THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE: DEVOTED TO Literature, Art, and Religion. ABEL STEVENS, EDITOR. VOLUME V. JULY TO DECEMBER, 1854. New-York: PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PHILLIPS, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1854. Editorial Notes and Gleanings...85, 181, 277, Europe, Sketches in-Rev. B. H. Nadal...59, 130 Facts, Look at the-Editorial......... Fine Arts..... Clouds of Sorrow-W R. Lawrence..... 420 Four Years-Chambers's Ed. Jour........ 253 Humanity From the German of Kinkel. 456 Love and Change-Frazer's Mag......... 507 157 On the Cliff Top-Chambers's Ed. Jour. 417 74 The Bell of St. Regis-Rev. M. Trafton. 55 39 ....95, 191 Garden, Description of an Old-Sharpe's Mag. 273 Glimpses of Church World-Exeter-Hall and 430 Grizzly Bear and an Adventure with one, 426 Happy Horatio-Tait's Mag...... 523 448 Hayden.. 261 307 Scientific Items..... 96, 192 Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits- Infidelity in the United States-Editorial... 411 Jay, Rev. William-Biographical Mag......... 24 King, the Sculptor-Rev. B. K. Pierce......... 481 Last days of John Owen, The-Wesleyan Literary Record.........63, 188, 284, 380, 478, 570 Luther and the Reformation...16, 112, 200, Magic in India-Chambers's Ed. Jour......... 275 M'Allister, Rev. Richard-Rev. Dr. Holdich. 46 Manners in the Olden Time-Sharpe's Mag. 357 Set a Thief to catch a Thief.. Sleepers awakened-Chambers's Ed. Jour.... 465 Small Things-Alice Carey...... Stitch! Stitch! Stitch!- Chambers's Ed. Trip from St. Petersburgh to Constantinople, Trifles! There are none-Rev. R. Donkersley. 341 158, 245 immense squares, surrounded by its numerous monuments, or paced its streets so wide, so long, and so perfectly straight. But this impression grew fainter from day to day. I continued to admire what was worthy of admiration; but criticisms began to mingle with my eulogies, and it was often necessary to remind myself that St. Petersburgh had only existed a century and a half-that in fact, notwithstanding the rigors of its climate, it is a hothouse plant forced into its present flourishing appearance by the ascendency of its indomitable founder. Truth obliges me to acknowledge that I at last yawned in front of the very buildings which first delighted |