NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. VOLUME X. DECEMBER, 1854, TO MAY, 1855. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 329 & 331 PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1855. ADVERTISEMENT.-VOLUME X. HARPER'S MAGAZINE has now reached the close of its Tenth Volume. During the five years of its existence, its prosperity has been constant and uninterrupted. It has not been checked even by the disaster which fell upon the establishment of the Publishers, or by the period of general depression from which the country is now emerging. Its circulation has regularly increased with each successive Volume, and is now larger than at any previous time. The Publishers have spared neither labor nor expense, not only to maintain, but to improve the character of the Magazine in all its departments. It has been their purpose to furnish a larger amount of the best literature of the day, presented in a more attractive form, with more profuse embellishments and at a lower price, than has ever been attempted by any periodical publication. While they have not neglected the rich stores of foreign literature, they have gradually enlarged the list of their Editors and Contributors till it includes the names of a large portion of the most popular writers of the country, and nothing has been wanting to induce them to contribute their best productions to the Magazine. The Publishers have received abundant assurance that their efforts have been successful to render the Magazine in some good degree worthy of the favor which has been accorded to it. Not a week passes in which they do not receive contributions, every way worthy of insertion, sufficient to occupy their pages for months. The task of selecting from this immense mass of matter that which is best and most attractive has been laboriously and faithfully performed; and the Publishers are confident that no article has found its way into the Magazine to which any just or reasonable exception can be taken. The Publishers would offer their sincere acknowledgments to the numerous writers of whose contributions they have been unable, from want of space, to avail themselves. To the members of the Press, also, they would renew their thanks for the generous and cordial approbation they have always accorded to the Magazine. They only, from their position, can be aware of the difficulty of preparing the successive Numbers of a popular periodical, and to their kindness Harper's Magazine has been largely indebted for its success. The Publishers again thank the Reading Public throughout the country for their unintermitted support, and add their assurances that the encouragement which they have received during the five years that are passed shall stimulate them to renewed exertions for the future. 193 .. 377 CAPTAIN OBSTINATE............................. COINCIDENCES.-A PHYSICIAN'S STORY........... COMICALITIES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. The First Cigar, 141. The Long Sermon, 142. Done to the Public, 717. Spring Fashions for Ladies and Great Boon DARIEN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. By J. T. HEADLEY.. DEAD SEA, SODOM, AND GOMORRAH.. DOG, DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED... Winter is on us; Courting and Polite Attentions, 129. The old Family Clock; The Double Pickpocket; Retort Uncourteous, 130. Any Thing you order: Charley Macaulay's Bet, 131. Stealing Peaches, 132. Baron von Huffman's Duel; The Mesmerizer done for: Bury ing Alive; The Georgia Major, 183. Nobody will read it; Saving the Baby, 134. My Name is not Bentley; Hearing the Gong; A Legal Anecdote, 135. Stewart Holland; Lorenzo Dow and the Rich Man, 136. Blank Verse among the Prose Writers; Wesley and Whitfield, 274. Epitaph for Hume; Oriental Proverbs; Logic and Swimming: Something from the Koran; Romance of the Reviewer; Original Conundrums, 275. The Steamer Eclipse; Scraps, 276. German Characteristics; Epi- The Loss of the Arctic; The Ancient Terrors of the Sea restored, 119. Heroism to the last; Ovation to the Version of an old Story; Many Kinds of Business, 564. The Home Grandmother; Treasures of the Bereaved; A Lunatic's Cunning, 565. Laughter; Little Annoy- ances, 566. Domestic Picture: The Sheep and the Goats; Screwing her up; Preaching not so easy, 567. Ye Sexes give Ear; Sharp Practice; Printers' Errors; Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee, 568. Origin of All- Fools' Day, 704. Anecdotes of Franklin; Rev. Dr. Cox, 705. Jones's new Versions of Hymns; Time and Thought; Baking and Banking, 706. The Lawyer's Oven; A Son of Temperance; Death of an old Man's Wife; The Tenant's Ruse; A Man of Spirit; Taking Home the Doctor's Work; Tapping a Drunkard, 707. Puns by Hood; Kicking the Bucket; A bad Conun- Furore, 123. The Singers going South; Letter from Abroad; American Faces there, 124. No Lodgings. |