SIGHT AND HEARING. HOW PRESERVED HOW LOST. By J. HENRY CLARK, M.D. 1 Vol. 12mo., cloth, with numerous Engravings, $1.

A popular handbook, designed to teach the unprofessional reader how he may take care of the organs of Sight and Hearing, and be able to continue their use, with the least possible impairment, down to the latest period of life. It is adapted to the appreciation of the mother, the teacher, the guardian, the apprentice, the mechanic, as well as the student and the man of letters. It is believed to furnish some suggestions upon nimesi every point which relates to the subject, and treats familiarly of matters in which every class of readers max have a deep interest.

REALITY; Or, THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. L. C. TUTHILL. 1 vol., 12mo, §1. THE THREE GARDENS-EDEN, GETHSEMANE, AND PARADISE; Or, MAN'S BUN REDEMPTION, AND RESTORATION. By Rev. Wm. ADAMS, D.D., (Pastor of the Madis Square Presbyterian Church, New-York.) 1 vol., 12mo., cloth, $1.

HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE IN SUBURB AND COUNTRY; Or, THE VILLA, THE MANSICS AND THE COTTAGE. Adapted to American Climates and Wants. By G. WHEELER. 1 ve 12mo., with 100 Engravings. Third Edition. $1.50.

In its pages the reader will find an amount of information that will satisfy nearly his every want; and m the plans examples of every class of house required by the people throughout the land, from the economicaly constructed cottage of $600 or $700, to the mansion of $30,000.

CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Embracing personal and critical notices of Authors, and selections from their writings, from the earliest period to the present day. By E. A. DUYCKINCK and GEO. L. DUYCKINCK. 2 vols., 8vo. With 225 portraits, 425 aut graphs, and 75 views of collages, libraries, and residences of authors, and elegant steel engravings of J. Fenimore Cooper and Benjamin Franklin. $7.

LIVES OF THE BRITISH HISTORIANS. By EUGENE LAWRENCE. 2 vols., 12mo. $2.50. These Books sent by mail, postage paid, for the prices remitted to the Publisher.

SIMMS REVOLUTIONARY AND BORDER TALES

Uniform Series, with Illustrations by DARLEY. 12mo, cloth, 81 25; half calf, or Morocco plain, $1.75; bu? calf, or Morocco extra, $2.25.

NOW READY, A NEW WORK:

EUTAW. A Sequel to the Forayers; a Tale of the Revolution. By W. GILMORE SIMMS. Completing the Series.

ARTHUR GORDON PYM; A ROMANCE OF THE SEA. With Stories of Humor, and a few Essays. By EDUAR Also, a New Edition of

A. POE.

POE'S COMPLETE WORKS. With a Memoir by RurUS WILMOT GRISWOLD; and Notices of his Life and Genius, by N. P. WILLIS and J. R. LOWELL. In 4 vols. Price $4.50.

Just Published:

THE SHAKESPEARE PAPERS OF THE LATE DR. MAGINN. Being the Third Volume of his Miscella neous Writings. Edited by Dr, R. SHELTON MACKENZIE. 12mo, cloth, $1.00.

THE ODOHERTY PAPERS OF THE LATE DR. MAGINN.
SHELTON MACKENZIE. 2 vols., 12mo., cloth. Price $2.00.

With an original Memoir. Edited by Dr. A.

J. S. REDFIELD, 34 Beekman Street.

ART. I. MUSINGS OF A CITY RAIL-ROAD CONDUCTOR,
II. EARLY OCTOBER: AN ILLUSTRATION,

III. SKETCHES FROM THE COUNTRY. BY W. L. TIFFANY,
IV. STANZAS: THE LOST EXPLORERS,'

XIV.

STANZAS: A SCENE OF LIFE,'

