME II.

DECEMBER, 1850, TO MAY, 1851.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

329 & 331 PEARL STREET,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1851.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

May, 1851)

IN bringing the SECOND VOLUME of the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE to a close, the Publishers would avail themselves of the occasion, to express their profound appreciation of the favor with which it has been received, and their earnest wish to render it still more deserving of the enlightened patronage of the American community. They commenced the publication with the firm conviction that it could be made the medium of valuable information and mental enjoyment to the great mass of readers, and that it would accordingly be sustained by their generous and cordial support. Nor have they been deceived in their anticipations. The Magazine has found a wider circulation with every monthly issue. The encomiums with which it has been welcomed by the universal voice of the press, and the verdict of intelligent readers, are a gratifying proof that the Publishers have succeeded in their endeavor to adapt it to the wants of the public mind. Encouraged by the experience of the first year of this extensive literary enterprise, they are determined to spare no effort to insure the succeeding volumes of the Magazine a still wider and more favorable reception among all classes of readers. They intend it to be a strictly national work. Devoted to no local interests, pledged to no religious sect or political party, connected with no favorite movement of the day, except the diffusion of intelligence, virtue, and patriotism, it will continue to be conducted with the impartiality and good faith, which it is equally the duty, the inclination, and the interest of the Publishers to maintain. In addition to the choicest productions of the English press, the Magazine will be enriched with such original matter as in their opinion will enhance its utility and attractiveness. The embellishments will be furnished by distinguished artists, and selected no less for their permanent value as vehicles of agreeable instruction than for the gratification of an aesthetic taste. With the ample literary, artistic, and mechanical resources which the Publishers have enlisted in the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, and their ambition to give it a character of genuine, substantial, reliable excellence in every department, they may assure its wide circle of patrons that its subsequent issues will more than justify the distinguished reputation which it has attained at this early period of its existence.

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LEAVES FROM PUNCH

Preparatory Schools for Young Ladies; Ladies'

Arithmetic; Netting for Ladies, 285. A False

Apple-ation; A Tête-à-Tête; Expected out soon;

Going down to a Watering-place; Attraction;

19th Cent'ry; Putting the Cart before the Horse;

A Narrow Escape; Division of Labor; Animal

Economy; A Holiday at the Public Offices, 429.

Lectures on Letters; Punch on Special Pleading;
Smithfield Club Cattle Show; Golden Oppor
tunities; Universal Contempt of Court; Startling
Fact, 569. 1851; Please, Šir, shall I hold your
Horse? The Affairs of Grease; The War on Hats;
Peace Offering; The Best Law Book; Justice
for Bachelors; The Weather, a Drama for Every-
Day Life; A Juvenile Party; the Kitchen Range
of Art; Reward of Merit, 713. Encouragement
to Book-Lenders; Diplomacy and Gastronomy;
Supper at a Juvenile Party; One of the Juveniles
after the Party; Conversation-Books for 1851;
To find Room in a Crowded Omnibus; A File to
Smooth Asperities; The Lowest Depth of Mean-
ness; A Little Bit of Humbug, 859.
Letters and Letter Writing...

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The Salamander; Spencer's Pastor's Sketches;
Abbott's Madame Roland; Stanton's Sketches of
Reforms and Reformers; Gorree's Churches and
Sects of the United States; Cenotaph to a Wo
man of the Burman Mission; Fleetwood's Life of
Christ; Banbridge's Scripture History for the
Young; Poems by Grace Greenwood, 139.
Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair; The Green

LITERARY NOTICES-continued.

Hand; The New Englander; Bibliotheca Sacra;
Maturin's Lyrics of Spain and Erin; Holmes's
Astræa; De Quincey's Essays; Bigelow's Ja-
maica in 1851; Cantica Laudis; Young's Trans-
lations from Beranger, 140. Andersen's Tales;
Gem of the Western World; Our Saviour with
Prophets and Apostles; Sacred Scenes; National
Cook-Book; Smith's Relations between Scripture
and Geology, 141. Life and Works of John
Adams; The Broken Bracelet; The Immortal;
Boyd's edition of Paradise Lost; General View
of the Fine Arts; Artist's Chromatic Hand-Book,
142. Reveries of a Bachelor; Richard Edney;
Washburn's Issue of Philosophic Thought, 281.
The Memorial; Evening of Life; Mrs. Knight's
Memoir of Hannah More; Andrews' Latin Lex-
icon, 282. Smith's Classical Dictionary; Mans-
field's American Education; The Ministry of the
Beautiful; Green's History and Geography of
the Middle Ages; Christian Melodies; Sketch of
Fowell Buxton; The Manhattaner in New Or-
leans, 283. Redfield's Twelve Qualities of Mind;
Winter in Madeira; Gems by the Wayside;
The World's Progress; Vinet's Montaigne; Sum-
ner's Orations; The Broken Bud; Bardouac;
Fadette; Memoir of Alexander Waugh; Chanti-
cleer, 284. Life and Times of Gen. Lamb; Me-
moir of James Handasyde Perkins; Humboldt's
Religious Thoughts and Opinions; Balmes's
Protestantism and Catholicity; Tappan's Univer-
sity Education, 425. Gilfillan's Bards of the
Bible; Webster's Dictionary, 426. Celebrated
Saloons; Home Ballads; History of my Pets;
Cheever's Island World of the Pacific; Life of
Summerfield; Greek Exile; Carpenter's Use
and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors; Mother's Rec-
ompense; The Diosma; Poems by S. G. Good-
rich, 427. Woodbury's New Method of learning
German; Poems by Frances A. and Metta V.
Fuller; Lives of the Queens of Scotland; Pen-
dennis; Southey's Life and Correspondence;
Murray's Decline of Popery; Henry Smeaton,
428. The Howadji; Crumbs from the Land o'
Cakes; De Quincey's Miscellaneous Essays;
Hayward's Faust; Lavengro, 565. Abbott's
Melleville; Practical Cook-Book; Foster's Dis-
course on Missions; Lewis's Restoration of the
Jews; Anderson's Geography; The Dove and
the Eagle; Carter's Publications, 566. Hildreth's
United States; Lossing's Field Book; Du
Barry's Progress of the United States; Salander
and the Dragon, 567. The Prairie; Stanton's
Address, and Street's Poem at Hamilton College;
Lord Holland's Foreign Reminiscences; Jane
Bouverie; Mayhew's London Labor and London
Poor; The Moorland Cottage, 568. Johnson's
California and Oregon, 709. Mount Hope, 710.
Parnassus in Pillory, 711. Hawthorne's Twice
Told Tales; Time the Avenger; Porter's Educa-
tional Systems of the Puritans and the Jesuits;
Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines; Poetry from
the Waverley Novels; Whipple's Essays and
Reviews; Loomis's Geometry and Calculus;
The City of the Silent; Blunt's Shipmaster's As-
sistant, 712. Hawthorne's House of the Seven
Gables, 855. Buttmann's Greek Grammar; Lee's
Ecclesiastical Manual; Dixon's Life of Penn; The
Rangers; Mulchinoch's Ballads; Foster's Chris-
tian Purity; Lyra Catholica, 856. The Soldier of
the Cross; Field's Irish Confederates; Schmitz's
History of Greece; Abbott's Franconia Stories;
London Labor and the London Poor; Dwight's
Roman Republic; De Quincey's Caesars; Life
on the Plains of the Pacific; Hints to Sportsmen,
857. Curran and His Contemporaries; Gayarre's
Louisiana; Monge's Statics; Warreniana; Jung-
Stilling's Pneumatology; Tuckerman's Poems;
Theory of Effect; Volcano Diggings; Cooper's
Wing and Wing; Irving's Conquest of Florida;
Banker's Common-Place Book, 858.

