Harper's Magazine: December 1857

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December 1857

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

1-2	Poem A visit from Saint Nicholas By Clement Clarke Moore SEE ALSO: Santa Claus PDF IMAGES Collection A Christmas garland of American poems PDF IMAGES
3-4	Poem Snow—a winter sketch By Ralph Hoyt SEE ALSO: Snow PDF IMAGES
4-6	Poem Blessings on children By William Gilmore Simms PDF IMAGES
6-8	Poem On lending a punch-bowl By Oliver Wendell Holmes PDF IMAGES
8-9	Poem Bronx By Joseph Rodman Drake PDF IMAGES
10	Poem Excelsior By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SEE ALSO: Ambition; Mountaineering PDF IMAGES
11-12	Poem Maud Muller By John Greenleaf Whittier PDF IMAGES
12-13	Poem The husband's and wife's grave By Richard Henry Dana PDF IMAGES
14-15	Poem Song of Marion's men By William Cullen Bryant SEE ALSO: Marion, Francis; Guerrilla warfare; Poem PDF IMAGES
15-16	Poem King Witlaf's drinking-horn By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SEE ALSO: Monks PDF IMAGES
16-18	Poem Connecticut By Fitz-Greene Halleck PDF IMAGES
19-35	Article Madras, in pictures SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Diaries; Madras; Missionaries PDF IMAGES
35-48	Article The king conquered By John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott SEE ALSO: Causes; France. Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-1791); Louis XVI, King of France; Louis XVI, 1774-1793; 1648-1789; Revolution, 1789-1799 PDF IMAGES
48-56	Fiction Our Christmas at The Pines SEE ALSO: Christmas stories PDF IMAGES
56-67	Fiction Professor Henneberg SEE ALSO: Fantastic fiction; Transmigration PDF IMAGES
67-72	Fiction Love experiences of an impressible man PDF IMAGES
72-77	Article Our daughters SEE ALSO: Life skills guides PDF IMAGES
78-83	Fiction How one woman came to marry PDF IMAGES
83-84	Article Economical beauty SEE ALSO: Aesthetics PDF IMAGES
84-89	Article Water cure life in Europe By John William De Forest SEE ALSO: European acquaintance: being sketches of people in Europe (Book); Health resorts; Hydrotherapy; De Forest, John William PDF IMAGES
89	Poem The strong man PDF IMAGES Article A night with a mosquito SEE ALSO: Human-animal relationships; Mosquitoes PDF IMAGES
92-108	Fiction The Virginians (chap. I-IV) By William Makepeace Thackeray SEE ALSO: French and Indian War, 1755-1763; George II, 1727-1760 PDF IMAGES
109-114	Fiction Jack of all trades. A matter of fact romance (caps 1-2) By Charles Reade SEE ALSO: Elephants; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES
114-116	Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events PDF IMAGES
117-119	Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Livingstone, David; Humphrey, Heman; Missionary travels and researches in South Africa (Book); The life and labors of the Rev. T.H. Gallaudet, LL. D. (Book) PDF IMAGES
120-125	Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Cheerfulness PDF IMAGES
125-126	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Financial crises; To 1865 PDF IMAGES
126-127	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Financial crises PDF IMAGES
127-128	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Financial crises PDF IMAGES
128-129	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Thanksgiving Day PDF IMAGES Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Financial crises; Noyes, James Oscar; Publishers and publishing; Roumania; the border land of the Christian and the Turk, comprising adventures of travel in eastern Europe and western Asia (Book) PDF IMAGES
129-130	Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Art appreciation; Art museums; Millais, John Everett, Sir; The Huguenot lovers (Book) PDF IMAGES
130-134	Editor's easy chair/Article Our foreign gossip SEE ALSO: Manin, Daniel; Death and burial; Foreign public opinion, French; Obituaries; Paris (France); Venice PDF IMAGES
134	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: “Editor's drawer” (Harper's); Letters to the editor PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Homeopathy; Little Rock PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Quakers; Wife abuse PDF IMAGES
135	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Church charities PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Marriage customs and rites PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Daguerreotype PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baptists; Sermons PDF IMAGES
136	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Appointment, call, and election PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Crimes against; Errors of usage; Jury selection; New Haven PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Control; Knoxville; Secular employment PDF IMAGES
137	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Orientation PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Career in law; Contempt of court; Brown, James T.; Summation (Law) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Career in law; Brown, James T.; Summation (Law) PDF IMAGES
138	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Birds; Collection and preservation; Taxidermy PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Collecting of accounts PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
139	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Causation PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Fiction Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Breeding; Chickens; Tall tales PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Williamstown PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Erie County; Errors of usage; Jurors PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Sons PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Conduct of court proceedings PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer PDF IMAGES
140	Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Instructions to juries PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Clerks (Retail trade) PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Human-animal relationships; St. Louis PDF IMAGES Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Extraction; Teeth PDF IMAGES
141-142	Cartoon Imagination versus reality SEE ALSO: Dandies PDF IMAGES
143-144	Fashions for December/Department Fashions for December PDF IMAGES