HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. XII.—MAY, 1851—VOL. II.

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Contents

THE NOVELTY WORKS.
CHARLES WOLFE.
MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
THE UNNAMED SHELL.
THE STORY OF GIOVANNI BELZONI.
PHANTOMS AND REALITIES.—AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
STORY OF SILVER-VOICE AND HER SISTER ZOE.
THE CROCODILE BATTERY.
A CHAPTER ON DREAMS.
A FAIR IN MUNICH.
THE WIFE'S STRATAGEM.
THE CHAMPION.
THE FARM-LABORER.—THE SON.
A CHAPTER ON WOLVES.
A SPECIMEN OF RUSSIAN JUSTICE.
NAPOLEON AND THE POPE.—A SCENE AT FONTAINEBLEAU.
GABRIELLE; OR, THE SISTERS.
THE WASTE OF WAR.
A NIGHT WITH AN EARTHQUAKE.
A PLEA FOR BRITISH REPTILES.
A DREAM, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF.
THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THO'S MORE.
THE STOLEN FRUIT.—A STORY OF NAPOLEON'S CHILDHOOD.
WILBERFORCE AND CHALMERS.
MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE.
UNCLE JOHN; OR, THE ROUGH ROAD TO RICHES.
DARLING DOREL.
COURTESY OF AMERICANS.
MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.
LITERARY NOTICES.
TWO LEAVES FROM PUNCH.
FASHIONS FOR MAY.

THE NOVELTY WORKS, WITH SOME DESCRIPTION OF THE MACHINERY AND THE PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MARINE STEAM-ENGINES OF THE LARGEST CLASS.

BY JACOB ABBOTT.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE NOVELTY IRON WORKS, NEW YORK,
(As seen from the East River.)

Perhaps no one of those vast movements which are now going forward among mankind, and which mark so strikingly the industrial power and genius of the present age, is watched with more earnest interest by thinking men, than the successive steps of the progress by which the mechanical power of steam and machinery is gradually advancing, in its contest for the dominion of the seas. There is a double interest in this conflict. In fact, the conflict itself is a double one. There is first a struggle between the mechanical power and ingenuity of man, on the one hand,