PUTNAM'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF Imerican Literature, Science, and Art. VOL. I. JANUARY TO JUNE 1853. NEW-YORK: LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO. M.DCCC.LIII. Harvard College Library Gift of and Mrs. Thorp, 9 Jan, 1895, ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by G. P. PUTNAM & CO., In the Clerk's Office in the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. of the German-One Year of Wedlock-Writings of Prof. B. B. Edwards-Boyd's Cowper-E, C. Wines' Ambassador in Spite of Himsell, ... Andrew Cranberry-Attorney-at-Law,. Are we a good-looking People ?. Benevolent Institutions of New York, Bunsen's Hippolitus--Thackeray's Henry Esmond-- Tenny. son's Odoon Wellington--Felinski's Revelations of Siberia-Wanderings of a Pilgrim-- Alison's New His. tory-Mrs. Hall's Pilgrimages-Collins's Basil-- Tenants of the Woods-Hend's Ireland, etc. . . . . . . 107 “The Times" on Henry Esmond-Layard's Babylon--Life of Niebuhr-Editorship of Edinburgh Review-Welling- and by Mrs. Moodie. . Lecturers--Faber's new work on the Prophecies-Gulis- 340 584 694 Kraitair's Glossology-Children of Light-Romance of Student Life-Clark's Knick-knacke Goodrich's British Oraton Barry Comwall's Prose--Macaulay's Speeches -Hildreth'. Theory of Politics-Prismatics--Bancroft's Revolution-Downing'. Horticultural Papers-Meagher's Speeches-Lectures-Cooper Monument --Hale's Wo- men's Record--McLeods Life of Sir Walter Scott. 106 Christmas Books-Reprints of Alford's and Mackay's Pooms- "To-day "Critics Differ-Land of the Caesar and the Doge-Rector of St. Bardolph-War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th Century-American Books in England Callicott's Gazetteer-Industrial Exhibition After the Holidaye-The Footpath and Highway-Ander- bon's American Villa Architecture--Matt Ward's Eng- . 935 Copyright Treaty-Note on harsh judgment-Stoddard's Adventures in Fairy Land-Calhoun's Works-Beccher's Works-Amabel-Dr. Skinner's Translation of Vinet's Pastoral Theology-Neander's Library-Judge Story's Life--Memoir of Whonton--Thalatta-Considerations Works of William H. Seward-Lives of the Brothers Hum- boldt-The Captive in Patagonia-Correspondence of the Revolution-Raral Eesaye by Downing-New Bond of Love-Stuart's Naval and Mail Steamers-Bartlett's Commercial and Banking Tables-Autobiography of an English Soldier--Virginalia-Reason and Faith ---Jeffer- son's Works-Willis's Cruise in the Mediterranean-Dr. Prismaties, by Richard Haywarde- Judge Campbell's Captain Kidd and Robin Hood - The Translators Revived -Mre. Ellett's Summer Rambles-Literature of the Now Rome, or the United States of the World--Thalatta III. French and German Literature. XIX. Siècle--Histories of the Restoration Origines de Horace and his Friends-Gutzkow's Autobiography. 109 tre-John Lemoinne-Traité de Chimie Révue Arche 934 Works of Napoleon I.--New work on Asia Minor-Pon- 342 Tartuffe--Jules Janin on Canary Bird g-Mirimée's False 464 borski's Essai sur les conséquences éventuelles de la dé. Meditation by Paul Potiphar, Esq., Music (See Editorial Notes). 816 de Printemps-La Lotus de la Bonne Loi-Madame Gir. placker's American Travels. 1848–Stanislas Julien--Thierry's History of the Forma- Charlet-Bozquet's History of the French Clergy. Poet's Night-Quartere Patriotic Poems Gedichte, by 696 Italy The Civita Catholics-The Hebrew of Verona, 347 Belgium :-Reply to Certain Journals relative to the af- 588 694 V. Soientific Intelligence, 114, 286, 847 525 102 Fine Arts (See Editorial Notes). 45 49 Scientific Intelligence (See Editorial Notes). Small Story of the Confossional, Smithson, James; Anecdote of,. St. Nicholas, The; and the Five Points,. PUTNAM'S MONTHLY. 2 Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art. VOL. 1,-JANUARY 1853.—NO. I. INTRODUCTORY. A perpetually taking form—that the regions of space are but a celestial dairy, in which the milky way is for ever churned into stars. Nor do the new stars extinguish the old; for, as the thirteenth man in the omnibus always says—there is room for one more. It will not, therefore, surprise the public to see a new Magazine. The reader, like the astronomer cognizant of infinite star-dust, knows very well that in the rapid life of this country there is a constant scintillation of talent, which needs only & nucleus to be combined into beams of light and heat. Taking the reader, therefore, by the hand, or rather by the eye, here at the portal, we invite a moment's conversation before he passes within. A man buys a Magazine to be amused—to be instructed, if you please, but the lesson must be made amusing. He buys it to read in the cars, in his leisure hours at. home-in the hotel, at all chance moments. It makes very little difference to him whether the article date from Greece or Guinea, if it only interest him. He does not read upon principle, and troubles himself little about copyright and justice to authors. If a man goes to Timbuctoo and describes his visit picturesquely and well, the reader devours the story, and is not at all concerned because the publisher may have broken the author's head or heart, to obtain the man anuscript. A popular Magazine must amuse, interest and instruct, or the public will pass by upon the other side. Nor will it be persuaded to "come over and help us” by any consideration of abstract right.. It says, very justly, “ if you had no legs, why did you try to walk ?” It is because we are confident that neither Greece nor Guinea can offer the American reader a richer variety of instruction and amusement in every kind, than the country whose pulses throb with his, and whose every interest is his own, that this Magazine presents itself to-day. The genius of the old world is affluent; we owe much to it, and we hope to owe more. But we have no less faith in the opulence of our own resources. Not alone in the discussion of those graver contemporary interests: of every kind, which is the peculiar province of the foreign Quarterly Review, but in the treatment of minor matters of daily experience, which makes so much of the distinctive charm of a Magazine, we hold to the conviction that our genius is as: good as it is in practical affairs. To an American eye, life in New-York, for instance. offers more, and more interesting, aspects, than life in London or Paris. Or, again, life. VOL. 1.-1 |