INDEX TO VOL. XXXVIII.

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. 595

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. 128

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America Cosmopolitically Viewed,

3 Dolls,

344

Australian Mirage,

64 Dwarfed Races,

Exploration,
153 Decimal Coinage,

640

American Authors,

154, 481, 801 Denmark and Russia,

703

Aunt Rosemary,

161

Excursion in Norway and, 793

Anglo-Saxon Growth,

171 Darien, Isthmus,

763

Attorney, The

232

Atlas, Ancient and Modern,

256 Eclipse, Solar, from Norwegian Mountain, . 207

Acquaintances, Making

348 Epitaph,

258, 383, 386, 450

Asparagus,

384 English in Ireland,

· 467

AFRICA—Galton's Explorations,

225 Electric Telegraph,

542, 796

Aztec Mystery,

506

People,

. 540 Famine in India,

87

Adjustment of our System,

.549 Frozen Ships,

Austrian Court in Eighteenth Century, .579 France, its Navy, .

••••••

. 166

Feuilletons,

. 175

Books, Fireside Gossip about,

. 17

New Battle Field in,

. 178

Notices of, 130, 192, 194, 203, 222, 233, Protestant Refugees,

· 451

249, 256, 270, 317, 320, 327, 336, 417, 427,

Literature,

..486

448, 467, 487, 576, 618, 681, 751, 768 Fox, Charles, a Day with,

. 250

Buckingham, Duke of,

209 Frontier Lands, Turk and Christian, . 289

Bees, Intelligence in,

311 Franklin, Sir John, .

309

Bertha's Love,

370, 671 Faraday on Table Moving,

442

Bacon and Raleigh,

.427 Free Trade and Peace,

Blue Bag, Character in a, :

.507 French in South Seas,

599

Beauty,

657

British Cabinet in 1853,

788 Guarded Secrets,

78

Browne, Sir Thomas, Bishop Ken and,. 817

Goethe's Poems,

123

Giants, Adventures with,

149

Crown and Broad-Brim in Bavaria, .

20 Gas, First Use of,

. 152

Clergy, French, Manners and Miseries of, 67

Galton's South Africa,

225

Clocks, American, for China,

77

Gentlemen in History, .

418

Celestial Love,

126

Gold Digging, Dangers of,

Cherries, Stoning beforehand,

148

154

China, Crusades in,

Hawthorne, N.,

172

191

Tea. Trade,

Horse and Ox Labor,

180

234

Hurst, Miss,

Rebellion,

655,798

308

Chinoise, Christianity à la,

Hecla,

797

Colza Oil,

Hermit of St. Paul's,

313

204

Coquette,

245 Haydon, Benj. R.,

421,550, 609

Canvass Town,

.512

Hannay on Satiric Literature,

273

Hobbs' Locks,

640

Century of Inventions,

283

. 684

Castlereagh's Correspondence,

Hop Garden,

322

Chalmers' Dr., Autograph,

787

Hogarth's Picture,

327

Census Details,

328

2

Iron Houses, .

Cat's Mount,

331

Chloroform,

176

Italy, Situation of,

412

Cabbage,

• 208

Idler, Dropped Number of,

427

Idiots,

Chimneys,

. 428

Indian Beauty, :

Cowper,

Irish Old Clothes, .

Coasting Trade,

656

Untruthfulness,

Crawford,

. 667

Cachette of Nantes,

Inglefield's Search for Franklin,

. 309

748

.511

Chinese Shaster,

Iniquity, Cost of,

761

Curtis, George William,

801

Jews in England, .

488

537

Jasmin, An Evening with,

Dunlap, Dr.,

16

De Quincey's Autobiography, 126, 319 Knox, John,

387
Daughters of Charles 1.,

183 Ken, Bishop and Sir Thomas Browne, .817

Demerara,

271

Derby Doctors,

306 Lady Lee's Widowhood, 49, 107, 861, 619

Dardanelles and the Sound,

318 Lake Fishing in Winter,

.

63

. 321

. 165

. 428

653

. 165

. 257

369

.. 383

258

343

578, 642

128

706

. 165

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.

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Likenesses,

215 Barry Cornwall, Song by,

La Place and Biot,

298 Bath, A,.

Layard, and Sardanapolis,

312

Communion of Saints,

Lady Novelists of Great Britain,

471

Contented Man,

Louis Philippe's Birth .

