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Title: The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August
1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
Author: Various
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THE
INTERNATIONAL
MONTHLY
MAGAZINE
Of Literature, Science and Art.
VOLUME I. AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 1850.
NEW-YORK: STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 BROADWAY. FOR
SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. BY THE NUMBER, 25 CTS; THE
VOLUME, $1; THE YEAR, $3.
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CONTENTS:
VOLUME I. AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 1850.
Advancement of Learning. Portrait of Sir David Brewster, 312
Advocate, The Young.--Household Words, 81
Arts, The Fine.--Elliott's Portraits, 73.--Pictures by Mr. Kellogg,
78.--Osgood's Portrait of Captain Sutter, 73. --Horace Vernet, 112,
175.--Mr. Healy, in Paris. 141,-- Powers's Statue of Calhoun, 174.--M.
Ingres and M. de Luynes, 207.--Gallery of Illustrious Americans, 207.--
Dr. Waagen, in England, 207.--Art in Bavaria, 269.-- Exhibition at
Valenciennes, 269.--Darley's Illustrations of "Sleepy Hollow,"
269.--Chaucer's Monument, 269.-- Lessing's new Picture, 269.--Mlle.
Rachel, again, 270.-- Gigantic Statue by Schwanthaler,
270.--Publications of Goupil & Co., 270.--Mr. Powell's Picture for the
Capitol, 270, 324.--German Views of Art in America, 323.-- Plans for
the Promotion of Catholic Art in Rome, 623.-- Charles Muller's Group

of Statues, 323.--A Hundred Statues in Paris, 323.--Powers and his
Statues, 324.-- The Barberigo Gallery at Venice, 324.--Paintings and
Sculptures of Early Northern Artists, 324.--A Statue to Larrey, the
Surgeon, 324.--The Standish Gallery, 324.--Exhibition at Dusseldorf,
324.--Works in Antwerp Churches, 324.--Leutze's New Works, 324.--
The Colossal Frescoes of Kaulbach, 482.--Fine Public Groups at Berlin,
482.--The Dusseldorf "Album," 482. --Statue of Columbus,
483.--Monument to Frederick the Great, 483.--Philadelphia Art Union,
483.--Original Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Isaac Newton,
483.--Kellogg's Full-Length of General Scott, 483.-- Mount's New
Picture, 483.--Archæological Institute, 483.--Sarah Biffen,
484.--Statues of Herder, Oudinot, Professor Cooper, &c., 484.
Authors and Books.--Rev. Dr. Smyth, 13.--Gen. Pepe's New Work,
13.--Mr. Mayne Reed, 13.--J. E. Warren, 13.--Dr. Hawks, 13.--The
Princess Belgioioso, 13.--Eugene Scribe, 13.--Alice and Phoebe Carey,
14.--Mrs. Oaksmith, 14.--Prof. Nichol on America, 14.--Dr. Croly,
14.--Sir James Alexander, 14.--Mr. James and Copyright, 39.--Albert
Smith and "Protection," 39.--R. H. Stoddard, 39.--Inedited
Correspondence of Goethe and Schiller, 39.--Margaret Fuller, 39.--Dr.
Hoefer vs. Dr. Layard, 40.--Mr. Boker's New Play, 40.--George Sand,
71.--G. P. R. James, 71.--Botta's Nineveh, 71.--Arago, 71.--Miss
Fenimore Cooper, 72.--Prof. Agassiz, 72.-- Dr. Layard, 72.--Rogers,
72.--Harro Harring, 72, 112.-- Dr. Gutzlaff, 73.--Literature in Paris,
73.--E. P. Whipple, 105.--Evelyn's History of Religion, 105.--Leigh
Hunt and the Laureateship, 105.--E. G. Squier, 105.-- Monument to
Wordsworth, 105.--Francis Bowen, &c., 105.--Mrs. Child, 112.--The
Literature of Supernaturalism, 138.--Remains of Poe, 138.--Dudley
Bean, 138.-- Mr. Young's "Beranger," 138.--Livermore on Libraries,
139.--Prof. Johnson, Charlotte Cushman, Elihu Burritt, Perley Poore,
Mr. Mountford, &c., 139.--Rev. James H. Perkins, 175.--Mrs. Esling,
175.--M. St. Hillaire and his Spanish History, 175.--The Author of "Dr.
Hookwell," 175.--John Mills, 175.--Mr. Prescott, 175.--Maginn's
Homeric Ballads, 175.--George Wilkins Kendall, 176.--Mrs. Trollope
and her Son, 176.--Dr. Wm. R. Williams, 176.--Dr. Buckland, 176.--Dr.
Wayland's Tractate on Education, 176.--Charles Eames, 176.--
Chateaubriand, &c., 176.--Parke Godwin and his Translation of

Goethe's Autobiography, 194.--A new Life of John Randolph,
194.--Scotch Bookseller's Society, 194. --Prof. Dickson's Return to
Charleston, 194.--John R. Bartlett and the Boundary Commission,
194.--William C. Richards, 194.--Guilliame Tell Poussin, 194.--Dr.
John W. Francis, 195.--Illustrated Edition of Gray's Poems, 195.--M.
Libri, Burns, Dr. Wiseman, &c., 195.-- Wordsworth's Posthumous
Poem, 196.--Miss Cooper's Rural Hours, 196.--Sydney Smith's
Sketches of Modern Philosophy, 196.--Beranger and the People, 232.--
Audubon and Washington Irving, 232.--Seba Smith in Mathematics,
232.--M. Flandin, on Persian Antiquities, 233.--Girardin and
Chateaubriand, 233.--Guizot's Poverty, 233.--History of Art, by
Schasse, 233.--History of Spain, 233.--The Paris Academy of
Inscriptions, 234.-- Leverrier on the Telegraph, 234.--Works of Rev. Dr.
Woods, 234.--Orville Dewey, 234.--The Author of the Amber Witch,
235.--The Night Side of Nature, 235.-- Milne Edwards, 235.--Miss
Strickland, 235.--Sir E. L. Bulwer, 235.--Mr. Herbert's Sporting Books,
236.-- Works in Press, 236.--Meyerbeer, 236.--A German Prince in
New Orleans, 265.--An Arabian Newspaper, 265.--Mrs. Loud's Poems,
265.--Literature of Socialism, 265.--Ebenezer Elliot, 266.--Memorial to
Mrs. Osgood, 266.--Rev. Walter Colton on California, 267.--Gallery of
Illustrious Americans, 267.--Max Schlesinger, 267.-- Mayo's "Berber,"
267.--French Periodicals, 268.--The Vienne University, 268.--Works of
the Asiatic Society at Paris, 318.--The French Academy and its Prizes,
318.-- Edward Everett, 319.--Mackay's "Progress of the Intellect."
319.--Lamartine, 319.--Theodore Parker, 319.--Sir Edward Belcher,
319.--Guizot, 319.--John