The New-Yorker Weekly Journal of Literature, Politics and General Intelligence. Volume VII n° 1 - n° 26 (N° 157 - N° 182) March 23, 1839 - September 14, 1839.

pp. 414, Leatherbound, red leather & marbled cover, marbled endpapers, Spine with gilt bands, 25 x 31 cm, throughout a clean copy CONTENTS OF THE NEW YORKER (QUARTO). VOL. VII from March 1939 to September 1939. PROSE Absurdities  Absurdities of Ignorance  A Day by the Merrimac Adelantado of the SevenCities  Affair between a Whaling Captain and a Military Officer Alexandria Amelia American Criticism  American Institute Amusing Blunders  Ancestral Pride Ancient Public Buildings Anpedote of Napoleon Anthropology A Taciturnity Astor House Sketches Aurora  Authorship in Paris Autocrat of the Sreakft table  Bacon's Rebellion Banks of New-York Battle of the Bad Axe Battle of the Pyramids Beautiful Women of Paris Beyond the Rocky Mountains  Eirds of Spring Border Difficulties British Corn-Laws Bulwer's Writings &c Canada Affairs Cash and Credit Castle Building Charles Mathews  Change of Fortune: Childhood Church-Yard Sketches Cigar Manufacture City Offices Confessions of an Eng Opium-Eater ( Congress  Contentment Connecticut Temperance Law  Congressional Sketches Col Benton's Letter Commerce of the U States Consumption Cotton Circular Cotton Currency and Trade Cooper and his Critics Country Life Lit Labor Coughing  Crater of Kirauea Hawaii Crayon Papers Crumbs Criticism Daniel Webster Datura Fastuosa Debts of the States Death of Da Vinci Desert of California Disputed Territory Distinguished Cook Distinguished Americans Discoveries in the Arts  Dickens Dogs of Tweedsmuir Dog-Day Readings Down-East Notions  Early Attempts to Discover a NorthWest Passage Earthquakes-New Madrid Earthquake at Martinique Eastern Manifesto Eccentricities of Alfieri Editorial Correspondence Education in Tennessee Egypt and Syria End of the War  Epitaph on a Tomb-Sone Environs of Damarcus  English Language  England and France Escape from Indians Eshban the last King of the house of Esau Extent of the Great Lakes  Exhibition Nat Academy  Extraordinary Discovery  Exploring Expedition - Letters to Hon Joel R Poinsett: I II III IV V ELECTION RETURNS  Alabama Connecticut Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana  Kentucky  Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Mississippi Missouri New-York New-Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island  South Carolina Tennessee Vermont  Virginia  Fashions in DressFragment of a Journal Fate of a Gambler Female HeroismFranceFinancial ControversyFox AnecdoteFrightfal FixFreaks of Wealth Good Rules for Students General Gratiot Geology in Russia Governor's Visit Governor's Speech Glances at Men and Things Horses and Equipages Hazlitt in Switzerland Holmes the Murderer Inman and the Nat Acad Important Discovery  Inter Copy-Right Illínois &e Italian Opera Influence of Religion Influence of Words Improved Species of Cotton Institution for the Blind Instinct  Invention of Iron Ships John Galt Longevity of Artists Literary Property Literature and GossipLake of Glanmore Ludicrous Incident London Bridge London Stage Twenty Years Ago  II III IVVI Lady Hester Stanhope LoveLeaf from an Unpub Journal: Lithography Lecture on Wines  Lord Brougham Lake Erie Steamboats Letters from New-York  Letter from Mr Rives Letter from Mr Clay Literature and its Appliances  Laura Zicciola Long Walks London Correspondence Morals and Manners Mademoiselle Rachel Mousselaine de Laine Manufactory of Pins Marriage and Courtship May-Bugs Magic Rock My First Client Mummies at Durango Moral Reform  My Friend the Emperor Murat called to his death Morning-Life and its Woes New Discovery Fine Arts  North-Eastern Boundary New Discovery New-York and the South North-American Discoveries National Debts and Wages New Reaping Machine No Silver Spoon National Characteristics Notes England &Scotland  Newspaper Business  Ollapod Our General Banking System Opera of Amilie  Our Olden Poets Otho Holland Williams Old Ironsides Our State Policy Office and Office-Seeking Official Documents Origin of Almacks Old English Comedy Old Songs and Ballads Our Thinking-Cap Plan for Diminishing Litiga-tions Pearls and Diamonds Picture of War Pompeii Passion to Grow Rich Portuguese Superstitions Pegasus Yokcd Persian Presents Political Writings of Thomas Paine Penciled Passages President's Visit  Petition of a Poor Author Pokings in Etymology Punishment of Death Prospects of Cotton Phrenology and its Application: (By George Combe Esq) Lecture I III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV Rights of Author hip Ramblings in Rome Railroads by a Noviciate