The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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Various. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, LL. D
THE ASTOR LIBRARY
THE TEMPER OF WOMEN
ANDREW MARVEL
A NOVELIST'S APPEAL FOR THE CANADAS
DR. WEBSTER, PRESIDENT OF THE NEW-YORK FREE ACADEMY
Authors and Books
The Fine Arts
GOETHE'S OPINION OF BYRON, SCOTT, AND CARLYLE
MR. KELLOGG'S EXPLORATION OF MT. SINAI
LAFAYETTE, TALLEYRAND, METTERNICH, AND NAPOLEON
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Original Poetry
OLD AGE
THE CASTLE IN THE AIR.12
TO A BEREAVED MOTHER
THE AMBITIOUS BROOKLET
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
LAST CASE OF THE SUPERNATURAL
A STORY WITHOUT A NAME13
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
THE FRIENDSHIP OF JOSEPHUS AND ST. PAUL
THE COUNT MONTE-LEONE: OR, THE SPY IN SOCIETY.14
BOOK IV
I. EXPLANATION OF THE ENIGMA
II.—A LAST APPEARANCE
III. A PATERNAL LETTER
IV.—TWO RIVALS
V. THREE RIVALS
VI.—MARRIAGE
THE ABBÉ DE VOISENON AND HIS TIMES
IRELAND IN THE LAST AGE
THE LOST LETTER
I
II
LIFE AT A WATERING-PLACE
THE LIONNE
TO ONE IN AFFLICTION
MY NOVEL:
OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE
PART VI
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX.—THE SQUIRE'S SPEECH
Historical Review of the Month
THE UNITED STATES
EUROPE
MEXICO
BRITISH AMERICA
THE WEST INDIES
CENTRAL AMERICA—THE ISTHMUS
SOUTH AMERICA
AFRICA
Recent Deaths
Scientific Miscellanies
Ladies' Fashions for Early Spring
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We present above an accurate view of the exterior of the Astor Library, in Lafayette Place, from a drawing made for the International under the direction of the architect, Mr. Alexander Saeltzer. It is destined to be one of the chief attractions of the city, and information respecting it will be read with interest by the literary and learned throughout the country.
It is now three years since John Jacob Astor died, leaving by his will four hundred thousand dollars for the establishment of a Public Library in New-York, and naming as the first trustees, the Mayor of the city of New-York and the Chancellor of the state for the time being. Washington Irving, William B. Astor, Daniel Lord, Jr., James G. King, Joseph G. Cogswell, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Henry Brevoort, Jr., Samuel B. Ruggles, Samuel Ward, and Charles Bristed. On the twentieth of May the trustees held their first meeting, accepted the trust conferred on them, and appointed Dr. Cogswell, one of their number, superintendent of the Library. Of the bequest, $75,000 was authorized to be applied to the erection of a building, $120,000 to the purchase of books and other objects in the establishment of the Library, and the residue, after paying for the site, was to be invested as a fund for its maintenance and increase. In September, 1848, the trustees selected the site for the edifice. It is convenient for all public purposes, and affords the comparative quietude and retirement which are desirable for an institution of constant resort for study and for the consultation of authorities. In October, Dr. Cogswell was authorized to go to Europe and purchase at his discretion books to the value of twenty thousand dollars. The object of the trustees in sending him abroad at that particular time was to avail themselves of the opportunity, afforded by the distracted political condition of Europe and the reduction of prices consequent upon it, to purchase books at very low rates; and the purchases were made at prices greatly below the ordinary standard, and the execution of his trust in all respects amply vindicated the high opinion entertained of Dr. Cogswell's fitness for his position.
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Captain J. D. Cunningham, author of the "History of the Sikhs," who was dismissed from his political situation at Bhopal, by orders of the Court of Directors, for having published an official correspondence, without the permission of his immediate superiors, has been recalled to public employment by the Governor-General of India, Lord Dalhousie having just appointed him general superintending engineer in the north-western provinces.
Mr. Hepworth Dixon, author of "Howard and the Prison-World of Europe," has published in London a Life of William Penn, which will be republished immediately by Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia.
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