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May 1851

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721-734	Article The novelty works, with some description of the machinery and the processes employed in the construction of marine steam-engines of the largest class By Jacob Abbott SEE ALSO: Marine engines PDF IMAGES
734-736	Article Charles Wolfe SEE ALSO: Wolfe, Charles; Poets, English PDF IMAGES
737-747	Fiction Maurice Tiernay, the soldier of fortune (chaps. XXVI-XXVIII) By Charles James Lever SEE ALSO: 1789-1815 PDF IMAGES
747-749	Article The unnamed shell SEE ALSO: Shells PDF IMAGES
749-753	Article The story of Giovanni Belzoni SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Biography; Egypt; Belzoni, Giovanni Battista PDF IMAGES
753-762	Fiction Phantoms and realities.—An autobiography. Part the second—noon (chaps. V-VIII) SEE ALSO: Ghost stories PDF IMAGES
762-765	Fiction Story of Silver-Voice and her sister Zoe SEE ALSO: Adventure stories; Cairo (Egypt) PDF IMAGES
765-768	Article The crocodile battery SEE ALSO: Crocodiles PDF IMAGES
768-774	Article A chapter on dreams SEE ALSO: Dreams PDF IMAGES
774-777	Article A fair in Munich SEE ALSO: Fairs; Munich PDF IMAGES
777-781	Fiction The wife's strategem PDF IMAGES
781-784	Article The champion: A romantic incident in early Spanish history SEE ALSO: 711-1516 PDF IMAGES
784-787	Article The farm-laborer.—The son By Harriet Martineau PDF IMAGES
787-794	Article A chapter on wolves SEE ALSO: Wolves PDF IMAGES
794-797	Article A specimen of Russian justice SEE ALSO: Alexander I, 1801-1825; Orphans; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
797-801	Article Napoleon and the Pope.—A scene at Fontainebleau SEE ALSO: Consulate and Empire, 1799-1815; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Meeting with Napoleon I, 1804; Meeting with Pope Pius VII, 1804; Papal visits; Pius VII, Pope PDF IMAGES
801-810	Fiction Gabrielle; or, the sisters SEE ALSO: Religious fiction PDF IMAGES
810	Poem The waste of war PDF IMAGES Article A night with an earthquake By L. Mariotti SEE ALSO: Earthquakes PDF IMAGES
813-816	Article A plea for British reptiles PDF IMAGES
816-818	Fiction A dream, and the interpretation thereof By Leigh Hunt SEE ALSO: Lisbon (Portugal) PDF IMAGES
818-822	Article The household of Sir Tho^s More By Anne Manning SEE ALSO: Manning, Anne; Biography; Erasmus, Desiderius; Diaries; Henry VIII, 1509-1547; Humanists; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint PDF IMAGES
822-824	Article The stolen fruit.—A story of Napoleon's childhood SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French PDF IMAGES
824-825	Article Wilberforce and Chalmers By William Hanna SEE ALSO: Chalmers, Thomas; Wilberforce, William PDF IMAGES
825-840	Fiction My novel; or, varieties in English life ([book IV], chaps. XIII-XXV) By Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton PDF IMAGES
840-843	Fiction Uncle John; or, the rough road to riches SEE ALSO: Success in business PDF IMAGES
843-846	Article Darling Dorel SEE ALSO: Biography; Dorothea Sibylla, consort of Johann Christian, Duke of Brieg PDF IMAGES
846	Article Courtesy of Americans By Emmeline, Lady Stuart-Wortley SEE ALSO: Courtesy PDF IMAGES
847-855	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
855-858	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Johnson, A.B. (Alexander Bryan); A Greek grammar for the use of high schools and universities (Book); A history of Greece from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, 146 B.C. (Book); Buttmann, Alexander; An elementary treatise on statics (Book); Gayarré, Charles; Phillips, Charles; Curran and his contemporaries (Book); Thompson, Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce); Ecclesiastical manual, or scriptural church government stated and defended (Book); Lewis, Elisha J. (Elisha Jarrett); Reichenbach, Karl, Freiherr von; Monge, Gaspard; Hines, Gustavus; Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn); Mayhew, Henry; Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore); Hints to sportsmen, containing notes on shooting; the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America; the dog, the gun, the field, and the kitchen (Book); House of the seven gables (Book); Abbott, Jacob; Cooper, James Fenimore; Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich; Leyburn, John; Kip, Leonard; Schmitz, Leonhard; Life on the plains of the Pacific. Oregon; its history, condition and prosepcts (Book); Cahagnet, Louis Alphonse; Louisiana; its colonial history and romance (Book); Lee, Luther; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Nature and blessedness of Christian purity (Book); Buttmann, Ph. (Philipp); Physico-physiological researches on the dynamics of magnetism, electricity, heat, light, crystallization, and chemism, in their relations to vital force (Book); Poems (Book); Foster, Randolph S. (Randolph Sinks); The ballads and songs of William Pembroke Mulchinock (Book); The celestial telegraph; or, secrets of the life to come revealed through magnetism (Book); The conquest of Florida (Book); The Franconia stories (Book); The Irish confederates, and the rebellion of 1798 (Book); The rangers; or, the Tory's daughter. A tale, illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont, and the northern campaign of 1777 (Book); The Roman republic of 1849; with accouts of the inquisition, and the siege of Rome, and biographical sketches (Book); The soldier of the cross (Book); The volcano diggings; a tale of California law (Book); The wing-and-wing (Book); Dwight, Theodore; Irving, Theodore; Theory of pneumatology; in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason, and Scripture (Book); De Quincey, Thomas; Dixon, William Hepworth; Mulchinock, William Pembroke; William Penn: an historical biography from new sources (Book) PDF IMAGES
859	Two leaves from Punch/Cartoon Encouragement to book-lenders SEE ALSO: Circulation, loans; Libraries PDF IMAGES Two leaves from Punch/Article Diplomacy and gastronomy SEE ALSO: Diplomatic etiquette PDF IMAGES
860	Two leaves from Punch/Cartoon Supper at a juvenile party SEE ALSO: Children's parties; Table etiquette PDF IMAGES
861	Two leaves from Punch/Cartoon One of the juveniles after the party SEE ALSO: Children's parties; Indigestion in children PDF IMAGES Two leaves from Punch/Article Conversation-books for 1851 SEE ALSO: Conversation and phrase books PDF IMAGES
862	Two leaves from Punch/Joke To find room in a crowded omnibus SEE ALSO: Communicable diseases; Travel etiquette; Women travelers PDF IMAGES Two leaves from Punch/Article A file to smooth asperities SEE ALSO: Files and rasps PDF IMAGES Two leaves from Punch/Fiction The lowest depth of meanness PDF IMAGES Two leaves from Punch/Cartoon A little bit of humbug SEE ALSO: Clerks (Retail trade); Shoes; Sizes PDF IMAGES
863-864	Fashions for May/Department Fashions for May PDF IMAGES

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