Harper's New Monthly Magazine

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

VOLUME XII.

DECEMBER, 1855, TO MAY, 1856.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1856.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII.

ADVENTURES IN THE GOLD FIELDS OF CENTRAL AMERICA...

315

A NIGHTLY SCENE IN LONDON. BY CHARLES DICKENS.....................
BABY BERTIE'S CHRISTMAS.....

BASKET OF THUNDERBOLTS..........

BELLOT.........

BIRCHKNOLL-A NEW GHOST STORY OF OLD VIRGINIA

CHARLES DICKENS...........

CINDERELLA-NOT A FAIRY TALE.........................................

COMMODORE PERRY'S EXPEDITION TO JAPAN.......

651

208

336

380

501

441, 733

CONQUEST OF MEXICO. By JOHN S. C. ABBOTT...................
DISINTERESTED FRIENDSHIP

519

CHANGES IN THE DIRECTION OF TALENT.. 119
LITERATURE OF BUSINESS

261

COWARDS AND BRAVE MEN............ 410

SOCRATES IN PRISON.........
THE AMERICAN PULPIT

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.

CHAIR FOR DECEMBER

CHAIR FOR JANUARY..

DRAGON-FANG POSSESSED BY THE CONJUROR PIOU-LU.............................................
EDITOR'S TABLE.

DOMESTIC SOCIETY IN OUR COUNTRY.... 554

697

839

CHAIR FOR FEBRUARY.
EDITOR'S DRAWER.

DRAWER FOR DECEMBER
DRAWER FOR JANUARY......
DRAWER FOR FEBRUARY.....
ENGLISH WIGS AND GOWNS.
EVERY INCH A KING.......

FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER..

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY.

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

431

FOOLISH FOLKS.—ALL-FOOLS' DAY SKETCHES .............................

HON. MR. BLOEMUP'S CONGRESSIONAL EXPERIENCE......
HOW I WAS DISCARDED

HOW THE DESTRUCTION OF TREES AFFECTS THE RAIN..

. 141

653

.... 666

ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY......

ISRAEL PUTNAM.....

JANUARY FIRST, A. D. 3000..
LITERARY NOTICES.

ORIGINAL NOTICES.-The Song of Hiawatha, 114. Lily Wilson's Mexico and its Religion; Bonner's Child's History of the United States; Barton's Outlines of English Grammar; Fowler's English Grammar; Life and Works of Charles Lamb, 115. Harper's Classical Library, 115, 407. The Works of John C. Calhoun; Lossing and Williams's National History of the United States; American Odd Fellow's Museum; Baxter's Select Works; Hackett's Illustrations of Scripture; Cone's Funeral Sermon; Campbell's Pleasures of Hope; The Tattler; Eliot's Early Religious Education; Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes, 116. Winslow's Glory of the Redeemer; Jackson's Letters to a Young Physician; Andrews and Batchelor's French Instructor: Dixon's Scenes in the Practice of a New York Surgeon; Frothingham's Metrical Pieces; Cowper's Task, 117. Keble's Christian Year; Meek's Red Eagle; Carlton's New Purchase; Gibson's Prison of Weltevredin; Lawrence's Lives of the British Historians: Squier's Notes on Central America; Reed's Lectures on History and Poetry, 257. Hale's Library of Standard Letters; Post's Skeptical Era in Modern History; Abbott's Napoleon at St. Helena; Taylor's Poems of Home and Travel; Bailey's Mystic, 258. Courtenay's Calculus; Bunkley's Escaped Novice, 259. Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America; Rose Clark; ElmTree Tales; Friedel; Winnie and I; Leslie's Portfolio

LIFE INSURANCE-A DREAM.....
LITTLE DORRIT.

BY CHARLES DICKENS

286

577

145

of Needlework; Miles's Postal Reform, 260. Prescott's Philip the Second, 406. Ritchie's Mimic Life; Flora's Dictionary: The Irish Abroad and at Home; Arnold's Christian Life; Home Comforts; Village and Farm Cottages; Barton's English Grammar; The Russian Empire; Allen's India, 407. Man-of-War Life; My First Season; The Heart of Mabel Ware; Child's New Flower for Children; Hampton Heights; Our Cousin Veronica; Thackeray's Ballads, 408. Meister Karl's Sketch-Book, 409. Macaulay's History of England, 549. Wilson's Logic; Cousin's Psychology; Abbott's Cortez; Harper's Story Books, 552. Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic, 693. Schwegler's History of Philosophy, 695. Tappan's History of Logic; Jarves's Parisian Sights; Maginn's Miscellanies; Mayhew's Wonders of Science; James's Old Dominion; Shoepac Recollections; Julius, 696. March's Madeira, Portugal, and the Andalusias; Mackie's Life of Schamyl; Ida Pfeiffer's Second Journey, 835. Abbott's Teacher; Beecher's Physiology and Calisthenics; Osbon's Daniel Verified in History; Gilman's Contributions to Literature, 837. Margaret Fuller's At Home and Abroad: Humboldt's Cuba; Memoirs of Cumberland; Whittier's Panorama, 868.-Foreign Intelligence.-New English Works, 118, 409, 553, 838. New French Books, 409, 553, 8368. Death of Montgomery, 409. Death of Rogers, 553, 838.

MADEIRA, PORT, AND SHERRY
MAY DAY IN NEW YORK...........
MAY DAY IN THE COUNTRY
MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.

