Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 51, July-December, 1855
 

Acorn Pattern for Boy's Blouse (Illustrated)                                                     268
A Day at an Arsenal (Illustrated)                                                                       32  
A French Woman at Home                                                                               373  
A Golden Law                                                                                                  142  
A Lament [poem]                                                                                             566  
A Letter to a Servant [on the nature of duty]                                                      147  
Alleen's Grave, by Julia Avery  [poem]                                                            159  
Algerine Bracelet (Illustrated)                                                                          362  
A New Holiday [anniversary of adoption of Constitution]                                    84  
Animal and Vegetable Physiology, by Harland Coultas (Illustrated)    341, 412, 527  
Anna; or, Cottage Devotion, by Virginia De Forrest (Illustrated) [fiction]       205  
Annie Reid, by Ada Grey [fiction]                                                                     496  
Anecdotes of the Elephant                                                                                300  
A Reply, by May Humboldt [poem]                                                                 158  
A Retrospect, by Ebenezer Allen [poem]                                                         510  
A Roman Lady's Toilet                                                                                       54  
A Royal Household Roll [1292-1293]                                                              232  
A School of Life                                                                                               381  
Aspiration                                                                                                         570  
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside, by Edith Woodley [fiction]                                             51  
Autumn Days, by Lottie Linwood [poem]                                                        350  
Avarice [poem]                                                                                                373  
A Word to Teachers                                                                                          83  
Baby Shows                                                                                                     570  
Band for Chemise (Illustrated)                                                                         362, 450  
Be Still, Proud Heart, by William Phillips [poem]                                             258  
Bed Furniture                                                                                                   189  
Bed Linen                                                                                                         285  
Better Than Gold, by Mrs. Mary A. Denison [fiction]                                       233  
Blind Minnie, by Calla Elm [fiction]                                                                  210, 301  
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                                        355, 451  
Book-Markers (Illustrated) [Forsake me not Lord, God is our Refuge]            459  
Border for Side of Braided Toilet Cushion (Illustrated)                                     551  
Braided Borders for a Handkerchief, Basque Waist Apron, or Child's
Dress
            (Illustrated)                                                                                         385  

Braiding Pattern for Summer Blouse (Illustrated)                                                 7  
Braiding Pattern (Illustrated)                                                                            357  
Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)                                                                         360, 452  
Butterfly Watch-Hook (Illustrated)                                                                  394, 455  
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                          163, 255, 452  
Caps (Illustrated)                                                                        67, 163, 165, 260, 296, 451, 544  
Carrie Lee, by J. S. Freligh [poem]                                                                  351  
Centre-Table Gossip                                                                 

            The Linen Closet No. 1; Household Songs; Obstinate Children;
How 
                to Have Good Servants                                                                      94 
           
Bed Furniture [mattresses, pillows]                                                        189  

            Bed Linen; Letter from Brownsville, TX; Clippings of Fashion
Gossip
                [gold embroideries, riding habits, silk]                                                285 
           
Sundries—Marseilles quilts, white counterpanes, white English quilts, 
                dimity spreads, furniture chintz covers, patch
work quilts, comforters, 
                blankets; Adamissa, cat clocks, morning visits from gentlemen, mosaic
                jewelry passe, not anti-novel, keeping ants out of plants, a cement  
                which is colorless and transparent, value of cameos                           381 

           
Clippings of Fashion Items—French riding habits, mourning-dress, 
                coral jewelry, silk boots and slippers, reason for cost of  real 
                Brussels lace, carving poultry, definition of  "aesthetic," home peace   477 
           
"The Night Watch" by Mrs. Bradley [poem]; Aspiration by Mrs. 

   
             Manners
; necklaces; baby shows; advice to a schoolgirl; sealing 
                sweetmeat jars; origin of cork                                                            569  
Child's Bib (Illustrated)                                                                                    172  
Child's Frock Body in Braiding (Illustrated)                                                     393, 455  
Charades in Action (Illustrated)                                                                        

            Co-Ward                                                                                             124  
            Birth-Day                                                                                             328  

Chemisettes (Illustrated)                                                                                  163, 259  
Christmas and its Customs, by Caroline A. White [mostly English]                    517  
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c. 
           
