Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 57, January-June 1859
A Baby's First Shoe (Illustrated)
[with diagram]
163
A Bead Bracelet (Illustrated)
261
About Sisters-in-law, by a Sister-in-law
515
A Day's History, by Alice B. Haven [fiction]
48
A Fly Catch (Illustrated) [netting]
552
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)
Capitals,
A-Z, flowers and leaves
12
Capitals, A-Z,
grain
106
lower case, a-z,
floral and beads
204
Capitals, A-N,
floral and beads
300
Capitals, O-Z,
floral and beads
400
A New Baby [fiction]
537
A New Double Body (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
66, 74
Annie Oran, by Helen Hamilton [poem]
252
Anti-Macassar for an Easy Chair, in Crochet (Illustrated)
359
Arrangement for the Hair
45
A Sabbath in the Forest, by Mint
34
A Simple Song, by Desmarais [poem]
543
A Smile
238
Aunt Sophie’s visits, by Lucy N. Godfrey
223
A Villa in the Swiss Style (Illustrated) [with plans]
545
A Voice from a Stove in a Lady’s Sitting-room, by Swerdna
[poem]
61
A Week at Waveland, by Pauline Forsyth
[fiction]
127
Baby’s Shoe (Illustrated)
490, 550
Bead Watch-Case (Illustrated)
160
Beauty of Glass
152
Be Kind to All
417
Be Patient with Children
336
Be Punctual
256, 384
Bonnets (Illustrated)
256, 384
Border in Embroidery (Illustrated)
354
Border for Child’s Dress and Mantle (Illustrated)
167
Braided Note-Case (Illustrated)
202
Broad Line Drawing Lessons (Illustrated)
47, 142, 248, 332, 431, 529
Broches Frisettes; or, Curling Pins (Illustrated)
70
Broderie for a Skirt (Illustrated)
262
Capes (Illustrated)
64, 65, 159, 351, 453, 546
Caps (Illustrated)
256, 351, 453
Caught a Tartar (Illustrated)
97
Centre-Table Gossip, containing—
A
Household Treasure [sewing machine]
189
“A
Tack in Time”
572
A Word
for Carpets
380
Baby’s
Shoes, by W. C. Bennt [poem]
381
Bridals
[including bride's attire while in mourning]
571
Eugenie
and her Court
477
House
Cleaning
477
House
Gardening
No.
1—Bulbs in Pots or Glasses
91
No.
2—Rearing Hyacinths, etc.
190
No.
3—Window plants
285
No.
4—Caring for Potted Plants
381
No.
5—Annuals for the Home
478
No.
6—Hints on the Arrangement of Cut Flowers for the Parlor or
Sitting-Room
572
Notes
and Queries
Don't give children too much at once; Japan lily; can cup-cake recipe
with soda and cream of tartar instead of salaeratus; recommended
family books
92
New colors for dresses; carpet cleaners; air-tight coverings for jellies,
sweetmeats, etc.; the Mariposa
191
Safety stirrup; window garden; winter deserts; the brain
in childhood;
grass under trees
286
Remedies for suspended animation from drowning; house insects;
bonnet strings—wide or narrow; shoes for invalids
382
Mending bronze ornaments; George Sand
478
Carpet cleaners; rules for good fellowship; to arrange a bouquet;
crisp cakes
573
Play-Houses
92
Scraps
of Fashion Items---presentation fans, hair bracelet,
side-buttoned
walking boots, ball slippers or boots, morning slippers,
in-door
headdress
285
The
Workshop [for boys]
285
Wood-Carving
and Old Furniture in Florence
381
Charade [Ma-try-money]
438
Charades in Action (Illustrated)
[Com-fit]
239
Chemise Pattern (Illustrated)
548
Chemisettes (Illustrated)
160, 351, 454, 546
Chemistry for the Young
Lesson XI
(concluded)
78
Lesson XII.
Certain Tests and Precipitants Not Yet Treated for the
Metals
Silver, Lead, Mercury, and Copper
174
Lesson XII
(continued)
270
Lesson XII
(continued)
368
Lesson XII
(concluded)
463
Lesson XIII.
