Godey's Lady's Book
Volume 55, July-December 1857
 

A Bouquet of Roses [fiction]                                                                             341  
A Fragment, by S. A. Andrews                                                                         251  
A Health to Fleur de Lis, by Helen Hamilton [poem]                                          62  
A Homily upon Children, by W. S. Gaffney                                                      154  
Alcyone, by Elizabeth W. Brown [poem]                                                         254  
A Little Flower, by W. S. Gaffney [poem]                                                        252  
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated) [stars and stripe capitals]                      396  
Amicitia, by Hiawatha [poem]                                                                         157  
A Mother's Trials                                                                                                21  
A Mother's Wages, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]                                                     37  
A Mule Ride in Madeira: or, What Befell Mark Summers, Second
Assistant 
            Engineer, U.S.N., by Metta Victoria Victor                                         493  

A Netted Tidy, with Figures to be Darned In                                                     390  
Aquariums, No. 2 (Illustrated)                                                                           45  
A Rainy Day with my Friend Muggins, by A. E. Stewart [fiction]                         54  
A Scene of Retribution                                                                                      503  
A Sensible Preacher                                                                                         233  
A Swiss Cottage (Illustrated) [with designs]                                                       65  
A Symmetrical Farm-House of Stone and Rough-Cast (Illustrated) [with  

            plans]                                                                                                   257  

Attend to your Sight                                                                                            15  
At Twilight, by Clara Augusta [poem]                                                             350  
Aunt Hetty's Challenge, by R. D. H. [fiction]                                                      241  
Aunt Sophie's Visits, by Lucy N. Godfrey [fiction]  

            No. 1                                                                                                   433  
            No. II                                                                                                   519  

Aunt Tabitha's Fireside, by Edith Woodley [fiction]        

            No. XIV—The Way Kate Pierson Rid Herself of a Troublesome
Beau   22 
           
No. XV—Patty Marlowe's Party                                                          332  
Away, by Guy Humboldt [poem]                                                                     158  
Baby's Shoe (Illustrated)                                                                                 198  
Baby's Shoe in Knitting (Illustrated)                                                                 457  
Basques (Illustrated)                                                                                   67, 161, 163, 172, 260  
Bead Candlestick Ornament (Illustrated)                                                         360  
Beaded Mat (Illustrated)                                                                                 268  
Bed Furniture Fringe (Illustrated)                                                                     492, 546  
Blotting, or Note-Book in Fretwork Application (Illustrated)                                4  
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                   197, 261, 287, 384, 451, 541, 542  
Boudoir Work-basket (Illustrated)                                                                  484, 545  
Box Pincushion (Illustrated)                                                                             356  
Bracelet (Illustrated)    [crochet]                                                                        70  
Braiding Pattern for top of a Pincushion (Illustrated)                                         299  
Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)                                                                             9, 267, 486  
Cambric Morning-Dress (Illustrated)                                                               193, 287  
Caps (Illustrated)                                                            162, 200, 260, 355, 452, 490, 491, 542  
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                          67, 451, 542  
Carolina Backwoods Sketches.  No. VI.  Sally Camp, by Mrs. M. S. 
            W
hitaker
                                                                                               48  
Centre-Table Gossip, containing-- 
           
A Fable for the Times                                                                           567 
           
Books for Travelling or Country Reading                                                 94 
           
Dining Out [dinner parties]                                                                     476 
           
Embroideries in the First State of Manufacture                                       190 
           
Fashion Items Gathered From Various Sources [cloaks, shawls, 
                jackets, cameos, hair bracelet, velvet trimmings]                                189 
           
Hints to Boarders—Revised from "Hints to Lodgers"                             381 
           
Home Ornament                                                                                   382 
           
Hope Deferred                                                                                     568 
           
How a Penny Became a Thousand Pounds                                            568 
           
Nursling Vespers, by Rev. J. E. Rankin [poem]                                      94 
           
Paris Gossip                                                                                         285, 381, 476 
           
Sea-Side Botany                                                                                  189 
           
Sisters-in-law                                                                                         93, 286 
           
Sunday Evenings at Home                                                                     285  

            To Correspondents
                Letters of Recommendation for Servants; Prices of Ribbons and 
                    Feathers; Preserving Fruit at Home with Self-Sealing Cans              94 
              
Crafts with Seaweed; The Gentlewoman; Second Mourning Silks; 
                    Do Not Marry a Fool; Gathering Young Evergreen Plants; 
                    Needle-Work Trimming on Under-Clothes; How to Treat 
                    Scratches                                                                                     190
               Problems with Annual Plants; Genuine Love; Simple Bridal Attire; 
                    Trials of Party-Giving                                                                    286 
               
