Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850

As they entered the house in Crown-street, they perceived that the door would not open freely on its hinges, and Susan instinctively looked behind to see the cause of the obstru...

"The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise: And starts amid the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murm'ring in his ear."--POPE.

Neither the tastes nor the temper of the age we live in are such as to induce any man to boast of his family nobility. We see too many preparations around us for laying down new...

Early in the morning, before it was light, while the wintry twilight gleamed through the curtainless window, Lettice was up, dressing herself by the scanty gleam cast from the s...

The Publishers take great pleasure in presenting herewith the first volume of the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. It was projected and commenced in the belief, that it might be made the m...

"It is the generous spirit, who when brought Unto the task of common life, hath wrought Even upon the plan which pleased the childish thought * * * * * Who doomed to go in compa...

And now she is upon her way home. And oh! how lightly beats that honest simple heart in her bosom: and oh! how cheerily sits her spirit upon its throne. How happily, too, she lo...

"Mother," then said Will, "why will you keep on thinking she's alive? If she were but dead, we need never name her name again. We've never heard naught on her since father wrote...

That night Mrs. Leigh stopped at home; that only night for many months. Even Tom, the scholar, looked up from his books in amazement; but then he remembered that Will had not be...