Preparation and Qualities of Hydrogen Gas—Analytical
Investigation of the Metal Zinc
571
China-Ware and Glass
247
CLOAKS, DRESSES, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
A
Girl’s Cloak (Illustrated)
108, 191
At
Home (Illustrated) [dress]
197, 287
Ball
or Party Dress (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
257
Barege
Robe (Illustrated)
484, 574
Children’s
Dresses (Illustrated)
200, 287
Children’s
Dresses for Spring (Illustrated)
389, 479
Dinner-Dress
(Illustrated)
390, 479
Dresses
for Morning Calls (Illustrated)
102, 191, 193, 287
Le
Printemps (Illustrated) [dresses]
388, 479
Morning
Neglige (Illustrated)
101, 191
Morning-Wrapper
(Illustrated)
8, 93
New
Styles of Mantilla, from Evans & Co.
(Illustrated)
292, 293, 361
Riding-dress
(Illustrated)
295, 383
Single
Skirt Organdie (Illustrated)
485, 574
Spring
Mantle (Illustrated)
392, 479
Spring
Mantles (Illustrated)
294, 383
Spring
Walking-Dress (Illustrated)
391, 479
The
Alhambran, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]
264, 360
The
Almeda (Illustrated) [ball gown]
103, 191
The
Andalusian, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]
393
The
Castilian, from Brodie (Illustrated)
[cloak]
9
The
Colson (Illustrated) [dress]
106, 287
The
Duchess (Illustrated)
3, 93
The
Marionetta (Illustrated) [dress]
6, 93
The
Mathilde Mantilla (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
105, 170
The
Mother (Illustrated) [dress, child's
dress]
199, 287
The
Piccolomini Robe de Chambre (Illustrated)
7, 93
The
Raphael Dress (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
355, 364
The
Saragossa, from Brodie (Illustrated)
[cloak]
486
The
Sevillian, from Brodie (Illustrated)
[cloak]
168
The
Victoria Pardessus (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
104, 169
The
Visiting Dress (Illustrated)
100, 191
The
Zanfretti Mantle (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
396, 398
Walking-Dress
(Illustrated)
198
Young
Lady’s Dress (Illustrated) [age
6-10]
11
Collar and Sleeves in Applique of Net and Muslin (Illustrated)
260|
Collars (Illustrated)
160, 256
“Content,” by Alice B. Haven
[fiction]
241, 324
Cora, by Mrs. J. D. L. [poem]
62
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)
166, 259, 266, 356
Crochet a la Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
164, 261
Crochet Basket Purse (Illustrated)
266
Crochet Edging (Illustrated)
266, 362
Crochet Lace (Illustrated)
11, 105, 266, 362, 395, 459
Crochet Tidy (Illustrated)
394
Currant Branch Jeweled D’Oyley (Illustrated) [crochet with beads]
203
Curtain for a Bay Window (Illustrated)
481, 554
Design for Quilting (Illustrated)
550
Diagram of Ball or Party Dress (Illustrated)
258
Diagram of The Mathilde Mantilla (Illustrated)
170
Diagram of the Raphael Dress (Illustrated)
364
Diagram of The Victoria Pardessus (Illustrated)
169
Diagrams of Zanfretti Mantle (Illustrated)
398, 399
Different Styles for Filling Wheels (Illustrated)
266, 359
Douglas & Sherwood’s Celebrated Tournure Corset (Illustrated)
296, 297
Douglas & Sherwood’s New Matinee Skirt (Illustrated)
265
Early Spring, by Jno. B. Duffey [poem]
450
Editors’ Table, containing—
A Few
Words about the “Fashions”
81
A
Happy New Year
79
American
Schools and Colleges for Young Ladies
Baltimore Young Ladies' College; Oxford Young Ladies' College
[OH]; Ontario Young Ladies' Seminary [Canandaigua, NY];
Philadelphia School for Young Ladies
81
School of Design [Worcester, MA]; The Worcester (Mass.)
