Harper's Monthly January 1852 Benjamin Franklin

Harper Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: Harper's New Monthly Magazine January, 1852 Volume IV, Number XX Size and Page Count:6.5"" X 10"" Tall, 147 pages the back cover with book advertisements and statement of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Condition: Good, binding tight spine backstrip cover flaking off, pages have usual yellowing and edges uncut and browning, foxing, a few pencil marks, all edges darkened, covers have a few tears, few corners slightly folded not into text.
Illustrations Information: 68 woodcut illustrations, 45 woodcuts on Ben Franklin
Articles and Information: Early and private life of Benjamin Franklin By Jacob Abbott
Napoleon Bonaparte. The expedition to Egypt By John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The German Emigrants Sketch of Life by John Doggett,Jr.
Conspiracy of the Clocks
Maurice Tiernay, The Soldier of fortune (chaps. XLVIII-L) By Charles James Lever
Talk about the spider Amalie de Bourblanc, the lost child. A tale of facts
The game of Chess. A scene in the court of Philip the Second
How men rise in the World
The brothers SEE ALSO: Executions and executioners; Mental illness; Portugal
Sketch of the life of M. Thiers
Life and death By Charles Kingsley
A Black Eagle in a Bad Way Article
The potter of Tours
Knights of the Cross. St. George's Cross By Caroline Chesebro'
Anecdotes of wild beasts. Leopards and Jaguars A fashionable forger
To be read at dusk By Charles Dickens
My novel; or, varieties in English life (book VIII, chaps. VII-XIV) By Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The opera By Thomas Carlyle
High life in the fifteenth century SEE ALSO: Diaries; Elizabeth, Consort of Edward IV, King of England; 1066-1485

Monthly record of current events/Department Editor's table/Article By Henry J. (Henry Jarvis) Raymond SEE ALSO: Time measurements SEE ALSO: Religion and the press By Donald Grant Mitchell By Donald Grant Mitchell SEE ALSO: Dumas, Alexandre; Career in dancing; Censorship; Montez, Lola SEE ALSO: Art patronage; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Muse du Louvre; Restitution SEE ALSO: Stock exchanges Editor's drawer/Poem SEE ALSO: Life; New Year SEE ALSO: Cookery (Horse meat) SEE ALSO: Temperance SEE ALSO: Psychiatric hospital patients SEE ALSO: Tall tales SEE ALSO: Aphorisms and apothegms; Sources SEE ALSO: Sentimentalism SEE ALSO: Charity SEE ALSO: Flying-machines; Long Island SEE ALSO: Dueling Literary notices/Review SEE ALSO: A lady's voyage round the world (Book); Aims and obstacles. A romance (Book); Chesebro', Caroline; Kirkland, Caroline M. (Caroline Matilda); Woods, Daniel B.; Mitchell, Donald Grant; Dream-land by daylight. A panorama of romance (Book); Smith, E. Goodrich (Elizur Goodrich); Hitchcock, Edward; Lee, Eliza Buckminster; Florence, the parish orphan (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Greenwood, Grace; Greenwood leaves: a collection of sketches and letters (Book); Herbert, Henry William; Hildenbrandt; Hints to employers (Book); Pfeiffer, Ida; Taylor, Isaac; Boyd, James R. (James Robert); Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew; Thompson, Joseph Parrish; Memoir of Mary Lyon (Book); Sinnett, Percy, Mrs.; Norman Maurice (Book); Recollections of my childhood, and other stories (Book); Reveries of a bachelor (Book); Sixteen months at the gold diggings (Book); The captains of the old world (Book); The claims of science. An address delivered before the Euphemian and Philomathian Societies of Erskine College, S.C. ... at the annual commencement August 13th, 1851 (Book); The land of bondage; its ancient monuments and present condition: being the journal of a tour in Egypt (Book); Wesley, and Methodism (Book); Richards, William C. (William Carey); Simms, William Gilmore; Winter in Spitzbergen (Book); Young's night thoughts (Book) Mr. Pott's New Year's adventures A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Grandparent and child SEE ALSO: Men's clothing A leaf from Punch/Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bloomer costume; Marriage proposals; Women's rights A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bloomer costume; Women's rights Winter fashions/Department
Winter fashions with 3 woodcut Illustrations

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