477

Literary Ladies' Maid,

Contrast,

745

Life in the Clearings,

818 Defeated Manoeuvres,

Deserted Road,

Manners, Hints on,

64

Dying Husband,

Mirage in Australia,

64

Day Dream,

Meat, Magazines of,

266

Mount Vernon, .

272 Express, .

Mulatto Literature,

296 Eleusinia,

Melville, Herman,

481 Evening,

Macaulay as a Senator,

492

Field Flower, Choosing,

Moore's Letters to Power,

493

Thomas, from Gent. Mag.,

497 Good Night,

from Quarterly Review, 707

Heavenly Husbandry, .

Midland Town in Reign Geo. III.,

508

Mercantile Marine,

642 Ivy in the Dungeon,

Man, the Isle of,

685

Infant Kiss,
Macgillivray, William,

752 Kilimandjaro,
Moodie's Life in the Clearings,

818

Little Straw Hat,

Northern Seas, Clearness,

214

Lotos-Eating,

Napoleon at St. Helena,

. 429,532

Last Retrospection,

Norway and Denmark, Excursions in, 793

Lines, .

Newstead Abbey, .

.800

Leaf on Stream,

Listening Angels,

Owen, Richard,

337

Little Shoe,

Oriental Cases,

611

Noontide,

Onions,

640

Night, .

Prince of Madagascar,

31, 97

Omnipotence,
Portraiture, Facts and Faces,

87

Pic-Nic, .
Pastage to the Colonies,

127

Poets' Morning,

Penny, Triumph of,

: 796

Plaint of Freedom,

Returns,

.610
Paradise in the Pacific,

. 131 Stowe, Mrs., from Punch,

Pleuro-Pneumonia,

. 189 Sun and Shadow,

Peterborough's Life,

. 230 Shadow on the Way,

Poets in Perugia,

.244 Seaside, Stanzas by,

Poison-Eaters,

. 264

Storm,

Pallisser's Adventures in Prairies,

. 268 Spinning Wheel Song,

Parsees, Modern,

. 280

Sonnets,

Pooh! Pooh!

. 287 Sonnet, The,

Parsley, :

. 330

Poets in Holland,

350

Topsy's Song,

Telegraph, British and Irish,

PUNCH :

Voice, The,

Royal Dock Yards,

1

Venice, Englishmen in,

Canine Madness,

16

Crown and Broadbrim,

20

Wondrous Well,

Marriages under Difficulties,

64

Youth,

Live-Legged Tables,

129

Railway Deaths, English Law on,
Historical Questions,

336

Rousseau, Life and Character,

Protestant French Refugees,

451 Rivers, Declivity of,

in Syria,

704 Robbins, Eliza,

Potatoes,

479 Recreation, Out-door,

Pea,

53 Rhubarb Wine,

Power Loom,

544 Russia, Its Court and Cabinet,

Papier Maché Houses,

638

Prussian Court, Aristocracy and Diplomacy, 643 Singing, Sound Sense in,

Peter the Great’s Policy,.

651 Steam Packets,

Syria,

POETRY :

Protestants in,

Activity, Royal Dock Yard, .

1

Early Christian Literature of,

Angel of Patience,

2 Slavery, can it be abolished,

April, .

198 | Savage, Noble,

C

.668 • 800

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• 245

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Stonehege, Etymology of,
513 | Thackeray's English Humorists,

292 Smith, Capt. John,

515
New American Theme,

476 Statistics, Sunshine of, . 654 Turks in Europe, .

571, 573 Spain, Paradise of, . 659 Tuski, Ten Montbs among,

. 597 Sisters of Provence, .682 Feast,

639 Salad for the Solitary, .

757 | True Story, Szecklers, a Singular People,

. 765 Thunder Roots, .
Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Life in, . 793
Shelley, a Poem by, not in his Works, 819 TALES :
Sage, Virtues of,

806
Aunt Rosemary,

161 Sex, Which is the Weaker,

824
Bertha's Love,

370, 671 Tennyson's Oriana,

2

Coquette, The, Tuileries till 1815 and after,

21

81 Trappists, Traits of, .

820

Dining out for the Papers, TURKISH QUESTION :