Inscribed Rings; Home Evening Entertainment; Definition of French 
                    fashion terms; Piano Recommendation                                           382 
               
Fringe; Coffee with Dessert; Nuts; To Remove Grease from the 
                    Collar of a Coat; Recommends Skeleton (Hoops); Bird Training 
                    Applied to Children; Preventing Hands from Getting Chafed; 
                    Most Popular Slipper Designs                                                        477 
              
Keeping Household Accounts; Summary of the Duties of a Mistress 
                    of a Family; Pique; Tree Peonies; Aquariums for Children with 
                    Study of Insect Life; Cleaning Plaster Busts                                    569 
           
Working Together, by Charles D. Ryden [poem]                                  568  
Chair-Cover in Darned Netting (Illustrated)                                                         5  
Chemisettes (Illustrated)                                                                                  289  
Chemistry for the Young                

            Lesson VI (Continued)                                                                         273  
            Lesson VII—Remarks on Glass Bending, Cork Boring, and other  

                Manipulative Arts, Necessary for the Young Chemist to be 
                Familiar With                                                                                    368  

            Lesson VII (Concluded)                                                                       465  
            Lesson VIII.  Process of Distilling a Gaseous Preparation, viz., 
   
             Sulphuretted Hydrogen, and the Condensation of This Gas in Water  556  

Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                                        354  
Child's Cap                                                                                                      490  
Child's Collar and Cuff (Illustrated)                                                                  489  
Cigar-Case (Illustrated)                                                                                   196  
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c. 
           
Cloak, or Mantilla (Illustrated)                                                             293, 383 
           
The Andalusian, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                            359 
           
The Arragon, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                262 
           
The Asturian, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                453 
           
The Castilian, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                101 
           
The Eureka, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                    72 
           
The Leonese, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                454 
           
The Saragossa, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                             358 
           
The Victoria, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                 552  
Collars (Illustrated)                                                                                     75, 106, 202, 294, 388  
Confluence of Souls Congenial, by J. M. L. [poem]                                           446  
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)                                            76, 167, 357, 392, 461  
Crochet Boots for an Infant (Illustrated)                                                           363  
Crochet Lace (Illustrated)                                                                                298  
Crochet Pincushion (Illustrated)                                                                       299  
Crown of Cap (Illustrated)                                                                              200  
Design for the Cape of a Child's Coat (Illustrated)                                           104  
Design for a Sofa Cushion or Tidy (Illustrated)                                                 355  
Design for a Sofa Cushion in the Style of Louis XV, in Berlin Wool-Work  

   
         (Illustrated)
                                                                                             6,70  
Diagram for Lady's Ball Dress (Illustrated)                                                       544  
Diagram of Lady's Basque (Illustrated)                                                            172  
Diagram of Sun-Bonnet (Illustrated)                                                                269  
D'Oyley, in Flanders Guipure (Illustrated)                                                        164  
Drawing-Room Elbow Cushion (Illustrated)                                                     548, 549  
Editors' Table, containing-- 
           
About Children [dressing warmly]                                                           83 
           
A Broken Heart                                                                                    371 
           
A Colloquy with our Fairest Readers                                                     557 
           
Action                                                                                                  469 
           
A "Font" of Type                                                                                  468 
           
A Garland for Thee, by Ucaleo [poem]                                                  84 
           
Amusements                                                                                         371 
           
Art of Amusing Children                                                                       369 
           
A Select Audience [Plato]                                                                    179 
           
A Sketch from Life [Norman Williams Bridge]                                      178 
           
Caution to Critics                                                                                    83 
           
Charlotte Bronte                                                                                   274 
           
Christmas Hymn [poem]                                                                       558 
           
Courtesy in Conversation                                                                      179 
           
Curious Orthography [Wales]                                                               179 
           
Effect of Marriage on Character                                                            558 
           
Egotism                                                                                                469 
           
Fashions of the Hooped Skirts                                                              371 
           
Flounces                                                                                               372 
           
Grammatical Errors                                                                               177  

