THE
INTERNATIONAL
MONTHLY
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Of Literature, Science, and Art.
VOLUME III.
APRIL TO JULY, 1851.
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Transcriber's note: Contents for entire volume 3 in this text. However this text contains only issue Vol. 3, No. 1. Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD VOLUME.
The International Magazine has now been published one year, with a constantly increasing sale, and, it is believed, with a constantly increasing good reputation. The publishers are satisfied with its success, and will apply all the means at their disposal to increase its value and preserve its position. They have recently made such arrangements in London as will insure to the editor the use of advance sheets of the most important new English publications, and besides all the leading miscellanies of literature printed on the continent, have engaged eminent persons as correspondents, in Paris, Berlin, and other cities, so that The International will more fully than hitherto reflect the literary movement of the world.
In wit and humor and romance, the most legitimate and necessary components of the popular magazine, as great a variety will be furnished as can be gleaned from the best contemporary foreign publications, and at the same time several conspicuous writers will contribute original papers. In the last year The International has been enriched with new articles by Mr. G. P. R. James, Henry Austen Layard, LL.D., Bishop Spencer, Mr. Bayard Taylor, Mr. R. H. Stoddard, Mr. Parke Godwin, Mr. John R. Thompson, Mr. Alfred B. Street, Mr. W. C. Richards, Dr. Starbuck Mayo, Mr. John E. Warren, Mr. George Ripley, Mr. A. O. Hall, Mr. Richard B. Kimball, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt, Miss Alice Carey, Miss Cooper (the author of "Rural Hours"), and many others, constituting a list hardly less distinguished than the most celebrated magazines in the language have boasted in their best days; this list of contributors will be worthily enlarged hereafter, and the Historical Review, the Record of Scientific Discovery, the monthly Biographical Notices of eminent Persons deceased, will be continued, with a degree of care that will render The International of the highest value as a repository of contemporary facts.
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CONTENTS:
VOLUME III. APRIL TO JULY, 1850-51.
Alfieri, History and Genius of 229
American female Poets, Opinions of, by a Frenchman, 452
Anspach, Margravine of 303
American Missions in Ceylon and Sir E. Tennant, 308
American Saint, An, 163
Adventures and Observations in Nicaragua. (Illustrated.) 437
Arts, The Fine—Public Works by the King of Prussia, 136.—Herr Hiltensperger, 135.—Picture by Leonardo Da Vinci, 136.—Art-Union of Vienna, 136.—Another Picture by Raffaelle Discovered, 136.—Steinhauser's Group for Philadelphia, 136.—The Hillotype, 136.—Baron Hackett, 137.—Statue of Giovanni de Medici, 137.—Lectures before the New-York Artists, 137.—Belgian Exhibition, 137.—Brady's Gallery of Illustrious
Americans, 137.—Portrait of Cervantes, 137.—Portraits by Mr. Osgood, 137.—Discoveries at Prague, 137.—Exhibition of the British Institution, 137.—Lortzing, 137.—Statue of Wallace, 137.—Engravings of the Art-Unions, 180.—Exhibition of the National Academy, 181.—Bulletin of the Art-Union, 181.—Girodet, 181.—Kotzbue, 181.—Mr. Elliott, 181.—Schwanthaler, 181.—Museum of Berlin,
