Harper's Magazine: February 1851

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February 1851

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

289-296	Poem The traveler; or, a prospect of society By Oliver Goldsmith PDF IMAGES
297-298	Poem An invitation to the zoological gardens. (By a gentleman with a slight impediment in his speech.) To be read aloud PDF IMAGES
298-302	Article Death of Howard the philanthropist SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Howard, John; Philanthropists; Prison reformers PDF IMAGES
302-308	Article A sketch of my childhood. By Thomas De Quincey SEE ALSO: Brothers; Childhood and youth; De Quincey, Thomas PDF IMAGES
308-315	Article The history and mystery of the glass-house SEE ALSO: Glass manufacture PDF IMAGES
315-319	Fiction An excellent match; or, the blessings of bad luck PDF IMAGES
319-320	Article Anecdotes of Wordsworth SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Lake poets; Wordsworth, William PDF IMAGES
321-322	Article Modern mummies.—A visit to the tombs of Bordeaux SEE ALSO: Bordeaux; Mummies PDF IMAGES
322-323	Article Recollections of Chantrey, the sculptor SEE ALSO: Biography; Sculptors; Chantrey, Francis, Sir PDF IMAGES
323-328	Article Sailing in the air.—History of aeronautics SEE ALSO: Balloonists; Navigation (Aeronautics) PDF IMAGES
328-330	Article Recollections of Sir Robert Peel. By the Dean of York SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Prime ministers; Peel, Robert, Sir PDF IMAGES
330-334	Fiction The marriage settlement PDF IMAGES
334-335	Article An apology for Burns SEE ALSO: Alcohol use; Poets, Scottish; Burns, Robert PDF IMAGES
335-338	Fiction A tale of shipwreck SEE ALSO: Adventure stories; Sea stories PDF IMAGES
338-340	Fiction The gipsy in the thorn-bush SEE ALSO: Fairy tales PDF IMAGES
340-341	Article Visit to a colliery SEE ALSO: Coal mines and mining; Newport PDF IMAGES
341-346	Fiction The Kafir trader; or, the recoil of ambition SEE ALSO: Adventure stories PDF IMAGES
346-348	Fiction The woodstream SEE ALSO: Fairy tales PDF IMAGES
348-353	Fiction The talisman.—A fairy tale SEE ALSO: Fairy tales PDF IMAGES
353-356	Article Michelet, the French historian SEE ALSO: Biography; Historians; Michelet, Jules PDF IMAGES
357-358	Article Land, ho!—A sketch of Australia SEE ALSO: Australia PDF IMAGES
358-359	Article The climate of Canada SEE ALSO: Climate PDF IMAGES
359-361	Fiction A winter vision SEE ALSO: Parables PDF IMAGES
361-364	Fiction A little stimulant.—A temperance tale SEE ALSO: Temperance PDF IMAGES
365-372	Fiction Maurice Tiernay, the soldier of fortune (chaps. XXI-XXII) By Charles James Lever SEE ALSO: 1789-1815 PDF IMAGES
372-382	Fiction Sketches from life By Harriet Martineau PDF IMAGES
382-396	Fiction My novel; or, varieties in English life (book III, chaps. I-XII) By Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton PDF IMAGES
396	Article On birds, balloons, and boluses SEE ALSO: Quacks and quackery PDF IMAGES Poem Carol for the new year By Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson PDF IMAGES
397	Article The edible birds'-nests of China SEE ALSO: Birds; Cookery, Chinese; Nests PDF IMAGES Article The passion for collecting books SEE ALSO: Book collecting PDF IMAGES
399-401	Fiction A bachelor's Christmas SEE ALSO: Christmas stories PDF IMAGES
401-403	Poem Crazed By Sydney Dobell PDF IMAGES
403-406	Article Actors and their salaries SEE ALSO: Actors PDF IMAGES
406-407	Article Encounter with an iceberg SEE ALSO: Icebergs; Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES
407-408	Article The dog and deer of the army SEE ALSO: Deer; Great Britain. Army; Scottish regiments PDF IMAGES
409-424	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
425-428	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Allin, Abby; Strickland, Agnes; Celebrated saloons (Book); Castanis, Christophorus Plato; European civilization: Protestantism and Catholicity compared (Book); Victor, Frances Fuller; Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Gilfillan, George; Aguilar, Grace; Greenwood, Grace; Gould, Hannah Flagg; Tappan, Henry Philip; Henry Smeaton: a Jacobite story of the reign of George the First (Book); Cheever, Henry T. (Henry Theodore); History of my pets (Book); Leake, Isaac Q.; Balmes, Jaime Luciano; Perkins, James H. (James Handasyd); Holland, John; Letters of William von Humboldt to a female friend (Book); Memoir of the life and times of General John Lamb (Book); Memoirs of the life and ministry of the Rev. John Summerfield (Book); Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller; Girardin, Emile de, Mme; Murray, Nicholas; On the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors, in health and disease. Prize essay (Book); Parisian letters (Book); Poems (Book); Poems of sentiment and imagination, with dramatic and descriptive pieces (Book); Southey, Robert; Goodrich, S.G. (Samuel Griswold); Gay, Sophie; The bards of the Bible (Book); The decline of popery and its causes (Book); The diosma, a perennial (Book); The Greek exile; or, A narrative of the captivity and escape of Christophorus Plato Castanis during the massacre on the island of Scio, by the Turks (Book); The history of Pendennis. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy (Book); The island world of the Pacific; being ... travel through the Sandwich or Hawiian islands and other parts of Polynesia (Book); The life and correspondence of Robert Southey (Book); The memoir and writings of James Handasyd Perkins (Book); The mother's recompense; a sequel to home influence (Book); University education (Book); Carpenter, William Benjamin; Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES
429	A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Expected out soon SEE ALSO: Cats PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Going down to a watering place SEE ALSO: Falls (Accidents); Health resorts PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Attraction SEE ALSO: Couples PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon 19th cent'ry SEE ALSO: Guard duty PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Apples; Fruit; Marketing; Prices PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon A tete-à-tete SEE ALSO: Human-animal communication; Table-talk PDF IMAGES
430	A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Putting the cart before the horse SEE ALSO: Horse-drawn vehicles PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Animal economy SEE ALSO: Horse-drawn vehicles PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon A narrow escape SEE ALSO: Bulls; Overweight men PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Division of labor SEE ALSO: Horse-drawn vehicles PDF IMAGES A leaf from Punch/Cartoon A holiday at the public offices SEE ALSO: Clerks; Holidays PDF IMAGES
431-432	Fashions for later winter/Department Fashions for later winter PDF IMAGES