These publications of the day should from time to time be winnowed, the wheat carefully preserved, and the

chaff thrown away."

VOL. XIV.

JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, 1847.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY E. LITTELL & COMPANY.
PHILADELPHIA, M. CANNING & Co., 272 Chesnut Street.

NEW YORK, BERFORD & Co., Astor House.

STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE A. CURTIS.

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Rifle,

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in, .

Birthday Confab,

514 | Ross' Voyage to the Antarctic Transportation, Horrors of, . 306
Capt. B. to Lord H. F., 95

Regions,

241 Thief-making and Thief-taking, 408

Restriction, Beauties of, 300 Töpffer, Rudolph, .
Charles Edward at Preston-

442
Relaxation of Law,

301
pans,
468

TALES

303
Country Home,
513

Armenian Leper,

378
Russia, De Hell's Travels in, 463

Arm Chair,

558
Emigrant's Song, . 180 Rat and Ferret,

514
Earth's Angels,
427 Rejected and Elect,

543 Capsicum House, 30, 165, 426,
Eternal Justice, .
555 Royal Heartlessness, 555

470
Flowers from an Old Home,

Races that Rule the World, . 140 Comedy in a Court-yard, 228
557
Railway Potentates,

586

Chinese Ghost Story, 515
Gray Forest Eagle,
37

Cardan, the Bigamist, . . 599
Stockton St. Anne's,

46
Emerald Studs, .

561
Huntsman, The,
72 Slave Trade,

82

Hook, Grandmother,
Joanna of Spain,

410
Superstitions, Popular, Truths
304

83
Jenny kissed me,

Living and Dead,

502
425
Jamie's on the Stormy Sea,

Spain, Condition of,

172
605
Steerage, The,

215
Masorcha Club,

208
King John,
91 Slave System of England,

Montauk Point,

424

235
Kennst du das Land, 208 Seat of Government,

302
Miller's Niece,

451
Sundon Viscountess,
310

93
Lady Mary, .

Organ, Remarkable,
48

337
Stuarts, The Heirs of the,

Only Son,
Leaving a Place,

209
166
Sand-hillers, The, :

369
Philip Armytage,

49
Mother's Memories,
208 Sea-piece, A,

404

Somerset, Earl of, Trial, 417 Shepherd of the Giant Moun-
Nature and Art,

180
Shepherd of the Giant Moun-

tains,

472
Passy,
432 tains,

472
Virginia, Strike in,

43
Simeon, Rev. Charles, and his
Railway Riding,
556

413

Varnhagen Von Ense,
Predecessors,

477
Sonnet,
598 Switzerland,

523
Wines,

78
Statesmanship, New Tenure
Wife to her Husband, 471

213
524 Washington Monument,

of, :
We are Wiser,
513 Scotticisms and Solecisms, 596 Wilson, Professor,

551
Yankee Character,

317
Queen's Visit to Scotland, 543 Table Etiquette in Seventeenth
Queen Louisa of Prussia, 547 Century,

72 Zoology, Stray Notes in,

INDEX TO VOL. XIV. OF LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.

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503

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Assaying Metals,

153 England, Elections in, 518, 519, The Mexican Race, 135
Awakening, The, :
167

543 Mormon Battalion, . 136
Assam and the Hill Tribes, . 193 Edwards' Voyage up the Am-

El Republicano,

• 137
America, Progress of, 194 azon,

545 Doniphan and Xenophon, . 137
Ancient World,
314 Emerald Studs,

561
Letters from,

139
Australia, Interior of,
366

Outrage on British Subject
Armenian Leper,
376 Females, Protection of, 526

in,

191
Africa, Central, Progress of
,

Foreign Policy of England, . 545 American Newspapers in, 317
Discovery in,

416 Foster, Life Correspon- Letter from a Native of Pue-
Antiquity of the Earth, 516

dence of,

98
bla, :

382
Arm Chair,

558 France and the United States, Guerilla Warfare in, 406
Absorption of Weaker Na-
Early Relations of, 170 Peace Party in,

