Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine  
Volume 56, January-June 1858 

A Chain in Beads and Twist (Illustrated) [crochet]                                           394, 457
A Country House (Illustrated) [with plan]                                                        448
Ada Frazier:  A Sketch of Southern Life, by Pauline Forsyth [fiction]
            [Mississippi]                                                                                         125
A Doll's Collar (Illustrated)                                                                              107
A Gauntlet Cuff (Illustrated) [knit and crochet]                                                 451
A Good Name                                                                                                 135
A Lady's Netted Cap for Mourning (Illustrated)                                                  4, 66
Alone, by Mabel Gray [poem]                                                                         445
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)                        
           
Capitals, Medieval Human Figures, A-Z                                                  12
           
Crochet Alphabet, capitals, A-Z                                                           108
           
A-J, Capitals, Feathered                                                                       204
           
K-S, Capitals, Feathered                                                                      300
           
T-Z, Capitals, Feathered                                                                       396
           
A-R, Capitals                                                                                       492
Ambition, by E. A. Sandford [fiction]                                                               514
A Mother's Influence, by Jessie Atherton [poem]                                             159
An Indian Tale, Founded on Fact, by "Seul" [fiction]                                          45
An Offering, by Mary N. Rockwell [poem]                                                       543
A Northern May-Day, by M. A. Rice [poem]                                                    446
Antimacassar, for an Easy Chair (Illustrated)                                                    553
A Recollection, by C. S. A. [poem]                                                                     62
A Requiem, by Mrs. Sarah L. Locwell [poem]                                                 351
A Rustic Hanging Basket (Illustrated)                                                              455
A Tale of the Times, by T. S. Arthur (Illustrated) [fiction]                                481, 536
At the Sepulchre, by Cora Linn [poem]                                                            350
A Tribute to the Memory of Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, by Robert G.  
   
          Allison
[poem]                                                                                      61
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside.  No. XVI—The Robbery on the Turnpike,
            by Edith Woodley [fiction]                                                                   224
A Valentine, by E. B.    [poem]                                                                        158
Bandeau for the Hair (Illustrated)                                                                    364
Black Bead Bracelet (Illustrated)                                                                    262
Blanche Brandon [fiction]                                                                                 306
Blessed are the Peacemakers (Illustrated)                                                       193
Boat Song, by D. W. C. Roberts [poem]                                                          352
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                                        257, 353, 354, 547
Border for Child's Frock (Illustrated)                                                              198
Boy's Jacket (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                          260, 267
Braided Bib (Illustrated)                                                                                  390
Braided Slipper (Illustrated)                                                                            365
Braided Turkish Smoking-Cap (Illustrated)                                                     104
Braiding Pattern (Illustrated)                                                                           552
Broderie Anglaise for a Skirt (Illustrated)                                                            7
Broderie for a Dress (Illustrated)                                                                      75
Bugle Mat for Hyacinth Glass (Illustrated)                                                       458
Caps (Illustrated)                                                                                   4, 66, 161, 258, 355, 553
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                          449
"Catch the Sunshine," by Marion Harland [fiction]                                             13
Centre-Table Gossip, containing--
           
Correspondence of the "Centre-Table," Extract No. 1—On our recent 
                return voyage from China; No. 2—Letter from Fort Leavenworth     286
           
Homely Housekeeping                                                                           91
           
How Domestic Discord is Made                                                            91
           
India Muslins and Tissues                                                                    477
           
Items of the Royal Embroidery [Marriage] (Wedding Dress of the 
                Princess Royal, the Bridesmaids, the Queen's Dress, the Wedding 
                Rings, the Wedding Cake, Bridal Travelling Dress, the Wedding 
                Presents)                                                                                         381
            Married and Single                                                                                92
           
Mourning                                                                                            572
           
New Books and Music—A Woman's Thoughts About Woman;
                Adele; Ursula; The Coopers; new music                                          572
           
Paris Items                                                                                         190
           
Profitable Fancy Work                                                                       190
           
The Garden      
               
No. 1—The Value of Keeping a Garden                                           90
                No. 2—Gardens as a Source of Patience, Attaching a Man 
                    Permanently to his Home                                                            189
                No. 3—Laying Out Small Suburban Rear Gardens                          285
                No. 4/5—April--Roses, Hardy Annuals, Hollyhocks, Sowing Seed 
                    for Fall Plants in Hotbed, Lawns; May—Center Bed, Potted 
                    Plants, Sharing Cuttings                                                               476
               
No. 6—Roses, June Flowers; Replacing Stored Bulbs; Marigolds; 
                    Background Plants; Keeping the Garden in Order; Potted Plants;
                    Watering                                                                                     571
           
