# The Galaxy/Volume 1

THE
GALAXY.
AN ILLUSTRATED
MAGAZINE OF ENTERTAINING READING.
VOL I.
May 1, 1866, to August 15, 1866.
NEW YORK:
W. C. & F. P. CHURCH, 39 PARK ROW
1866.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by W. C. & F. P. CHURCH, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
* Number 1 (May 1, 1866)
* Number 2 (May 15, 1866)
* Number 3 (June 1, 1866)
* Number 4 (June 15, 1866)
* Number 5 (July 1, 1866)
* Number 6 (July 15, 1866)
* Number 7 (August 1, 1866)
* Number 8 (August 15, 1866)
INDEX TO VOLUME I.
Note.—This index shows both the pages where each article is printed, and those where each author's articles are printed. Names of authors are in small capitals.
N. B.—By an error of the press, pages 565 to 596 were printed, in part of the edition, as pages 665 to 696.
| | PAGE. |
| About the Literary Spirit | 487 |
| About Piazzas | 534 |
| About Reserve and Decency | 657 |
| Academy (The) of Music | 367 |
| Accident (An) | 656 |
| American (An) Colony in France | 387 |
| Archie Lovell | 36, 120, 246, 277, 446, 469, 613, 661 |
| Arnold's Creed | 729 |
| Art (The) of Dining | 116, 225, 320, 460, 741 |
| Baden-Baden | 519 |
| Baker's Albert Nyanza | 658 |
| Banks' Bill to Accept Canada | 659 |
| Base-ball | 561 |
| Benson, Eugene | 203, 487, 581 |
| Bierstadt, A | 678 |
| Binckley, J. W. | 493 |
| Bismark, Count von | 745 |
| Blot, Pierre | 116, 225, 320, 460, 741 |
| Bohemians and Bohemianism | 368 |
| Braddon, Miss | 747 |
| Bristed, Chas. Astor | 519 |
| Butcher's (A) Bill, and Family Schnapps | 563 |
| Carter, R. D. | 600 |
| Cary, Phœbe | 291 |
| Chapter (A) from a Noble Life | 34 |
| Childe Harold | 33 |
| Church, Frederic E. | 422 |
| Church, J. A. | 292 |
| Circuit (The) Preacher | 684 |
| Clarence, J. | 577 |
| Claverings (The) | 5, 85, 181, 339, 373, 525, 565, 708 |
| Clement | 210 |
| Cluseret, G. | 133 |
| Cobbe, Frances Power | 149 |
| Colorado (Disappointed Sister) | 292 |
| Conant, C. B. | 33 |
| Conant, S. S. | 324 |
| Congressional Committee on Style | 363 |
| Cooke, J. Esten | 165 |
| Court-Martial (A) on Fenian Principles | 466 |
| Crane, Anne M. | 501, 588 |
| Crane, T. F. | 589 |
| Cruelty to Animals | 180 |
| Dante, Translation from | 605 |
| Darragh, T. J. | 353 |
| Day and Night | 360 |
| Day (A) of Days | 298 |
| Defect in our Tax Laws | 371 |
| Demolition (The) and Re-edification of Paris | 81 |
| Disappointed (The) Sister | 292 |
| Doré, Paul Gustave | 324 |
| Dramatic Criticism | 176 |
| Draper, Henry | 313 |
| Draper, W. H. | 107 |
| Ecce Homo | 274, 745 |
| Edwards, Mrs. | 36, 120, 246, 277, 446, 469, 613, 661 |
| Elements of the Art of Poetry | 408 |
| Elliott, C. W. | 534, 693 |
| Emerald (The) Beetles | 589 |
| English Adherence to Custom | 468 |
| English Parties | 416 |
| Essays and Essay Writing | 577 |
| Evening Boat Song | 486 |
| Exhibition of the Academy of Design | 272 |
| Fallacies (The) of Memory | 149 |
| Fancy (The) Ball | 372 |
| Fiat Faciendum | 229 |
| Fitts, J. F. | 543 |
| Furrow (The) | 604 |
| Gateways of the Central Park | 650 |
| Gérome, J. L. | 581 |
| Giants, Dwarfs and Fairies | 26 |
| Gilbert, E. | 608 |
| Glove Trade in France | 82 |
| Going In | 693 |
| Grant, General | 748 |
| Griffith Gaunt | 559 |
| Gurowski, Count Adam | 268 |
| Hance, J. L. | 687 |
| Harvest (The) of the Sea | 430 |
| Hastings, W. F. C. | 196 |
| Hawes, Miss C. P. | 703 |
| Home (The) of Victor Hugo | 133 |
| Howells, W. D. | 210 |
| Howland, Marie | 718 |
| In Absence | 291 |
| In the Hammock | 106 |
| In the Ranks at Cedar Creek | 543 |
| James, Henry, Jr | 298 |
| John Ryland's Wife | 67 |
| Johnson, Edwin R. | 436 |
| Journalist Enterprise | 730 |
| Kinney, Mrs. E. C. | 34 ​ |
| Landor, W. S. | 725 |
| Laura, My Darling | 707 |
| Leader (The) of the House | 493 |
| Learned Ignorance | 369 |
| Lee, J. W. | 645 |
| Leland, C. G. | 261 |
| Lines to a Lied ohne Worte | 588 |
| London (A) Strike | 179 |
