The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-05-01
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Contents ofths May Number.
THE Novelty Iron Works With Descriptions q Marine
Steam Engines and their Construction. BY Jacob Al
bOtt with eighteen Original illustrations
Maurice Tiern.y the Soldier Of Fortune By Charles
Lever, Author Of Charles o'MAllsy" &c, tcO"tHHed)
The Unnamed She'll.
The Story Of Giovanni BerOni.
PhAntOms and Realities. An Autobiography. Part Sec
ond Noon.
Story Of Silver-vOice and her Sister Zoe.
The Crocodile Battery.
Chapter on Dreams.
Fair in Munich.
The Wifes StrAtagem.
The Champion. An Incident In Spanish History.
The Farm Lseorer The Sou. BY Harriet MsrtineAu.
Napoleon and the Pope A Scene at FOntainebleau.
Gabrielle; or, the Sisters.
The Waste Of War. (PoetrY)
Nj. hit with an Earthquake.
Plea for British Reptiles
Dream and the Interpretation thereof.
The Household Of Sir ThomAs More. LibelIus Mar,
sersts More, quindecm Amos nsts Chslsee inceptus
The stolen Fruit, Story Of NapOleOns Childhood.
WberfJrce and Chalmers From the Unpublished Vol.
ume Of HannA's Memoirs of Chalmers
My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. BY Sir I'd
ward Bulver Lytton, Continual
Uncle John or, the Rough Road to Riches.
Darling Dorel.
Courtesy Of Americans.
Chronicle OF Political Social Literary Artistic and Per-
sonal Affairs at Home and Abroad.
Literary Notces-Books Of the Month
Two Leaves from Punch-Encouragement to Book
lenders Diplomacy aud Gastronomy-Supper at a Juve,
nile party One Of the Juveniles after the PryConVer
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busA File to smooth Asperties-The lowest Depth Of
Meannsss.-A Little Bit Of Humbug With four lustra
lions.
Fashions for May. With four illustrations
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