Le Bijou, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                       100 
           
"Le Caprice," from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                484 
           
Mantle (Illustrated)                                                                              161 
           
The Alma, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                     391 
           
The Arctic, and the Alice Maud (Illustrated)                                        487, 572 
           
The Campan and the Felix (Illustrated)                                                389 
           
The Estramadura, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                          390 
           
The Flora, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                         5 
           
The Mary Stuart, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                           485 
            The Montebello, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                               4 
           
The Rosaline, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                199 
           
The Raglan, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                   293 
           
The Victoria and the Gitana (Illustrated)                                               388  
Clippings of Fashion Gossip                                                                              386  
Collars (Illustrated)                                 6, 67, 73, 196, 197, 263, 264, 294, 356, 392, 454, 544  
Contentment, by Blanche Bennairde    [poem]                                                   61  
Contributions to Fancy Fairs (Illustrated) [cotton-box in glass-work,  

            bookmarker, pen-wiper, pin cushion]                                                    167  

Coraco Eugenie (Illustrated)                                                                              65  
Corners for Pocket-Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)          260, 265, 268, 360, 460, 542, 549,
550, 556  
Cottage in the Italian Style (Illustrated)                                                             490, 552  
Couvrett for Prie-Dieu Chair (Illustrated) [netting]                                            263  
Cover for a Shaving-Book (Illustrated),                                                           200, 264  
Crochet Mat (Illustrated)                                                                                 171  
Crochet Gauntlet Cuff (Illustrated)                                                                   455  
Crochet Pattern for a Purse (Illustrated)                                                           454  
Crochet Lace and Inserting for Undersleeves (Illustrated)                                 268  
Cromwell's Last Interview with His Favorite Daughter (Illustrated)                   312  
Curiosities, by Ina [poem]                                                                                448  
Curiosities of the Vegetable Kingdom, by Harland Coultas (Illustrated)            12  

            Mimosa                                                                                                137  
            Moving Plant of British India                                                                 224  

Dates, by Martin Doyle [as in time]                                                                  111  
Description of Dresses Worn at the Late Presentation to the Queen of England  186  
Directions for Aiding Persons to Escape from Premises on Fire                          187  
D'Oyley in Square Crochet (Illustrated)                                                           170  
Doctor Clarke--A Sketch from Life, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, of London
[female 
            American doctor]                                                                                 242  

Doll Baby's Collar (Illustrated)                                                                        263  
Economical Furnishing (Illustrated) [homemade wardrobe with plans]               537  
Editors' Table                                                                           81, 177, 273, 369, 465, 557  
Eleanora, Daughter of Edward II                                                                       128  
Ella's Confession, by Kate Harrington [poem]                                                 335  
Ellen Goodwin; or, a Sense of Duty, by Virginia De Forrest (Illustrated)  

   
          [fiction]                                                                                                535  
Ellen Moore of Violet Valley, by C. E. C. [poem]                                             447  
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)            7, 68, 76, 101, 102, 103, 168, 198, 265, 267,  
                                        268, 354, 362, 364, 385, 394, 450, 458, 459, 544, 548, 550, 554  
Embroidered Toilet Cushion in Buttonhole and Satin-Stitch (Illustrated)            292  
Embroidered Collar Pattern (Illustrated)                                                              6, 294  
Embroideries for an Infant's Christening Dress (Illustrated)                               102  
Embroidery for a Child's Basque (Illustrated)                                                   102  
Embroidery for the Skirt of a Basque (Illustrated)                                            385  
Enigmas                                                                                    64, 160, 258, 352, 448, 540  
Eugenie Bracelets (Illustrated)                                                                         264  
Excerpts                                                                                                             82  
Fall Fashions for Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                              296  
Fame                                                                                                                411  
Fashion Plates, for Decorating Parlor Windows (Illustrated)                 289, 361, 481  
Fashions                                                                                    

            Children's Clothing; Tissue Shawls; Guipure Mantles;
Bonnets                 95  
            Walking Dress; Half-Mourning Dress; Mourning [step-mother, 
   
            walking-dress, evening-dress, step-daughter]; pineapple tissues; 
                ribbons; skirts; underskirts; hoops; flounces; sleeves; undersleeves; 
                fichu, bretelle or berthe; parasols                                                       191  
            Dinner dress; child's dress; pink cashmere dress; baby's dress; fall straw 
                bonnets; dress trimmings; source of fashion                                        287  
            Walking Dress; Evening-Dress; Juvenile Fashions; Department Stores; 
                handkerchiefs; new styles of bodies, collars, petticoats; bonnets; thick 
                taffeta dresses; bretelles; dresses                                                       382  
            Carriage Dress; Dress and Cloak; New Cloaks and Mantles; fabrics for 
                Walking-Dresses; Bell-Shaped Sleeves; Undersleeves, black velvet 
                ribbon trimming, descriptions of dresses                                             479  
            Home dress; child's dress; new mantles; shawls; winter bonnets; straw 
                blonde bonnets; brown dresses; walking dresses                               571  

