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555.--Two Sonnets from the German of Lenau, 592.
"Poets and Poetry of America."--Fraser's Magazine, 165
Poets in Parliament.--The Leader, 144
Pompadour, Madame de.--Fraser's Magazine, 389
Porter, Jane, Life of. Illustrated.--The Art Journal, 201
Portrait of Cromwell.--By J. T. Fields, 271
Pottery and Porcelain.--The Spectator, 596
Power of Mercy, The.--Household Words, 85
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 230, 372, 523
Present Religion of Persia.--Lieut. Colonel Chesney, 259
Prentiss, Sergent S., Reminiscences of.--T. B. Thorpe, 289
Railway Wonders of the last year.--Household Words, 583
Religious Sects and Socialism in Russia, 461
Report of the British Registrar General.--The Times, 588
Rollin, Life of Ledru.--Fraser's Magazine, 222
Russian Serf, The, 160
Santa Cruz, General.--Illustrated News, 40
Serf of Pobereze, The.--Household Words, 177
Serpent Charming.--Bentley's Miscellany, 470
Sketches of the Town.--Engraving after Darley, 33
Snow Image, The.--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 537
Society in Turkey.--Princess Belgiviso, 595
Something about a Murder.--Fraser's Magazine, 24
Spanish Senate, The.--Clarke's Guzpacho, 261
Spirit of the Annuals for 1851, 488
Spotted Bower Bird, The.--Fraser's Magazine, 386
Summer Night, The.--From Jean Paul Richter, 38
Summer Vacation.--The Fourth Canto of Wordsworth's Posthumous Poem, 208
Suwarrow, The Great Marshal.--Fraser's Magazine, 87
Tea Smuggling in Russia, 129
Telegraph from New York to London.--Mechanics Magazine, 587
Tennyson's New Poem, "In Memoriam."--Spectator, 34
The Theatre in Russia and Poland, 225
The Three Gifts.--By E. Oakes Smith, 646
The Three Visits.--From the French of Vitu, 490
The White Lady, 309
Tomb of Lady Blessington.--Bentley's Miscellany, 126
Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 2
Undertaker, An, to the Trade.--Household Words, 93
Versification, English, 485
Virginia Two Hundred Years Ago.--The Athen?um, 416
Ward, the Author of "Tremaine."--Spectator, 113
Warilows of Welland, The.--Household Words, 560
Weber, Miss, and her Writings.--Miss Harriet Sargent, 463
Webster, as a Statesman and as a Man of Letters, 297
Wilde, Richard Henry, and Dante, 2
Wilde, Sir Thomas, the New Chancellor, 240
Willisen, General, of the Schleswig-Holstein Army, 585
Window Love.--By Charles G. Leland, 544
Women and Literature in France, 193
Wordsworth's New Poem.--The Examiner, 271
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INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY
Of Literature, Art, and Science.
Vol. I. NEW YORK, JULY 1, 1850. No. 1.

INTRODUCTION.
Of the revolutions of the age, one of the most interesting and important is that which has taken place in the forms of Literature and the Modes of its Publication. Since the establishment of the Edinburgh Review the finest intelligences of the world have been displayed in periodicals. Brougham, Jeffrey, Sidney Smith, Mackintosh, Macaulay, have owed nearly all their best fame to compositions which have appeared first in journals, magazines and reviews; the writers of Tales and Essays have uniformly come before the public by the same means, which have recently served also for the original exhibition of the most elaborate and brilliant Fictions, so that we are now receiving through them by almost every ship from Europe installments of works by Dickens, Bulwer, James, Croly, Lever, Reynolds, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Ellis, and indeed nearly all the most eminent contemporary novelists. So complete is the change, that all mind, except the heaviest and least popular, is likely to flow hereafter through the Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Quarterly Miscellanies, which compete with universities, parliaments, churches, and libraries, for ascendency in the government of mankind.
In this country we must keep pace with the movements abroad. It will not answer that we issue literary productions as soon as possible after their completion. The impatient readers demand chapters by chapters, as they are spun from the brain and the heart of the author; facts, upon the instant of their discovery; and suggestions, as they flash from the contact of imagination and reflection.
The INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY will be a result of efforts to satisfy a plain necessity of the times. It will combine the excellencies of all contemporary periodicals, with features that will be peculiar to itself.
I. A leading object will be to present the public, with the utmost rapidity and at the cheapest possible rate, the best of those works in Popular Literature which are appearing abroad in serials, or in separate chapters. With this view, we print in the first number the initial portions of the brilliant nautical romance now in course of publication in Blackwood's Magazine, under the title of "The Green Hand," by the author of the most celebrated fiction of its class in English literature, "Tom Cringle's Log;" and other works will be selected and carried on simultaneously, as they shall come to us with the stamp of sufficient merit.
II. The foreign periodicals are continually rich in novelettes of from two or three to a dozen chapters, which--being too short for separate volumes--are rarely reproduced at all in this country. Of these the INTERNATIONAL will contain the choicest selections.
III. Of the Quarterly Reviews the most admirable papers will be presented in full; and those works will in all cases be carefully examined for such valuable and striking passages as will be likely to interest the American reader, to whom the entire articles in which they appear may be unattractive.
IV. The Literary, Religious, Political and Scientific newspapers and magazines will be consulted for whatever will instruct or entertain