November 1857
In This Issue
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Articles
Four Poems
The Financial Flurry
“The bowels of the banks, with us the great money-lenders, close with the snap and tenacity of steel-traps; and then a general panic, or want of commercial confidence, brings on a paralysis of the domestic exchanges, and wide-spread bankruptcy and ruin.”
The Mourning Veil
Illusions
Santa Filomena
A poem
British India
“Every nation condemns conquest, and every nation with power to enter upon a career of conquest rushes eagerly upon it.”
The Gift of Tritemius
A poem
The Origin of Didactic Poetry
A poem
Sonnet
A poem
Douglas Jerrold
“We are told, that, in selling yourself to the Devil, it is the proper traditionary practice to write the contract in your blood. Douglas, in binding himself against him, did the same thing.”
Sally Parsons’s Duty
“‘Dear me!’ interrupted Sally, “a real war coming! and I a’n’t any thing but a woman!’”
The Manchester Exhibition
“Outside, all suggests the competitions and struggles of trade, the crowded street, the bustle of the exchange, the cold and dry elements of purely unimaginative life. Inside, all suggests the quietness and composure of solitary and delightful labor, the silence of the studio, the resort to nature, and the frequenting of the springs of poetry.”
Pendlam: A Modern Reformer
“I saw him in that transitional state which is so full of peril to persons of certain temperaments, escaping into too sudden freedom and light from the walls of a narrow and gloomy belief.”
The Round Table
“At these feasts no tyranny of speech-making is allowed, but the bonbons are all wrapped in original copies of verses by various contributors.”
Literary Notices
Five brief book reviews
Music
“This winter it will be a question between whether we can afford to pay for it, and whether we can afford to do without it.”
Akin by Marriage (Part I)
A short story about New England life
Akin by Marriage (Part II)
A short story about New England life
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”
Florentine Mosaics (Part I)
The first installment in a series about tradition and art in the Tuscan capital
