AMERICAN MONTHLY

MAGAZINE

Of Literature and Art.

EMBELLISHED WITH

MEZZOTINT AND STEEL ENGRAVINGS, MUSIC, ETC.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT, RICHARD H. DANA, JAMES K. PAULDING, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW,
N. P. WILLIS, J. R. LOWELL, HENRY W. HERBERT, GEO. D. PRENTICE.

MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY, MISS C. M. SEDGWICK, MRS. EMMA C. EMBURY, MRS. ANN S. STE-
PHENS, MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY, MRS. A. M. F. ANNAN, ETC.
PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS.

GEORGE R. GRAHAM, EDITOR.

VOLUME XLI.

PHILADELPHIA:
GEORGE R. GRAHAM, 134 CHESTNUT STREET.

1852.

A Midnight Fantasy. By Wм. A. SUTLIFFE,
Ariadne. By MRS. E. J. EAMES,

Ambition's Burial-Ground. By FRANCIS DE

HAES JANVIER,

Mutability. By WM. ALEXANDER,

Not Dead. By L. L. M.

November. By MRS. JULIA C. R. DORR,

Oceola's Address to His Warriors. By WM.

H. C. HOSMER,

Annie. By D. W. BARTLETT,

Better Days. By LYDIA L. A. VERY,

Cleopatra. By H. W. HERBERT,

Cydnus. By WM. ALEXANDer,

Endymion. By T. BUCHANAN READ,

Excerpts. By ERASTUS W. Ellsworth,

Fanny Leigh. By Mrs. TOOGOOD,

Fragment. By WM. ALBERT SUTLIFFE,

Forgotten By C. E. T.

Fragment of a Poem. By WM. A. SUTLIFFE, 594

Gather Ripe Fruit, O Death!

132

311

159

Hymn to the Sun. By HENRY W. HERBERT,

Hesperius. By WM. ALBERT SUTLIFFE,

Hymn. By Rev. DRYDEN S. PHELPS,

Hours in August. By Mrs. J. H. THOMAS,

I Dream of All Things Beautiful. By Miss M.

E. ALILSON,

I know where the Fairies are. By M. DELAMAIE,

Joy Murmurs in the Ocean. By C. H. STEWART,

Light of Nature. By WM. ALEXANDER,

Life's Battle March. By Mrs. J. H. THOMAS,

Lines. By Mrs. E. L. CUSHING,

Lay of the Crusader. By W. H. C. HOSMER,

Le Petit Savoyard. By WILLIAM DOWE,

My Forefathers. By J. HUNT, Jr.

Midsummer Days,

Memory's Consolation. By W. W. HARNEY,

Meditations on the Last Judgment. By ERAS-

TUS W. ELLSWORTH,

Song. By O. J. VICTOR,

Song. By WM. H. C. HOSMER,

Sonnets. By E. ANNA LEWIS,

Sonnet.-Iron. By WM. ALEXANDER,

Sonnet.-Homer. 'By Wм. Alexander,

Sonnet. By CAROLINE F. ORne,

To Adhemar. By E. ANNA LEWIS,

To the Picture of My Child. By META LANDER,
The Boy Afar Unto His Sister. By LIL. MAY,

CONTENTS.

12

Oh, would I were a Child! By M. DELAMAIE, 244

Peace. By WM. ALEXANDER,

563

383

77

Pale Concluding Winter. By A. B. STREET,

Recollections. By MISS MATTIE GRIFFITHS,

Remembered Ones. By J. HUNT, JR.

Summer,

463

5

Sonnet. By Wм. H. C. HOSMER,

Snow Flakes. By Mrs. L G. ABELL,

Seminole War-Song. By W. H. C. HOSMER, 172

Stability. By J. HUNT, JR.

172

Sonnet. Virtue. By WM. ALEXANDER,

173

270

369

20

48

167

173

308

405

68

The Exile. BY CAROLINE F. Orne,

186 The Two Birds. By GEO. H. BOKER,

270 To a Whip-Poor-Will Singing in a Grave-yard.

290

By E. ANNA Lewis,

88

429

308

34

424

545

15

545

315

379

398

158

179

The Fountain of Youth. By A. G. H.

The Old Man's Evening Thoughts. By F. G. 214

The Dead at Thermopylæ. By H. W. HERBERT, 252

The World Conqueror. By Mrs. E. J. EAMES, 311

To Mary. By MATTHIAS WARD,

546

315

645

To

By Mrs. J. C. R. DORR,

326

662

To the Redbreast,

341

369

69 The Comet. By Wм. Alexander,

205

The Last Hour of Sappho. By E. A. LEWIS, 433

28 The Cottage Door,

243 The Song-Stream. By ELLEN MORE,

453

526

468

442

377

476

342 To My Cigar. By CHARLES ALBERT JANVIER,

Virginia Dare. By Mrs. L. H. SIGOURNEY,

Whatever He Doeth Shall Prosper. By Mrs.

MARY ARTHUR,

Wild Roses by the River Grow. By CAR. F.

We Laid Her Down to Rest. By C. C. BUTLER,

ORNE,

230 Were I but with Thee. By C. F. Orne,

645 Yesterday-To-day-To-morrow! By C. D.

GARDETTE, M. D.

Zulma. By Mrs. JULIA C. R. DORR,

117

283 Up the Rhine. By Thomas Hood,

REVIEWS.

The Howadji in Syria. By G. W. Curtis,
Lilian, and Other Poems. By W. M. Praed, 106
Papers from the Quarterly Review,

106

220

Ingoldsby Legends. By Rev. R. H. Barhaw, 221

The Blithedale Romance. By N. Hawthorne, 333

The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in

France. By Alphonse de Lamartine,

A Step from the New World to the Old and

Back Again. By Henry P. Tappan,

335

The Poetical Works of Fitz Greene Halleck,

Mysteries. By Charles Wyllys Elliott,

443

444

444

The Works of Shakspeare. By H. N. Hudson,

The Book of Snobs. By Wm. M. Thackeray, 445

The Heirs of Randolph Abbey,

The Upper Ten Thousand. By C. A. Bristed, 547

549

Anglo-American Literature and Manners. By

Philarète Chasles,

Precaution. By J. Fenimore Cooper,

The Master Builder. By D. Kellog Lee,

Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Edito-

rial Life. By Joseph T. Buckingham,

The Eclipse of Faith,
Reuben Medlicott. By M. W. Savage,

450

114

226

338

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283

468

585

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