            Health is in Our Borders                                                                        469  
            Hospitals for the Insane                                                                         180  
            How a Philosopher made Love                                                                84  
            Lady Franklin                                                                                          83  
            Lady Franklin's Arctic Expedition                                                          560  
            Lady Orators; or, the Oratress in Mourning                                           372  
            Lines, by Mrs. Margaret B. Cutting [poem]                                        560  
            Literary Philanthropy                                                                             277  
            Man's Love                                                                                          372  
            Medical Education of Women                                                               558  
            Mushroom Aristocracy                                                                         275  
            "Nature's Chapel" by Norman Williams Bridge [poem]                        178  
            Naval Honors to Captain Herndon                                                        559  
            New England Medical College for Ladies                                              468  
            On the Premature Death of Dr. Kane, by Cecilia Ferguson [poem]        83  
            Pearls                                                                                                   179  
            Phonography, what it is, and what it does [shorthand]                            179  
            Places of Education for Young Women  
        
        The Albany Female Academy; The Beverly Institute                            83  
                Graefenburg Water Cure School                                                       179  

            "Save the Women and Children"                                                           559  
            Schools in California                                                                               83  
            Sonnet [poem]                                                                                      277  
            Thanksgiving, by Lillian [poem]                                                            372  
            Thanksgiving Day                                                                                  371  
            The Art of Amusing Children                                                                 369  
            The Good Man's Example [poem]                                                         372  
            The Herndon Memorial                                                                         559  
            The Ladies' Mount Vernon Association                                                   81, 180, 278, 370  
            The National Thanksgiving                                                                    466  
            The Value of a Good Wife                                                                    466  
            The Water Cure                                                                                   180  
            To Jennie [poem]                                                                                  373  
            What has to be Learned [vocabulary]                                                      83  
            What Women are Doing—The Nursery and Child's Hospital
of New 
                York; Hospital for Women and Children esta
blished by Drs.
                Elizabeth Blackwell, Drs. Maria Zakrzewska, and Drs. Emily 
                Blackwell; The Woman's Prison; Discipline Society and Home          276  

Embossed Glass (Illustrated)                                                                           240  
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)                        8, 66, 69, 70, 163, 167, 171, 172, 202,
        261, 264, 268, 292, 296, 297, 298, 300, 352, 353, 356, 362, 364, 385, 388, 393, 394, 450,
        459, 460, 488, 490, 543, 544, 549  
Embroidery for Handkerchief Border                                                                296  
Embroidery Pattern on the Robe of the Prince Imperial of France
(Illustrated)  268  
Enigmas                                                                                              64, 160, 256, 351, 448, 540 
Evening Thoughts, by Allan Mac [poem]                                                          157  
Every-day Phenomena                                                                                      312  
False Pride, by Georgiana H. S. Hull [fiction]                                                  113  
Family Unity                                                                                                     524  
Fashions                       
            Juvenile Clothing; Morning Dress; Travelling Costume                             95  
            Riding-Habit; Evening Dress; Promenade Dress; Child's Dress; 
                Walking-Dress; Peignoirs; Clothes for a Watering Place; Dinner 
                Dress; Evening Dress for Young Ladies Just Coming Out; Ball 
                Wreaths                                                                                           191  
            Carriage Dress; Dinner Dress; Home-Dress; Lingerie; Cambric 
                Morning Dress; Hats; A Volante vs. En  Tablier Style of Skirt; 
                Basques vs. Rounded Point Corsages; Wedding Dress; 
                Headdresses                                                                                     287  
            Bridal Dress Transformed into a Party Dress; Evening Dress; Child's 
                Dress; Cloak or Mantle; Suitable Colors; Bonnets; Juvenile Clothing  383
            Stre
et Dress; Dress for Just Past Mourning; Walking Dress; Carriage 
                Dress; Lingerie; Carriage Wraps; Robes a Quille, Robes a 
                Disposition; Dress Trimming                                                              477  
            Evening Dresses; Evening Coiffures; Flowers to Trim Ball Dresses; 
                Earrings; Cashmere; Cloaks; Furs; Velvet Bonnets; Warning Against 
                Extreme Styles                                                                                 569  

Female Society, by John Randolph                                                                  137  
Flouncing for a Skirt (Illustrated)                                                                     171  
Flouncing for Sleeves (Illustrated)                                                                    171  
Fruits in Summer                                                                                                 42  
Fuchsia Pattern for Child's Cloak (Illustrated)                                                  297  
Full Instructions in Needle-Work of all kinds (Illustrated)    
           
Raised Berlin work, to iron Berlin work, tapestry, cloth work,  
                braiding, application or applique work                                               170 
           
Embroidery on Muslin—Broderie Anglaise, to raise work, satin stitch, 
                guipure, Swiss lace; Fancy stitches—point d'Echelle, hem-stitch, 
                mourning hem-stitch                                                                         265 
           
