PUTNAM'S MONTHLY; A M A GA ZIN E OP Imerican Literature, Science, and Art. VOL. V. JANUARY TO JULY, 1855. NEW YORK: LONDON : SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO. MDCCCLV. Harvard College Library Gift of and Mrs, Thorp, 9 Jan, 1895, ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by DIX & EDWARDS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. HOLMAN & GRAY, 225 ARE ALL MEN DESCENDED FROM ADAM. 79 192 429 533 561 598 629 240 250 BALL AT THE TUILERIES 360 CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN HISTORY- CRUISE IN THE FLYING DUTCHMAN... 516 DIPLOMACY AND CANNON BALLS. 113 FIFTY-Four HUNDRED YEARS AGO... 608 GLIMPSES OF FRENCH LIFE—THE RES- HARD SWEARING ON A CHURCH STEEPLE. 41 HAWAIJAN ISLANDS 241 HOUSEHOLD SKELETONS—A MEDITATION 384 ISRAEL POTTER; OR FIFTY YEARS OF II.-Sampson among the Philistines-Some- thing further of Ethan Allen, with Israel's 176 five Years-Requiescat in Pace. 288 287 LIVING IN THE COUNTRY.119, 320, 426, 617 LAST WORD OF GEOLOGY. 449 588 MY THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH MISS NATIONAL DEFENCE.. 122 132, 279 649 323 398 505 57 OUR NEW ATLANTIS. 378 457 490 23 PSYCHAURA.. 71 129 PROGRESS OF OUR POLITICAL VIRTUES. 197 ROBERT OF LINCOLN 576 31 88 295 359 SLAVERY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE... 609 SHOULD WE FEAR THE POPE?.. 650 THE OLD SCULPTURE AND HIS PUPIL. 22 THE CHILD THAT SLEEPS. 97 143 183 The CossacKS. 236 TWICE MARRIED; My Own Story, 313, TURKS Two HUNDRED YEARS AGO... 478 VOICES OF THE WINTER WIND.. 397 WAS NAPOLEON A DICTATOR. 12 40 248 273 346 Mile-Stones on our Life's Journey–Salt- Water Bubbles-Leaves from the Tree Igdrasyl-The Wide-Awake Gift, and Know-Nothing Token for 1855—Wisdom, Wit, and Whims-Maxims of Washington -Webster and his Master-pieces- The Art, Scenery, and Philosophy in Europe -Bayard Taylor's Lands of the Sara Out-doors at Idlewild-You have heard of Them-Mr. Simm's Southward Ho!-Par England-Day-Dreams of a Butterfly. 212 Alice Carey-Lite of Richard Caur-do- . |