Academy of Fine Arts; New Ipswich Appleton Academy [NH];
Wesleyan Female College [Cincinnati]; Philadelphia School for
Young Ladies
176
Another
Great Work to be done. Will the
Women of America Engage
in It? [sunflowers as preventatives of
bilious fever, chills and
fevers]
273
A
Picture of Youth
175
A Poet
in Prose
561
A
Remarkable Teacher
176
Beautiful
Thoughts
371
Botany
as a Study for Young Ladies
562
Business
Men and Their Wife-Partners
465
Causes
and Consequence of Individual Character
371
Costume
versus Criticism [Illustrated]
271
God’s
Acre, by Beata [poem]
371
Heart
Thoughts, by Sarah J. Hale [poem]
273
Hugh
Miller and his Writings
272
Lines,
by Sarah J. Hale [poem]
371
My
Indian Garden, by E. L. [poem]
80
Ode on
the Centenary of Burns [poem]
464
Our
Editorial Correspondents
80
Our
Presentation Plate for 1859—Seven Ages of Woman
79
Popular
Literature
464
Progress
of Popular Education in Pennsylvania
370
Rosemary
Hill, by Kate Harrington [poem]
561
School
for Young Ladies
466
Subscribers
for the Washington Portrait
81, 178, 274, 372,
466, 562
Sunflowers
a Preventive of Fevers
370
The
American Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association
81, 177, 274, 372, 466, 562
The
Courtesies of Home Life
175
The
Love Pledge, by Mrs. Hale [poem]
176
The
Purchase of Mount Vernon
560
The
Rosetta Stone
369, 466
To
Academies and Schools
466
Tribute
to Captain Herndon
274
Warning
Words
371
What
Course of Reading is Best for a Woman?
80
Embroidery Border (Illustrated)
487, 549
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)
71, 73, 74, 104, 108, 162, 163, 165, 166,
167, 169, 170,
202, 257, 262, 263, 266, 352, 354, 355, 356, 358, 359, 396, 398,
399, 456, 457,
458, 489, 547, 549, 553, 554, 555
Enigmas
62, 158, 254, 350, 451, 544
“Fair Eden in its Vernal Bloom,” by B. Frank Spalding [poem]
543
Faithful, by Charles Stewart [poem]
157
Fancy Pincushions, in Imitation of Animals
69
Fans for the Ladies, and Where They Come From (Illustrated)
Ancient
205
Medieval-Renaissance
301
Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries
401
Farewell to Life, by Jno. B. Duffey
[poem]
543
Fashions
Dinner
dress; walking dress; evening dress; child's walking dress;
morning
wrapper, Piccolomini robe de chambre; dinner dress;
walking
dress; pardessus; morning dresses; wrappers; sleeves;
undersleeves; tucker; chemisette; dress bodies; belts and buckles;
furs
93
Walking
dress; carriage dress; double skirted dress; child's dress;
morning
neglige; visiting dresses; evening dress; child's cloak; children's
wraps;
ladies' wraps; evening hoods; sorties du bal; evening dresses;
color
combinations; trimmings; dress bodies; berthes; bonnets;
headdresses;
furs
191
Dresses;
walking dress; child's party dress; travelling dress; morning
reception dress; dresses for morning calls; children's clothing;
mourning; second mourning; evening dress; floral coiffures; dress
trimming; young ladies' coiffures
286
Carriage
dress; home dress; walking dress; child's dress; headdresses;
spring
mantles; riding habits; jackets; spring silk dresses; bonnets
[Illustrated]
382
Dinner
dresses; spring dresses; children's dresses; walking dress;
spring
mantle; travelling wraps; pardessus; New England shilling
calicoes; Scotch ginghams; other plain fabrics; spring silks;
children's hats; spring bonnets
479
Dinner
dress; walking dresses; child's dress; summer robes; summer
bonnets; children's straw hats; babies' hats; play hats; capelines or
drawn
hats; country straw hats; summer dresses
573
Fire-Board of Paper Flowers (Illustrated)
358
Fire-Screen of Pheasants’ Wings (Illustrated)
161
Firesides and Facts of the Revolution, by E.
F. Ellet [Reminiscences of the
Dutch Fork, SC; A
Quaker Community; William Maybin's Family;
Prisoners by
Stratagem; Clarke, of Newberry; A Man of Blood;
Ferguson and the
Patriots of the Fork; Two Generous Souls]
220
Fluted Embroidery (Illustrated)
353
“Forget You?” by Nilla [poem]
251
Formation of Dew
55
Frank Ward’s Second Love, by Helen Hamilton [fiction]
344
Friendship’s Vows, by J. R. Conyngham [poem]
544
Garden or Opera Hood (Illustrated)
[knitted]
201, 259
Gathered Flowers, by Norman W. Bridge [poem]
155
Gentleman’s Shirt Front (Illustrated)
459
Godey’s Arm-Chair
Business outlook good; Caldwell's Palace store; To Mr. Godey on the
Dried
Currant Subject [poem]
86
The
Flower-Garden—Annuals
184
Personal
Appearance of Washington; Breakfast with a President of the
United
States in 1794; Gardening for Ladies; Maxims of Chamfort;
The
Best Legacy; A Versified Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer
[poem];
A Rain Song [poem]
280
Mendelssohn
Musical Institute [Pittsfield, MA]; Queer Epitaphs; J. J.
