VOLUME XXXI.

PHILADELPHIA: GEORGE R. GRAHAM & CO. 98 CHESTNUT STREET.

. . . . . . 1847.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

THIRTY-FIRST VOLUME.

JUNE, 1847, TO JANUARY, 1848.

A Pic-Nic at White Lake. By Alfred B. Street, 13 Arthur Harrington. By F. E. F. 19 A New Way to Collect an Old Debt. By T. S. Arthur, 80 An Indian Legend. By M. 177 An Assiniboin Lodge, (Illustrated.) 328 Cora Neill. Or Love’s Obstacles. By Enna Duval, 72 Evelyn Grahame. A Tale of Truth. By Ellen Marshall, 97 Fort Mackenzie. (Illustrated.) 271 General Zachary Taylor, (Illustrated.) 26 Game-Birds of America, 269 Ida Bernstorf’s Journal. By Enna Duval, 233 Kitty Coleman. By Fanny Forester, 262 Lolah Lalande. A Package from My Old Writing-Desk. By 150 Enna Duval, Love’s Last Supper. Or the True Story of a Troubadour. A 277 Provençal Biography. By Wm. Gilmore Simms, (Illustrated.) Reality Versus Romance. Or the Young Wife. By Caroline 101 H. Butler, Reminiscences of Watering-Places. By F. J. Grund, 217 Sally Lyon’s First and Last Visit to the Ale-House. By 33 T. S. Arthur, Stock-Jobbing in New York. By Peter Pencil, 145 Sophy’s Flirtation. A Country Sketch. By Mrs. M. N. 303 M‘Donald, The Love-Chase. A True Story. By Mrs. Caroline H. 49 Butler, The Slaver. A Tale of Our Own Times. By A Son of the 1, 61, 109 late Dr. John D. Godman, The Islets of the Gulf. Or Rose Budd. By J. Fenimore 37, 85, 133, Cooper, 181, 241, 288 The Ring. Or Fibbers and Fibbing. By F. E. F. 121 The Village Doctor. Translated from the French by 157, 223 Leonard Myers, The General Court and Jane Andrews’ Firkin of Butter. By 168 Seba Smith, The Stratagem. By Mrs. Alfred H. Reip, 193 The Man with the Big Box. By G. G. Foster, 204 The Sportsman. By Frank Forester, 208 The Last Adventure of a Coquette. By T. Mayne Reid, 253 The Three Calls. By H. L. Jones, 257 The Silver Spoons. By the Author of “Key West and 264 Abaco”, The Darkened Hearth. By Henry G. Lee, 296 The Widow and the Deformed. By Mrs. Caroline H. Butler, 309 The Rash Oath. Translated from the French. By Mrs. Jane 324 Tayloe Worthington, Was She a Coquette? By Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson, 174

POETRY.

A Bacchic Ode. By J. Bayard Taylor, 18 A Valentine. By R. H. Bacon, 18 A Winter’s Night in the Wilderness. By T. Buchanan Read, 203 Brain Work and Hand Work. By Charles Street, 167 Burial of a German Emigrant’s Child at Sea. By J. T. F. 214 Blind! By Mrs. Joseph C. Neal, 294 Carolan’s Prophecy. By William H. C. Hosmer, 48 Death of the Gifted. By J. Wilford Overall, 256 Elva. By Edward Pollock, 128 Echo. By John S. Moore, 180 Fair Wind. By J. T. Fields, 261 Flowers. By S. E. T. 268 Hermione. (With an Engraving.) 214 Jacob’s Dream. (With an Engraving.) 149 Jenny Low. By C. M. Johnson, 176 Linolee. By J. Wilford Overall, 71 Lines for Music. By G. G. F. 179 Lucretia. By Henry B. Hirst, 239 Lines at Parting. By T. Trevor, 256 Miriam. By E. M. Sidney, (Illustrated.) 36 Midnight, and Daybreak. By Mrs. J. C. Neal, 207 My Loved—My Own. By W. H. C. Hosmer, 295 Ode to Time. By W. Gilmore Simms, 202 On a Sleeping Child. By S. E. T. 323 Pioneers of Western New York. By Wm. H. C. Hosmer, 207 Rosabelle. By “Caro,” 58 Rural Life. (Illustrated.) 268 Sonnet from Petrarch, on the Death of Laura. By Alice 32 Grey, Sonnet. To a Young Invalid Abroad, 36 Sonnet to ——. By R. H. Bacon, 180 Sunset in Autumn. By Harriet M. Ward, 240 Sonnet. By T. E. V. B. 286 Sonnet. By Miss Mary E. Lee, 302 Stanzas for Music, 329 To Evelyn. By Kate Dashwood, 12 To ——, at Parting. By Caroline A. Briggs, 32 The Winged Watcher. By Fanny Forester, 55 The Stricken. By Robt. T. Conrad, 58 The Dreamer. By Alice G. Lee, 77 The Demon of the Mirror. By James Bayard Taylor, 78 The Lifted Veil. By Miss H. E. Grannis, 83 Thou Art Cold. By S. 106 The Spanish Lovers, (Illustrated.) 106 To a Century Plant. By Mrs. Jane C. Campbell, 120 The First Loss, (Illustrated.) 154 The Invalid Stranger. By Mary E. Lee, 173 The Lay of the Wind. By Lilias, 180 The Mariner Returned. By Rev. E. C. Jones, 214 The Deserted Road. By Thomas Buchanan Read, 232 The Old Man’s Comfort. By Lieut. A. T. Lee, U. S. A. 232 The Early Taken. By Wm. H. C. Hosmer, 240 The Rustic Dance. By Elschen, 267 The Last Tilt. By Henry B. Hirst, 287 The Wayside Dream. By J. Bayard Taylor, 302 Thou’rt Not Alone. By E. Curtiss Stine, 308 The Autumn Wind. By Jane C. Campbell, 329

