THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

Of Literature, Art, and Science.

Vol. V. NEW-YORK, APRIL 1, 1852. No. IV.

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Contents

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, LL.D.
THE PALACES OF TRADE.
HERMAN HOOKER, D.D.
SUNSET.
NEW-YORK SOCIETY, BY THE LAST ENGLISH TRAVELLER.
EMILIE DE COIGNY.
A LEGEND.
CAGLIOSTRO, THE MAGICIAN.
BITTER WORDS.
THE MURDER OF LATOUR.
SOME SMALL POEMS.
THE LATE ELIOT WARBURTON.
AUTHOR OF "THE FOOL OF QUALITY."
BANCROFT'S AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
LIFE IN CANADA.
MR. SQUIER ON NICARAGUA.
THE HEIRS OF RANDOLPH ABBEY.
SEQUEL TO THE JEWISH HEROINE.
ADVENTURES OF AN ARMY PHYSICIAN.
STRINGS OF PROVERBS.
A CHAPTER ON WATCHES.
FÊTE DAYS AT ST. PETERSBURG.
RAINBOW MAKING.
BARTHOLD NIEBUHR, THE HISTORIAN.
PICTURE ADVERTISING IN SOUTH AMERICA.
GUIZOT AND MONTALEMBERT.
AN ACCOUNT OF SOME TREATMENT OF GOLD AND GEMS.
MY NOVEL.
CHOICE SECRETS.
AUTHORS AND BOOKS.
RECENT DEATHS.
LADIES FASHIONS FOR APRIL.

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, LL.D.

A steadily growing reputation for almost twenty years, justified by the gradually increasing evidence of those latent, exhaustless, ever-unfolding energies which belong to genius, has inwoven the name of Simms with the literature of America, and made it part of the heirloom which our age will give to posterity. Asking and desiring nothing to which he could not prove himself justly entitled, he has wrested a reputation from difficulty and obstacle, and conquered an honorable acknowledgment from opposition and indifference. Even if we had not proofs of genius in the treasury of thought and imagination constituted by his writings, still the nobility of the example of energy, perseverance, and high-toned hopefulness, which he has given, would deserve a grateful homage.

William Gilmore Simms is the second, and only surviving, of three brothers, sons of William Gilmore Simms, and Harriet Ann Augusta Singleton. His father was of a Scotch-Irish family, and his mother of a Virginia stock, her grandparents having removed to South Carolina long before the Revolution, in which they took an active part on the Whig side. He was born on the 17th of April, 1806. His mother died when he was an