Reed's
Institute for Young Ladies [Philadelphia]; Types of Money;
Directions for Using the Toilet Curl Clasps; Child's Linen Books; A
Chapter
on Roses [includes list]
376
Patent
India Rubber Handle Table Knives; Miss Susan May, the Young
American Cantatrice; Complimentary Poem from Tallahassee; A
Newspaper; Parlors; Ladies Need to be Polite to Gentlemen; Shaler's
Carpet
Sweeper; The Two Lines [poem]; Poisons and Their Antidotes;
"Cures" for the Delicate Female; Jokes; The Queen of England's
Last
Reception
471
Self-Sealing
Fruit-Cans and Jars [Illustrated];
Society; Shawls; Jokes;
Parody
of Shakespeare's Seven Ages [poem]; Delicate Appetites
566
Godey’s Gold Dollar Purses (Illustrated)
70
Guardian Angels, by J. A. B. [poem]
449
Headdresses (Illustrated)
64, 65, 159, 255, 522, 546
Health Department, by Jno. Stainback
Wilson, M. D., Columbus, GA
Shall We Use Tea
and Coffee? Warming Rooms; What
Want of
Exercise Does; Time for Sleep;
Sabbath Feasts
84
Properties
of Tea and Coffee; Too Many Dishes; Bad Colds; Climate—
Southern Women
178
Sleeping-Rooms;
Exercise—Schools for Young Ladies
274
Exercise
Among the Fashionables—The Hope of Our Country
372
Beds;
The Laws of Dress; Long Dresses and Pointed Waists; Cooling
Off;
Management of the Hair; Fluids in the Stomach--Poisons;
Medical
Books for the People
467
Women
and Sunflowers Against Disease; Influence of Light on Health;
How
They Dine in Paris; Choosing a Physician
563
Hidden Joys, by Marian Gwynn [poem]
544
History, by Samuel Johnson
54
Home and the Homeless, by Annie Fraust (Illustrated) [fiction]
520
Home Manufactured Picture-Frame (Illustrated)
10, 66
Homespun and Velvet, by Marion Harland
[fiction]
109
Honiton Lace Sprig (Illustrated)
165
Hope’s Light is Shining yet, by Finley Johnson [poem]
543
How I Came to be Married the Second Time, by Virginia
F. Townsend
[fiction]
305
How the Ladies Live in Brazil (Illustrated)
493
How They Live in Paris (Illustrated)
385, 442
How to Economize and Conduct a Home
Role of the wife
134
The duties of the housewife, based
on your income; Carving
231
Setting a schedule; Storing food;
Caring for vessels and blankets;
Management of
washing; Keeping an inventory; Choosing meat 310
Purchasing in quantities;
Cleaning; Oil-Cloths
416
Schedule for typical day;
Frugality
508
How to Make a Cheap Fountain (Illustrated)
553
Il Etait une Bergere [poem]
541
Insertion for White Muslin or Black Net Sleeves for
Mourning (Illustration) 72, 73
Jonathan Grimes, by E.
N. H. [poem]
156
June, by Flora
Wildwood [poem]
543
Knit Lace (Illustrated)
161
Knitted Sock, Adapted for a Child Three Years Old (Illustrated)
71, 161
Kind Words
39
Lady’s Toilet Sachet (Illustrated)
[roll-up]
397, 455
Lappet for the Hair, in Beads and Bugles (Illustrated)
298, 354
Lappets for Irish Point Crochet (Illustrated)
459
Letters for a Sampler for our Young Friends (Illustrated)
554
Le Petit Oiseau [poem]
541
Lilly Lee, by Zinnia
Zell [poem]
449
Lines, by J. A.
Turner [poem]
350
Literary Notices
New Juveniles—Sidney Grey, Mia
and Charlie, Bessie Melville,
Losing the Way,
Of Heart and Hand, Nancy Thorn, The
Tortoise-Shell
Comb; Inquiries and Suggestions in Regard to the
Foundation of Faith in the Word of God; Bitter-Sweet:
A Poem;
Violet, or The Times We Live In; The Demi-Monde:
A Satire on
Society; Zenaida; Webster and Hayne's
Celebrated Speeches in the
United States Senate, on Mr.
