This is the December 1852 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:

A SKETCH OF WASHINGTON CITY – by Anne C. Lynch – illustrated – (See picture “The Washington Monument”)

AUSTRALIA AND ITS GOLD – by Alfred H. Guernsey – illustrated – (See picture “Gold-digging in Australia”)

NAPOLEON BONAPATE, THE IMPERIAL THRONE – by John S.C. Abbott – illustrated

AN ORIGINAL SKETCH IN A HOMELY FRAME – by Eliza Cook

A GHOST OF A HEAD

MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE

A NIGHT ADVENTURE

SLATE AND ITS USES

THE CULTIVATION OF THE SENSES

BLIND SARAH – FROM THE DIARY OF A CLERGYMAN

SOMETHING ABOUT THE WINDS

HOW I WENT TO SEA

DANIEL WEBSTER

BLEAK HOUSE – by Charles Dickens

SUNDAY MORNING

SPEED THE PLOW

A TIGER’S JAWS

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS

EDITOR’S TABLE

EDITOR’S EASY CHAIR

EDITOR’S DRAWER

LITERARY NOTICES

COMICALITIES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED – illustrated

SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY – THE OLD DOG POINTS CAPITALLY (See picture)

            STATLING EFFECT OF THE GOLD “DIGGINS.”

            BOW(WOW)ERY PIES

FASHION FOR DECEMBER – illustrated

            WALKING COSTUMES

            CHAMBER COSTUMES

            HOME DRESS

            HEAD DRESS