XV. MY STUFFED OWL. BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY,

XVI. MY LATER ACQUAINTANCES. BY ABRAHAM ELDERLY,
XVII. STANZAS. BY W. H. C. HOSMER,

XVIII. STANZAS: 'MAGDALENA.' By JENNY MARSH,

XIX. REMINISCENCES OF THE SOUTHERN TIER,

XX. GOOD ADVICE: A FRAGMENT,

XXI. THE HUNTER'S BRIDE. BY CHARLEs D. Gardette,

XXII. THE OBSERVATIONS OF MACE SLOPER, ESQ.,
XXIII. THE FEW. BY JEROME A. MABEY,.

441

445

446

452

454

457

458

459

466

470

475

476

477

485

486

489

498

499

500

504

505

507

514

4. HON. MAYOR CONRAD'S GIRARD COLLEGE ADDRESS, 5. INDIA, THE PEARL OF PEARL RIVER,

1. THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE:''STRENGTHENING OUR LANGUAGE:''THE STYLE SYNONY-
MICAL: THE HIGHFALUTIN' STYLE, ETC. 2. AN ESSAY ON HUSBANDS AND WIVES,
FROM A STRONG-MINDED AND STRONG-WRITING WOMAN. 3. AMUSING CORRESPONDENCE
WITH IRON-FOUNDERS, TOUCHING MOULDING-SAND: BEAUTIES OF ORTHOGRAPHY, ETY-
MOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND PROSODY.' 4. LITTLE PEOPLE'S SIDE-TABLE: DIFFERENCE BE-
TWEEN THAT' AND THE OTHER': CURE FOR A BROKEN HEART: HAVING THE 'CATE-
CHISM:' CREATION OF HUMANS' AND BABY'S DOLLS: A JUVENILE MUSIC-LEADER at A
METHODIST QUARTERLY-MEETING: DAILY BREAD' AND UNCLE PETER'S BUTTER: THE
NEW CAP: A SMALL SPECIMEN OF ONE OF 'EM': SOMETHING MORE FROM THE LITTLE
BOY WHO MADE A PRAYER FOR PEACHES': A CHILD'S ARGUMENT AS TO SPECIAL PROVI-
DENCE: A BOY FOR THE NAVY: A LIGHTNING FACTORY: HEAVEN THE TOP Of All Out
DOORS: COUGH' AND 'WYCKOFF:' LOT'S WIFE SALT: A CHILD'S IDEA OF A RAIN-
WATER PITCHER: DEATH OF THE YOUNG. 5. SCATTERED LEAVES FROM THE SHORE OF
LAKE GEORGE BY J. K. L.' 6. A MODEL CERTIFICATE OF MORAL CHARACTER. 7. A
VERY 'SNAKY' DESCRIPTION. 8. THE DEATH OF THE BIG BUCK:' BY A KENTUCKY COR-
RESPONDENT. 9. EXHIBITION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. 10. DEFERRED
GOSSIP: (ONLY IN PART MENTIONED.) 11. KING-FISH' IN THE TAPPAAN-ZEE: JOHN
VOORHEES, THE FISHERMAN, OF SNEEDEN'S LANDING. 12. THE WORKS OF CHARLES
LAMB. 18. A NEW FLOWER FOR CHILDREN. 14. BROWNING'S MEN AND WOMEN.' 15.
THE WIDOW BEDOTT' PAPERS. 16. OLMSTED'S JOURNEY IN THE SEABOARD STATES.'
17. OUR COUSIN VERONICA.' 18. NEW MUSIC, IN BOSTON AND NEW-YORK.

528

582

THE

KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE,

EDITED BY LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK.

THE number for January, 1856, begins the FORTY-SEVENTH VOLUME of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE.

Since the price of subscription has been reduced from FIVE to THREE DOLLARS a year. the circulation of the KNICKERBOCKER has been increased nearly four to one. In many places ten are sold where there was but one before, and through the year it has been steadily increasing. It is now offered as cheap as any of the Magazines, all things considered. Instead of making new and prodigious promises, we submit a few extrace from notices of late numbers, which we might extend to a number of pages.

Those familiar with the Editor's monthly Gossip with his readers, have doubtless, with ourselves, admired the perennial source of its plesant wit and joyousness. In this number The Gossip' holds on its way like some fr rivulet glancing and dancing in the sunshine of a May morning. We used to wonder how Mr. CLARK held out, pecting he must certainly snow brown' in the coming number; but this number gives no sign of exhaustion. —No tional Intelligencer, Washington.

'Pleasant, genial, delightful Old KNICK." Thy name is a suggestion of all things delectable; tee sight of my modest, fresh cover, a balm to spiritual sore eyes; a glance within thee, best antidote for the blues. Thou hast give to kindly humor, to piquant delineation, and to side-splitting fun, a 'local habitation,' without which they might wandering over the domain of letters, calling now and then where a friendly door opened to them but refusing to be comforted for the loss of their old dear home.'-Courier, Burlington Vt.

'The great care evinced in the selection of articles that adorn its pages, is a sufficient guaranty that no contribution meets the eye of the reader but those which are known to be worthy of his perusal. When storms and wild tempat are sweeping o'er our hill-side village in these chill winter hours, and all is drear and desolate without, we ask for ne more agreeable companion than the 'KNICKERBOCKER; for while its contents impart valuable information, its sallies of genuine wit are a sovereign specific for all fits of the blues or attacks of the horrors, and time passes merrily on.Democrat, Doylestown, Pa.

