Harper's Magazine: September 1850

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September 1850

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433-438	Article Memories of Miss Jane Porter By S.C., Mrs. Hall SEE ALSO: Biography; English fiction; Historical fiction, English; Porter, Jane PDF IMAGES
439-448	Article Shooting stars and meteoric showers SEE ALSO: Meteors; Observations PDF IMAGES
448-452	Article A five days' tour in the Odenwald. A sketch of German life By William Howitt PDF IMAGES
452-454	Article The mysterious preacher SEE ALSO: Sermons, English PDF IMAGES
454	Article Assyrian sects By Francis Rawdon Chesney PDF IMAGES Poem The approach of Christmas By Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson PDF IMAGES
455-460	Fiction Ugliness redeemed—a tale of a London dust-heap SEE ALSO: Legends PDF IMAGES
460-467	Article Sketches of English character By William Howitt SEE ALSO: Gentry; Intergenerational relations PDF IMAGES
467-470	Article Presence of mind—a fragment By Thomas De Quincey SEE ALSO: Escapes PDF IMAGES
471-472	Article Fearful tragedy—a man-eating lion By Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Big game hunting; Knowledge—Hunting; Lion attacks; Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn; Safaris; South Africa PDF IMAGES
472-476	Fiction The haunted house in Charnwood Forest SEE ALSO: Ghost stories PDF IMAGES
476-478	Article Ledru Rollin—biographical sketch SEE ALSO: Biography; Ledru-Rollin; Louis Philip, 1830-1848 PDF IMAGES
478-479	Article A chip from a sailor's log SEE ALSO: Shark attacks PDF IMAGES
479-480	Fiction The two Thompsons SEE ALSO: Historical fiction PDF IMAGES
480-482	Article Habits of the African lion SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Knowledge—Hunting; Lions; Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn; South Africa PDF IMAGES
483	Fiction The old church-yard tree. A prose poem SEE ALSO: Cemeteries; Yew PDF IMAGES Article The English peasant By Howitt SEE ALSO: Peasantry PDF IMAGES
487-499	Fiction Maurice Tiernay, the soldier of fortune (chaps. IX-XI) By Charles James Lever SEE ALSO: 1789-1815 PDF IMAGES
499-503	Article An aerial voyage SEE ALSO: Bixio, Alexandre; Balloonists; Barral, Jean Augustin; Navigation (Aeronautics) PDF IMAGES
503-509	Fiction Andrew Carson's money; a story of gold SEE ALSO: Didactic fiction PDF IMAGES
510-512	Article Neander SEE ALSO: Neander, August; Biography; General history of the Christian religion and church, 1842-47 (Book); The life of Jesus Christ in its historical connection and historical development (Book); Theologians PDF IMAGES
512-518	Fiction The disasters of a man who wouldn't trust his wife. A tale of a tailor By William Howitt PDF IMAGES
518-521	Fiction Little Mary—a tale of the Irish famine SEE ALSO: Famine, 1845-1852 PDF IMAGES
521-524	Fiction The old well in Languedoc SEE ALSO: Ghost stories PDF IMAGES
524	Poem Summer pastime By R. C. PDF IMAGES Article The chemistry of a candle SEE ALSO: Faraday, Michael; Water chemistry PDF IMAGES
529-546	Fiction The mysterious compact SEE ALSO: Ghost stories PDF IMAGES
546-548	Review Wordsworth's posthumous poem SEE ALSO: English poetry; Lake poets; The prelude, or, growth of a poet's mind; an autobiographical poem (Book); Wordsworth, William PDF IMAGES
548-553	Article The literary profession—authors and publishers SEE ALSO: Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
551-553	Article The brothers Cheeryble SEE ALSO: Brothers Cheeryble (Book); Dickens, Charles; Merchants PDF IMAGES
553-554	Article Writing for periodicals PDF IMAGES
554	Article Anecdote of Lord Clive SEE ALSO: Clive; Marriage PDF IMAGES Article The imprisoned lady SEE ALSO: Captivity, 1754-1764; Cathcart, Jean, Lady PDF IMAGES
556-560	Collection Literary and scientific miscellany PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Career in editing; Edinburgh review (1802) (Scottish periodical); Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord; Periodicals, Publishing of PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Prime ministers; Peel, Robert, Sir PDF IMAGES
557	Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Kay, Joseph; Land tenure; Laing, Samuel; View on land tenure PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Essex; Quadriplegics PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Conversation; Litterateurs; Periodicals, Publishing of PDF IMAGES
558	Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Litterateurs; Periodicals, Publishing of PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Caucasus; Guerrillas; Shamil, Imam PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Bavaria; Schwanthaler, Ludwig Michael; Statues PDF IMAGES
559	Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Poets, English; Prose; Wordsworth, William PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Death and burial; Béranger, Pierre Jean de; Poets, French; Ney, Michel, duc d'Elchingen PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Career in editing French history; Laboulaye, Edouard; Pardessus, J.-M. (Jean-Marie) PDF IMAGES
560	Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Hall, Robert; Views on working class education; Working class PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Pen industry PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Académie française; Ethiopia; French; Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore; Trémaux, P. (Pierre); Variation (Biology); Views on natural selection PDF IMAGES
561-570	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
570-574	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Downing, A.J. (Andrew Jackson); Hill, B.L. (Benjamin L.); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Battle of Bunker Hill: oration by Edward Everett, with a brief account of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill at Charlestown, June 17, 1850 (Book); Taylor, Bayard; Bell; Crowe, Catherine; Lanman, Charles; Christian thoughts on life (Book); Chronicle of the conquest of Granada (Book); Don Quixote. English (Book); Everett, Edward; Walker, Edward; Wright, Elizur; English grammar (Book); Europe, past and present: a comprehensive manual of European geography and history (Book); Ungewitter, F.H. (Franz Heinrich); Facts and conditions of progress in the North-west (Book); Five years of a hunter's life in the far interior of South Africa (Book); Moore, George; Haw-ho-noo: or, Records of a tourist (Book); Health, disease, and remedy (Book); Giles, Henry; Hints to young men, on the true relation of the sexes (Book); History of Great (Book); In memoriam (Book); Iris (Book); Leake, Isaac Q.; Abbott, Jacob; Hart, John S. (John Seely); Ware, John; Meyer, Joseph; Julia Howard, a romance (Book); Latter-Day tracts: Jesuitism (Book); Lectures on the American eclectic system of surgery (Book); Hunt, Leigh; Memoir of the life and times of General John Lamb, an officer of the revolution, who commanded the post at West Point at the time of Arnold's defection (Book); Meyer's Universum (Book); Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society (Book); Perforations in the “Latter-day pamphlets” (Book); Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn; Cary, S.F. (Samuel Fenton); The American legend. A poem before the Phi beta kappa society of Harvard university, July 18, 1850 (Book); The architecture of country houses; including designs for cottages, fram-houses, and villas (Book); The autobiography of Leigh Hunt (Book); The complete works of Shakespeare (Book); The National temperance offering: and sons and daughters of temperance gift (Book); The night-side of nature (Book); The Odd fellows' offering (Book); Carlyle, Thomas; Walker, Timothy; Irving, Washington; Fowler, William Chauncey; Gallagher, William D. (William Davis); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
575-576	Fashions for early autumn/Department Fashions for early autumn PDF IMAGES