Tambour work; Berlin work—types of canvas; wools to use                 361 
           
Cottons for needlework, silk braids, cotton braids                                 551  
Geraldine, by Metta Victoria Victor [poem]                                                      61  
Gift-Making, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]                                                              421  
Glass and its Phenomena                                                                                   408  
Godey's Arm-Chair                            
            Jokes; Preparations for the Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter; A Low 
                Voice in Woman; Perils of Inheritance; Choosing Paper-Hangings; 
                What is a Letter [poem]; Dress Poorly When You Go to Market; 
                The Great Tobacco Controversy; Dresses Worn at the Late 
                Drawing-Room of the Queen of England; Monthly List of New 
                Music; No Change in Length of Waists; Definition of Crinoline             87 
           
Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies, Miss S. J. Hale, Principal; 
                Humorous Description of One's Own Wedding; Receipt for 
                Sourcrout; Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale; Jokes; Poem about Godey's; 
                Mrs. Hale's Cook-Book; A Picture of Editorial Life; Fashionable 
                Bonnets (song, to the air "Blue Bonnets"); A Little Paris Gossip; 
                Camphor vs. Strychnine                                                                      183 
           
Newspaper Office in Leavenworth Kansas; Sun-Bonnet; A Grammatical 
                Play upon the Word "That"; Dresses Worn at the late Carnival Balls in 
                Paris; Jokes; To Annie B. [poem]                                                         280 
           
Deal Gently With the Little Ones [poem]; The Expense of Royalty; 
                Newspaper Bustles; Jokes; African-American Use of Mohair Braids 
                for Hair; Princess Royal's Wedding Dress and the Lace-Makers; 
                Comic Verse on Hoops; Church Bells, by E. H. N. Patterson [poem]; 
                Disinfectants; Dread Precocity in a Child; Proverbs Refined; 
                Mischievous Children Make Old Men; Poem to Godey's; Dresses 
                Worn at the Late "Reception"                                                            375 
           
Manners Made Easy                                                                             472 
           
Jokes; Note from New Port, FL; Godey's Office; "To an Old 
                Newspaper and the Press" [poem]                                                    563  
Godey's Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)    
            Lesson XXXI.  Perspective Drawing (Continued)                                 129  
            Lesson XXXII.  Perspective Drawing (Concluded)                               320  

Good Humor                                                                                                      36  
Gone Down at Sea, by George R. Calvert [poem]                                           538  
Grandfather's Watch, by Virginia de Forrest (Illustrated) [fiction]                     43  
Guipure Sleeve Design (Illustrated)                                                                  298  
Half of Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)                                                           106, 202  
Handkerchief Border (Illustrated)                                                                    292  
Headdresses (Illustrated)                                                                                   67  
Heel and Toe, by Virginia De Forrest (Illustrated) [fiction]                             292  
Hints on Bathing                                                                                                 60  
How Effie Hamilton Spent Christmas, by Virginia de Forrest [fiction]               534  
How to Cut and Contrive Children's Clothes (Illustrated)  

            The walking-dress, worked muslin collars, dress-frock for a
little girl, 
                the sash, dress-frock for a little boy, materials for boy's dresses, 
                winter dress for boys, out-door
dress, coats                                        73 
           
Materials for little girls' dresses, jackets and mantles, pinafores, aprons, 
                tuckers, lace or muslin berthe, embroidery, making clothes with a 
                view to future growth, altering the mother's dress for children             169 
           
Trimmings for children's drawers—tatting, a useful edging, crochet, tape 
                work, very pretty comforter                                                              266  
How to Dress with Taste:  The Dress of Ladies, The Dress of Children              213  
How to Fall Asleep                                                                                           420  
How to Teach the Alphabet                                                                              335  
I have been among the Fairies, by Charles Morris  [poem]                               348  
Infant's Apron (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                        364  
Infant's Shoe (Illustrated)                                                                                 394  
Initials (Illustrated)                                                                                           203, 452  
Isabella Stewart, by Pauline Forsyth [fiction]                                                   147  
Italian Villa (Illustrated) [with plans]                                                                 449  
Katrina, by J. H. McNaughton [poem]                                                             446  
Kindness                                                                                                          146  
Knitted Gaiter (Illustrated)                                                                               457  
La Esmeralda (Illustrated) [hat, basque, undersleeves, skirt, parasol]                  97, 191  
Lady's Ball Dress (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                   543  
Lady's Jacket (Illustrated)                                                                               385  

            [with diagram]                                                                                      450, 456  

Letter from a Lady of a "Certain Age" [advice on complexi