Foot's Resolution of January, 1830;
Judge Haliburton's
Yankee Stories; Self-Made Men; My Lady
Ludlow:
A Novel; Legends and Lyrics: A
Book of Verses; From
New York to
Delhi by Way of Rio de Janeiro, Australia, and
China;
After Dark: A Novel; New
England's Chattels, or Life
in the
Northern Poor-House; The Sayings and Doings of
Samuel Slick,
Esq., Together With His Opinion on
Matrimony; The Sociables;
Vernon Grove, or Hearts as They
Are; Howitt's Pictures for the
Young; Buds from the
Christmas Boughs; Bye and Bye; Spurgeon's
Gems; Poems by D.
Hardy, Jr.; A Journey Due North, Being Notes
of a
Residence in Russia; While it was Morning; Memories of
Gennesaret; Ministering Children; The Voice of
Christian Life in
Song, or Hymns and Hymnwriters of Many
Lands and Ages;
Memoirs of Mrs. Jukes
83
Lives of the Bishops; Life of George Herbert; Willie and
Harrie; Calvary
Catechism for the Little Ones; Questions on the Sunday Evening
Lessons in the Church Service; Ought American Slavery to be
Perpetuated?; Milch Cows and Dairy Farming; Thoughts of Favored
Hours, Upon Bible Incidents and Characters, and Other Subjects;
Dora Deane, or, The East India Uncle; Maggie Miller, or Old Hagar's
Secret; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man His Own
Boswell; The New Priest in Conception Bay; The Municipalist; Dolce
Far Niente; Davenport Dunn: A Man of our Day; The
Mysterious
Marriage: A True Romance of New York Life; The Wife's Trials:
A
Novel; The Four Sisters: A
Tale of Social and Domestic Life in
Sweden; Piney Wood's Tavern, or Sam Slick in Texas; Blonde and
Brunette, or The Gothamite Arcady; Night-Caps; The Household
Book of Poetry; Cornell's Grammar-School Geography; History of
Friedrich the Second; Elements of Natural Philosophy, Designed for
Academies and High Schools; Every Woman Her Own Lawyer;
Portraits of My Married Friends, or, A Peep Into Hymen's Kingdom;
The Tenant-House, or Embers from Poverty's Hearthstone; Oriental
Tales of Fairyland; Life Among the Children; The Yule Log; Future
Life; or, Scenes in Another World; The Witches of New York, as
Encountered by Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B.; Isabella Orsini:
An Historical Novel
of the Fifteenth Century; The Courtship of Miles
Standish, and Other Poems; The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney;
Primary Natural Philosophy; Stand Up for Jesus! A
Christian Ballad;
Sunshine, or Kate Vinton; Safe Home, or The Last Days and Happy
Death of Fannie Kenyon; The Aimwell Stories; The Harvest and the
Reapers:
Home-Work for All and How to Do It; Sunday Afternoons
in the Nursery; The Sheepfold and the Common, or, The Evangelical
Rambler; Light for the Line, or, The Story of Thomas Ward; The Julia;
Sermons to the Churches; Memoirs of Rev. David Tappan Stoddard;
The New Games of Tournament and Knighthood
179
The Modern Cook; A House to Let: A
Christmas and New Year's Story;
Major Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansas; The Drama in Pokerville and
Other Stories; The Land and the Book; or Biblical Illustrations Drawn
from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy
Land; The Comedies of Terence; What Will He Do With It?; Mount
Vernon; Meta Gray; or What Makes Home Happy; The Ministry of
Life; Bertram Noel:
A Story for Youth; The Banks of New York,
Their Dealers, the Clearing-House, and the Panic of 1857; Palestine,
Past and Present; Fred Freeland, or The Chain of Circumstances; The
Queen's Domain and Other Poems; From Poor-House to Pulpit;
Southern Institutes; or An Inquiry into the Origin and Early Prevalence
of Slavery and the Slave-Trade; The Minstrel's Bride, or The Shepherd
of Hazel Glen; Shells from the Sea Shore of Life; The Power of Prayer;
Dust and Foam, or Three Oceans and Two Continents; Heart Whispers,
or A Peep Behind the Family Curtain; Life of Mrs. Virginia Hale
Hoffman; Notes from Plymouth Pulpit; Matthew Caraby; Essays in
Biography and Criticism; Memoir of Harriet Preble; The Ballad of
Babie Bell and Other Poems; Sidney Grey: a Tale of School Life; The
Pilgrim's Progress; Honey Blossoms for Little Bees; Henry Willard, or
The Value of Right Principles; Marion Elwood, or How Girls Live;
Humbug: A Look at Some
Popular Impositions; Willie Winkie's
Nursery Songs of Scotland; Christmas Hours; Poems by Frances Anne