Lively Turtle......

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POLITICAL AND GENERAL NEWS.-State of

feeling on the Compromise measures, 122. Let-

ters of Washington Hunt to the Secession and

Anti-Rent Conventions, 122. Meeting at Castle

Garden; Letter of Mr. Webster: Nominations,

122. Constitution of Congress, 123. State Con-

vention in Georgia, 123. Meeting at Macon, 123.

State of Feeling in Georgia, 123. In South Car-

olina, 124. In Alabama; Gov. Collier declines to

call a State Convention; Letter of Mr. Hilliard,

124. In Mississippi, 124. In Lousiana, 124.

Letters of Senators Downs and Soulé; Letter

from the Congressional delegation to the Gov-

ernor, 124. Correspondence between Isaac Hill

and Mr. Webster, 125. Dinner to Mr. Clayton,

125. Opening of Congress, 263. Message of

President Fillmore, 133. Report of the Secre-

tary of War, 264. Of the Secretary of the Navy,

Of the Postmaster General, 265. Of the

Secretary of the Interior, 266. Bill for the pro-

tection of fugitives in Vermont, 267. Message

of Gov. Ford of Virginia, 267. Of the Governor

Union

of Alabama, 267. Of Mississippi, 267.

majority in Georgia, 267. Message of Gov. Bell

of Texas, 268. Of Gov. Seabrook of South Car-

olina, 268. Of Gov. Brown of Florida, 268. The

Nashville Convention, 268. Various Union meet-

ings; and letters and speeches of Messrs. Web-

ster, Choate, Stuart, Woodbury, Hilliard, and

others, 268, 269, 270, 271. Reception of Mr. Clay

in the Legislature of Kentucky, 271. Letters of

Messrs. Hamilton, Poinsett, and Rush, 272.

Speech of Mr. Clayton, 272. George Thompson,

272. General News from California, 272, 410, 556,

701. General news from Oregon, 273. Webster's

reply to Hulsemann, 409, 848. Opening of the Le

gislature of New York, and Message of Gov. Hunt,

409. Message of Gov. Wright of Indiana, 410.

Florida resolutions, 410. Of Gov. Johnston of

Pennsylvania, 410. Boundary Commission, 411,

556, 701. Safety of the Steamer Atlantic, 555.

Progress of measures in Congress, 555. Action

of the Legislature of North Carolina in favor of

Union, etc., 555. Indictment of Gov. Quitman,

556. Thanksgiving in Texas, 556. Loss of the

John Adams, 556. Inaugural of Gov. Fort of

New Jersey, 556. Letter of Gen. Houston in

favor of Union, 556. Action for Union in Dela-

ware, 556. Union meeting at Westchester, 556.

Correspondence between a British consul and

the Governor of South Carolina respecting im.

prisonment of colored seamen, 556. Indian hos-

tilities in California, 556, 701. Gold Bluffs on

Trinity River, 556, 701. Amount of gold shipped,

556. Adjournment of Congress, and notice of

measures acted upon, 700. Measures for the re-

lief of Kossuth, 700. The Postage bill, 700.

Rescue of a fugitive slave in Boston, 701. Home-

stead exemption in Illinois, 701. Exemption in

Delaware, 701. Free negroes in Iowa, 701.

Germans in Texas, 701. Manufactures at the

South, 701. Quiet after Excitement, 847. New

York Common school law, 847. Canal enlarge

ment bill, 847. Legislative visit to New York,

847. The sergeant-at-arms and the gamblers, 847.

Ohio resolutions on the fugitive slave law, 847.

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