UNITED STATES.-Elections in New York, Massa-
chusetts, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Georgia, Kansas, 111; in Washington Territory, 112;
New York, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
California, 254; New Hampshire, 863. Free Soil Con-
vention in Kansas, 111, 254. Passmore Williamson,
111. Agricultural Fair at Boston, 111. Mr. Crampton,
111. General Scott, 111. Free Love Club, 111. Acci-
dent on Pacific Railway, 111. Indian Hostilities, 111,
112, 254, 401, 547, 691, $33. Cholera on Pacific Steam-
ers, 112.
Relations with Japan, 112. Neutrality Laws,
111, 112, 255. Relations with Great Britain, 253, 689,
834. Brig Maury, 253. Message of Governors of Geor-
gia, Texas, South Carolina, 253; New York, Massachu-
setts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Wis-
consin, Nebraska, 547; Louisiana, 690. Law and Order
Convention in Kansas, 254. Speaker of House of Re-
presentatives. 402, 546. Message of the President, 403.
Irish Emigrant Aid Society, 403. The Northern Light,
403. The Baker Trial, 404. Sir John Franklin, 404.
The Bark Resolute, 404. Disturbances in Kansas, 404,
689, 833. President's Message on Kansas, 546. Reply
of Governor Reeder, 546. Meeting of Legislatures of
New York, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Min-
nesota, 547. Free State Nominations in Kansas, 547;
Committees in Congress, 689. British Enlistments, 689.
State Action in Relation to Kansas, 689, 862. Presi-
dent's Proclamation, 689. Southern Commercial Con-
vention, 690. American Conventions at Philadelphia:
Adoption of Platform, and Nomination of Fillmore and
Donelson, 690. Republican Convention at Pittsburg;
Statement of Mr. Blair, and Address of Convention, 690.
The Steamer Pacific, 691, 834. Slave Tragedy at Cin-
cinnati, 691. Mr. Dallas as Minister to England, 691,
834. Burning of Towns in the Feejce Islands, 691.
Debates in the House on Kansas, and Appointment of
Committee of Investigation, 832. Reports in the Senate,
832. Mr. Cass on Relations with Great Britain, 832.
New Tariff Bill, 832. Measures before Congress, 832.
State Legislature of Kansas, $32. Seizure of Arms, 833.
Utah as a State, 833. The Governorship of Wisconsin,
833. Virginia Law against the Abduction of Slaves,
833. Indian Hostilities, 833. Disasters, 833. Earth-
quake in California, 833.

SOUTHERN AMERICA.-Alvarez President of Mexico, 112. Surrender of Matamoras, 112, Capture of Gran

284

234, 383, 526, 669, 813

601

861

862

ada by Walker, 112. Treaty with Corral, 112. Attack on California Steamer, 112. The Kinney Colony, 112, 691. Difficulty at Panama, 112. Scarcity on the Pacific Coast, 113. Census of Chili, 113. Revolution in Bolivia, 113. Convention in Peru, 118. Cholera in Brazil, 113. Resignation of Alvarez, and Election of Comonfort as President of Mexico, 405, Insurrection of Uraga, 405. Law against the Press, 547. Haro y Tamariz at Puebla, 548, 691, 834. Resignation of Ministers in Nicaragua, 548. Revolutionary Movements in Buenos Ayres and Peru, 548. Relations of Brazil and Paraguay, 548. Chilian Congress, 548. Pronunciamiento at Vera Cruz, 691. The Walker Government in Nicaragua, 691. Banishment of Kinney, 691. Seizure of Transit Steamers, 864. War with Costa Rica, 804. Government Successes in Mexico, 834.

EUROPE.-Rate of Discount, 114. Concordat between Rome and Austria, 114. Hostile Demonstrations against the United States, 255. Expulsion of French Exiles from Jersey, 255. Republican Manifesto, 255. Bank Forgers, 256. Lord Mayor's Banquet, 256. Submarine Tunnel, 256. Close of French Exhibition, 256. Emperor's Speech, 256. Mission of Canrobert to Sweden, 256, 405, 548. New Russian Levy, 256. Changes in British Cabinet, 405. Speech of King of Prussia, 405. Russian Loan, 405. War Council at Paris, 548. Parisian Peace Pamphlet, 548. Treaty between Sweden and the Allies, 548. Danish Circular, 548. Peace Nogotiations, 549, 691, 834. Emperor of Austria to the German Confederation, 692. Queen's Speech in Parliament, 692. Debate on Relations with America, 692. Lord Clarendon on the Peace Negotiations, 692. New Regiments sent to Canada, 692. New Order of Merit, 692. Annexation of the Kingdom of Oude, 692. Parliamentary Items, 834. Dinner to Mr. Buchanan, 834. Birth of King of Algeria, 834. Emperor's Speech, 834.

THE WAR.-After the Fall of Sebastopol, 113. Capture of Kinburn, 113. Hostile Demonstrations, 113. Russian Repulse before Kars, 114. Escape of the Russian Pacific Fleet, 114 Recall of General Simpson, 256. Fall of Kars, 405. Accident at Inkermann, 405, Victory of the Turks at Ingour, 405. Austrian Propositions, 405, 549. Text of the Propositions, 549. Russian Acceptance, 549. The Peace Conference at Paris, 689. Names of the Negotiators, 689. Armistice in the Crimea, 834. State of the Troops, 834. The Sultan's decree in Favor of Toleration, 834.