Authors and Books.—The Russian Archives, 26.—Humboldt on the State, 26.—Russian Geographical Society, 26.—Recollections of Paris, by Hertz, 26.—The latest German Novels, 27.—Schäffner's History of French Law, 27.—Fate of Bonpland, the Traveller, 27.—Russian Account of the War in Hungary, 28.—Bülau's Secret History of Mysterious Individuals, 28.—Italy's Future, by Dr. Kölle, 28.—German Translation of Channing, 28.—Essays by M, Flourens, 28.—Jacques Arago, 28.—New Book on Napoleon, by Colonel Höpfner, 28.—Vaublanc's History of Prance in the Time of the Crusades, 28.—Works on the Statistics of Ancient Nations, 28.—French Version of McCulloch, 28.—MM. Viardot and Circourt on the History of the Moors in Europe, 29.—Breton Poets, 29.—Louis Phillippe's Last Years, as Described by Himself, 30.—M. Audin, 31.—Collection of Spanish Romances, by F. Wolf, 31.—Le Bien-Etre Universel, 31.—Notices of English Literature by the Revue Brittanique, 31.—History of French Protestants by Felice, 31.—Works in Modern Greek Literature, 32.—Dictionary of Styles in Poetry by Planche, 33.—Continuation of Louis Blanc's History of Ten Years, 33.—Mr. Hallam, 33.—General Napier and his Wife, 33.—Plagiarism by Charles Mackay, 33.—English Books on the Roman Catholic Question, 33.—New Work by R. H. Horne, 33.—Miss Martineau's Book against Religion, 34.—Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 34.—Another Book on "Junius", 34.—Fourier on the Passions, 34.—Mr. Grattan coming again to America, 34.—Poems by Alaric A. Watts, 35.—The Stowe MSS., 35.—The Scott Copyrights,
Botello, Astonishing Adventures of James.—By Dr. Mayo, author of "Kaloolah," 40
Biography of a Bad Shilling, 92
Borrow, Real Adventures and Achievements of George, 183
Butchers' Leap at Munich, 298
Beautiful Streamlet and the Utilitarian, the 307
Benevolent Institutions of New-York. (Illustrated.) 434
Cooper, James Fenimore. (With a Portrait.) 1
Calhoun, Powers's Statue of John C. (Illustrated.) 8
Cocked Hats, A Supply of, 97
Costume of the Future, 103
Coleridge, Hartley and his Genius, 249
Conspiracy of Pontiac, 440
Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V. 376
Crystal Palace, the. A Letter from London. (Illustrated.) 444
Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V., 520
Doddridge, and some of his Friends, 77
Donkeys at Smithfield, 97
Duelling Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago—By Thomas Carlyle, 108
Dog Alcibiades, the,—By C. Astor Bristed, 211
Dewey, George W., and his Writings. (Portrait.) 286
Dickens and Thackeray, 532
Egyptian Antiquities, Preservation of 299
Fashions. Ladies' (Illustrated.) 143, 287, 429
Fiddlers, Last of the,—By Berthold Auerbach, 87
First Ship in the Niger.—By W. A. Russell, 127
Faun over his Goblet.—By R. H. Stoddard, 184
Festival upon the Neva, 357
French Feuilletonistes upon London, 446
Gibbon, an Inedited Letter of Edward, 126
Genlis, Madame de, and Madame de Stael, 392
Glimpse of the Great Exhibition, 409
Great Men's Wives, 413
Grave of Grace Aguilar.—By Mrs. S. C. Hall, 513
Hindostanee Newspapers. The Flying Sheet of Benares, 24
Herbert Knowles: "The Three Tabernacles," 57
Hogarth, William. (Six Engravings.) 149
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. (Portrait.) 156
Has there been a great Poet in the Nineteenth Century? 182
Hat Reform: A Revolution in Head-Gear, 187
Heart Whispers.—By Mary E. Hewitt, 200
Herbert, Henry William. (Portrait, &c.) 289
Halleck, Fitz Greene. (A Portrait.) 433
Historical Review of the Month, 127, 269, 423, 585
Jews and Christians, 162
Jesuit Relations: New Discoveries of MSS. in Rome, 185
Jeffrey and Joanna Baillie, 312
Kendall, George Wilkins. (Portrait.) 145
Layard, Discoverer of Nineveh, to.—By Walter Savage Landor, 98
Life in Persia in the Nineteenth Century, 105
Littleness of a Great People: Mr. Whitney, 161
Leading Editors of Paris, 239
Love.—By John Critchly Prince, 247
Lyra, a Lament.—By Alice Carey, 253
London Described by a Parisian, 306
Lion in the Toils, the,—By C. Astor Bristed, 366
Legend of St. Mary's,—By Alice Carey, 416
Marcy, Dr., and Homoeopathy. (Portrait.) 429
Mining under the Sea, 102
My Novel.—By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, 110, 253, 399, 541.
