The Gem of the western world
Subtitle: for 1851 ...
By: Ed. by Mary E. Hewitt
Publisher: Pub. by Cornish, Lamport
Published: 1851
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: American literature; Gift books
Notes: Added t.-p., illus. in colors.

Union, by E. Helfenstein [pseud.]--A tale of true love.--Sappho to the Sibyl, by Mrs. M.E. Hewitt.--The stolen child, by G.G. Foster.--Sonnet: To Walter Savage Landor, Esq, by Miss E. Fanny Haworth.--To Sarah, on her birth-day, by Mrs. S.F. Osgood.--Receipt for a fashionable novel, by Miss E. Fanny Haworth.--Maiden fancies, by Mrs. Mary Arthur.--The Jewish maiden.--The Moorish maiden's lament, by Euphrasia F. Haworth.--The monks at the ferry.--My dream, by Miss A.S. Mumford.--Our day on the prairie.

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Table of contents: title: Aspirations, by Mrs. M.L. Seward.; title: A German story, by Mrs. M.E. Hewitt.; title: Beauty's biography, by Eliza L. Sproat.; title: Love, by Mary S. Pease.; title: Sonnet, by [Valentine]; title: A child's valentine, by J.T. Fields.; title: The Jomsvikingar and Skjold Meyar, by Miss A.E. Russell.; title: Fanchette, by Mrs. D.M. Osgood.; title: Hildegard.; title: A sonnet to Green River, by J.J. Pease.; title: Ode of Harold the valiant, by Mrs. M.E. Hewitt.; title: Osseo; or, The son of the evening star, by H.R. Schoolcraft.; title: "Is it well with thee?" by Miss A.S. Mumford.; title: A legend, by C.R. Webster.; title: The Old Harper of Wales, by Elizabeth G. Barber.; title: A public funeral in Paris, by Madame Hewitt.; title: The North American indians, by Mrs. E.A. Gay.; title: Rambling recollections of the Philippines, by Mrs. D.M. Osgood.; title: The first doubt, by Grace Greenwood [pseud.]; title: A tale of the times of chivalry, by Charles Mills.; title: Thraldom, by E. Oakes Smith.; title: The bard's devotion, by Mrs. M.E. Hewitt.; title: The bride of the dead, by Alice B. Neal.; title: Petrus, the painter, by H.S. Saroni.; title: Coming home, by Mrs. M.E. Hewitt.; title: Frea; or, A legend of Odin, by Miss E.A. Russell.; title: A regret for childhood, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.