LETTER XIII.

To the Lady-Subscriber in the Country 407

THE REQUESTED LETTER. To the Lady-reader in the Country 412

NATURE CRITICISED BY ART. Jenny Lind’s Propitiatory Acceptance of one Invitation from New York Fashionable Society—The History of the Day of which it was the Evening—Her Martyrdom by Charity-Seekers and other Wanters of Money and Gratifiers of their own Impertinent Curiosity—The Criticism of her Manners at the Party, as given in the “Courrier des Etats Unis”—A Counter-picture of her Conversation and Appearance—Singular Accidental “Tableau Vivant,” &c., &c. 417

JENNY LIND 429

THE KOSSUTH DAY. The Magyar and the Aztec, or the Two Extremes of Human Development 433

Near View of Kossuth 443

DEATH OF LADY BLESSINGTON 454

MOORE AND BARRY CORNWALL 463

JANE PORTER, AUTHORESS OF “SCOTTISH CHIEFS,” “THADDEUS OF WARSAW,” ETC.; ETC. 471

OLE BULL’S NIAGARA 484

DR. LARDNER’S LECTURE 489

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