LITTE L L'S

LIVING AGE.

60182 2

CONDUCTED BY E. LITTELL.

E PLURIBUS UNUM.

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

chaff thrown away."

VOL. XVI.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1848.

BOSTON

PUBLISHED BY E. LITTELL & COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA, M. CANNING & Co., 272 Chesnut Street.

NEW YORK, BERFORD & Co., Astor House.

STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE A. CURTIS.

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

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376,

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· 601

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Andersen, Hans Christian, 1 Holland, Rural Industry and Lonely Home,

431

Artic Discovery,

15 Drainage,

241

American Literature, . 28 Humboldt's Kosmos,

Memory,

27

385

M. F. Tupper to America, 213

Alison's Life of Marlborough, 176 Herschel's, Sir John, Astro-

Animal Instincts,

Man's and Woman's Love, 231

345 nomical Observations,

577

Adelaide, Madame,

374

Old Crow,

324

Idiots, Tuition of,

79

Abd-el-Kader,

606

Ireland, Ruin of,

87

Puritan, The,

239

Aerostation, .

433

Last Resort for, 140

Painter's Studio,

382

African, Friends of the, 481

Extermination and

Past, Visions of the, 411

Adams, John Q.,

571

Vengeance, 141 Reward, The,

330

Auricular Confession, .

596

Re-conquest of, 142

Sickness, Thoughts Dur-

Banking Debate,

New Peace Bill,

162

159

ing,

27

Bank Notes, New York, . 236

a Stage,

598

Boydell's Shakspeare,

Sicily, Ode to,

Italy, :

472

375, 474, 600

Ilegitimate Children, . 609

Volunteer's Mother, 414

Correspondence,

43, 575 Jane Eyre, ·

324 Railways, Origin of, . 208

- Foreign, 91, 285, Jews in Europe,

604 Ships, English and American, 41

475, 617

Cholera,

160, 167

Kent, Chancellor, . 30, 67 Shelley's Life and Writings, 49

Mrs.,

446

Compass, Deviations of, 170 Living with Others,

Louis Philippe and J. K.

Safford, Truman Henry, .

Cromwell, Unpublished Let-

82

ters of,

214, 499

Polk,

Spain, the U. S. and Mexico, 85

372

Cotton Manufactures in Geor- Liberia,

Swift's Illness and Remains, 212

609

Switzerland,

473, 602

gia,

235 Mormon Colony,

29, 470 Saints' Tragedy,

515

Canada,

331

Mexico, . 85, 366, 412, 416, 609 Sterling, John,

517

Caucasus, Warin,

360

Man, Isle of,

206 Slave Trade and the West

Cuba, .

597

Microscope, The, 227, 231

Indies,

519

Defence of Great Britain, 160,

Morrison, Dr.,

600

367, 377 Mackenzie, (W.L.,) Escape, 331

Thackeray's Writings,

Miller Correspondence,

271

Dog-Chase, .

2331

502

Tennyson's Princess, 441

Don John of Austria, 337 Punch, 16, 156, 280, 365, 370, Thugs, School for,

450

D'Aubigné's England, Ger-

411 Taylor, General,

471

many, and Scotland, 496 Paine, Thomas, Death-Bed

Thiers, M., .

603

of,

169

Emerson, R. W.,. 97 President Polk and the Mex-

Tales-

Eloquence of the Camp, . 193

ican War,

366

Coincidences,

109

Eighteen Hundred and Forty-

Party Politics,

420

Camicia Rapita,

425

Eight,

423 Dancing Master, The Lit-

Ether Discovery,

529 Politics of the World,

. 597

tle,

35

Foreign Miscellany, 78, 168, 179, Postage, Cheap, ,

. 604

French Novel, Unpub-

287, 622, 606 POETRY-

lished,

122

Fire-Side Horrors for Christ- Bachelor's Complaint, 213 Lady Lucy's Petition, . 328

mas,

180

Fléchier's Clermont Assizes, 309

Childless, The, .

16

Maiden Aunt, 68, 262, 611

Food, Preservation of,

Compass Flower,

Madame Louise,

355

238

200

Fishes' Nesis,

Calhoun, J. C.,

381

424 Mill of Mariemont, 225

Frederick the Great,

453 Dreams, Land of,

270

Night Adventure on Lake

Fry, Elizabeth, .

492 Enigma,

Simcoe,

325

284

Geo. II., and his Times, .

Old Maid from Principle, 509

17 Glencoe, Widow of, 145

Guizot, Metternich, Ochsen- Greek Slave,

440

Privateers,

31

bein,

166

Lonely, Consolations for

Watcher, The,

. 108

Girondists, History of,

. 289

Guizot,

605

the,.

205 West Indies,

164, 519

Love,

238 Webster, Binney and Hayne, 422

Hexameters, English, . 172 Live for Thyself, , 239 Wales, the British Bæotia, 521

233 Sicily,