Kemble; A Yacht Voyage—Letters from High Latitudes; History of the
Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain; Arabian Days'
Entertainments; Selections from the Writings of Fenelon; Poetry
of the
Bells; Life Memories and Other Poems; The Young
Lady's Oracle:
A Fireside
Amusement; Howe's
Complete Ball-Room Hand-Book;
Peter Coddle's Trip to
New York: Three Games in One
275
European Life, Legend, and Landscape; Bouvier's Familiar
Astronomy;
Father and Daughter: A
Portraiture from the Life; Life at Three
Score; Rustic Rhymes; Episodes of French History
During the
Consulate and the First Empire; La Plata,
The Argentine
Confederation and Paraguay; The
Lady's Manual of Fancy Work;
Open Air Grape
Culture; The Afternoon of Unmarried Life;
Symbols of the
Capital, or Civilization in New York; Idolette
Stanley,
or The Beauty of Discipline; Heights of Eidelberg;
Biography of Self-Taught Men; Biographies of
Distinguished Scientific
Men; The Life and Remains of Douglas
Jerrold; Christ and the
Inheritance of the Saints; The Story
of Bethlehem: A Book for the
Young; Eddy Ellerslie
and the Mine, or Old Friends with New Faces;
Redemption: A Poem
373
Pentecost, or The Work of God in Philadelphia; The
Atonement, in Its
Relations to Law and Moral Government; Hymns of the
Ages;
Christian Morals; Opportunities for Industry and
the Safe Investment
of Capital, or A Thousand Chances
to Make Money; Tressilian and
His Friends; Man and
His Dwelling-Place: An Essay Towards the
Interpretation of Nation; Howe's Drawing-Room Dances,
Especially
Designed for Social Evening Parties;
Peterson's Complete Coin Book;
Rose Warrington, or The
Daguerreotype Miniature; The Waverly
Novels; The Lady
of Albarone, or The Poisoned Goblet; Sylvan Holt's
Daughter; Travels and Discoveries in North and Central
Africa;
Fankwei, or The San Jacinto in the Seas of India,
China, and Japan;
The Laird of Norlaw: A Scottish Story;
The Old Plantation, and
What I Gathered There
in an Autumn Month; Lives of the Queens of
Scotland and English
Princesses Connected with the Regal
Succession of Great
Britain; Onward, or The Mountain Clamberers;
Letters of a Traveler; Matrimonial Brokerage in the
Metropolis;
Anecdotes of Love; The Methodist, or Incidents and
Characters
from Life in the Baltimore Conference;
Pictures of Country Life; The
Old Man's Bride; Nicaragua,
Past, Present, and Future; Thorndale,
or The Conflict
of Opinions; The Scouring of the White Horse, or
The
Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk; Eric, or Little
by
Little; Southwold: A Novel;
Curiosities of Natural
History; Trials
of a Public Benefactor, as Illustrated in the
Discovery of
Etherization; Ballyshan Castle: A Tale Founded on
Fact; The
American Almanac and Repository of
Useful Knowledge for the
Year 1859
468
Verses, 1854-1858; Heaven's Antidote to the
Curse of Labor; The
Pearl of
Days, or The Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working
Classes; Frank Elliott, or Wells in
the Desert; The Lady
of the Isle:
A Romance from Real
Life; The
American Home Garden; Three
Visits to Madagascar During
the Years 1853, 1854, 1856; Adam
Bede; The Romance
and Its Hero; The Life of North American
Insects;
More About Jesus; Home Memories, or Echoes from a
Mother's Voice; The Laws and Practice of Whist; Sixty
Years'
Gleanings from Life's Harvest; The Precious Stones
of the Heavenly
Foundations; Secret History of the
French Court Under Richelieu
and Mazarin; Life of
Christopher Columbus; Life of Frederick the
Great; Life of Pitt; Two
Ways to Wedlock: A Novellette;
Science
and Art of Chess;
Bassini's Art of Singing; The Avenger, a Narrative,
and
Other Papers; The Poetical Works of William Motherwell;
Poems by Rev. T. Hempstead; The Life and Times of
John Milton;
Annual of Scientific Discovery:
A Year Book of Facts in Science
and Art; First Things:
or The Development of Church Life;
Christian Brotherhood;
Agnes Hopetown's Schools and Holidays;
Indestructible
Children's Story Book
564
Little Boy’s Jacket and Pantaloons (Illustrated)
356
Look Upward
230
Lost on the Mountains, by Clara Augusta [fiction]
513
Lost Stars
331
Marie Antoinette Fichu (Illustrated)
[with diagram]
68, 69
Mary Magdalene, by Charles
Stewart [poem]
349
May Aydenn’s Fortune, by Fannie
Stevens Bruce [fiction]
403
May Blossoms, by Helen
Hamilton [poem]
448
May Ethridge, by Mrs.
