The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852

The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852

THE AZTECS AT THE SOCIETY LIBRARY. A DAY AT CHATSWORTH. MEN AND WOMEN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A MODEL TRAVELLER. A MYSTERIOUS HISTORY. EDWARD EVERETT AND DANIEL WEBSTER. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. THE HAPPINESS OF OYSTERS. THE RECLAIMING OF THE ANGEL. THE ENEMY OF VIRGINIA. A WORD ABOUT THE ARMY-PRIVATE. TO SUNDRY CRITICS. THE "RED FEATHER." THRENODIA. MR. ASHBURNER IN NEW-YORK. LEONORA TO TASSO. HUNGARIAN POPULAR SONGS. A SONG FOR THIS DAY AND GENERATION. FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED LEGEND. A CHAPTER ON GAMBLING. AN ELECTION ROW IN NEW-YORK. THE JEWISH HEROINE: A STORY OF TANGIER. LAMAS AND LAMAISM. STORY OF GASPAR MENDEZ. JOHN ROBINSON, THE PASTOR OF THE PILGRIMS. A CHAPTER ON CATS. THE HEIRS OF RANDOLPH ABBEY. NEW DISCOVERIES IN GHOSTS. THE WOLF-GATHERING. MY NOVEL THE WHITE LAMB. AUTHORS AND BOOKS. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE MONTH. THE FINE ARTS. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. RECENT DEATHS. LADIES' FASHIONS FOR MARCH. For several weeks the attention of the curious has been more and more attracted to a remarkable ethnological exhibition at the Society Library. Two persons, scarcely larger than the fabled gentlemen of Lilliput, (though one is twelve or thirteen and the other eighteen years of age), of just and even elegant proportions, and physiognomies striking and peculiar, but not deficient in intellect or refinement, have been visited by throngs of idlers in quest of amusement, wonder-seekers, and the profoundest inquirers into human history. Until very recently, Mexico was properly described as Terra Incognita. The remains of nations are there shrouded in oblivion, and cities, in their time surpassing Tadmor and Thebes, untrodden except by the jaguar and the ocelot. A few persons, indeed, attracted by uncertain rumors of ancient grandeur in Palenque, have visited her temples and tombs ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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