Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 54, January-June 1857 

A Brighter World than This, by Finley Johnson [poem]                                    351
A Concert at a Seraglio                                                                                      81
A Day in the Country.  A Sketch of Southern Life, by Pauline Forsyth
  
          [fiction]                                                                                                342
A Dress for any Season (Illustrated)                                                                101, 165
A Few Words for Children                                                                                 58
A Good Daughter                                                                                             304
A Household Friend [piano]                                                                              191
Alla Lee, by J. Devereux Ashton [poem]                                                         540
A London Party                                                                                                560
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)    
            a-z, lower case                                                                                     106
            A-O, capitals, grape vines                                                                     298
            P-Z, capitals, grape vines                                                                      394
A Marriage in the Rothschild Family                                                                  514
American Country Life                                                                                        79
A Moonlight Scene, by M. A. R. R. [poem]                                                       255
A Morning Collar (Illustrated)                                                                         358
Ancient Toilet of a Roman Lady (Illustrated)                                                      35
Andalusia, by Edward A. Warriner [poem]                                                      446
A Nervous Wife, and How She Was Cured, by T. S. Arthur [fiction]                409
A New Toy [hydrogen balloon]                                                                        381
An Idyl for Addie's Bridal, by Willie E. Pabor [poem]                                      256
Another Pleasant Letter from the West [Wisconsin]                                           320
Answering Letters                                                                                             209
Antimacassar in Square Netting (Illustrated)                                                     549
Aquariums, No. 1 (Illustrated)                                                                         525
Arctic Explorations, by Rev. D. K. Whitaker (Illustrated)                                299, 395
Arthur Rivers, by Helen Irving [fiction]                                                            145
A School for Indian Girls                                                                                  561
A Series of Truths                                                                                             498
A Suburban Cottage in the Italian style (Illustrated) [with plans]                        353
A Symmetrical Cottage (Illustrated) [with plans]                                              161
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside, by Edith Woodley      
   
         No. XIII—Seth Topliff's Practical Joke, and the Way He Was Paid        53
A Woman's Smile                                                                                             537
A Wool Collar [knitted] (Illustrated)                                                                  67
A Young Lady's Ideas of Western Life [fiction]                                                 465
Baby Lily, by Helen Hamilton [poem]                                                              445
Baby's Over-Sock (Illustrated)                                                                          70
Basque and Diagram (Illustrated)                                                                       63, 64, 257, 258
Bead Carriage Bag (Illustrated)                                                                       358
Beaded Bag (Illustrated)                                                                                 102
Book-Marker (Illustrated) [cross stitch] [For My Friend]                                  71
Bonnet for a Young Lady (Illustrated)                                                              357
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                            65, 259, 357, 384, 453, 545
Boy's Cloak (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                           165, 172
Braided Baby's Bib (Illustrated)                                                                           6, 7, 69
Braiding Pattern (Illustrated)                                                                            202, 544
Braidwork.--Baby's Shoe (Illustrated)                                                             359
Broderie Border (Illustrated)                                                                           554
Brioche Applique Cushion (Illustrated)                                                              68
Brioche Cushion, Braided on Merino (Illustrated)                                            261
Caps (Illustrated)                                                                                            356, 545
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                          260
Carolina Backwoods Sketches, by Mrs. M. S. Whitaker         
   
         No. 1—Dora Days                                                                                 49
            No.II—Israel Boatman                                                                         245
            No.III—Tira, The Dairy-Woman [African-American]                           346
            No.IV—Gordon, The Gardener [African-American]                             431
            No.V—Clary [African-American/Native American]; Abram Murdoch
                [octogenarian recluse]                                                                       516
Carriage Dress                                                                                                 189
Celebrated Women--Mrs. Hemans (Illustrated)                                               261
Centre-Table Gossip              
           
Work for the Centre-Table—Infant Socks, Slippers, and Other 
                Crochet; Greenhouse Plants and Evergreens; Wise Counsel for the 
                New Year                                                                                         91
           
Carriage Dress; The Flowers of Winter; Sunday Evenings at Home—
                No. 1; A Household Friend [piano]                                                  189
           
The Fashion of Mourning; Maids of All Work                                       286
           
Gift-Making (Wedding and Birthday Presents); the Rothschild Wedding; 
                A New Toy—Hydrogen Balloons; Sunday Evenings at Home—
                No. 2                                                                                               381
           
Sunday Evenings at Home—No. 3; The Admiral's Opinion; Work in the 
                Flower Borders for May; Strings and Pins                                         477
           
Sunday Evenings at Home—No. 4:  What We Must Come To;
               
