This is the April 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:

NOTES FROM THE COPPER REGION (between Buffalo, NY and Chicago, IL) – by Robert E. Clarke – illustrated

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

THE MORMONS – illustrated (See picture “Mormons Crossing the Mississippi on the Ice”)

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, THE PEACE OF TILSIT - by John S. Abbott – illustrated (See picture “Arch of the Carrousel”)

TOKINA – illustrated

FRANCE – HER EMPEROR

THE DEATH TRANCE

GALVANIC RESURRECTION

THE NIGHT WANDERER

MAKING A SILK-PURSE OUT OF A SOW’S EAR

THE WORLD RENOWNED

THE STRAIN OF PARENTAGE

BERTHALDE REIMER’S VOICE

BLEAK HOUSE – by Charles Dickens – illustrated (See picture “Attorney and Client, Fortitude and Impatience”)

THE YOUNG CHEMIST; OR NEVER DESPAIR

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS

EDITOR’S TABLE

EDITOR’S EASY CHAIR

EDITOR’S DRAWER

LITERARY NOTICES

COMICALITIES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED – illustrated

            A MORAL IMPOSSIBILITY

            A LEFT-HANDED COMPLIMENT

            AN ABSURD SUPPOSITION

            EASILY SATISFIED

FASHIONS FOR APRIL – illustrated

            HOME DRESS

            BALL COSTUME

            PROMENADE COSTUME

            CHEMISETTE