Fashions for Furs (Illustrated) [Victorine, muff, cuffs]                                       486  
Fashionable Novelties in Work and Dress (Illustrated) [white basquine,
lace 
                and chenille basquine, headdresses, kid shoes, shoe rosettes]            358  

Females—Is the Term Proper to Designate Women?                                        468  
Fish-Cloth (Illustrated) [crochet]                                                                       69  
Florence Emerson; or, the Young Widow, by Virginia de Forrest 
   
         (Illustrated)
[fiction]                                                                             109  
Flouncing for Undersleeves (Illustrated)                                   103, 266, 457, 547, 548  
Flouncing for a Sleeve (Illustrated)                                                                   292, 545  
Flouncing for an Infant's Skirt (Illustrated)                                                        364  
Flouncing for a Marseilles Basque (Illustrated)                                                 460  
For My Daughter's Album [poem]                                                                      13  
Franklin Female College, Holly Springs, Miss.                                                   559  
French Work-Basket (Illustrated)                                                                    164  
From Home Again [poem]                                                                                256  
Godey's Arm-Chair                                                        
           
Ice Cream Freezer; Places of Public Amusement in Philadelphia; Drop 
   
             Spindles in Egypt; How to Build a Happy Home; How to Propose; 
                German homes; Tracing an Embroidery Pattern onto Cloth; Gowns 
                of the Queen of England and the Empress of France                            88 
           
Self-Sealing Cans; Some Advice to Ladies Purchasing Carpet; 
               
Independence Hall; The Schuylkill Boats; A New Anaesthetic—Ice 
                and Salt; New Music; Gathering Flowers for Perfume; Prices of 
                Arthur's Self-Sealing Cans and Jars; To Preserve a Bouquet; Getting 
                Into Society; Floating in Water; How the Rose Became Red; To 
                Take White Spots Out of Furniture                                                  182 
           
Recipe for Soap; City Nuisances—Smoking Cigars in the Street 
               
(Illustrated); List of New Music; Recipe for Keeping Hair from 
                Falling Out; Lace at the Paris Exhibition; Russian Salve; Touching 
                Hat and Bowing on the Street                                                          281 
           
City Annoyances No. 2—The Omnibus Nuisance (Illustrated);  
                List of New Music; the Genoa Crucifix; Poems by Augustus 
                Duganne; A Wife that Will Help You; Washing Boys' Mouths Out 
                with Soap; A Bride's Dress; Rachel Dress; Rachel Cloak; Arthur's 
                Patent Self-Sealing Cans; Cure for Rattlesnake Bite; Ladies' Trains; 
                Reverence Old Age; A Reception for a Bride at the Tuilleries;  
                Epigrams; Duties of an Editor; Dresses Worn at the Late Reception 
                by the Queen of England; Tomato Preserves; To Preserve Fruits 
                Without Sugar or Vinegar                                                                  375 
           
Keeping Baby Quiet with Molasses and Feathers; Recipe for Hair 
   
             Dye; Warning to Bachelors; note from Weston, KS; Swedish 
                Rooms; The Ladies of the Press; Pronouncing "Anne"; Leaving
                Cards                                                                                               471 
           
Another Advantage of the Daguerreotype; List of New Music; Cure 
                for Hydrophobia                                                                               564  
Godey's Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)          
           
Lesson XIX. Perspective Drawing (Continued)                                        25  
            Lesson XX.  Perspective Drawing (Continued)                                      218  
            Lesson XXI.  Perspective Drawing (Continued)                                     417  

Godey's Lady's Book [poem]                                                                             90  
Godey's Latest Paris Fashions for Crochet Purses (Illustrated)                        
545  
Good Northern Schools                                                                                    478  
Grover, Baker & Co.'s Sewing-Machines (Illustrated)                                     185  
Guipure Design for Undersleeves (Illustrated)                                                  547  
Half of a Braided Toilet Cushion (Illustrated)                                                   551  
Handkerchief Border (Illustrated)                                                                    7, 357, 459  
Hanging Flower-Vase (Illustrated)                                                                   267  
Harper Establishment and Female Employment                                                  467  
Hattie, by Eve Abrams                                                                                     317  
Health and Happiness, by Virginia de Forrest (Illustrated) [fiction]                 399  
Hints about Marriage                                                                                        179  
Hints for the Ladies  
            Natural "cosmetics"                                                                              108 