Recollections Ruins Rambles in the Environs Recent Miracle Recent American Poetry Regulation of Diet Rain a Colloquial Lecture  Rough Notes on Michigan  Revival of Henry the Fifth Romance in Reality Reduction of Postage  Reminiscences of Brainard REVIEW: The Genoese a Tragedy New-York Review Impressions of Travel Cheveley Songs and Ballads  Jubilee of the Constitution Goethe and his Faust  Opera of Henrique Hohenlinden  Ballad of Lord Bateman Rurel Sketches Shakspeare's Drinking-Bout Stephen Van Rensselaer Strength of England Silk Scrap of History Sympathy Sleepy Hollow Special Mission to England  Sayings from the Talmud Scandal-Mengers of Literature Sculpture Painting and Poetry  Scraps from Nichs Nickleby Spanish Ceremony Shipments from Charleston State Security Banks Safety Fund Banks  Sea Serpent years ago Sons of Murat Suggestions for the Reflective  Shepard Kollock  Steamboats on the Hudson Second Thoughts Best To Publishers of Annuals Thinking and Acting Tribute to Mr Combe Theophilus Trafic Tobacco  TurkishGallantry Thomson Thomas Haynes Bayly Turkey and Egypt The Old Maid in the Winding Sheet The Trespasser in Maine The Lone Widow The Panther's Leap The Artist's Excursion  The Buffalo Baiting The Lost Pleiad The Red Swan The Unamiable The Prospect The Night-Watch The Alhambra The Wedding Finger The Jewels The Samphire Gatherer's Story The Widow The Phantom Funeral The Pawnees  The New Congress The Lottery Ticket The PostageReform United States Bank University of Vermont Valley of Mexico Vegetation in Lapland Virginia Military Institute Volcanic Island in the Mediteranean  Volcanoes Wild Scenes in the West Wordsworth's Character What My Dog Knew Women of Genius Who would not be a Farmer?  Wedding at Sea Western Prairies Wordsworth-Byron POETRY A Forest Walk A Night Scene Artaraxia Archias Beauty and Time Bont Song Bright Thoughts Byron  Cassandra Charades by Praed Content Dead of the Republic Dear Ones Far Away Death of Clapperton Death of the Fair Pilgrim  Diamond Cut Diamond  Dirga of the Huron Chief Early Flowers Egypt Epigrams Extract from an unpub Poem Fairy Grove Falls of the Mongaup Fragments Friendship Gray Hairs Hymn to May  Isabel Is There an Unbeliever? I would my household gods, &c  June Lament of Ceres Laughter Light of the Light-House Lines by E F E Lines by Mrs MC Sawyer Lines by P B LinesThomas HaynesBayly  Literary Fables Lines To a Portrait Mary at the Sepulchre Memory of the Poets Midnight Thoughts Miss Tree's Farewell Address  My Old Arm Chair Nay take the sweet flowers  New-Haven  Ode to Chateaubriand Oh waken winds waken Oh come with me  Old Trinity Orpheus Descent into Hell  Our Fathers where are they  Petrarch to Laura Pe-wa-temthe last Huron Chief  Planet Venus Presence of the Beloved Prayer of Adam Pray not for the Dead Scraps by P B Shakspeare  She took her lute Sleep's Praise  Sonnet Amy  Sonnet Early Seenes Sonnet Dr Adam Clarke SonnetKeats  Sonnet Ly P B Sonnet on a bust of Webster Sonnets by the Sketcher Sonnets by P B Sonnets by J C Sonnetsby a Quiet Man Song by f R Hulbert Song of the Homesick Pans Songs by A E Springby Eliza Cook Spring Spring Sonnets Spring Sonnets by P B Stanzas To a Lady Stanzasby W F St Bartholomew's Eve Stephen Van Rensselaer Summer Friends Summer Stanzas Susannah The Angel's Wing The Bob O'Linkum The Bridal of Belmont The Broken Lyre The Carrier Pigeon  The Child and the Gossamer The Daffodil The Dreaming Girl The Drunkard and his Bottle: The Dying Girl to her Lover The Farewell The Fountain The Forsaken  The Guinea  The Intruder The Love-Letter The Motherless Infant The Mountain Pine The Night-Mare The Parting Word The Past The Pilgrim Child The Poor Man's Song  The Rainbow The Sea-Gull The Steamboat The Slumber of Death The Temeraire The Tree of Death The Troubadour's Bride The Victor's Banquet The Widow's Hope The Winds The Wood and the Wanderer  To a Lady with a Bouquet To a Mother on the death of her child To Dorothy To Mary of Unadilla To Mignon To Night To the Mocking Bird Unfading Beauty Voices of the Night Wake my lyre We Meet in Crowds Whisperings of Conscience Wishes MUSIC The Old House at Home Beauty Wit and Gold The Peace of the Valley is fled The Silver Lake I remember how my Childhood fleeted by The Rapture Dwelling  I breathe not thy Name While Silent is the Midnight Hour I'm ower young to marry yet Oh promise me to sing Love  Maiden oh lovest thou me Farewell Dearest Fare Thee Well Of what is the Old Man thinking! We can love no more Our Early Days  I'll love my Native Land The Keepsake O! what a Joyous Day! Glide gently on For Ever The Three Ages of Love  By the Flowing Guadalquiver Queen Vietoria's Waltz  Night at Sea