Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 1 / June to November 1850

Harper and Brothers, 1850

[First volume of Harper's: the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Foxing. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.  Contents: A Bachelor's Reverie. By Ik. Marvel620A Child's Dream of a Star73A Chip from a Sailor's Log478Adventure in a Turkish Harem321Adventure with a Snake415Aerial voyage of Barral and Bixio499A few words on Corals251A Five Days' Tour in the Odenwald. By William Howitt448A Giraffe Chase329Alchemy and Gunpowder195American Literature37American Vanity274A Midnight Drive820Amusements of the Court of Louis XV97Andrew Carson's Money: A Story of Gold503Anecdote of a Singer779Anecdotes of Dr. Chalmers696Anecdote of Lord Clive554A Night in the Bell Inn. A Ghost Story.252A Paris Newspaper181A Pilgrimage to the Cradle of Liberty721Archibald Alison (with Portrait)134A Shilling's Worth of Science597Assyrian Sects454A Tale of the good Old Times52Atlantic Waves786A True Ghost Story801A Tuscan Vintage600A Word at the Start1Bathing—Its Utility. By Dr. Moore215Battle with Life (Poetry)731Benjamin West. By Leigh Hunt194Biographical Sketch of Zachary Taylor298Borax Lagoons of Tuscany397Burke and the Painter Barry807Charlotte Corday262Chemical Contradictions736Christ-hospital Worthies. By Leigh Hunt200Conflict with an Elephant352Death of Cromwell (Poetry)257Descent into the Crater of a Volcano838Diplomacy—Lord Chesterfield246Doing (Poetry)268Dr. Johnson: his Religious Life and Death71Early History of the Use of Coal656Early Rising52Earth's Harvests (Poetry)297Ebenezer Elliott349Education in America209Elephant Shooting in South Africa393Encounter with a Lioness303Eruptions of Mount Etna35Fashions for Early Summer142Fashions for July287Fashions for August431Fashions for early Autumn575Fashions for Autumn719Fashions for November863Fate Days, and other Superstitions729Father and Son243Fearful Tragedy—A Man-eating Lion471Fifty Years ago. By Leigh Hunt180Fortunes of the Gardener's Daughter832Francis Jeffrey66Galileo and his Daughter347Genius65Ghost Stories: Mademoiselle Clairon83Glimpses of the East. By Albert Smith198Globes, and how they are Made165Greenwich Weather-wisdom265Habits of the African Lion480Have great Poets become impossible?340History of Bank Note Forgeries745How to kill Clever Children789How to make Home unhealthy. By Harriet Martineau601How We Went Whaling844Hydrophobia846Ignorance of the English205Illustrations of Cheapness. Lucifer Matches75Industry of the Blind848Jenny Lind. By Fredrika Bremer657Jewish Veneration119Lack of Poetry in America403Lady Alice Daventry; or, the Night of Crime642Ledru Rollin476Leigh Hunt Drowning202Lettice Arnold. By Mrs. Marsh13, 168, 353Lines. By Robert Southey206Literary and Scientific Miscellany556