The Nursery                                                                                        287
           
The Wife to Her Ruined Husband [poem]                                              92
           
To Correspondents 
                   
Spots on Glass Lamp Chimneys; Hand-Me-Downs; Influenza; 
                        Holiday Gifts (Blessings and Spiritual Gifts)                                92
                   
Sugar Tongs; Suggested Books for Birthday or Bridal Gifts; Value 
                        of Jackets                                                                               191
                    
Advice on Nursing as a Profession; Hansel Monday; More 
                        Bishops                                                                                  287
                    Bridal Dresses, Bridal Veils                                                         382
                    Scrapbooks, Removing Stoppers from Glass Bottles, "Falling 
                        Out," Raised Berlin Work; To Clean the Gilding of Pier-
                        Glasses; Keeping Bouquets Fresh                                           478
                    Undersleeves; The Lancer; Quadrilles; Simplifying an Organdy 
                        Dress; Ball Shoes; Toys; Bayadere Stripes                              572
Charles Maitland:  or, the Force of Imagination, by Mrs. M. S. Whitaker
   
         [fiction]                                                                                               402, 498
Chemisettes (Illustrated)                                                                                161, 449, 450
Chemistry for the Young                                                          
   
         Lesson VIII (continued)                                                                        79
            Lesson VIII (concluded)                                                                     176
            Lesson IX.  Method of Getting Silver Out of Its Chloride                     272
            Lesson IX (continued)                                                                         369
            Lesson IX (concluded)                                                                        464
            Lesson X.  Comparative Properties of Silver, Lead, and Mercury in
                Relation to Chlorine and Hydrochloric Acid                                      560
Child's Night-dress with Feet (Illustrated)                                                       552
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                                257, 258, 296, 297, 547
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
           
Caradori (Illustrated)                                                                         295, 383
           
Cariola (Illustrated)                                                                            294, 383
           
D'Angri (Illustrated)                                                                           292, 383
           
Jacket, in Pique (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                            1, 73
           
La Grange (Illustrated)                                                                       293, 383
           
Lady's Jacket (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                             97, 100
           
Mantle for an Invalid (Illustrated)                                                        546
           
The Barcelona, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                             395
           
The Biscayan, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                               167
           
The Calpe, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                   196
           
The Castiglione, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                             70
           
The Cordovan, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                             299
           
The Moresco, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                               489
Collar, in Bead and Bugle Guipure (Illustrated)                                                101, 163
Collars (Illustrated)                                                     11, 65, 101, 103, 107, 364, 394, 491, 549
Coral Reefs                                                                                                      239
Corners for Pocket Handkerchief (Illustrated)                                                  171, 201, 260, 556
Corregio, by Kruna [poem]                                                                              252
Cousin Tom, by Anna Hastings [fiction]                                                             39
Cover for Castor Stand (Illustrated)                                                                358
Crochet Alphabet (Illustrated) [capitals, A-Z]                                                  108
Crochet a la Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)                                                        72, 357, 358
Crochet Purse, in Colored Silks (Illustrated)                                                    202
Dahlia Pen Wiper, in Raised Berlin Work (Illustrated)                                      261
Death of the Hon. James Meacham, by Julia A. Barber [poem]                          60
Design for a Suburban Cottage Residence (Illustrated) [with plans]                    63
Designs for Table-Covers (Illustrated)                                                               71
Diagram of Boy's Jacket (Illustrated)                                                               267
Diagram of Lady's Jacket (Illustrated)                                                             100
Diagram of Little Girl's Paletot (Illustrated)                                                      363
Diagram of Jacket (Illustrated)                                                                          73
Diagrams of Spring Cloak for an Infant (Illustrated)                                         456
Dinner-dress (Illustrated)                                                                                485, 573
Doll's Cap (Illustrated)                                                                                    553
"Don't Stay Long" [poem]                                                                                 446
Douglas & Sherwood's Patent Adjustable Bustle and Skirt (Illustrated)            166, 454
D'Oyley in Flanders Guipure (Illustrated)                                                         106
Dramatic Conversaziones                                                                                  147
Dress of the Princess Royal's Bridesmaids (Illustrated)                                     389
Dresses (Illustrated)                                                        256, 389, 392, 393, 485, 486, 487, 545
Dresses for the Country or Watering-places (Illustrated)                                  392, 393, 479
Editors' Table, containing--
           
A Chapter of Excerpts [poems and clips]                                              373
           
A Lament, by Lilian [poem]                                                                   83
           
Annual Report of the Managers of the Chester County Agricultural
                    Society                                                                                         465
           
A Taste for the Beautiful                                                                       177
           
A Thought for Husbands                                                                       275
           
A Thought for Wives                                                                            275
           