           
Colors according to complexions                                                          217  
Holly Watch-Hook (Illustrated)                                                                      104, 164  
Home Sketches.  My Early Friend; or, Personal Vanity, by Mary  

   
         Morton
[fiction]                                                                                    346  
Home Song [poem]                                                                                            94  
Honiton Crochet Collar (Illustrated)                                                                  73  
Honiton Edge (Illustrated)                                                                               458  
How the Empress Eugenie Wears Her Bonnet                                                   185  
How to Treat the Hair                                                                                      419  
Household Songs                                                                                               94  
I Am Far From Thee, by Cortez [poem]                                                            63  
I Went to Gather Flowers, by Mrs. S. M. Combes [poem]                                257  
Ice-Houses                                                                                                       138  
Impromptu [poem]                                                                                           255  
Infant's Cap (Illustrated)                                                                                  290  
Infant's Crochet Cap (Illustrated)                                                                     165  
Infant's Frock in Knitting (Illustrated)                                                                 71  
Invocation, by Edgar Gordon  [poem]                                                             160  
Initial Letters and Names (Illustrated)                          66, 166, 196, 359, 393, 460  
Irish Blunders, by Kate Harrington [fiction]                                                     247  
I'se Got No Mammy Now, by Mrs. M. A. Denison [fiction]                              134  
Isle of Wight                                                                                                     382  
Jeanie Douglass, by Epsey Jones [fiction]                                                          249  
Knitted Basket (Illustrated)                                                                               73  
Knitted Mitten and Bracelet (Illustrated)                                                          169  
Lace and Lace-Making (Illustrated)                                                                 330  
Lady's Dress with Diagrams (Illustrated)                                                          449  
Last Hours of a Single Gentleman                                                                       53  
Leon, by Beata [poem]                                                                                    159  
Life of Isabella I, Queen of Spain, by Pauline Forsyth  17, 113, 227, 313, 408, 506  
Life is a Beautiful Night [poem]                                                                         352  
Lines inscribed to Mrs. J. Russel, on the Death of an only Son, by
Mrs. S. M. 
   
         Combes
[poem]                                                                                   255  
Lines on a Silken Hat [poem]                                                                            257  
Lines on the Death of my Wife, Mrs. Adeline J. Williams, by Avery W.  

   
         Williams
[poem]                                                                                  540  
Lines to an Absent One, by N. W. Bridge [poem]                                             446  
Lines Written by Don Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil [poem]                                 351  
Literary Ladies [Amelia Opie, Caroline Southey, Mrs. Sarah Coleridge,  
           
Mary Russell Mitford, Miss Ferrier, Charlotte Bronte                            273  
Literary Notices                                                                         

            Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852; The  

                Brother's and Sister's Offering; An American Among the Orientals; 
                Howard Grey:  A Story for Boys; Robert Graham: a Novel; Homes 
                for the People in Suburb and Country; The English Woman in Russia; 
                Tricolored Sketches in Paris During the Years 1851-2-3; Foster's 
                First Principles of Chemistry; The Country Neighborhood; The 
                Patent Hat; Surgical Reports and Miscellaneous Papers on Medical  
                Subjects; Ellen Norbury, or, The Adventures of an Orphan; Dickens's 
                New Stories; The Chemistry of Common Life; History of Turkey; 
                Kenneth, or, The Rear Guard of the Grand Army; My Brother's 
                Keeper; The Life of Sam Houston; The Practical Fruit and 
                Vegetable Gardener's Companion; Temptation, or, the Unknown 
                Heiress; The Ins and Outs of Paris; Ironthorpe, the Pioneer Preacher; 
   
             The O'Dogherty Papers; The Teacher's Last Lesson; Chateau 
                Lescure; Adelaide Waldegrave, or, Trials of a Governess; The 
                Exhibition Speaker                                                                              84  
            A Manual of Ancient History; Leaves from a Family Journal; The Lives 
                and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United 
                States; Percival Harford; The Missing Bride, or, Miriam the Avenger; 
                Sister Rose; The Pickwick Papers; A Commonplace Book of 
                Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies; The Two Guardians; The 
                Presbyterian Quarterly Review; Le Cure Manque; A Journey Through  
                the Chinese Empire; History for Boys; Literary and Historical 
                Miscellanies; Star Papers, or Experiences of Art and Nature; The 
                Southern Quarterly Review; Bell Smith Abroad; The Wonderful 
                Adventures of Captain Priest; Peeps From a Belfrey; Joy and Care:  
               
