Production Note Cornell University Library produced this volume to preserve the informational content of the deteriorated original. The best available copy of the original has been used to create this digital copy. It was scanned bitonally at 600 dots per inch resolution and compressed prior to storage using ITU Group 4 compression. Conversion of of this material to digital files was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Digital file copyright by Cornell University Library 1995. This volume has been scanned as part of The Making of America Project, a cooperative endeavor undertaken to preserve and enhance access to historical material from the nineteenth century. The digital data were used to MAGAZINE OF American Literature, Science, and Irt. VOL. IX. JANUARY TO JULY, 1857. NEW YORK: MILLER & COMPANY, 321 BROADWAY, SUCCESSORS TO DIX, EDWARDS & Co. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO.. MDCCCLVII. KN CORNELL Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by MILLER & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York MILLER & COMPANY, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPZRS, X. Y. EDITORIAL NOTES- GREENWAY COURT, 561 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND REPRINTS.— Beaumarchais and his Times-S. G. Good- rich's Reminiscences of his Life and Times -Mr. Freeman Hunt's Lives of American Merchants-Norhoff's Whaling and Fishing -The Court of Napoleon-Darley's Illus- trations of Margaret-The Illustrated Tom Thumb-Photographic Illustrations of Scrip- ture Scenes-The Schoolfellow-The Para- greens in Paris, on a Visit to the Universal Exhibition-Mr. Willis's Paul Fane-Flem- ish Tales of Hendrik Conscience Julian; or, Scenes in Judea-Milledulcia, a Thou- sand Pleasant Things, selected from Notes and Queries-Poems of William W. Story -Poems of the late Francis S. Key-Mr. Milburn's Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags- Mr. Magoon's Westward Empire-Harpers School History-Stewart's Brazil and La Plata The personal Record of a Cruise- Yoakum's History of Texas-Kansas; its Interior and Exterior Life, by Mrs. Robin- son-Dr. Carpenter's Microscope and its Revelations The Medical Professor in An- |