A True Compliment                                                                              468
           
A Woman with Wrongs                                                                        468
           
Beneficence                                                                                          179
           
Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies                                          373, 468, 564
           
Brazil and the Brazilians                                                                        370
           
Cherokee Female Seminary                                                                  563
           
Common Sense better than Transcendentalism                                      179
           
Dress and Its Influence [excerpts from Chambers' Journal article
                "Growing Old"—advice to the middle aged]                                      466
           
Edgeworth Ladies' Seminary [Greensboro, NC]                                   468
           
English Literature                                                                                  180
           
English Periodicals                                                                                180
           
Fashion--Its Influence and Results                                                           80
           
Health Department                                                                                564
           
Hints about the Spine Complaint [curvature of the spine]                        179
           
Hints for Poets                                                                                      562
           
Is Salt Food?                                                                                        563
           
Is Water Food?                                                                                    562
           
Lady Bulwer in Trouble                                                                        468
           
Novels that are always New                                                                 561
           
"Our Brother Sleeps"                                                                              83
           
Places of Education for Young Women                                    
   
             Baltimore Ladies' College                                                                   82
                Oxford Ladies' College, Ohio                                                           275
           
"Poems by Rosa"                                                                                    81
           
Saleratus Destroys the Teeth                                                                 564
            Salutatory to Our Readers                                                                      80
           
Settled for Life.  A Word to Young Ladies  [fiction]                              274
           
The American Ladies' Mount Vernon Association                     83, 180, 276, 372, 468, 564
           
The Five Gateways of Knowledge                                                        273
           
The Great London Preacher                                                                 177
           
The Herndon Memorial                                                                         83, 276, 373, 468
           
The Industrial Women's Aid Association:  A Good Work.  Who Will 
                    Aid?                                                                                              82, 276
           
The March Snow Storm [poem]                                                           275
           
The Royal Marriage                                                                              561
           
The Twilight Angel, by Fannie Stevens [poem]                                    179
           
The Welsh Nightingale                                                                          180
           
The Wreck of the Central America, by Mrs. Sarah T. Bolton [poem]   467
           
Two Scenes in Cherokee Land [before and after civilization]                 563
            Elder's Biography of the late Doctor Kane, by Rev. D. Whitaker  
                (Illustrated)
                                                                                     212, 301
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)            1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 69, 75, 97, 100, 104, 106, 107,
            163, 164, 172, 203, 258, 264, 266, 267, 268, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 365,
            453, 456, 459, 491, 550, 556
Embroidery for a Child's Cloak or Sacque (Illustrated)                                    453
Enigmas                                                                                                62, 159, 255, 352, 447, 544
Evening-dress for the Opera (Illustrated)                                                         487, 573
Family Prayer, by Rev. H. Hastings Weld (Illustrated) [poem]                          59
Fashions   
           
Walking dresses; dinner dresses; effect of panic on clothing prices;
                trimming dresses; Venetian sleeves; making up poplins; party 
                dresses for young girls; ball dresses                                                     93
           
Evening dresses; furs; opera-cloaks or bournous; dressing gowns;
                cloth cloaks; flounced skirts; sleeves                                                  191
           
Carriage dress; street dress; dinner dress; juvenile fashion; dinner
                dress; cut of dresses; side trimmings; flounces; sleeves—funnel, 
                volante, bouffant, closed; jackets; passementerie; fringes; bonnets; 
                red and black stripe petticoats                                                           287
           
Walking dress; robe dress; child's walking dress; morning cap,
                chemisette, basque, headdress, undersleeves; spring mantles; 
                children's dresses; fashion responding to the economy; order for 
                rich western child; round or Pamela hats; opera cloaks; hair styles;
                bonnets                                                                                             382
           
Robe, silk dress, crape hat, spring straw hat, basque, robe, mantilla,
                Princess Royal riding habit, dresses for morning promenade at 
                springs or seaside, street and carriage wraps and mantles, crape 
                bonnets, straw bonnets, veils, plainer fabrics—chintz, mousselines, 
                spring silks, flounces, bretelles                                                            479
           
Dresses for outside parties; riding dresses, dinner dress, walking
                dress, coiffure [page missing from microfilm]                                       573
Female Education                                                                                                21
Firesides and Facts of the Revolution
            John Boyce of SC, The Tinsley Family of SC, by E. F. Ellet                  121
            The Haynie Family of SC, William Caldwell of SC, Customs Among 
                the Primitive Dutch in South Carolina, Savage Malignity, Use of a 
                Bogus Baby                                                                                       436
First and Second Love, by Pauline Forsyth [fiction]                                          439
Flower-Vase Mat in Crystal and Blue Beads (Illustrated)  [crochet]                      8, 67
Frank Ward's Confession, by Helen Hamilton [fiction]                                      220
Full Instructions in Needle-Work of all kinds              
           
