Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January 1849

“Well, now, that’s getting out of the scrape handsomely, after all,” returned Mrs. Dilberry. “I knew from the way you and Jane Louyza got along last night that you could easily...

Such was the exordium of a letter signed “CATHERINE CONOLLY,” and dated from “_Tarry-town_,” which I found on the centre-table one morning, after having been down the street to...

“‘Ah, indeed! I am very glad to have customers from Tarry-town; I have made dresses to be sent there several times.’ We could not help looking at each other, for we had known ev...

During the first half hour’s conversation, I set the gallant captain down as uneducated, vain and supercilious; but I was vexed to see that Kate, dazzled by his beauty, regarded...

“No!” answered Madam Cottin, who, as soon as she found herself alone, resumed her labor; but, whether it was the solitude and silence of the place, or because Marianne had reall...

“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;...

Simon Gray’s life opened happily. There was nothing which indicated for him a splendid destiny. The path which seemed open before him was obscure, and promised to embrace only t...

Father Joseph Marquette, whose name is also intimately associated with the early discoveries in this region, was a kindred spirit. According to Charleroix, who belonged to the s...

For a few weeks he did labor with what little skill was left him, at his old trade; but his was not the will, nor the mind, nor the heart to pursue the good because it was right...

From that moment the little Barbara became the nursling of the whole hamlet. The good women of the village remembered that she had been born on a Sunday morning, and according t...

The thoughts of Remedios are dwelling upon a far different object, and two or three times she has become so absent as to make strange mistakes in her work. Presently the fibre o...

We confess that we have looked at The Belle of the Opera until our mind has arrived at other conclusions. We think it fair to conclude that so lovely a face, and such a majestic...

One summer, some four or five years after my husband’s death, I ventured to visit the mountain region where my dear cousins had resided. They were dead—kind creatures—but their...

The husband had all faith in the _affections_ of his wife; he appreciated the excellence of her character, for he was worthy of her. But it was a terrible blow to pride—to woman...

There is another report circulating extensively in our neighborhood just now, relative to Delle’s movements in the coming spring. I will not vouch for its truth. I have not dare...

I have lately seen in some of the English papers exaggerated pictures of the condition of the United States, founded, probably, in the policy of encouraging emigration to her ow...

The summit I gain—what soaring trunks—what spreading balloon-like tops! And see! from the barks of each, the sap, slow welling and limpid, drops; A thicket I turn—the gleam of a...

Some have desired that at the foot of Janus, who guards the closing portal of the past and the opening door of the coming year, there might flow a rill from the river of Lethe,...

When Night, upon her starry throne, Held undisputed sway and lone, And moonlight to the trembling wave A soft but spectral radiance gave, He seized, with iron grasp, his chain,...

The Belle of the Opera What is Beautiful? Kate Richmond’s Betrothal The Corsair’s Victim A Dirge for O’Connell The Illinois and the Prairies A Dream of Italy The Letter of Intro...

The great mental peculiarity of Holmes is fineness of intellect—subtilty in the perception of resemblances, subtilty in the perception of differences, and subtilty in the concep...