Harper's Magazine: December 1855

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December 1855

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1-25	Article The conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortez By John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott SEE ALSO: America; Aztecs; Cuitlahua, Emperor of Mexico; Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico; First contact with Europeans; Cortez, Hernando; 16th century; Spanish; Veracruz (Veracruz, Mexico) PDF IMAGES
25-41	Article Remembrances of the Mississippi By Thomas Bangs Thorpe SEE ALSO: M'Coy, Bill; Frontier and pioneer life; Mississippi River; Mississippi River Valley; River boats; River life; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
41-44	Fiction Disinterested friendship. By a bachelor SEE ALSO: Bachelors PDF IMAGES
45-57	Article A trip to Newfoundland SEE ALSO: Atlantic; Cables, Submarine; Newfoundland; Passenger accommodation; Steamboats PDF IMAGES
57-73	Fiction The knocker SEE ALSO: Ghost stories PDF IMAGES
73-81	Article The senses. I.—Taste SEE ALSO: Mouth PDF IMAGES
81-86	Fiction Winifred's vow SEE ALSO: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) PDF IMAGES
86-91	Article A basket of thunderbolts SEE ALSO: Lightning; Meteors; November; Thunderstorm electricity PDF IMAGES
91-96	Fiction Sister Anne SEE ALSO: Single women PDF IMAGES
96-101	Article Bellot. His adventures and death in the Arctic regions SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; British; Career in Arctic exploration; Explorers; Greenland; Inuit; Bellot, Joseph René; Franklin, John, Sir; Kennedy, William PDF IMAGES
101-110	Fiction Every inch a king SEE ALSO: Asia; Colonies PDF IMAGES
111-114	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
114-118	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Meek, A.B. (Alexander Beaufort); A child's history of the United States (Book); A new and comprehensive French instructor (Book); Chalmers, Alexander; An outline of the general principles of grammar (Book); Hall, Baynard Rush; Lossing, Benson John; Lamb, Charles; Early religious education considered as the divinely appointed way to the regenerate life (Book); Dixon, Edward H.; Williams, Edwin; English grammar (Book); Batchelor, George; Harper's classical library (Book series); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Beecher, Henry Ward; Hoaryhead and M'Donner (Book); Hackett, Horatio B. (Horatio Balch); Illustrations of Scripture: suggested by a tour through the Holy Land (Book); Barton, J. Graeff; Abbott, Jacob; Jackson, James; Bonner, John; Keble, John; Bacon, Leonard; Letters to a young physician just entering upon practice (Book); Lily. A novel (Book); Metrical pieces, translated and original (Book); Mexico and its religion; with incidents of travel in that country during parts of years 1851-52-53-54, and historical notices of events, connected with places visited (Book); Frothingham, N.L. (Nathaniel Langdon); Winslow, Octavius; Plymouth collection of hymns and tunes; for the use of Christian congregations (Book); Crallé, Richard K. (Richard Kenner); Wilson, Robert Anderson; Scenes in the practice of a New York surgeon (Book); Select practical writings of Richard Baxter, with a life of the author (Book); Andrews, Stephen Pearl; King, Susan Petigru; The British essayists; with prefaces, historical and biographical (Book); The Christian year (Book); The funeral sermon on the death of Rev. Spencer Houghton Cone, D.D., late pastor of the First Baptist Church, New York (Book); The glory of the Redeemer (Book); The national history of the United States, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington (Book); The new purchase; or, early years in the far West (Book); The pleasures of hope, with other poems (Book); The prison of Weltevreden: and a glance at the East Indian Archipelago. Illustrated from original sketches (Book); The Red Eagle. A poem of the South (Book); The song of Hiawatha (Book); The works of Charles Lamb (Book); The works of John C. Calhoun (Book); Armitage, Thomas; Campbell, Thomas; Gibson, Walter Murray; Fowler, William Chauncey; Cowper, William; Eliot, William Greenleaf PDF IMAGES
119-123	Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Henry J. (Henry Jarvis) Raymond SEE ALSO: 1783-1865 PDF IMAGES
123-124	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Travel etiquette PDF IMAGES
124-125	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Lectures and lecturing; Lyceums; Oratory; Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES
125-126	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: American; Arctic regions; Career in Arctic exploration; Kane, Elisha Kent; Explorers PDF IMAGES
126-127	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Courtesy; Crinolines PDF IMAGES
127-128	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Dickens, Charles; Little Dorrit (Book); Serialized fiction; The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family (Book); Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES
128-129	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Cremation; Passenger-cars; Passenger traffic PDF IMAGES
129	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Political ethics; Suffrage PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Collection Editor's easy chair PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: End of the world; Cumming, John; 1848-1871; Prophecies PDF IMAGES
130-131	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855; Harvesting machinery; Painting, American PDF IMAGES
131	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Napoleon III, Emperor of the French; Restaurants PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Diplomatic etiquette PDF IMAGES
132	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Pyat, Félix; Newspaper publishing; Views on socialism PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Assaults against; Career in British army; Crimean War, 1853-1856; Vane, Ernest; Great Britain. Army; Participation, British; Theatrical managers PDF IMAGES
133-134	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Crimean War, 1853-1856; Great Britain. Army; Military art and science; Participation, British; Sevastopol' (Ukraine); Siege, 1854-1855 PDF IMAGES
134	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Career in French theatrical criticism; Foreign public opinion, French; Journeys—United States; Janin, Jules Gabriel; Rachel PDF IMAGES
135	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Seasons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Remarriage PDF IMAGES
136	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Tobacco chewing PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cholera; Dutch Americans; Methodists; New Orleans PDF IMAGES
137	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Coaching; Dutch Americans; Reformed Church in America PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Societies, etc.; Temperance PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Liquor laws PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Barbering PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Postal service PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Judicial discretion PDF IMAGES
138	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Epigrams PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Burke, Edmund; Oratory; Political oratory PDF IMAGES
139	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Benjamin Franklin SEE ALSO: Remainders (Bookselling) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Suicide victims PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Coaching; Gossip PDF IMAGES
140	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Hyperion, a romance (Book); Rejection (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
141-142	Cartoon Hon. Mr. Bloemup's congressional experience PDF IMAGES
143-144	Fashions for December/Department Fashions for December PDF IMAGES