THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE: DEVOTED TO Literature, Art, and Religion. JAMES FLOY, EDITOR. VOLUME XII I. JULY TO DECEMBER, 1858. New - York: 200 MULBERRY-STRBET. CONTENTS. Page Amazon, The Valley of the-G. P. Disos Masada and its Tragedy. ..........302, 393 297 Methodism, British and American Compared Aquarium, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of -G. R. H............... 410 488 Miscellaneous Items...93, 190, 287, 381, 478, 570 Arts and Sciences........ ..92, 188, 285, 379, 476 Moselle, The Source of the.... 119 Nightingales and their Nests-L. L........... 310 Babes in the Wood, My................. 521 Notes and Gleanings.... ..... ....185, 283, 376 Bee-keeping, Improvements in–S. Hibberd. 404 Painters, Sketches from the..........113, 391, 540 Biography of the Bible, The-F...... 48, 136, 221, 429, 524 Pompeii, A Visit to.... Brontë, Charlotte......... 548 President, Waiting for the........................ 504 Caste, Theoretical and Practical................ 165 Poetic Pictures-Hannah Binding Shoes— Celibacy, Bishop Asbury on-W. P. S......... 269 Central Europe, High Life and Low Life in- Lucy Larcom ...... 416 Ladurlad and his Daughter..... Chinese, Amusements of the.... Our First-born... 19 Christianity in the Third Century-Imogen The Boatman-Charles Mackay..... Mercein....... ..234, 353 18 Converts, One of Asbury's-- W. P. Strickland. 365 Cordilleras and the Andes, The-G. P. Dis- () Star of the Evening! E. F. Colby.... 391 os ibay..... 114 The Celestial Army T. Buchanan Corvinus, Matthias–J. O. Noyes... Death of Dupuytren........... The Golden Sunset-H. W. Longfelloro. 33 62 The Power of the Dead - Mary Ann 15 Dreamland : A Midsummer Day's Medley- The Web of Life-Harriet A. Smith..... 494 342 136 Europe, Nomadic Life in J. O. Noyes....... 344 Forged Patent, The John Russell.......... 161 Religious World, The.........78, 175, 271, 367, Frederick the Great, Old Age of...... 169 Fur-Hunting in the Far West........... 516 Revolutionary Heroes-R. H. Stoddard...97, Gipsies of England and Scotland, The J. O. Rich, How to grow- From the French....... 141 104 Rochelle, The Siege of-From the French, by Gitanos and their Ways, The-J. O. Noyes. 497 Roman Catholic Missionary in Texas, A...... 71 Iee-making, Artificial.............. ....... 414 Scripture, The Silence of--J. C. Miller....... 121 Jefferson and his Times J. S............... 20 Seal and the Walrus, The-Julia Colman.... 201 172 328 Solomon Sartor at the Dinner-table-A. D. Kane, the Arctic Voyager-D. W. M.......... 157 Knights Templars, The Order of........ 362 Stile, The Auld J. Clark.. 16 Susquehanna Valley, Upper-2. Paddock.... 553 313 155 Ten Week's Vacation-A Trip to the Father- .448, 507 225 Literature-Morals-Religion—W.P. Strick- 252 Time and Time-keeping-N...................... 536 Traveling Acquaintance, A..... Mackenzie River, Life on the..................... 145 Trebizonde and Erzeroum-R. Curzon...... 1. Pago Page 402 West, A Peep at the Far—By an Englisher. 532, 418 Wolves, Children carried off by- W. H. Slee- 528 131 255 Page Page Quarantine Harbor, Trebizonde ........... 1 Marine Phenomenon, as witnessed in the General View of Erzeroum, the Capital of Tropics...... View of Erzeroum, from the House of the Descending Ribeirao Falls, Madeira River... 298 5 Crossing the Mouth of the Madeira River... 299 11 Ladurlad and his Daughter........ 16 Ruined Fortress in Upper Hungary. 19 | Gipsy Executioners.......... The Gipsies of England and Scotland........ 104 Benjamin Lincoln... 385 Gipsy Executioners............................... 110 Eleazar Exhorting the Garrison to Self-De- Chinese Dancing Dolls.......... 113 The Gateway of Masada.......... Yuracares Indians Shooting Fish.. 116 Encounter with a Water-Snake... 117 Improvements in Bee-keeping, (3 eng.).. The Source of the Moselle........... Valley Female Institute........ 120 The Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Little Our First-Born................................... 206 Waiting for the President...... Matthias Corvinus..................................... 207 Watch Manufactory of Appleton, Tracy & The Duke of Lorraine............................... 209 Top Plate......... 539 FEN course. NENA KARA DEGNIZ—The Bad a woman floats upon its back, while that Black Sea. This is the character that of a man floats upon its face. In short, at stormy lake has acquired in the estimation Constantinople they say that everything of its neighbors at Constantinople. of that is bad comes from the Black Sea : one thousand Turkish vessels which skim the plague, the Russians, the fogs, and the over its waters every year, five hundred cold-all come from thence ; 'and though are said to be wrecked as a matter of this time we had a fine calm passage, I The wind sometimes will blow was glad enough to arrive at the end of from all the four quarters of heaven within the voyage at Trebizonde. Before landing, two hours' time, agitating the waters like however, I must give a passing tribute to a boiling caldron. Dense fogs obscure the the beauty of the scenery on the south air during the winter, by the assistance of coast, that is, on the north coast of Asia which the Turkish vessels continually mis- Minor. Rocks and hills are its usual take the entrance of a valley called the character mear the shore, with higher False Bogaz for the entrance of the Bos- mountains inland. Between the Bosphorus phorus, and are wrecked there perpetually. and Heraclea are boundless fields of coal, I have seen dead bodies floating about in which crops out on the side of the hills, that part of the sea, where I first became so that no mining would be required to get acquainted with the fact that the corpse of the coal ; and besides this great facility Vol. XIII.-1 |