This is the February 1853 issue of HARPER’S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.  This issue was once bound, as was common for library copies.  This issue is in very good condition, except for some foxing, but the text is still very clean and readable.  This publication competed with Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, and The Century Magazine during the later part of the 1800’s, all of which were illustrated magazines.  This issue contains stories of Art, History, Literature, Science, Travel, and contains 144 pages.

ARTICLES:

MEMOIRS OF THE HOLY LAND, THE SEA OF GALILEE – by Jacob Abbott – illustrated

CRUSOE-LIFE, A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ – by J. Ross Browne – illustrated

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, JENA AND AUERSTADT – by John S. Abbott – illustrated (See picture “Cavalry Charge”)

MAKING HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES

THE TWO SKULLS

CAPTAIN BART AND THE SEA-FOX

THE QUEEN OF THE CANARY ISLANDS

GOOD ADVICE FROM SIR WALTER SCOTT

MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE

THE LIVING AUTHORS OF ENGLAND – by Sir Archibald Allison

BLEAK HOUSE – by Charles Dickens – illustrated (See picture “Mr. Smallweed Breaks the Pipe of Peace”)

CHRISTMAS STORIES – by Charles Dickens

INSTINCT IN A HYENA

THE OLD SOLDIER’S STORY

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS

EDITOR’S EASY CHAIR

EDITOR’S DRAWER

LITURARY NOTICES

COMICALITIES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED – illustrated

            AN AMERICAN METHUSALEH

            PERSONAL ECONOMY

            DELICACIES OF THE SEASON

            DEPLORABLE IGNORANCE

FASHIONS FOR LATER WINTER – illustrated

            MORNING COSTUME

            FULL DRESS

            BONNETS

            CHILD’S DRESS