THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Of Literature, Science, and Art.
VOLUME IV
AUGUST TO DECEMBER, 1851.
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Transcriber's note: Contents for entire volume 4 in this text. However this text contains only issue Vol. 4, No. 1. Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article.
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.
The conclusion of the Fourth Volume of a periodical may be accepted as a sign of its permanent establishment. The proprietors of the International Magazine have the satisfaction of believing that, while there has been a steady increase of sales, ever since the publication of the first number of this work, there has likewise been as regular an augmentation of its interest, value, and adaptation to the wants of the reading portion of our community. While essentially an Eclectic, relying very much for success on a reproduction of judiciously selected and fairly acknowledged Foreign Literature, it has contained from month to month such an amount of New Articles as justified its claim to consideration as an Original Miscellany. And in choosing from European publications, articles to reprint or to translate for these pages, care has been taken not only to avoid that vein of licentiousness in morals, and skepticism in religion, which in so lamentable a degree characterize a large portion of the popular literature of this age, but also to extract from foreign periodicals that American element with which the rising importance of our country has caused so many of them to be infused; so that, notwithstanding the fact that more than half the contents of the International are from the minds of Europeans, the Magazine is essentially more American than any other now published.
For the future, the publishers have made arrangements that will insure very decided and desirable improvements, which will be more fully disclosed in the first number of the ensuing volume; eminent original writers will be added to our list of contributors; from Germany, France, and Great Britain, we have increased our literary resources; and more attention will be given to the pictorial illustration of such subjects as may be advantageously treated in engravings. Among those authors whose contributions have appeared in the International hitherto, we may mention:
Miss Fenimore Cooper,
Miss Alice Carey,
Mrs. E. Oakes Smith,
Mrs. M. E. Hewitt,
Mrs. Alice B. Neal,
Bishop Spencer,
Henry Austin Layard,
Parke Godwin,
John R. Thompson,
W. C. Richards,
W. Gilmore Simms,
Bayard Taylor,
Robert Henry Stoddard,
Alfred B. Street,
Thomas Ewbank,
E. W. Ellsworth,
G. P. R. James,
Dr. John W. Francis,
Maunsell B. Field,
Dr. Starbuck Mayo,
John E. Warren,
A. Oakey Hall,
Horace Greeley,
Richard B. Kimball,
The Author of "Nile Notes,"
The Author of "Harry Franco."
Rev. J. C. Richmond,
Rev. H. W. Parker,
James T. Fields,
R. S. Chilton.
The foreign writers, from whom we have selected, need not be enumerated; they embrace the principal living masters of literary art; and we shall continue to avail ourselves of their new productions as largely as justice to them and the advantage and pleasure of our readers may seem to justify.
New-York, December 1, 1851.
CONTENTS:
VOLUME IV. AUGUST TO DECEMBER, 1851.
Alred.—By Elmina W. Carey, 27
Alexander, Last days of the Emperor.—A. Dumas, 233