"The KNICKERBOCKER has been and will be a fact of its own; a genuine living thing, all the more desirable now that the new crop of magazines, filled with articles pirated from English authors, makes fresh home creations more conspicuous and welcome.'-New-York Christian Inquirer.

'No one ever rose from the perusal of the KNICKERBOCKER a disappointed reader. Whatever may have been his anticipations, they have always been rewarded. When he took up a new number, he felt sure of a literary treat. it was no mere showy repast he was invited to. Did he seek the grave or didactic essay, the touching story, poeti gems, or the humorous tale, he was always sure of finding the object of his search. And then, besides, there was the Gossip' of Old KNICK' always looked to with eagerness, never put down except with regret that there were not more pages of inimitable random sketches-the Knick-nacks of that repast.'-Courier, Natchez, Miss.

THE KNICKERBOCKER, New-York; Samuel Hueston. This best, decidedly best, of the American magazines seems to have improved in appearance and in the quality of its literary matter-always good-even upon its reduction in price. It is a luxury of which no man who has three dollars to spare-and who that has a taste for good reading has not should deprive himself, to sit down in a retired corner, when the mind has been wearied with the perpen 1 ties of every day pursuits, and pore over the well-stored pages of Old Knick." We even now read the old roses of this work, of a dozen years ago, with more real pleasure than half the new publications of the day. Each number will "bear the wear and tear of half a dozen readings," and then the volume be "worthy of good binding and a place on the shelves," and that is what can be truly said of but few of the magazines of the present day.

The contents of the Knickerbocker are so varied, that almost every one will find something in its pages to pless him-to instruct and amuse. The articles are marked by the highest order of merit, and in a long series of years we have found nothing in this work to which the most fastidious could object. It is a work which should be on the centre table of every family.-Knoxville Times.

Rev. F. W. SHELTON, Author of Letters from Up the River, etc., will be a regular contributor. The best talent in the country will be enlisted, and no expense or effort spared, to make the KNICKERBOCKER more than ever deserving of the first position among our original American Mag

azines.

TERMS.-Three Dollars a year, strictly in advance-there will be no deviation from this con dition; Two copies for $5 00; Five copies, and upwards, $2 00 each. Booksellers and Pos masters are requested to act as Agents. Those who will undertake to procure subscribers will receive favorable terms. Specimen numbers will be sent gratis on application, post-paid.

INDUCEMENTS FOR CLUBBING.-The KNICKERBOCKER and Harper's, Putnam's, Graham's or Godey's Lady's Book will be sent one year for FIVE dollars; the KNICKERBOCKER and Home Jour nal, for FOUR dollars a year.

POSTAGE-Two cents per number, prepaid at the office where the work is delivered, quarterly in advance.

All remittances and all business communications must be addressed, post-paid, to SAMUEL HUESTON, 348 Broadway, New-York.

SYMPATHY is the electric chain that links humanity together. Call it animal magnetism, or spiritualism, or what you will, there is a power of recognition in every faculty and attribute of our nature that enables it to detect and appreciate its fellow whenever and wherever encountered. We are more or less interesting to each other as we have many or few points of psychological contact. The more we know of each other, if we have affinities, the more lively and active are our sympathies with each other, the better we are able to approximate to that desired craving of the heart, a reflex of ourselves a thing to study and to endeavor to comprehend. Self-knowledge is the highest earthly wisdom, inasmuch as it involves a knowledge of our fellow-beings and our mutual relations to each other. The self-knowledge taught by solitary meditation is one-sided, imperfect, and often totally false. It is apt to be morbid, misanthropic, desponding, and melancholy. After much experience and intercourse with the world, a man may profitably sometimes shut himself out from its sympathies and give his life to meditation; but he must be a man of rare powers of memory and imagination. Ordinary men are not safe if left wholly to themselves alone. By keeping our sympathies vigilant the spirits are kept in tone, and cheerfulness, which is the wine of life, is maintained.

Now, it has always appeared to me that men differ more in the faculty of appreciating each other than in any other respect. Perhaps it is because this embraces all other differences. Many men there be that walk together through a long life as utterly ignorant of the real nature of each other as if they belonged to different species. It is sometimes as if one was arrayed in the colors of the rainbow and the other were blind, or as if one sang like the carols of morning birds and the 29

VOL. XLVII.