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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.

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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
up, 142. The Village School, 285. Saint Valentine's Gentlemen, 718. Young America in Town and Coun-
Day, 429. A very Cold Morning, 430. Oh! 430. The try, 861. High Life and Low Life, 862.
New York Police, 572. A Hard Case, 717.

Great Boon

DARIEN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. By J. T. HEADLEY..

DEAD SEA, SODOM, AND GOMORRAH..

DOG, DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED...

EDITOR'S DRAWER.

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-
grams from the German; Franklin's Vision, 277. Old
Gilbert White; The Life of Haydon; De Quincey;
Pope; Bloomfield; Kohl's St. Petersburg, 278. The
Death of the Colonel; Nominology; Blunders; The
Little Spouse; Temper; I am a Maiden, 279. Words-
worth and the Prelude; Wisdom from Morning and
Evening Lands; Puns and Parsons; Proverbs, 280.
Barnum's Buffaloes; Sleigh-Riding, 417. A Trio of
Cool Cases, 418. A Pair of the Same Sort; The Work-
ingman; Adam and Eve; The King of the Sandwich
Islands; The Captain's Bathing-Tub, 419. Shanghai
Fowls; Severe Runs; The Gentleman; The Tall Suit-
or's Apology, 421. Loss of a Wife; Letter from Sir
Boyle Roche; How to live; He came too late, 422.
Snoring again; Chances; a Gentleman when he pleases,
423. Spiritual Manifestations; Colonel Greathouse;
Shaking Hands, 424. Tom Placide, 425. The Wild
and Stormy March; Anecdotes of Dr. Chapman, 559.
Of Dr. Mason; Aaron and Hur; The Age of Pericles;
The Lunatic in Church, 560. A Trio of Retorts; Law-
yer Martin and Farmer Brooks; Age of a Goose, 561.
The Snow Shower; Quadrilingual Inscription; Commo-
dore Barron's Prize; Death of the Beggar; Time and
Eternity, 562. Colonel Benton; Opium Eating; Tak-
ing the Scent out; Tight Times, 563. Taking after
one's Father; Specimen of Mohawk; Patience; New

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.

The Loss of the Arctic; The Ancient Terrors of the

Sea restored, 119. Heroism to the last; Ovation to the
Commander, 120. Art in America; Leutze's Washing-
ton at Monmouth; Fault-finding Criticism easy, 121.
Franklin and the Northwest Passage, 122. The New
Opera House; Reception of Grisi; No Jenny Lind

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-
drum; Accord and Concord; Epitaphs; Quaint Names
for Persons and Books, 708. Cherry Ripe; Seeing the
Monkey; Medicine for the Mind; A New England
Grave-Yard, 709. Backward Readings; Near-Sighted-
ness; Death of the Banjo-Player, 710. The old Pas-
tor's Valedictory; Polite to the Last; Death of a Shang-
hai; The Ancient Book-Auctioneer, 711. Making Love
to a Tea-Kettle; External Influence of the Sabbath;
The Lunatic and his Keeper; Placide and the Chisel,
712. What's Resisted; A Name in the Sand, 713. Read's
New Pastoral; Hymn to May, 847. Mr. and Mrs. Lo-
vett's Quarrel, 848. Inn Signs; Clerical Puns; An
April Joke; New Version of the Lord's Prayer; Be-
neficence, 849. Mr. Tyler and his Virginia Neighbor;
Jenkins's Reasons for the Ministry; Bilingual Poetry;
An Old Friend with a New Face, 850. Epigram from
Hafiz; Mr. Borem, the Insurance Agent, 851. George
P. Morris and Governor Smith; A Lesson for Office-
Seekers; Sunday Travelers; Jerrold, Heraud, Thack-
eray, and Reach, 852. An Auctioneer's Trick; Colored
Eloquence; At the White Mountains; The pugnacious
Sailors, 853. Test of an American; I saw thee Wedded;
Excuse the bad Writing, 854. A grandiloquent Beggar;
The City of Repose; Horrors of Delirium Tremens;
Small favors Solicited, 855. A Hundred Dollar Hat;
Benedict Arnold; A Gentleman; Summerfield, 856.

Furore, 123. The Singers going South; Letter from

Abroad; American Faces there, 124. No Lodgings.
Out-of-Door Sermons; A Mountain Storm, 125; The
fat Lady in the Diligence; Items from Switzerland, 126.
A Glance at the Swiss Watering-Places, 127. Baden-
Baden; the Prince and the Widow, 128. Rachel going

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