| Lord (The) Lieutenant of the Champ de Mars | 81 |
| Magazine Writing, English and American | 466 |
| Malan, H. | 332 |
| March (The) of the Cholera | 107 |
| Medbury, J. K. | 67 |
| Miss Clare | 140, 213 |
| Missionary Incivility | 177 |
| Mother's (The) Prayer | 331 |
| My Courtship | 501 |
| My Palaces | 513 |
| Nebulæ (By the Editor), | 79, 172, 269, 362, 463, 559, 657, 745 |
| Neutrality Laws | 750 |
| New York Quarantine | 465 |
| Nickleby (Mrs.) Editing the London Times | 660 |
| Orleanist (The) Party | 263 |
| Our Houses | 196 |
| Pagan (The) Element in France | 203 |
| Palmer, Mrs. W. H. | 729 |
| Palmerston in Westminster Abbey | 83 |
| Papal (A) Epistle Translated | 464 |
| Paris (The) Exhibition | 80 |
| Parisian Fashions | 82 |
| Parsons, Dr. T. W. | 605 |
| Perkins, Fred. B. | 229, 430, 725 |
| Pharaoh's Horses | 395 |
| Pratt, Sarah M. B. | 372 |
| Polipel's Island | 645 |
| Political Serenading | 862 |
| Pool, Maria L. | 140, 213, 395 |
| Portrait Painting | 369 |
| Possibilities of Economy | 718 |
| Princess Mary of Cambridge | 272 |
| Private Theatricals | 79 |
| Quaker Costume | 83 |
| Quartier Latin | 608 |
| Recent (A) Literary Forgery | 687 |
| Red (The) River Dam | 241 |
| Roman Women of Fashion | 832 |
| "Round Table" on Drunken Ladies | 758 |
| Sedgwick, W. E. | 56 |
| Shakespeare's Birthday, etc. | 172 |
| Skeleton (The) in the Closet | 353 |
| Society for Prevention of Cruelty, etc. | 180, 365 |
| Sound and Sense | 634 |
| Spectroscope (The) and its Revelations | 313 |
| Spoken at Sea | 163 |
| Spring, 1866 | 55 |
| Stedman, E. C. | 163, 408, 707 |
| Stedman's "Anonyma" | 178 |
| Stevens, Hon. T. | 493 |
| Stoddard, R. H. | 459, 486 |
| Story (A) of the Opequan | 165 |
| Story (The) of Ulysses (from Dante) | 605 |
| Strawberry Hill | 553 |
| Taylor, Bayard | 360 |
| Terry, Rose | 106 |
| Ten Millions of Honorables | 608 |
| Tilton, Theodore | 331 |
| To a Poet on his Fortieth Birthday | 459 |
| Tormenting the Alphabet | 437 |
| Towle, G. M. | 263, 416 |
| Townsend, G. A. | 57, 387, 684 |
| Travel | 703 |
| Trollope, A. | 5, 85, 181, 339, 373, 525, 565, 708 |
| Tuckerman, H. T. | 422, 678 |
| Unbelief | 132 |
| Wakeman, G. | 437, 634 |
| Wall, J. W. | 553 |
| Waterton, Charles | 600 |
| What is this Mystery? | 747 |
| White, Richard Grant | 650 |
| Whittaker, H. | 604 |
| Wilcox, J. | 514 |
| Williams, Mrs. James H. | 656 |
| Wilson, James Grant | 241 |
| Winter, William | 513 |
| Winter (A) with American Peripatetics | 57 |
| With a Volume of Old Sonnets | 486 |
| Wonderful (The) Crow | 261 |
| Work and Rest | 514 |
ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I.
| | PAGE. |
| Spring—1866. (Designed by F. O. C. Darley.) | 5 |
| Julia Brabazon. (Miss Edwards) | 5 |
| "A Puir Feckless Thing, Tottering Along Like—" (Miss Edwards.) Facing | 37 |
| Mr. Saul Proposes. (Miss Edwards.) Facing. | 85 |
| Florence Burton. (Miss Edwards.) | 85 |
| Victor Hugo | 133 |
| Hauteville House | 135 |
| A Friendly Talk. (Miss Edwards.) Facing | 181 |
| House in Onslow Crescent. (Miss Edwards.) | 181 |
| Nothing more than that, Sir, on my Word. (A. Lumley.) Facing | 277 |
| The Spectroscope | 314 |
| Spectra from the Spectroscope | 817 |
| Paul Gustave Doré. (From a Photograph.) | 324 |
| Florence at the Rectory. (Miss Edwards.) | 345 |
| Was not the Price In her Hand? (Miss Edwards.) Facing | 373 |
| "Bosidevele no Droschdt!" (E. Mullen.) | 437 |
| Tormenting the Alphabet. (E. Mullen.) | 445 |
| "Did He not Bear False Witness Against Her?" (Miss Edwards.) Facing | 469 |
| My Courtship. (E.Mullen.) | 501 |
| A Visitor at Ongar Park. (Miss Edwards.) | 525 |
| In the Piazza. (B. Day.) | 544 |
| "I Rejected your Fine Speeches, not you. (B. Day.) Facing | 505 |
| Jean Léon Gérome. (W. J. Hennessey.) | 581 |
| Dundreary Ejects R. (E. Mullen.) | 634 |
| Walter Savage Landor. Facing | 661 |
| The Circuit Preacher. (E.Mullen.) | 684 |
| The Rivals. (Miss Edwards.) | 708 |