America, as Abused by a German, 448
American Intercommunication, 461
American Literature, Studies of.—Philarete Chasles, 163
American and European Scenery Compared.—By the late J. F. Cooper, 625
Anacreon. Twentieth Ode of.—By Mary E. Hewitt, 20
Animal Magnetism. Christopher North on, 27
Ariadne.—By William C. Bennett, 315
Autumn Ballad, An.—By W. A. Sutliffe, 598
August Reverie.—By A. Oakey Hall, 477
Art Expression. 401
Arts among the Aztecs and Indians.—By Thomas Ewbank. (Ten Engravings.) 307
Arts, the Fine.—Monuments to Public Men in Europe and America, 130.—Mosaics for the Emperor of Russia, 130.—Tenarani, the Italian Sculptor, 131.—Group by Herr Kiss, 131.—English and American Portrait Painters, 131.—Mr. Pyne's English Landscapes, 131.—Paintings by British Officers in Canada, 131.—Ovation to Rauch at Berlin, 131.—Healy's Picture of Webster's Reply to Hayne,
Authors and Books.—The Story of Talns, and the Sardonic Laughter, by Merehlen, 122.—A German Treatise on Free Trade, 122.—Curious Medical Works in Germany, 122.—Weiseler on the Theatre, 122.—Woodcuts of celebrated Masters, 123.—Recent German Poetry, 123.—Venedy's Schleswig-Holstein in 1850, 123.—Souvenirs of Early Germans, 123.—Gutzkow, Reimer, and Gubitz. 123.—Mundi's Macchiavelli and the Course of European Policy, 123.—New German Novels, 124.—Baner's Documents respecting the Monastery of Arnsburg, 124.—Mss. of Peter Schlemil, 124.—Professor O. L. B. Wohl's Poetic and Prosaic Home Treasury, 124.—German opinion of Miss Weber, 124.—Professor Zahn at Pompeii, 124.—Barthohl's History of German Cities, 124.—Cornell on Feurebach, 124.—New Book of the Planets by Ernst, 125.—Waldmeister's Bridal Tour, 125.—German version of George Copyway's Book, 125.—German Survey of American Institutions, 125.—Russian Literature, 125.—Jewish Professors in Austria, 125.—Dumas's new Works, 125.—Madame Reybaud, 125.—New Volume of Thier's History of the Empire, 125.—Mignet's Life of Mary Queen of Scots, 126.—Cormenin on the Revision of the Constitution, 126.—Literary Episodes in the East, by Marcellus, 126.—Victor Hugo. 126.—Madame Bocarme, 126.—Signatures to Articles in the French Journals, 126.—Arago's loss of sight, 126.—George Sand to Dumas, 127.—Vacherot on the Philosophical School of Alexandria,
Boker, George II.—By Bayard Taylor. (Portrait.) 156
Bohemian Glass. (Six Engravings.) 291
Ballad of Sir John Franklin.—By George H. Boker, 473
Bryant, and his Works, William Cullen. (Portrait.) 588
Bull Fight at Ronda, 681
Calvin Colton, Rev., and his Works. (Portrait.) 1
Castle of Belvor: An Incident in the Life of Arago, 41
Count Monte-Leone. (Concluded), 42, 202, 327, 500
China, Our Phantom Ship, 67
Chest of Drawers.—By an Attorney, 73
Cicada, The.—By H. J. Crate, 164
Charlemagne, Times of.—By Sir Francis Palgrave, 169
Calhoun, Private Life of John C.—By Miss M. Bates, 173
Copenhagen, 238
Cooper, J. F., Portrait and View of his Residence, Frontispiece.
Cooke, Sketch of Philip Pendleton. (Portrait.) 300
Chamois Hunting, 344
Cleopatra's Needle, 367
Cheap Postage System, 370
Country Gentleman at Home.—By C. A. Bristed, 389
Cooper, Reminiscences of J. Fenimore.—By Dr. Francis, 458
Cooper, Public Honors to the Memory of Mr., 456
Chimes, The.—By E. W. Ellsworth, 487
Carlyle's Life of John Sterling, 599
Calcutta: Social, Industrial, Political, 611
Captain and the Negro, The, 646