Materials in Metal; Beads                                                                      169
            Implements For All Sorts of Needle-Work; Trimmings—Tassels, 
                Screen Handles, Fringes, Cords                                                         265
            To Preserve Materials from Injury; To Quill Ribbon for Trimming;
                To Make Up Sofa Cushions; To Make Up Carriage Bags; To 
                Make Up Banner Screens; To Mount Hand Screens; To Increase 
                the Size of an Engraved Pattern                                                         361
Godey's Arm-Chair             
           
Godey's as a New Year's Present; Irish Epitaph [poem]; New-Year's 
                Family Toasts; Jokes                                                                          86
           
John Grigg, Esq.; Colored Photographs; Old Dominion Coffee Pots; 
                Yankee Precedent, by George E. Senseney [poem]; Monthly List 
                of New Music; Dresses Worn at a Reception of the Queen of 
                England; Poem to Godey's; About Crinoline; Jokes; Letter from 
                Oregon; A Tribute to Worth, by Rosetta [poem about Godey's]        183
           
Portrait of Washington Printed in Oil Colors; Keep Your Mouth Shut; 
                Monthly List of New Music; Women and Ladies; False Spelling 
                Arising Out of Sound; Jokes; Dresses Worn at Her Majesty's 
                Drawing-Room; Spare That Tea [poem]                                           279
           
Would-be Ladies at the Opera; Beggars—an Incident; The Flower-
                Garden (seed for twenty favorite varieties); House of Employment; 
                Note from Huntsville (TX) Item; Jokes; Judge Longstreet on 
                Newspapers                                                                                    375
           
All Godey's Dresses Wearable; Giving Characters to Servants; The
                Gallandet Gazette; The Magician's Own Book; Anecdote of Irish 
                Servant; Extended Hoops; Jokes; Godey's Needles, by Kruna  
                [poem]; The Post-Office Robberies; Dan Rice's Great Show; 
                Instructions for Knitting a Quilt in Shell Pattern; Instructions to 
                Harden Tallow Candles                                                                    470
           
Misbehavior at the Opera; Jokes; Patience in Dealing with Children; 
                How to Cool Water; Whiskers; Piano Prices                                    567
Group of Flowers in Imitation of Tapestry (Illustrated)                                         9, 67
Hair Bracelet (Illustrated)                                                                                105
Handkerchief Border (Illustrated)                                                                    362, 457, 460
Hanging Portfolio (Illustrated)                                                                          102, 164
Headdresses (Illustrated)                                                                                   65, 354, 450
Hints to Dressmakers and those who Make their own Dresses, by Mrs.  
                Damas              
           
How to Make a Dress Body Fit Well; Hints on Pockets; Hints on 
                Summer Jackets                                                                               413
           
Hints on Braiding Cloaks or Dresses; How to Cut Out and Fit a Body; 
                Hints on Shirt-Making                                                                       523
Home Treasures, by Finley Johnson [poem]                                                     255
Honeycomb Carriage Cushion (Illustrated)                                                       550
Imitation of Ground Glass for Windows (Illustrated)                                         548
Infant's Apron (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                          74, 264
Infant's Slipper (Illustrated)                                                                              170
Initials (Illustrated)      
   
         O                                                                                                         451
            S. H.                                                                                                    550
Iron More Useful than Gold                                                                                38
Is it True? by Kate Berry [fiction]                                                                     241
Jacket, in Pique (Illustrated)                                                                                1, 73
Juvenile Department (Illustrated)                                
           
Samplers for Our Young Friends                                                           162
            Samplers for Our Young Friends                                                           263
Kate Severn's Wedding, by Judith Hemmenway [fiction]                                  152
Keats; a Monody, by J. H. M'Naughton [poem]                                               542
Lady's Chemise, Front and Sleeve (Illustrated)                                                 363
Lady's Jacket (Illustrated)                                                                                    1, 73, 97, 100
Lady's Shoe Bag (Illustrated)                                                                           259
Ladies' Walking-dress (Illustrated)                                                                   486, 573
Lamp or Vase Mat (Illustrated)                                                                        185
"Les Larmes dans la Voice," by Robert G. Allison [poem]                                 544
Life's Chalice, by J. Howard Smith [poem]                                                       542
Life's Distrust, by Finley Johnson [poem]                                                          351
Light Out of Darkness:  A Blind Man's Story, by Louise Chandler Moulton
   
         [fiction]                                                                                                 109
Lines to Mary, by M. W. [poem]                                                                       255
Literary Notices                                     &nbs