Petticoat Suspenders; Fashion Items from Various Sources; Work 
                for the Flower Borders in June                                                          570
Change, by Mary S. Alward [poem]                                                                 254
Chemisette in Irish Guipure (Illustrated)                                                               1
Chemisettes (Illustrated)                                                                                      1, 259, 355, 547
Chemistry for the Young                      
   
         Lesson III, continued; Lesson IV—A Mixture of Sand, Salt, Starch, 
                and Sugar being Given, to Separate the Four                                       78
           
Lesson IV, continued                                                                            176
           
Lesson IV, continued                                                                            272
           
Lesson V—A Mixture of Sand, Starch, Salt, Sugar, and Butter being 
                Given; to Separate the Five                                                              368
           
Lesson VI—Some Further Remarks About the Properties of Chloride 
                of Silver                                                                                           464
Child's Slipper (Illustrated)                                                                              201
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                                        289, 383, 451, 452
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
           
Fashionable Mantle (Illustrated)                                                           543, 544
           
The Alcamena (Illustrated)                                                                  392, 479
           
The Belvidera (Illustrated)                                                                   393, 479
           
The Darro, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                    196, 197
           
The Desdemona (Illustrated)                                                                   5, 93
           
The Florentine, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                              292
           
The Hippolita (Illustrated)                                                                    392, 479
           
The Imogen (Illustrated)                                                                      393, 479
           
The Incoyrable (Illustrated)                                                                   89
           
The Montano Talma, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                     100
           
The Moresco (front view), from Brodie (Illustrated)                             388
           
The Moresco (back view), from Brodie (Illustrated)                            389
           
The Ophelia (Illustrated)                                                                          5, 93
           
The Shawl Josephine, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                        4
           
The Valencian, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                              293
           
The Vittoria, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                  481
Cloth Legging for a Child (Illustrated)                                                                71
Coffee, its History and Cultivation                                                                       51
Collars (Illustrated)                                                                                      67, 104, 294, 358, 453
Come and See my Garden, by Anna M. D. McCoy [poem]                              541
Comic Alphabet (Illustrated) [A-Z, capitals, human figures]                              490
Common Things                                                                                               532
Convolvulus Flower Mat (Illustrated)                                                               193, 265
Crochet Pattern for a Purse (Illustrated)                                                           488
Cruelty to Women                                                                                            274
Cupid's Arrows, by J. Howard Smith [poem]                                                  349
Curious Statistics about French Women                                                            276
Diagram of Shirt (Illustrated)                                                                           364
Daily Trials, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]                                                               434
Diarium, by Mrs. Susan H. Waddell                                                                 225
Dress Frock, with Diagram (Illustrated)                                                           449
Editor's Table           
           
New Year; Maud's Toast [poem]; My Aunt at Home                              79
            "Genius Has No Sex"; The Sketch of Aunt Anner                                  177
            Importance of Dictionary Knowledge; Cruelty to Women; Religious
                Novels                                                                                              273
            Tips to Prevent Silly Novels by Silly Women; Soiree Musicale; The 
                Romance of Courtship; Medical Education of Women                       369
            Spring; City versus Western Ladies; A Young Lady's Ideas of
                Western Life [fiction]; True Comparisons; Reply to the Wish of a 
                Young Lady [poem]; The Women of China; Our Country                  465
            Elisha Kent Kane; A London Party; The Employment of Women;
                Talking Women; Grove Hill Seminary for Chippewa and Ottawa       559
Edge for front of Gentleman's Shirt (Illustrated)                                                105
Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)                                                                      104, 453
Embroidered Stomacher and Trimming for Child's Frock (Illustrated)               296, 358
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)                        63, 64, 68, 71, 72, 74, 105, 162, 165,
            167, 168, 171, 172, 202, 257, 258, 260, 264, 268, 359, 360, 450, 456, 460, 487,
            488, 543, 548, 552
Embroidery for a Muslin Skirt (Illustrated)                                                       202
Enigmas                                                                                                62, 160, 256, 352, 448, 542
Falling by Little and Little                                                                                    27
Fashion and Popularity                                                                                      249
Fashion Items from Various Sources                                                                 571
Fashions                      
           
Dress, Home Dress, Evening Dress, Children's Dress, Cloaks,
                Headdresses, Opera Cloaks, Hoods, Party Dresses, Black Velvet 
                Dresses, Capes, Fichus, Laces, Handkerchiefs                                    93
           
Bride's Dress, Bridesmaid's Dress, Bride's Sister, Bridal Guest,
                
Mourning                                                                                          191
           
