1856-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

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Hasty Pudding by Joel Barlow

Negroland and the Negroes is about Africa
Includes the following illustrations: Sierra Leone – Monrovia – Kru Village – Kru Houses – African Belle – Elmina – Cape Coast Castle – Street in Kumasi – Gabun Chief – Fernando Po – Election in Yoruba – Missionary House, Gabun River – The Red-Water Ordeal – Boa Constrictor – Elephant Hunting – Ant Hills

Great Seal of the United States
Includes the following illustrations: Du Simitiere’s Design – Jefferson’s Design – Design submitted in 1779 – Design submitted in 1780 – Barton’s Design – The Great Seal – The President’s Seal

My Legacies

Passages of Eastern Travel by An American

Maria A Lost Queen of England

Great Epidemics: Plague in London and Marseilles

Queer Case

Daniel Webster’s Social Hours

Lion-Slayers and Man-Eaters

What Mr. Trevanion Saw

Value of a Pin

Little Dorrit — Chapters 23-25 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens

Monthly Record of Current Events

Literary Notices

Editor’s Table

Editor’s Easy Chair

Editor’s Drawer

Hints for Celebrating the Fourth of July
Two pages of illustrations, 6 to a page, as follows: Perparing for the Fourth – Excursion to the Fishing Banks – A Drive on the Avenue – Young America – There Goes a Rocket – Reading the Declaration – A Rural Celebration – Taking it Quietly – The Largest Liberty – A Pleasant Lesson – The Drunkard’s Fourth – Colored People’s Fourth

Fashions for July