Harper's Magazine: August 1850

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August 1850

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THUMBNAILS

289-296	Article Pilgrimage to the home of Sir Thomas More By S.C., Mrs. Hall SEE ALSO: Christian martyrs; Death and burial; Henry VIII, 1509-1547; Homes and haunts; Humanists; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint; Statesmen PDF IMAGES
296-297	Article A buffalo chase By Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Big game hunting; Knowledge—Hunting; Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn; Safaris; South Africa PDF IMAGES
297	Poem Earth's harvests SEE ALSO: Cromwell, Oliver; Poem PDF IMAGES
298-303	Article Biographical sketch of the late president SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Mexican War, 1846-1848; 1848; 1849-1853; Taylor, Zachary PDF IMAGES
303-304	Article Encounter with a lioness By Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Big game hunting; Knowledge—Hunting; Lion hunting; Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn; Safaris; South Africa PDF IMAGES
304-308	Fiction The young advocate SEE ALSO: Weddings PDF IMAGES
308-317	Article The revolutionism of Mirabeau SEE ALSO: Revolution, 1789-1799; Revolutionaries; Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de PDF IMAGES
317-319	Article The “communist” sparrow—an anecdote of Cuvier SEE ALSO: Birds; Knowledge—Ornithology; Naturalists; Cuvier, Georges, baron PDF IMAGES
320-321	Article A giraffe chase By Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Big game hunting; Giraffe; Knowledge—Hunting; Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn; Safaris; South Africa PDF IMAGES
321-324	Article Adventure in a Turkish harem By Aubrey De Vere SEE ALSO: Harem; Magicians; Turkey PDF IMAGES
324-329	Fiction The wife of Kong Tolv. A fairy tale of Scandinavia SEE ALSO: Fairy tales; Paganism; Scandinavia PDF IMAGES
329-340	Fiction Maurice Tiernay, the soldier of fortune (chaps. VI-VIII) By Charles James Lever SEE ALSO: 1789-1815 PDF IMAGES
340-345	Review Have great poets become impossible? SEE ALSO: English poetry; Poets, English; Dobell, Sydney; The Roman. A dramatic poem. By Sydney Yendys [pseud.] (Book) PDF IMAGES
345-347	Article Recollections of Thomas Campbell SEE ALSO: Poets, Scottish; Campbell, Thomas PDF IMAGES
347-349	Article Galileo and his daughter By J. B. SEE ALSO: Astronomers; Galilei, Galileo PDF IMAGES
349-351	Article Ebenezer Elliott SEE ALSO: Biography; Corn laws (Great Britain); Elliott, Ebenezer; Poets, English PDF IMAGES
352-353	Article Conflict with an elephant By Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Big game hunting; Elephant hunting; Safaris; South Africa PDF IMAGES
353-383	Fiction Lettice Arnold (chaps. VII-X) By Anne Marsh-Caldwell PDF IMAGES
383-387	Article Recollections of Dr. Chalmers. His personal appearance in the pulpit By Thomas Chalmers SEE ALSO: Church of Scotland; Sermons, English; Chalmers, Thomas PDF IMAGES
387-393	Fiction The old man's bequest; a story of gold PDF IMAGES
393-395	Article Elephant shooting By Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Big game hunting; Elephant hunting; Knowledge—Hunting; Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn; Safaris; South Africa PDF IMAGES
395-397	Fiction The power of mercy SEE ALSO: Didactic fiction PDF IMAGES
397-400	Article Borax lagoons of Tuscany SEE ALSO: Tuscany; Tuscany (Italy) PDF IMAGES
400-402	Poem Wallace and Fawdon By Leigh Hunt SEE ALSO: Fawdon; Poem; Wallace PDF IMAGES
402-403	Article What becomes of all the clever children? SEE ALSO: Early childhood education; Parenting PDF IMAGES
403-404	Article Lack of poetry in America SEE ALSO: American poetry; 1783-1865; Poets, American PDF IMAGES
405-406	Article Sir Robert Peel SEE ALSO: Biography; Prime ministers; Peel, Robert, Sir PDF IMAGES
406-408	Article Sponges SEE ALSO: Life cycles; Sponge fisheries; Sponges PDF IMAGES
408-411	Article The railway works at Crewe SEE ALSO: Company towns; Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
411-414	Article Steam-bridge of the Atlantic SEE ALSO: Steamboats PDF IMAGES
414-415	Fiction The little hero of Haarlem SEE ALSO: Holland; Legends PDF IMAGES
415	Article Adventure with a snake By Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Big game hunting; Safaris; Snakes; South Africa PDF IMAGES
416-424	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
425-430	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A treatise on marine and naval architecture; or, theory and practice blended in ship building (Book); Calmet, Augustin; Tefft, B.F. (Benjamin Franklin); Tautphoeus, Jemima Montgomery, Baroness; Lossing, Benson John; Lester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards); Carlyle's latter-day pamphlets (Book); Tayler, Charles B. (Charles Benjamin); Davies, Charles; Chronicles and characters of the stock exchange (Book); Dies boreales; or Christopher under canvass (Book); Dr. Johnson: his religious life and his death (Book); Earnestness: or incidents in the life of an English bishop (Book); Elementary sketches of moral philosophy: delivered at the Royal institution, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806 (Book); Combe, George; Duggin, George; Aguilar, Grace; Heloise, or The unrevealed secret. A tale (Book); Herbert, Henry William; Spencer, Hiram Ladd; Impressions and experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 (Book); Cobbin, Ingram; Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Burns, Jabez; Fleetwood, John; McClintock, John; Skinner, John S. (John Stuart); Griffiths, John W. (John Willis); Wilson, John; Mansfield, L.W. (Lewis William); Garrard, Lewis Hector; Life and letters of Thomas Campbell (Book); Life of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Book); Child, Lydia Maria Francis; Mothers of the wise and good (Book); Byrne, Oliver; Poems (Book); Report of the debates in the Convention of California (Book); Armitage, Robert; Baird, Robert; Specimens of the bridges, viaducts, etc., on the United States railroads (Book); Supplement to Frank Forrester's fish and fishing in the United States (Book); Smith, Sydney; Talvj; The dictionary of mechanics, engine works, and engineering (Book); The gallery of illustrious Americans (Book); The illustrated domestic Bible (Book); The initials (Book); The life and correspondence of Andrew Combe (Book); The logic and utility of mathematics, with the best methods of instruction explained and illustrated (Book); The morning watch: a narrative (Book); The phantom world: or, the philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c. (Book); The plough, the loom, and the anvil (Book); The rebels; or, Boston before the revolution (Book); The shoulder-knot (Book); The Vale of cedars (Book); Carlyle, Thomas; Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail, or, prairie travel and scalp dances: with a look at Los Rancheros from muleback and the Rocky Mountain campfire (Book); Beattie, William; Francis, John, of the Bank of England PDF IMAGES
431-432	Summer fashions/Department Summer fashions PDF IMAGES