Dress, Evening Dress, Carriage Dress, Fichu, Morning Cap,
               
Chemisette and Sleeve, Berthe, Collar, Brodie's store, Evening 
                Dresses for Wedding Receptions and Small Parties After Lent, 
                Blouses in Paris, Cameos, Imitation Flower Jewelry, Buttons, 
                Wreaths and Bouquets for the Hair, Headdresses                              287
           
Equestrian Habit, Dinner Dress, Walking Dress, Juvenile Costumes, 
                Bonnets, Round Hats, Are Americans a Year Behind Paris; Mantles  382
           
Evening Dress; Dress for Morning Reception; Child's Dress; Spring 
                Bonnets; Invalid's Cap; Breakfast Cap; Morning Dress; Spring 
                Mantles; Shame on Southern Women who Don't Wear Mantles; 
                Silks; Trimmings                                                                               479
           
Dinner Dress; Morning Dress; Evening Dress; Second Mourning; 
                Juvenile Fashions; Lingerie; Bridal Bonnets; Bridal Dresses                573
Fast Women                                                                                                     178
"Fetch" and Carry, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]                                                     112
Finding the Leak, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]                                                         30
Forget Thee! by Manlius [poem]                                                                      159
French Carriage-Bag (Illustrated)                                                                    263
Front of Gentleman's Slipper, Anchor Pattern (Illustrated)                                170
Full Instructions in Needle Work of all kinds (Illustrated)         
   
         Crochet                                                                                                  40
            Crochet With Beads; Knitting                                                               136
            Netting                                                                                                 262
            Netting (continued)                                                                               361
            Tatting, or Frivolite; Berlin Work                                                           551
Full-sized Pattern for Border of Flower-pot Stand (Illustrated)                         487
Full-sized Pattern for Side of Flower-pot Stand (Illustrated)                             485
Gentle Voices, by Mrs. E. J. Bugbee [poem]                                                    254
Gentleman's Lounging Cap (Illustrated) [crochet]                                             103
Gift-Making [wedding and birthday]                                                                  381
Godey's Arm-Chair                                 
           
New Years Present of Godeys; Dressing Children for Winter; Monthly 
                List of New Music                                                                             85
           
Monthly List of New Music; "Better-Half"; Hoops; Jokes; Description 
                of Bride by Irving                                                                             184
           
Hired Wedding Presents; Modern Bonnets; Jokes; Dress Children 
                Warmly; Monthly List of New Music                                                281
           
Poem from reader; Paper Hangings; Burning Water; Tale-Bearing; 
                "Hoops a Hundred Years Ago"; Monthly List of New Music; 
                Splendid Dresses work at a late State Ball Given by the Queen of 
                England; Jokes; Consumption of Hair Powder by the Soldiers of 
                George II; Place Miss in Parenthesis                                                 375
           
Monthly List of New Music; Jokes; Recipe vs. Receipt; Sprigs of 
                Flowers in Colored Embroidery for Ornamenting a Ball-Dress           472
           
Monthly List of New Music; Arthur's Patent Self-Sealing Fruit Cans 
                and Jars; To Miss Catherine P. [poem]; Hoops of 1750; A Splendid 
                Wedding in Europe; Poetical Curiosity Based on Bible; Jokes; 
                Railroad Epitaph; Grand Ball at the Tuileries                                      566
Godey's Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)                           
   
         Lesson XXVIII.  Perspective Drawing (Continued)                               130
            Lesson XXIX.  Perspective Drawing (Continued)                                  315
            Lesson XXX.  Perspective Drawing (Continued)                                   503
Godey's Lady's book, by G. R. Calvert [poem]                                                 88
Greek Cap (Illustrated) [crochet]                                                                    544
Greenhouse Plants and Evergreens                                                                      91
Hair-Bracelets (Illustrated)                                                                                10
Hair-Work (Illustrated) [breastpin and bracelet]                                              104
Headdresses (Illustrated)                                                                                   10, 93, 164
Health and Education                                                                                        275
Heart, by Cora [poem]                                                                                     255
Here and There, by Rev. W. S. Peterson [poem]                                              180
Heroism of Doctor Kane                                                                                  559
Hints on the Art of Dress                                                                                  538
How to Cut and Contrive Children's Clothes
            Why Children Should be Well Dressed; Fancy Stitches for Trimming 
                Infants' Dresses                                                                                  73
           
Baby's Wardrobe—Materials; Decoration, Embroidery, &c.; The 
                Fittings of the Workbox; The First Shirt; The First Night-Dress         169
           
The Monthly Gown; The First Pinafore; The Flannel; The Night-Cap; 
                The First Petticoat; The Flannel Roller; The Binder; Warmth; 
                Lightness and Warmth                                                                      266
           