Crebillon, the French Æschylus, 520
Dramatic Fragments.—By R. H. Stoddard, 17
Decorative Arts in America, 171
Deserted Mansion, 227
Dirge for an Infant—By R. S. Chilton, 487
Death in Youth.—By H. W. Parker, 598
Dutch Governors of Niew Amsterdam.—By J. R. Brodhead, 597
Drinking Experiences: A Temperance
Deaths, Recent.—General Arbuckle, 139.—Mrs. Thomas Sheridan, 139.—Bishop Carlson, 139.—Sir J. E. Dalzell, 139.—Chevalier Parisot de Guyrmont, 139.—General James Miller, 140.—General Uminski, 140.—Viscount Melville, 140.—Mr. Dyce Sombre, 140.—Bishop Medrano, 140.—The Earl of Shaftesbury, 141.—Mr. Thomas Wright Hill, 142.—Melchior Boisserée, 142.—Christian Tieck, the Sculptor, 142.—Rev. Stephen Olin, D.D., 282.—Baron de Leideni, 282.—Edward Quillinan, 282.—Harriet Lee, 282.—Dr. Julius, 282.—Rev. Azariah Smith, 282.—General Henry A. S. Dearborn, 283.—D. M. Mon, 228, 283.—General Sir Roger Sheafe, 283.—M. Daguerre, (Portrait), 283.—Rev. Dr. Lingard, (Portrait), 285.—Marshal Sebastian, 287.—J. Fenimore Cooper, 428.—Rev. T. H. Gallaudet, 428.—Judge Beverly Tucker, 428.—Levi Woodbury, 429.—General McClure, 429.—Lorenz Ocken, 429.—Count Killmansegge, 430.—H. E. G. Paulus, 430.—Joseph Rusiecki, 430.—John Gottfried Gruber, 430.—The Earl of Clare, 431.—Sir Henry Jardine, 431.—Mrs. Sherwood, 572.—Rev. James H. Hotchkiss, 572.—General Henry Whitney, 572.—Commodore Warrington, 572.—Professor Kidd, 573.—The Earl of Donoughmore, 573.—William Nicol, 574.—Mr. Freeman, the Missionary, 574.—James Richardson, 574.—William Willshire, 574.—J. R. Dubois, 575.—Gustav Carlin, 575.—Archibald Alexander, D. D., 705.—J. Kearney Rogers, M.D., 705.—Rev. Wm. Croswell, D.D., 706.—Granville Sharpe Pattison, M.D., 706.—Mr. Stephens, author of The Manuscripts of Erdeley, 706.—Mr. Gutzlaff, the Missionary, 707.—Don Manuel Godoy, the Prince of the Peace, 708.—George Baker, 708.—M. de Savigny, 708.—Archbishop Wingard, 708.—Samuel Beaseley, author of The Roué, 708.—H. P. Borrell, 708.—James Tyler, R. D., 708.—Emma Martin, 709.—Yar Mohammed, 709.—Alexander Lee, 710.—Prince Frederick of Prussia, 710.
Exile's Sunset Song.—By John R. Thompson, 26
Egypt, The last Joseph in, 185
English in America.—By the author of "Sam Slick," 186
Egypt under Abbas Pasha,—By Bayle St. John, 259
Earthquake in Europe, The Last, 467
Fleischmann, Herr, on Life in America, 158
Fallen Genius.—By Miss Alice Carey, 288
Flying Artist, 398
Franklin, Inedited Letter of Dr., 472
Fragments from a New Volume of Poems.—By Thomas L. Beddoes, 550
French Flower Girl, The, 641
Fragments of a Poem.—By H. W. Parker, 189
Great Fair at Rochester. (Fifteen Engravings.) 438
Gold-Quartz and Society in California, 472
Greenwood.—By Maunsell B. Field, 476
Ghost Story of Normandy, 512
Gerard, and the Baron Munchausen, in Africa, M. Jules, 587
German Handbook of America, 598
Gondolettas: Two Songs.—By Alice B. Neal, 597
Hahn-Hahn, The Countess Ida, 17
History of a Rose, 117
Huntington, Dr., on Copyright, 308
Heroines of History: Laura.—By Mary E. Hewitt, 480
Habits of Frederick the Great, 528
Herman Melville's New Novel of "The Whale," 602
Historical Review of the Month.—The United States: Elections, &c., 567.—Foreign Relations, 567.—Mexico, 568.—South American States, 568.—Great Britain, 568.—France, Italy, Russia, &c., 569.—The East, &c., 569.—The American Elections, 704.—Kossuth in England, 704.—Europe, and the East, 704.
