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August 1855

CONTENTS
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	Fashions for August/Department Fashions for August
289-311	Fiction Virginia illustrated. Adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins By David Hunter Strother PDF IMAGES
311-324	Article Scott's battles in Mexico SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Career as U.S. general in Mexican War; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Scott, Winfield PDF IMAGES
324-335	Article Sketches in the East Indies SEE ALSO: Malaysia; Pinang Island (Pinang) PDF IMAGES
335-352	Fiction The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family (chaps. LXVI-LXIX) By William Makepeace Thackeray PDF IMAGES
352-357	Fiction Duke Humphrey's dinner PDF IMAGES
357-367	Fiction The mysterious occurrence in Lambeth By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Legal stories PDF IMAGES
367-373	Article The Reverend Sydney Smith By Saba Holland, Lady Holland SEE ALSO: A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith (Book); Biography; Humorists, English; Holland, Saba Holland, Lady; Austin, Sarah; Smith, Sydney PDF IMAGES
373-376	Fiction The third bowl PDF IMAGES
376-384	Article Apparitions and visions By John William Draper SEE ALSO: Apparitions; Human physiology, statistical and dynamical (Book); Draper, John William; Psychophysiology; Visions PDF IMAGES
384-391	Fiction Thistle figs; or, the grapes that grow on thorns SEE ALSO: Newport; Newport (R.I.); Northeastern States; Rhode Island; Single women; Summer resorts PDF IMAGES
391-397	Fiction The old man's revenge SEE ALSO: Revenge PDF IMAGES
397-398	Fiction A drawing-room drama SEE ALSO: Dueling PDF IMAGES
398-402	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
403-407	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Marsh-Caldwell, Anne; Art hints: architecture, sculpture, and painting (Book); Barrett, B.F. (Benjamin Fiske); Reade, Charles; Christianity, its essence and evidence: or, an analsys of the New Testament into historical facts, doctrines, opinions, and phraseology (Book); Squier, E.G. (Ephraim George); Burnap, George Washington; Flanders, Henry; Beecher, Henry Ward; Jarves, James Jackson; Brown, John; Joy and care (Book); Kirwan; Letters to the Right Rev. John Hughes, Roman Catholic bishop of New York (Book); Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline); Peg Woffington, Christie Johnstone, and other stories (Book); Star papers; or, experiences of art and nature (Book); Lewis, Tayler; The complete works of Shakespeare (Book); The golden reed (Book); The heiress of Haughton (Book); The lives and times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (Book); The self-interpreting Bible (Book); The six days of creation (Book); Waikna; adventures on the Mosquito Shore (Book); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
408-411	Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Henry J. (Henry Jarvis) Raymond SEE ALSO: Aristocracy (Political science); Monarchy; 1837-1901 PDF IMAGES
411-412	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Duel, ca. 1854; Dueling; O'Grady, Goliah PDF IMAGES
412-414	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Poole, William PDF IMAGES
414	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Fourth of July celebrations PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Authorship; Agassiz, Louis; Natural history literature; Publishing PDF IMAGES
415-419	Editor's easy chair/Collection Editor's easy chair PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Greeley, Horace; Imprisonment; Newspaper editors; Prisons PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855; Paris (France) PDF IMAGES
416-417	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Actresses; Ristori, Adelaide; Career in acting; Myrrha (Book); Alfieri, Vittorio PDF IMAGES
417	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties); Journeys—France; Pedro V, King of Portugal PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair PDF IMAGES
418-419	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Ex-presidents; Journeys—England; Fillmore, Millard PDF IMAGES
419	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Citizenship; Expatriation; Nationalism PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Hanging; André, John PDF IMAGES
420	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nature PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alcohol use; Articulation disorders; Berlin; Frederick William IV, King of Prussia PDF IMAGES
421	Editor's drawer/Poem A song of the peerage. My Lord Tomnoddy SEE ALSO: Great Britain. Army; Nobility PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Elopement PDF IMAGES
422	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Funeral rites and ceremonies PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bologna; Dueling; Benedict XIV, Pope; Views on dueling PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Hymns; Revivals PDF IMAGES
423	Editor's drawer/Fiction Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Allegories; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Virtue PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Administration; Drugs PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Iowa PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
424	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Byles, Mather; Poets, American PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Intergenerational relations; Teenagers PDF IMAGES
425	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Errata PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Albany; Anecdotes; Horse trading; Haliburton, Thomas Chandler PDF IMAGES
426	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Grandparent and child; Leather goods; Gilbert, Joseph Henry, Sir PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Executions and executioners PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Sevastopol' (Ukraine); Siege, 1854-1855 PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Dueling PDF IMAGES
427	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Costume; Webster, Daniel; Wilson PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Finance, Personal PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Wit and humor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Impersonation; Musicians; Millikin, Oliver PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Reparation PDF IMAGES
428	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Actions and defenses; Egoism PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Participation, French; Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Employment references; Rome; Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de PDF IMAGES
429-430	Cartoon Mr. Slim's aquatic experience SEE ALSO: Baths, Sea; Coney Island (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES