Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I
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Various. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE CRADLE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY. WITH PEN AND PENCIL

FATE DAYS AND OTHER POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS

"BATTLE WITH LIFE!"

TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF MADAME ROLAND

CHEMICAL CONTRADICTIONS

DESCENT INTO THE CRATER OF A VOLCANO.14

THE EVERY-DAY YOUNG LADY

HISTORY AND ANECDOTES OF BANK NOTE FORGERIES

THE OLDEST INHABITANT OF THE PLACE DE GREVE

STORY OF A KITE

THE STATE OF THE WORLD BEFORE ADAM'S TIME

THE MANIA FOR TULIPS IN HOLLAND

THE SALT MINES OF EUROPE

MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

THE EVERY-DAY MARRIED LADY

ANECDOTE OF A SINGER

WHEN THE SUMMER COMES

VILLAINY OUTWITTED – FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A POLICE OFFICER

ATLANTIC WAVES

HOW TO KILL CLEVER CHILDREN.20

MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

CHAPTER XVI "AN OLD GENERAL OF THE IRISH BRIGADE."

CHAPTER XVII. LA ROCHELLE

THE WAHR-WOLF; OR, THE LOVERS OF HUNDERSDORF

A TRUE GHOST STORY

SKETCHES OF LIFE. BY A RADICAL

BURKE AND THE PAINTER BARRY

THE IRON RING. A TALE OF GERMAN ROBBERS AND GERMAN STUDENTS

THE COUNTESS – A TALE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

A MIDNIGHT DRIVE. – A TALE OF TERROR

SPIDER'S SILK

THE RAILWAY

THE BLIND SISTER, OR CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT

FORTUNES OF THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER

THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN

THE LIGHT OF HOME

HOW WE WENT WHALING OFF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

HYDROPHOBIA

THE DOOM OF THE SLAVER. AN ENGLISH STORY OF THE AFRICAN BLOCKADE

INDUSTRY OF THE INSANE

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS

LITERARY NOTICES

Fashions for November

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It is a difficult puzzle to reconcile the existence of certain superstitions that continue to have wide influence with the enlightenment of the nineteenth century. When we have read glowing paragraphs about the wonderful progress accomplished by the present generation; when we have regarded the giant machinery in operation for the culture of the people – moved, in great part, by the collective power of individual charity; when we have examined the stupendous results of human genius and ingenuity which are now laid bare to the lowliest in the realm; we turn back, it must be confessed, with a mournful despondency, to mark the debasing influence of the old superstitions which have survived to the present time.

The superstitions of the ancients formed part of their religion. They consulted oracles as now men pray. The stars were the arbiters of their fortunes. Natural phenomena, as lightning and hurricanes, were, to them, awful expressions of the anger of their particular deities. They had their dies atri and dies albi; the former were marked down in their calendars with a black character to denote ill-luck, and the latter were painted in white characters to signify bright and propitious days. They followed the finger posts of their teachers. Faith gave dignity to the tenets of the star-gazer and fire-worshiper.

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Both closed their eyes, and sleep came upon them once more.

It was eight o'clock in the morning when the little boy awoke, and then he was alone; but to that he was accustomed. His mother was again gone to work, and John was out cleaning knives and shoes in the neighborhood. The table, with a small piece of bread and a cup of blue milk and water on it, stood beside him. He drank a little, but could not eat, and then lay down again with his eyes fixed on Harry's kite.

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