B. Frank Enos [fiction]
501
Memory, by Marian
Gwynn [poem]
60
Miss Sabrina's Dream, by Mary
W. Janvrin [fiction]
18
Miss Slimmens's Window, by the author of "The Tallow Family” [fiction]
You can't catch old birds with
chaff; Miss Slimmens has hopes
40
Miss Slimmens is honored with a
serenade; Miss Slimmens meets with a
very
great loss
147
She agitates the question of the wedding trousseau; The window
is
curtained (figuratively) with crape
233
Josh Stebbins's wife's first tea-party; An "argos-eyed" spider
weaves a
web for a fly
337
Wanted, a wife: Miss
Slimmens answers the advertisement; She is
accused of scandal; She is edified by the Thanksgiving sermon
425
The night before the wedding; The way it turned out
524
Mrs. Daffodil’s Second Expedition in Search of Mrs.
Smith, by Virginia
De
Forrest
Moonlight, Music, Love, and Flowers, by Harry Leech
421
Music—
Continental Polka, by William Lewis
290
Dream Sweetly, Love, by Prof.
Edward Ambuhl
194
Snow-drop Waltz, by J. Starr
Holloway
4
Song of the Sea, by Professor
Poulton
98
Turn Not Away Those Radiant Eyes, by Prof.
Edward Ambuhl
386
Two new French songs
No. 1
Il Etait un Bergere
482
No. 2.
Le Petit Oiseau
483
[words to these
two songs]
541
My Mother, by M. C.
W. [poem]
157
Names for Marking (Illustrated)
Charlotte, Rose, Elizabeth
165
Lizzy
258
John, Phebe
356
Charlotte
394
Catherine
399
Blanche
454
Needle-Book (Illustrated)
67
Neglected Flowers, by Annie
Fraust (Illustrated) [fiction]
36
Netted Tidy (Illustrated)
395, 489
Not all a Waif, by W.
S. Gaffney
447
Note-Paper Case (Illustrated)
[perforated card-board]
458
Novelties for the Month (Illustrated)
Fichu;
undersleeves, headdresses
for evening wear; cape or fichu; hood
for evening
wear
64
Fichu; headdresses; collar and sleeve; chemisette
159
Style of dressing the hair for evening; spring bonnets; dinner cap;
invalid's cap;
collar and sleeve
255
Fichu for evening dress; chemisette; dress cap for matron; simple
headdress for
young lady; undersleeves
351
Fichu; night-caps; habit-shirt; chemisette for young girl;
undersleeves 453
Bridal coiffures; round lace cape; undersleeve of Brussels net;
illusion
undersleeves; habit-shirt for morning or travelling
546
On Hearing It Said, When Infants Smile Angels Whisper to
Them, by Alicia
N.
Benson [poem]
350
Out-Door Culture
443
Out in the Meadow, by S.
E. H. [poem]
348
Patchwork (Illustrated)
opposite 264, opposite 354, 492
Pattern for Silk Embroidery (Illustrated)
352
Praise Your Wife
154
Prayer, by G. R.
Calvert [poem]
59
Precocious Children
153
Presentiments, by H. C. [poem]
254
Pen-wiper (Illustrated)
[shape of slipper]
553
Perdita—a Monody, by Desmarais
[poem]
157
Playing Soldiers (Illustrated)
289
Receipts, &c.
