Harper's Magazine: December 1853

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December 1853

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1-17	Article Memoirs of the Holy Land. Bethlehem By Jacob Abbott SEE ALSO: Bethlehem; Birthplace; Jesus Christ; Palestine; To 70 A.D. PDF IMAGES
18-36	Fiction The Virginian Canaan. By a Virginian SEE ALSO: Adventure stories PDF IMAGES
36-54	Article A pilgrimage to Plymouth By Calvin Philleo SEE ALSO: Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.); Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony); Plymouth Bay (Mass.) PDF IMAGES
55-61	Fiction “Sweet bells jangled” PDF IMAGES
61-68	Fiction Four sights of a young man By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Parricide PDF IMAGES
68-76	Fiction Mr. Cottle and his friends SEE ALSO: Fiction; Historical fiction; Cottle, Joseph; Lake poets; Southey, Robert; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Wordsworth, William PDF IMAGES
76-77	Poem The hero of Lake Erie By Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman SEE ALSO: Perry, Oliver Hazard; Poem PDF IMAGES
77-86	Fiction Cock-a-doodle-doo! Or, the crowing of the noble cock Beneventano SEE ALSO: Human-animal relationships; Pastoral fiction PDF IMAGES
86-87	Fiction Letters to Sappho By H. SEE ALSO: Epistolary fiction; Fiction; Lesbos Island (Greece); Sappho PDF IMAGES
87-92	Article A visit to Overbeck's studio in the Cenci Palace SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Cenci, Beatrice; Home and haunts; Overbeck, Johann Friedrich; Rome (Italy) PDF IMAGES
93-97	Fiction Brackley House PDF IMAGES
97-104	Article What a “sight-seer” did see in one day SEE ALSO: Naples; Naples (Italy); Sightseeing business PDF IMAGES
104-118	Fiction The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family (chaps. IV-VI) By William Makepeace Thackeray PDF IMAGES
119-120	Article A bit of life in Oregon SEE ALSO: Indian women; Oregon; To 1859 PDF IMAGES
121-124	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
125-128	Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Henry J. (Henry Jarvis) Raymond SEE ALSO: Political corruption PDF IMAGES
128-130	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Clothing; Dandies; Eglantine, Tom PDF IMAGES
130	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Nationalism; Marcy, William L. (William Learned) PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Bremer, Fredrika; Privacy, Right of; Professional ethics; Table-talk; The homes of the new world: impressions of America (Book) PDF IMAGES
131-132	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Career in Arctic exploration; Northwest passage; McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier, Sir PDF IMAGES
132	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Popular literature; Popular music PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French PDF IMAGES
133-134	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Journey—Russia—Saint Petersburg; Rachel; Saint Petersburg (Russia) PDF IMAGES
134	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Speech anxiety PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Aged; Diseases; Youth PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American churches; Church attendance PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Assertiveness in women PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fishers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Verbal ability PDF IMAGES
135	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Trials PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: French; Homonyms PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Saint Louis; Tattooing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Australia; Compass PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Curricula; Women's colleges PDF IMAGES
136	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Table-moving (Spiritualism) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Sunday schools PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Parodies; Parodies, imitations, etc.; Moore, Thomas PDF IMAGES
137	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Birth announcements; Journalism, Rural PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Thomas Hood SEE ALSO: Seasons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mortality PDF IMAGES
138-140	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A memoir of the life and labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson. D.D. (Book); Gilson, Adrian; Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon (Book); Butler, E.H.; Beecher, Edward; Leutze, Emanuel; Wayland, Francis; Macilwain, George; God with men; or, foot-prints of providential leaders (Book); Nieritz, Gustav; Conant, H.C. (Hannah Chaplin); History of the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the letters and journals of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and offical documents not before made public (Book); Juvenile tales: the little drummer (Book); Girardet, Karl; Lady Lee's widowhood (Book); Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson); Memoirs of John Abernethy, F.R.S. (Book); Osgood, Samuel; Hamley, Edward Bruce, Sir; Sparing to spend; or, The Loftons and Pinkertons (Book); Arthur, T.S. (Timothy Shay); The American aboriginal portfolio (Book); The bow in the cloud (Book); The conflict of ages (Book); The czar and the sultan; or, Nicholas and Abdul Medjid (Book); Taylor, Tom; Washington crossing the Delaware (Book); Forsyth, William PDF IMAGES
141-142	Comicalities, original and selected/Cartoon Scenes in bachelor life SEE ALSO: Bachelors PDF IMAGES
143-144	Fashions for December/Department Fashions for December PDF IMAGES