REVIEWS.

Lives of the Early British Dramatists. By T. Campbell, 59 Hunt, Darley and Gifford, Washington and his Generals. By J. T. Headley, 59 Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets. By 107 William Howitt, The Orators of France. By Viscount de Cormenin, 108 History of the Conquest of Peru. By Wm. H. Prescott, 155 Modern Painters. By a Graduate of Oxford, 155 Conversations in Rome. By William Ellery Channing, 155 Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madame de 156 la Mothe Guyon. By T. C. Upham, The Autobiography of Goethe. Edited by Parke Godwin, 156 Morceaux Choisis des Auteurs Modernes. By F. M. Rowan, 156 1776, or the War of Independence. By Benson J. Lossing, 156 Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest. From the 156 Sixth London Edition, Men, Women and Books. By Leigh Hunt, 215 Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the 215 Seventeenth Century. By Miss Pardoe, The Good Genius that Turned Every Thing into Gold, or 215 the Queen Bee and the Magic Dress. By the Brothers Mayhew, The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s 215 Recreation. By Izack Walton, Fresh Gleanings: or a New Sheaf from the Old Fields of 216 Continental Europe. By Ik. Marvel, The Months. By Wm. H. C. Hosmer, 216 O’Sullivan’s Love. By Wm. Carleton, 216 Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert 274 Southey. By Joseph Cottle, The Public Men of the Revolution. By Hon. Wm. Sullivan, 275 LL. D., Budget of Letters, or Things which I Saw Abroad, 275 Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie. By Henry Wordsworth 330 Longfellow, Washington and the Generals of the American Revolution, 332

MUSIC.

Scenes that are Brightest. Popular Song from Maritana. 56 Composed by W. V. Wallace. When Eyes are Beaming. Written by Heber. Music by 212 Keller. The Fisher Boy Jollily Lives. A Glee for Four Voices. 272 Words by Eliza Cook. Composed and Arranged by W. R. Wright.

ENGRAVINGS.

Portrait of Gen. Taylor, engraved by J. Sartain, Esq. Tallulah Falls, engraved by Smillie. Miriam, engraved by A. L. Dick. The Spanish Lovers, engraved by A. B. Walter. Paris Fashions, from Le Follet. Victoria, Princess Royal, engraved by A. L. Dick. Jacob’s Dream, engraved by A. L. Dick, Esq. The First Loss, engraved by H. S. Wagner. Hermione, engraved by Jackman. The Sportsman, engraved by A. L. Dick. Paris Fashions, from Le Follet. Rural Life, engraved by J. Banister. Fort Mackenzie, engraved by Rawdon, Wright & Hatch. Paris Fashions, from Le Follet. The Troubadour, engraved by Ellis. An Assiniboin Lodge, engraved by Rawdon, Wright & Hatch. Paris Fashions, from Le Follet.

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GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE.

Vol. XXXI. PHILADELPHIA, JULY, 1847. No. 1.

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THE SLAVER.

A TALE OF OUR OWN TIMES.

BY A SON OF THE LATE DR. JOHN D. GODMAN.