April 1858

Articles

• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

  Every man his own Boswell.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Mr. Buchanan’s Administration

  “It has evinced no mastery; on the other hand, it may be arraigned for inconsistencies the most palpable, for proceedings the most awkward, for a general impotence … and for signal offences against the national sense of decorum and duty.”

• The Hundred Days: Personal Reminiscences

• My Journal to My Cousin Mary

• Amours De Voyage

• The Catacombs of Rome

• Happiness

• The Pure Pearl of Diver's Bay

• The Story of Karin: A Danish Legend

• The Abbé De l'Épée

• Who Is the Thief?

  Francis Theakstone and Matthew Sharpin

• Telling the Bees

• Persian Poetry

• Sandalphon

• Library of Old Authors

• Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, Etc

• The New American Cyclopædia

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