A  Friendly Book for Young Mothers; Blanche Dearwood:  A Tale 
                of Modern Life; Woodsworth's American Miscellany of Entertaining 
                Knowledge; The Wonderful and Amusing Doings, by Sea and Land, 
                of Oscar Shanghai; Legends and Stories of Ireland; Harper's Story  
                Book; The Controversy Between Senator Brooks and Archbishop 
                Hughes; Astronography, or Astronomical Geography; My Mother, 
                or Recollections of Maternal Influence; Peg Woffington:  A Novel; 
                Christie Johnstone                                                                              179 
           
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte; Speeches and Addresses by 
                
Henry W. Hilliard; Mountains and Mole-Hills; Letters to the Right 
                Rev. John Hughes; Constance Herbert:  A Novel; Felicita: 
                Metrical Romance; Cornell's Intermediate Geography; The Island 
                Empire; The Arabian Nights' Entertainments; Lights and Shadows of 
                English Life; The Old Farm House; My Confession:  The Story of a 
                Woman's Life and Other Tales; Female Life Among the Mormons; 
                Which—
the Right or the Left?; The Brief Remarker on the Ways of 
               
Man; The Winkles, or the Merry Monomaniacs; The Watchman; 
                Cone Cut Corners:  The Experiences of a  Conservative Family in 
                Fanatical Times; Ellie, or the Human Comedy                                       278 
           
The Six Days of Creation; Land, Labor, and Gold; The Note-Book  
                
an English Opium-Eater; Ariel and Other Poems; Tight Times, or The 
                Diamond Cross and Other Tales; Art-Hints: Architecture, Sculpture, 
                and Painting; Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore; Cleve 
                Hall; A Visit to the Camp Before Sevastopol; Thesaurus of English 
                Words and Phrases; The Heiress of Haughton; Light and Darkness, or 
               
The Shadow of Fate                                                                            374 
           
The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams; The American Journal of Insanity; 
                Evenings with the Prophets; Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through 
                the United States and Canada; Iowa As It Is in 1855; Martin 
                Chuzzlewit; Trial and Triumph; Seven Travellers; The Schoolboy; A 
                Voice to America; Habits and Men; History of the Council of Trent; 
                A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith; Panama in 1855; Japan as 
               
It Was and Is; The Rabbit Fancier; Alie, or, The Old West Room; The 
                Confessions of a Pretty Woman; The Jealous Wife; Harper's Picture-
                Books for the Nursery                                                                       469 
           
Bits of Blarney; The Exhibition Speaker; Barnaby Rudge; Calderon the 
                Courtier; The Deserted Wife; The Old Homestead; Stray Leaves 
                from the Book of Nature; A Visit to India, China, and Japan in the 
                Year 1853; The Araucanians; Memoir of S. S. Prentiss; America; My 
                Father's House; The Rag-Picker; Isora's Child; A Basket of Chips; 
                The Adventures of Hajji Baba in Turkey, Persia, and Russia; Harper's 
                Classical Library; The Newcomes; The Elder Sister; Ethel, or The 
                Double Error; The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran; 
                Guy Rivers; Richard Hurdis; Little Nell; Woman's Record; Three 
                Hours' School a Day; Olie, or The Old West Room; How to Nurse 
                Sick Children; Berries and Blossoms; The Diadem; The Souvenir 
                Gallery; Gems of Beauty; The Rosary of Illustrations of the Bible; 
               
The Amaranth; The Garland, or Token of Friendship; The Lady's Gift, 
                or Souvenir of Friendship                                                                 560  
Little Ones, by Jenny Marsh [poem]                                                                256  
Live and Learn (Illustrated) [setting tea-things, two loops to your towels,  

            wet and dry]                                                                                          47  

Living in Vain, by Marion Harland [fiction]                                                       14  
Mamma's Work-Basket (Illustrated)                                                               362  
Manufacture of Needles (Illustrated)                                                                491  
Masculine Independence                                                                                   156  
Memories, by H. D. L. W. [Leaf First—Childhood]                                          154  
Menagere, in Embroidered Netting (Illustrated)                                                361  
Minoona, by H. Coggins [poem]