Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-28
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CONTENTS OF JANUARY NUMBER.
Personal appearance andhab Of Robert Southey, by his Son
with portrait and FIVE illustrations. Il
Madame Campan, by Mrs. s. Hale, with portrait
proerasinatioa, BY Charles Mackay tpoetry)
| Bona lombard Brunoro, with portrait
Sketch my Childhood by Thomas de Quincy with por
visit 10 an English Dairy
Sailing in the Air--Hstory Of Eronautics. tei'4@
Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier Of Fortune by Charles Lever
author Of /" Charles O,Maley,' &c. tContinued.)
A Lunaie Asylqm in Paletmo. ..ags.ass
| Soped for Texas.a Tale fthe West.
The Volcano Girl. t# m
Public opinion and the Public Press. ...... .a..
The Dumb Child lPoetry.) .j .:. ....
Curiosities Of Railway Travelling.
The Robbers Revenge. a "
Wordsworth and Carlyle. t,...s
Milton and Wordsworth. .....
Rats and Rat-killers in England.
The Broken Heart; the Well Of Pen Mor; Welsh Tale
The Young Mans Counsellor. ,r.
Talleyrand r#
The Dangers Of doing wrong, by Miss Strickland
Aneodotes Of Napoleon, % BY Lord H Holland. land
Waiting for the Post Interesting Anecdotes.
Cheerful Views Of Human Nature by the King of the Hearth
My Novel Or Varieties English Life BY Sir Edward Bull
wer Lytton, (Connued.)
Monthly Record of Current EventsDomesc and Foreign
Political, Literary, Scientific, and Personal. 3.ta7
Literary Notces-books of the Month - t
with ustratons Ladie. Arithmetic Netting for Ladies'
Winter Fashions, with three Illustrations. ---ea sE
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