Harper's Magazine: January 1856

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January 1856

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145-157	Fiction January first, A.D. 3000 SEE ALSO: Fantastic fiction; Utopias PDF IMAGES
158-178	Fiction Virginia illustrated. Adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins By David Hunter Strother PDF IMAGES
179-185	Article The senses. II.—Touch SEE ALSO: Touch PDF IMAGES
185-202	Fiction Half a lifetime ago SEE ALSO: Brothers and sisters PDF IMAGES
202-208	Article The way to get blown up SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Crimean War, 1853-1856; Explosives, Military; Torpedoes PDF IMAGES
208-216	Fiction Baby Bertie's Christmas SEE ALSO: Christmas stories PDF IMAGES
216-224	Article English wigs and gowns. By a barrister without wig or gown SEE ALSO: Circuit courts PDF IMAGES
224-234	Article Passages of Eastern travel. By an American By William Cowper Prime SEE ALSO: Alexandria (Egypt); Antiquities; Malta; Mediterranean Region PDF IMAGES
234-253	Fiction Little Dorrit (chaps. I-IV) By Charles Dickens PDF IMAGES
253-256	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
257-260	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A treatise on the differential and integral calculus, and on the calculus of variations (Book); Haven, Alice B. (Alice Bradley); Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia); Taylor, Bayard; Sawyer, Caroline M. (Caroline Mehetabel); Squier, E.G. (Ephraim George); Courtenay, Edward H[enry]; Lawrence, Eugene; Griswold, F. Burge (Frances Burge); Fern, Fanny; Frank Leslie's port-folio of fancy needle work (Book); Friedel; an autobiography (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Reed, Henry; Abbott, John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot); Bunkley, Josephine M.; Lectures on English history and tragic poetry, as illustrated by Shakespeare (Book); Napoleon at St. Helena; or, Interesting anecdotes and remarkable conversations of the emperor during the five and a half years of his captivity (Book); Notes on Central America; particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador (Book); Bailey, Philip James; Miles, Pliny; Poems of home and travel (Book); Postal reform: its urgent necessity and practicability (Book); Prince life (Book); Rose Clark (Book); Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot); Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell; The elm-tree tales (Book); The library of standard letters (Book); The lives of the British historians (Book); The mystic and other poems (Book); The poets and poetry of America (Book); The skeptical era in modern history; or, the infidelity of the eighteenth century, the product of spiritual despotism (Book); The testimony of an escaped novice from the sisterhood of St. Joseph, Emmettsburg, Maryland, the mother-house of the sisters of charity in the United States (Book); Translations (Book); Trauermantel; Post, Truman M. (Truman Marcellus); Van Horn PDF IMAGES
261-262	Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Henry J. (Henry Jarvis) Raymond SEE ALSO: 1783-1865 PDF IMAGES
262-264	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: American poetry; Critics; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Lectures and lecturing; Maud (Book); Oratory; Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES
264-265	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: American poetry; Criticism and interpretation; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; The song of Hiawatha (Book) PDF IMAGES
265-266	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; In memoriam (Book) PDF IMAGES
266-267	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: 1837-1901; 1853-1857 PDF IMAGES
267-268	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Holidays PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Buildings; Crystal Palace (New York, New York); Remodeling for other use PDF IMAGES
268-270	Editor's easy chair/Collection Editor's easy chair PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Competitions; Crimean War, 1853-1856; Paris (France) PDF IMAGES
269-270	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair SEE ALSO: Free love PDF IMAGES
270	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: New Year PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Perseverance (Ethics); Speech errors PDF IMAGES
271	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Counterfeits and counterfeiting PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American clergy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Northeastern States; Passenger-cars; Signs and signboards PDF IMAGES
272	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Clearing of land; Temperance PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fireplaces; Nostalgia PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Prime ministers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By William Hunnis SEE ALSO: 16th century; Wills PDF IMAGES
273	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Criticism, Textual; Criticism, Textual—Humor; Livy; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Art brut PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Quotation Editor's drawer By Samuel Johnson SEE ALSO: Teachers PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Teacher-student relationships PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Loans, Personal PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Sisters PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Thomas Hood and James Aldrich PDF IMAGES
274	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Syntax PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Hotel management PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Political ethics PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Hypochondria PDF IMAGES
275	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Frances M. Whitcher SEE ALSO: Remarriage PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cemeteries PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Jackson, Andrew; Anecdotes; Methodist preaching; Cartwright, Peter; Sermons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Career in Methodist ministry; Hedding, Elijah; Methodist Church PDF IMAGES
277	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Liquor laws PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Musical criticism; Parodies, imitations, etc. PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer By Thomas Hood PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Newspaper; Career in selling pills and ointments; Medicine; Newspaper editors; Holloway, Thomas PDF IMAGES
278	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Depersonalization PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Church membership PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Bills, Legislative; Knowledge—Telegraph; Morse, Samuel Finley Breese; Telegraph PDF IMAGES
279	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Amputees; Erie, Lake, Battle of, 1813 PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Church attendance PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer By Charles Dickens SEE ALSO: Accounting; Dickens, Charles; Great Britain. Parliament; Knowledge—British history PDF IMAGES
280	Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Liquor laws PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem A song By Josiah I. Cooper SEE ALSO: Execution, 1831—Poetry; Fuller; Murder PDF IMAGES
281	Cartoon The seat of war SEE ALSO: Nutrition PDF IMAGES
282	Cartoon The seven ages of virtue SEE ALSO: Virtue PDF IMAGES
283	Cartoon The seven ages of vice SEE ALSO: Vice PDF IMAGES
284-285	Cartoon Life insurance—a dream SEE ALSO: Insurance, Life; Nightmares PDF IMAGES
286	Cartoon Illustrations of ornithology PDF IMAGES
287-288	Fashions for January/Department Fashions for January PDF IMAGES