Ease and Freedom; Causes of Irritation; Quantity of Clothes; 
                Instructions for Knitting Binders                                                        362
           
Out-Door Dress, Trimming, Color and Braid, The Hood, Shortening, 
                or Second Dress, Infants' Boots, Knitted Boots (instructions)            458
           
The Little Shirt; Petticoats; To Put in Strings Neatly; Buttons; Second 
                Pinafores; Drawers                                                                           553
Illustrated Correspondence.  The Patriot Husband Reformed, by Mrs.  
            Charles P.
[fiction]                                                                               533
Infant's Shoe (Illustrated)                                                                                 489
Japan and the China Seas (Illustrated)                                                             107, 203
Lady's Dress (Illustrated)                                                                                    8, 74
Lamp-Mat in Canvas-Work (Illustrated)                                                         454
Lamp Stand in Patchwork (Illustrated)                                                             354
Laying the Corner-Stone, by Alice B. Neal  [fiction]                                          240
Life's a Sea, by B. Frank Spalding [poem]                                                         61
Lift the Window, by Lillian [poem]                                                                   159
Light and Shade, by Mrs. Ann E. Porter [fiction]                                              414
Lines, by Mrs. M. T. Tucker                                                                            256
Lines to E. S. H. [poem]                                                                                   350
Lines Written on the Death of a Young and Lovely Friend [poem]                      376
Literary Notices           
           
The Banished Son; Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; 
                The Three-Fold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The Rifle, Axe, and 
                Saddle-Bags, and Other Lectures; Three Per Cent a Month, or The 
                Perils of Fast Living; Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of It; The 
                Court of Napoleon; A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the 
                English Language; The Genius of Christianity; Arctic Explorations         83
           
Passion and Principle:  A Domestic Novel; Little Dorrit; Marrying Too 
                Late; Milledulcia:  A Thousand Pleasant Things; Paul Fane; Marion 
                Barnard; Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the Olden Time; 
                The Story of Columbus, Simplified for Young Folks; Whistler, or The 
                Manly Boy; The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and Her Allies; The 
                Life of Charles Sumner; Dickens's Little Folks; Home and the World; 
                Oriental Acquaintance; The Golden Dagon, or Up and Down the 
                Irrawaddi; California In-Doors and Out; The Old Regime and the 
                Revolution; Modern Greece; Memoirs of Celebrated Characters; The 
                Poetry of the East; American Poulterer's Companion; Harper's School 
                History; The Key Stone Collection of Church Music; The Playday 
                Book; The Architecture of Country Houses; Merry Book of Puzzles    181
           
Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Ishmael and the Church; Claremont, 
                or The Undivided Household; A Child's History of Rome; Rome, 
                Christian and Papal; Westward Empire, or The Great Drama of  
               
Human Progress; Beaumarchais and His Times; The Two Lights; 
                Rills from the Fountain of Life; Morgan Horses; Adventures in the 
                Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces; What 
                Can Woman Do?; The Humors of Falconbridge; Memoirs of 
                Washington; Home and the World; Sedgemoor, or Home Lessons; 
                Douglass Farm:  A Juvenile Story of Life in Virginia; Cornell's High
                School Geography; The Puddleford Papers, or Humors of the West; 
                The Knight of the Golden Melice:  An Historical Romance; Mormon 
                Wives:  A Narrative of Facts Stranger than Fiction; The Adventures 
                of a Roving Diplomatist; The Poetical Works of Horace Smith and 
                James Smith; Pictures of the Olden Time; Whaling and Fishing; The 
                Laughable Adventures of Brown, Jones, and Robinson; Never Mind 
                the Face; The Bible in the Workshop; Poetic Readings for Schools 
                and Families; The Young Lady's  Guide to the Harmonious 
                Development of Character; The Torchlight, or Through the Wood; 
                Rhymes and Roundelays, in Praise of a Country Life; Dramatic 
                Scenes, with Other Poems; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; 
                Recollections of a Lifetime; Mariamne, or The Queen's Fate; Studies 
                in the Field and Forest; Heaven; Life and Thought; Life of Mary 
                Jemison; Plays and Poems; Parlor Dramas, or Dramatic Scenes, 
                for Home Amusement; Flowers by the Wayside                                276
           
Peterson's Illustrated Uniform Edition of Humorous American Works; 
                Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Characters; The Two Lovers, 
                or A Sister's Devotion; Henry Lyle, or Life and Existence; The 
                Household Angel in Disguise; The Economical Cook and House 
                Book, or Hints on the Daily Duties of a Housekeeper; A Physician's
               