Guarded Secrets,

78

234

Hurst, Miss,
Connection with European Politics, by
Capt. Spencer,

88
Hermit of St. Paul's,

313 Rumors of War,

301 East and Europe, 304 Incident of My Childhood,

811 Dardanelles and Sound,

. 310

Lady Lee's Widowhood, 49, 107, 351, 619 England or Russia,

504 Position of Austria,

Prince of Madagascar,

31, 97 Russia and Turkey,

506
Sisters of Provence,

682 Nesselrode's Last, War with Russia,

558
True Story,

668 Negotiations on,

. 560
Waists of American Ladies,

122 Why Russia should be now resisted, Warburton's Peterborough,

230 Eastern Question,.

563
Watson's Cruise in the Ægean,

446 England's Interest,

565

Wainwright, the Murderer,
Russia and Turkey, •

567
Wilson, Geo.,

. 479 Crisis of,

695
Wilkie's First London Picture,

. 490 Table Moving, 174, 442 Why Shave?

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LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.- No. 476. — 2 JULY, 1853.

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CONTENTS.

1. America from the Cosmopolitical Point of View, British Quarterly Review,

3

2. A Fireside Gossip about Books,

Hogg's Instructor,

17

3. The Tuileries till 1815, and after 1815, Bentley's Miscellany,

21

4. The Prince of Madagascar,

From the German of Karl Gutzkow, 31

5. Lady Lee's Widowhood — Part V.,

Blackwood's Magazine, .

49

POETRY: The Little Straw Hat — Activity in the Royal Dockyards, 1; The Age of Patience

- A Swell's Homage to Mrs. Stowe, 2; Omnipotence, 30; Sun and Shadow, 48 ; Song

by Barry Cornwall, 63.

SHORT ARTICLES : Tennyson's Oriana — Portable Homes, 2; Dr. Dunlop - Canine Mad-

ness, 16; The Crown and the Broad-brim in Bavaria, 20; Hints as to - Manures - - The

Mirage in Australia - Marriage under Difficulties - Sound Sense in Singing, 64.

-

BY AN EYE-WITNESS.

THE LITTLE STRAW HAT.

And I hear the tones which in heaven have

birth

'Tis a dear little hat, and it hangs there still — 0, call him not hack to this saddened earth !

And its voice of the past bids our heart-strings

thrill,

From Punch.

For it seems like a shadow of days passed o'er,
Of the bright one who that hat once wore. ACTIVITY IN THE ROYAL DOCKYARDS.
'Tis a dear little hat, for each simple braid
Tells that oft o'er its plaiting those fingers played, I stood in Portsmouth, on the Dockyard ground,
And many a wreath for its crown hathi been

And looked about for industry's display ;
twined,

But when of work I did not hear the sound,
To the grateful taste of his youthful mind.

I thought, of course, it was a holiday.
Yes ; there silent it hangs with its curling front,

I was mistaken ; things pursued their course

According to the customary track ;
Still as playfully rolled as had been its wont;

I saw nine men uniting all their force
But the golden ringlets which waved below
Have curled their last clusters long ago.

To move what one might carry on his back.

I saw four stalwart fellows, tall and stout,
Ay, the hat is the same, but it shades no more

Who with their arms compactly folded stood,
Those light blue eyes as in days of yore ; Looking at one, who, as he stared about,
And the sun-lit smile that danced o’er that brow,

Morticed — by fits and starts - a bit of wood.
Can but light up our hearts' sad memories now.

I saw two brawny men with feeble blows
Sad memories they are ; o'er their quivering An iron hoop upon some timber drive ;
strings

And when 't was on — - for practice, I suppose -
Each breath of the by-gone a tremor flings, To take it off again they did contrive.
And joys that we fain would waken again, I saw four others working at a mast;
In memory are wreathed with a thrill of pain.

But their pursuit I scarce had time to con,
Then recall not the past — though the dimpled

When I perceived with admiration vast

Nine more at the proceeding looking on.

hand

May never again clasp the braided strand, I saw two horses drag a single stone ;

Though the breeze no longer may bear the tone At scarce two miles an hour their pace I fix,

Of the ringing laughter of childhood's own. Though by one horse the job could have been

done

Ah! think of him now, with a glittering crown Not at two miles an hour, but five or six.
O'er his heavenly forehead resting down,
While his fingers stray o'er the golden wire,

Yet Portsmouth boasts, they say, a model yard ;
That blends with his voice 'mid the cherub choir. We've heard that story many a time and oft ;

But he who henceforth thinks they 're working

Ay, I see him now with the holy light

hard

Pouring broad on his brow with radiance bright, At Portsmouth Dockyard, will be precious soft.

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