Imaginary Conversations at Warsaw.—By Walter Savage Landor, 98
In the Harem.—By R. H. Stoddard, 164
Illustrations of Motives, 280
International Copyright, 386
Jules Janin and the Paris Feuilletonistes, 18
Jungle Recollection.—By Captain Hardbargain, 110
Jews in China, 264
Jefferson, Mr., on the Study of the Anglo-Saxon Language, 468
Landscapes, Swedish.—By Hans Christian Andersen,
London, Paris, and New-York, 100
Ladies' Fashions. (Illustrated.) 142, 288, 431, 575, 710
Latham, on the People of the Mosketo Kingdom, 471
My Novel: or, Varieties in English Life.—By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, 80, 243, 371, 534, 688
Moir, David Macbeth.—By George Gilfillan, 233
Music.—By H. W. Parker, 327
Meeting of the Vegetarians, 402
Newspaper Poets: Charles Weldon, 201
Nauvoo and Deseret: The Mormons. (Six Engravings.) 577
Noctes Amicitiæ.—English Opinions of the "American Department" in the Crystal Palace, 563.—Ridiculous Convention of Women, at Worcester, 563.—Bloomerism in London, 563.—Defenders of the Catholic Practices, 563.—Anecdote of Tom Cook, 563.—Capital Anecdote of Charles XII, 564.—A Superfluous Amount of Name, 564.—G. P. R. James in the Law Courts, 564.—Nursery Rhymes, 564.—The London Printers, 564.—The Japanese and French Civilization, 565.—Extraordinary Suicides in Paris, 565, &c.
October.—By Alice Carey, 371
Obelisks of Egypt, 469
Old Man's Death, The.—By Alice Carey, 529
Ottoman History, The Three Eras of, 643
Parodies, A Chapter of, 23
Passages in the Life of a Dutch Poet, 65
Phantasy, A.—By R. H. Stoddard, 169
Paris, Reminiscences of, from 1817 to 1851, 182
Poulailler, the Robber, 216
Questions from a worn-out Lorgnette.—By O. A. Hall, 187
Reminiscence, A.—By Alice Carey, 360
Remarkable Prophecy, 474
Revolutions in Russia.—By Alexander Dumas, 616
Story Without A Name.—By G. P. R. James, Esq., (Concluded), 28, 189, 316, 487, 604
Stuart of Dunleath, 119
Sailors, Institutions for, in New-York. (Six Engravings.) 145
Scenes in the Old Dominion (Six Engravings.) 151
Styles of Philosophies.—By Rev. J. R. Morell, 180
Shadow of Lucy Hutchinson, 239
Saxe, John G., and his Satires. (Portrait.) 289
Sandwich Islands To-Day. (Two Engravings.) 298
Shadow of Margery Paston, 363
Saint Escarpacio's Bones.—From the French, 483
Sonnets: Truth—The Future, 499
Sliding Scales of Despair, 592
Songs of the Cascade.—By A. Oakey Hall, 602
Spendthrift's Daughter: In Six Chapters, The, 664
Scientific Discoveries and Proceedings of Learned Societies.—The British Association, 137.—Asiatic Society, 137.—Paris Geographical Society, 137.—Royal Society of Literature, 137.—Paris Academy of Sciences, 138.—London Royal Institution, 138.—Berlin Academy of Sciences, 138.—Improvements in Photographs, 138.—Colonel Rawlinson on the last Discoveries of Nineveh and Babylon, 426.—New attempts to discover Perpetual Motion, 426.—Document respecting the discovery of Steam Navigation at Venice, 427.—English Athletes, compared with Greek Statues, 427.—Discoveries at Memphis, 427.—Scientific Conventions, 427.—The Russian Academy, 571.—Scientific Congress in France, 571.—Paris Academy of Sciences, 571.—Ethnological Society, 571.
Trot on the Island.—By C. Astor Bristed, 54
To the Author of Eothen.—By Barry Cornwall, 315
The King and the Outlaw.—By an Old Contributor, 482
Verses.—By R. H. Stoddard, 22
Visit to the "Maid of Athens," 116
Visit to the late Dr. Lingard.—By Rev. J. C. Richmond, 172
Veneer, Fraser's Magazine on English, 306
Visit to the Aberdeen Comb-Works, 856
Vagaries of the Imagination, 638
Veiled Picture: A Traveller's Story, The, 648
Watering Places, A Glance at the. (Fifteen Engravings.) 4
Webster, Noah, LL. D. (Portrait and birthplace.)
Waterloo, Tricks on Travellers at, 164
Wives of Southey, Coleridge, and Lovell, 241
Wallace, William Ross. (Portrait.) 444
Windsor Castle and its Associations. (Two Engravings.) 585