431
tions,

585

Provincial Legends of, 196 A Volunteer's Letter,
Colonizers from, 461 Paredes,

. 551
Bank of England a Curse, 45 Corruption in,

522
British Navy,
74 Francis, St., Life of, · 348 Merimée, Prosper,

154
Burritt, Elihu, i
129 Fry, Mrs.,

183, 199 Men, Women, and Books, 188
Blind Slave in the Mines, .206

Maria Louisa,

321
Bosjemans,

215 Greek Christian’s Pilgrimage Magnetic Telegraph, 334
Bread,

336
to Jordan,
27 Montauk Point,

-424
Bear-hunting in California, 370 Gouraud, Professor, 82 Miller's Niece,

451
Beauty, The Use of, . 371 Godolphin, Mrs. Evelyn's Life Mind and Matter,

549
Beaumont and Fletcher, .
385 of,
181 Masorcha Club,

268
Browne's Whaling Cruise, · 395 Great Calamities,

227
Bible, The Lands of, ,

33
399 Grands Jours d'Auvergne, 250

Night in the Forest,
Brougham, Lord,
429 Garden, Old-fashioned, 334

North America, Siberia and
Burns,

60
441 Glaciers, Garden of,

Russia,

373
Balloon, Bursting of, 523 Gutta Percha,

New Bedford, Whaling, &c., 73

402
Brownell's Poems,
593 German Lady Novelists,
: 577 Navigation Laws, .

141
Banvard's Panorama,

Natural Sanitary Agencies, . 220
594
Hemans, Mrs.,

126 Non-intervention a Humbug, 285
Capsicum House, 30, 165,426,478 Hail-storm, :

169 Neal, Joseph C.,

326
Cottle's Reminiscences, 123 Hook, Grandmother, 410 Nantucket,

401
Copenhagen,
130 Honor and Riches,

526 Napoleon at St. Helena, 606
Colonization,

173
Chalmers, Dr., 175, 214,380, 481 India, British, Tenure of, 175 Organ, Remarkable,

93
China, Fortune's Wanderings
Italy, Mr. Cobden in, 192 O'Connell,

119, 163
in,

224
the Pope,

139

522, 541 Oregon, Colonization of, .
Chinese Protest,

Only Son,

209
500
IRELAND

Omnibus, English,

538
524, 546
and the European Sys-

American Women in, . 303

381 Punch, 28, 239, 249, 287, 479,556

Coming Confiscation in,
tem,

284
Bennett's Six Weeks' Jour- Philip Armytage,

49
Comedy in a Court-yard, 228

529 Piano in Illinois,

80
Cobden, Mr.,

192, 267

Sixty Years Ago, 537 Present and Future,
Clothing for the Young, .

118
333
What Ireland Wants,
283 Pacific Rovings,

145
Caoutchouc, Vulcanized, . 397

Peru, Prescott's Conquest of, 120
Cheap Papers in London,
428 Jamaica, Birds of, .

433

176, 289
Chinese Ghost-story, :

466 Portugal, English Interven-
Coulter's South America, 530 Jaunts in the Jungle, . 509 tion,

205
Correspondence,
574, 617

Poor Relations of Kings, 222
Cardan, the Bigamist, 599 Kayat, Autobiography of,

78 Pension List,

286
Dogs, Natural History of, 17 Lovat, Lord, and Duncan

Protector, by Merle D'Au-
Duelling,

305

bigné,
216 Forbes,

1
Darien, Trip across the Isth- Letheon, Discoverer of,

Pestilence, Moral Effects of, 333
75
Potato Failure,

364
mus,

217 Intoxication from Ether, 213
Davie Campbell,

237
Fresh Facts, .

Picture-book without Pictures, 469

603
Damascus, Journey to,

471

Panama, Isthmus of,
318 Lakes, Mr. Greeley's Travels
Dog of Alcibiades,

Parliaments of 1841 and 1847, 519
327
on,

81
Disinfecting Fluid,
368 | Liberia,

Men of the late, 520

142
Drummond Light, .

521

Peel Manifesto,
470 Lady, Memoirs of a, 505
Death Chamber,

522
477 Living and Dead, .

Prussian Diet,

552
Drowning,
499

POETRY
Dunlop's Central America,

Agatha,

16
Death turned to Life, . 5-13

British Press and Mexican

Album,

605

39, 89, 192, 202
Europe, Progress of, . 174 British Trade with,

47 Black Prince,

91
Education, Dr. Chalmers on, 303

88
Blind Boy,

207