Marie Antoinette.—By Lord Holland and Mr. Jefferson, 23
Music.—By Alfred B. Street, 25
Monte Leone.—By H. De St. Georges, 58, 201, 346, 489.
Modern Haroun Al Raschid, 245
Man of Tact, the, 372
Meeting of the Nations in Hyde Park.—By W. M. Thackeray, 330
Mary Kingsford: a Police Sketch, 417
Mayo, Dr., author of "Kaloolah." (Portrait.) 442
Marie, Jeanne, and Lyrical Poetry in Germany, 457
Nell Gwynne.—By Mrs. S. C. Hall. (Portrait and six other Illustrations.) 9
Natural Revelation.—By Alfred B. Street, 200
Nicholas Von der Flue.—By the author of "Rural Hours," 472
Old Maids, a Family of, 289
Otsego Hall—Residence of J. F. Cooper. (Illustrated,) 285
Our Phantom Ship among the Ice, 386
Our Phantom Ship—Japan, 534
Policarpa La Salvarietta, the Heroine of Colombia, 162
Professional Devotion in a Lawyer, 188
Paganini, Anecdotes of, 237
Prospects of African Colonization, 397
Politeness in Paris and London.—By Sir Henry Bulwer, K.C.B., 363
Physiology of Intemperance, 98
Prophecy.—By Alice Carey, 244
Recent Deaths:—(Portrait of Joanna Baillie.)—Viscount Gardinville, 140.—Rev. Dr. Ogilby, 140.—George Thompson,
Record of Scientific Discovery—Photography, 138.—London Society of Arts, 138.—Barry 138.—Gold, 138.—Light and Heat, 138.—Chinese Coal, 138.—Water of the Ocean, 138.—The Asteroids, 139.—Shooting Stars, 139.—Geology of Spain, 139.—Scientific Researches in Abyssinia, 139.—New Motors, 276.—Water Gas, 276.—Improvements in the Steam Engine, 276,—New Applications of Zinc, &c., 276.—New Adaptation of Lithography, 276.—Annual of Scientific Discovery, 276.—Oxygen from Atmospheric Ari, 277.—Whitened Camera for Photography, 277.—M. Laborde on Photography, 277.—Abich on the Country near the Black Sea, 277.—D'Hericourt on African Discoveries, 277.—Enormous Fossil Eggs, 277.—Papers by Leverrier and others before the Paris Academy of Sciences, 278.—Barth and Overweg in Africa, 278.—General Radowitz on Philology, 278.—Latour, on Artificial Coal, 278—Scientific Congress at Paris, 278.—Experiments at the Porcelain Factories in Sevres, 279.—Captain Purnell on Ship Cisterns, 279.—Electric Sun at Gotha, 279.—Letter from Professor Morse on the Hillotype, 566.—Professor Blume and the French Academy, 566.
Rotation of the Earth. (Illustrated.) 296
Shelley, Memoir of the late Mrs. Percy Bysshe, 16
Shakspeare, Mr. Hudson's New Edition of, 18
"Stones of Venice," the,—By John Ruskin, 19
Story Without a Name.—By G. P. R. James, 45, 189, 333, 477.
Sweden, Sketches of Life in, 450
Sorcery and Magic, History of 247
Snowdrop in the Snow.—By Sydney Yendys, 201
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, and his Works. (Portrait.) 300
Second Wife, or the Tables Turned, 331
Smuggler Malgre Lui, the, 394
Sorel, Agnes, True History of—By R. H. Horne, 396
Strauss, Dr. David, in Weimar, 410
Schalken, the Painter: A Ghost Story, 449
Scenes at Malmaison, 504
Transformation: A Tale.—By the late Mrs. Shelley, 70
Thurlow, Lord, and his Terrible Swearing, 85
Twin Sisters.—By Wilkie
Trenton Falls.—By N. P. Willis. Four Engravings, 292
Tobacco, 311
Washington. (Two Engravings.) 146
Wilfulness of Woman.—By the late Mrs. Osgood, 188
Wreck of the Old French Aristocracy, 373
Walpole's Opinions of his Contemporaries, 488
"Work Away," 533
Yeast: A Problem.—By the author of "Alton Locke," 160