Vacation, or A Summer in Europe; Poems of Henry Wadsworth 
                Longfellow; Songs of Summer; Words for the Hour; Our 
                Grandmother's Stories, and Aunt Kate's Fireside Memories; 
                Wieland, or The Transformation; Durang's Terpsichore, or 
                Ball-Room Guide; The Tragedies of Euripedes; Lake Ngami; 
                Kathie Brande:  A Fireside History of a Quiet Life; El Gringo, or, 
                New Mexico and Her People; Dore; Introductory Lessons on 
                Morals and Christian Evidences; Life in Israel, or Portraitures of 
                Hebrew Character; Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist 
                Churches; An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian 
                Names; Essays, Biographical and Critical, or Studies of Character; 
                The Bible and Men of Learning                                                        373
           
Love After Marriage, and Other Stories of the Heart; Frank Fairleigh:  
               
or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil; Lewis Arundel, or The 
                Railroad of Life; The Three Guardsmen, or The Feats and 
                Adventures of a Gascon Adventurer; The Chinese Sugar-Cane; 
                Examples from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; The 
                Golden Legacy:  A Story of Life's Phases; The Artist's Bride, or 
                The Pawnbroker's Heir; Inquire Within; The Sultan and His People; 
                The Star and the Cloud; American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness 
                and Fashion; Silvia, or The Lost Shepherd; Lectures on the British 
                Poets; Villas and Cottages; Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry; 
                History of King Richard the First of England; The Little Learner:  
   
             Learning About Right and Wrong; Songs and Ballads; Morals for 
                the Young; Lardner's One Thousand and Ten Things Worth 
                Knowing; Poems by Estelle Anna Lewis; The Works of Shakespeare; 
                The Shoemaker's Daughter; The Silent Footsteps; Step by Step, or 
                Delia Arlington, a Fireside Story; Poems, Original and Translated, by 
                William W. Caldwell; Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker's Hill; 
                The Rural Poetry of the English Language; Six Months in Kansas, 
                by a Lady; Sister Anne:  A Romance; Pauperism in the Great Cities:  
               
A Discourse                                                                                       469
           
My Last Cruise, or Where We Went and What We Saw; The Charity 
                of the Primitive Churches; Vivia, or The Secret of Power; Miss 
                Leslie's New Cook-Book; Ten Thousand a Year:  A Novel; Twenty 
                Years After, or The Further Feats and Fortunes of a Gascon 
                Adventurer; The Forty-Five Guardsmen; Love After Marriage and 
                Other Stories of the Heart; Silverwood:  A Book of Memories; The 
                Husband in Utah, or Sights and Scenes Among the Mormons; 
                Smiles and Frowns; Ivors; Biographical and Historical Sketches; 
                Sermons of the Reverend C. H. Spurgeon of London; School 
                Amusements, or How to Make the School Interesting; Arctic 
                Adventure, by Sea and by Land; Religious Truth Illustrated from 
                Science; Arthur Mervyn, or The Memoirs of the Year 1793; The 
                Days of My Life:  An Autobiography; Stories of the Island World; 
                The Chinese Sugar-Cane and Sugar-Making; The Complete 
                Spelling-Book; Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 
                Familiar Astronomy                                                                          563
Love's Idolatry, by G. H. S. Hull [poem]                                                            62
Maids of all Work                                                                                            286
Maud's Toast [poem]                                                                                         79
May:  The Squatter's Daughter, by Metta Victoria Victor [fiction]                      17, 121, 210
Meaning of Husband and Wife                                                                          144
Medical Education of Women                                                                           371
Memory's Chamber, by D. Hardy, Jr. [poem]                                                    59
Moire Antique                                                                                                  493
Morning Dress, or Robe de Chambre (Illustrated)                                           387, 479
Mosaical Origin of Woman [poem]                                                                   276
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association                                                                    276, 372, 468, 562
Mourning Collar and Cuff (Illustrated) [In crepe, seed beads and small bugles] 294, 357
Mrs. Appleton's Maid, by Kate M. H.                                                              494
Mrs. Daffodil's Shopping Expedition, by Virginia de Forrest                            500
Mrs. Hale's Books                                                                                            180
Music   
           
"Trio Juncto in Uno!" (Ballads of the Olden Time No. 1) by 
                F. Nicholls Crouch                                                                             2
            "Trio Juncto in Uno!" No. 2, by F. Nicholls Crouch (Ballads of the 
                Olden Time No. 2)                                                                             98
            "The Thorn!" by F. Nicholls Crouch (Ballads of the Olden Time 
                No. 3)                                                                                              194
            "Trio Juncto in Uno!":  Wandering Willie! by F. Nicholls Crouch 
                (Ballads of the Olden Time No. 4)                      &