Harper's Magazine: December 1854

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December 1854

CONTENTS
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1-25	Fiction Virginia illustrated. Adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins By David Hunter Strother PDF IMAGES
25-37	Article Napoleon Bonaparte. Saint Helena By John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott SEE ALSO: Captivity, 1815-1821; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Emperors; Exile—Saint Helena; Saint Helena (Great Britain) PDF IMAGES
37-49	Article The alligator SEE ALSO: Alligators PDF IMAGES
50-61	Article San Juan de Nicaragua PDF IMAGES
61-78	Fiction The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family (chaps. XXXIX-XLI) By William Makepeace Thackeray PDF IMAGES
78-82	Fiction A Russian reminiscence SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Historical fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 PDF IMAGES
82-99	Fiction Loss and gain: A tale of Lynn SEE ALSO: Lynn (Mass.); Sea stories PDF IMAGES
99-102	Article Sick body, sick brain SEE ALSO: Mental illness; Middle Ages; Mind and body; 476-1492; Plague PDF IMAGES
102-104	Article What do young men marry? PDF IMAGES
104-109	Fiction Adam Bennett's heirs SEE ALSO: Inheritance and succession PDF IMAGES
109-112	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
113-118	Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Henry J. (Henry Jarvis) Raymond SEE ALSO: Moral education PDF IMAGES
119-120	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Arctic (Ship); Collisions at sea; North Atlantic Ocean PDF IMAGES
120-122	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Career in Continental Army; Lee, Charles; Leutze, Emanuel; Washington, George; Monmouth, Battle of, 1778; Portraits; Washington at Monmouth (Book) PDF IMAGES
122-123	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Death and burial; Northwest passage; Franklin, John, Sir PDF IMAGES
123-124	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Career in singing; Designs and plans; Grisi, Giulia; Opera House (New York, New York); Theaters PDF IMAGES
124-129	Editor's easy chair/Article Our foreign gossip SEE ALSO: Alma, Battle of the, Ukraine, 1854; Career in the French theater; Paris (France); Rachel; Switzerland PDF IMAGES
129	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Charities PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
130	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Nostalgia PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Pickpockets PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Obesity PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Waiters PDF IMAGES
131-132	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Calcutta; Wagers PDF IMAGES
132	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fruit thieves PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Impostors and imposture PDF IMAGES
133	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mesmerism PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Lyons; Near-death experiences PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
134	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fire fighters PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alcoholism PDF IMAGES
135	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bells PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Compensation (Law); Fraud PDF IMAGES
136	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Arctic (Ship); Death and burial; Heroes; North Atlantic Ocean; Mann, Richard; Shipwrecks; Holland, Stewart PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Circuit riders; Dow, Lorenzo; Sermons PDF IMAGES
137-140	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A pictorial history of the United States: for schools and families (Book); A system of intellectual philosophy (Book); A treatise on nervous derangements (Book); A treatise on the camp and march. With which is connected the construction of field works and military bridges (Book); Afraja, a Norwegian and Lapland tale (Book); Afraja (Book); Mahan, Asa; Comte, Auguste; Taylor, Bayard; Lossing, Benson John; Morris, Edward Joy; Beaumont, Francis; Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing); Wayland, Francis; Ricord, Frederick W. (Frederick William); Curtis, George Ticknor; Martineau, Harriet; Gelzer, Heinrich; Grafton, Henry D. (Henry Dearborn); History of the origin, formation, and adoption of the Constitution of the United States; with notices of its principal framers (Book); Peters, John C. (John Charles); Fletcher, John; Poems (Book); Poems of the Orient (Book); The elements of intellectual philosophy (Book); The life of Martin Luther (Book); The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte (Book); The works of Beaumont and Fletcher; the text formed from a new collation of the early editions (Book); The world as it is (Book); The youth of Madame de Longueville, or new revelations of court and convent in the seventeenth century (Book); Mügge, Theodor; Cousin, Victor; Bryant, William Cullen PDF IMAGES
141-142	Comicalities, original and selected/Cartoon The first cigar SEE ALSO: Physiological effect; Tobacco PDF IMAGES
143-144	Fashions for December/Department Fashions for December PDF IMAGES