Trussing Poultry for Roasting [Illustrated];
Vegetables—angelica, c
hartreuse of vegetables, asparagus, artichokes, artichoke salad,
French beans, Windsor beans, haricot beans, red
cabbage;
Sick-Room and Nursery—Quiet; Wedding Breakfast
for Forty, in
January; Miscellaneous—to polish
shells for ornaments, excellent
seedcake; orange
tart, sago pudding, liquid bloom of roses, posset;
Contributed Receipts—Boston cream-cakes, apees, delicious
lemon pies, to make grape preserve, to keep lemon
juice, pea soup 75
Trussing Poultry for Trussing, hares and rabbits, boning,
joints of meat,
general management of the fire; Vegetables—broccoli, boiled cabbage,
green peas, stewed peas, stewed celery, to boil potatoes, to boil new
potatoes, to mash potatoes; Sick-Room and Nursery—visits of the
medical man, administering medicine; The Teeth—How to Preserve
and Beautify—the mouth, the lips, the gums; Miscellaneous—a cure
for scrofula, cottage pudding, an Irish stew, to cleanse gold, painted
rooms, cod-liver oil, remedy for house ants, a method of reviving old
black lace
171
General Principles of Roasting; Method of Setting Out a Table
in America
[Illustrated] [table
for 8]; How They Dine in Paris [Illustrated]; The
Teeth:
How to Preserve and Beautify—the teeth, the formation of
teeth—their value and importance; Miscellaneous—holiday cake, nice
gingerbread, a Delhi pudding, how to obtain essence of lemon,
Noyeau cream, Scotch bread, pimples on the face, crystallized cream,
lemon mince, polishing paste; Contributed Receipts—for bruises,
sprains &c., snow ointment for burns, scalds &c., cream-pudding,
cream sponge-cake, lemon cake, custard for pies, a delicate rice
pudding
267
General Principles of Roasting—gravy, basting, dredging,
paper, details
of roasting, roast beef, mutton, venison and lamb, veal; How They
Dine in Paris (concluded) [Illustrated]; Sick-Room and
Nursery—
blisters, leeches, poultices; The Teeth: How to
Preserve and Beautify—
milk teeth, structure of teeth, types of teeth; Miscellaneous—stiffness
to collars, to make blancmange, to make potted beef, a good shaving
paste, cabbage salad, Victoria buns, fig pudding, boiling cauliflower,
adhesive composition, to clean leather, rice cake, cheap pudding
365
Details of Roasting—pork, rolled beef or mutton, sucking-pig,
poultry
with white meat, geese and ducks, white ducks, wigeon and teal, hare,
rabbits; Sick-Room and Nursery—night watching, admissions of
visitors; The Teeth:
How to Preserve and Beautify—decayed teeth
and toothache, tooth drawing, etc.; Miscellaneous—to color eggs, to
make a scent resembling violets, cure for the cramp [in the leg] [poem],
to remove stains from the hands, to destroy bugs, receipt for chocolate
drops, a simple remedy for foot sprains, fried cucumber, diarrhoea;
Contributed Receipts—spunge pudding, light bread pudding, mush or
Virginia pudding, pie crust, cookies without eggs, kisses or drop
cakes, rice cake
450
Directions for Preserving Fruits, etc.—Observations on
preserving, to
clarify sugar for preserving, to keep preserves, to preserve
strawberries, to preserve strawberries whole, to preserve
strawberries or raspberries for creams or ices without boiling,
strawberries stewed for tarts, to preserve strawberries in
wine,
currants preserved, currant jelly, currant jelly
without cooking, red
or white currant jam, green currant
jam, to dry currants for dessert,
raspberries, raspberry jam,
gooseberries preserved, to keep red
gooseberries, to
preserve rhubarb, fine rhubarb jam, cherries
preserved, to dry cherries, to preserve oranges or lemons in
jelly, to
keep oranges or lemons for pastry; Fruits, Pies,
Puffs, Puddings,
etc.—apple pie, pippin tarts, rhubarb pie or
tart, apple puffs, lemon
puffs, custard pudding, curd
pudding, cocoa-nut pudding; The Teeth:
How to Preserve
and Beautify—the loosening of the teeth, preserving
or
stopping the teeth; Miscellaneous—borax in washing, to clean
paint, sweeping carpets, preventing flannels from
shrinking, to take
stains out of table linen, etc., ink stains,
mildew, iron moults, to keep
silk and velvet, how to extract
the bitter quality from yeast, for a
beautiful and permanent red
ink
556
Retrospection, by G.
H. S. Hull [poem]
156
Returned, by Annie
Fraust (Illustrated) [fiction]
333
Rhymings for the Night, by Fannie Stevens Bruce [poem]
60
Rising in the World, by Emma
Linley [fiction]
423
Rural Cottage (Illustrated)
[with plans]
363, 452
Sachet, or Scent Bag (Illustrated)
491, 551
Sampler Ornaments for Our Little Friends (Illustrated)
547
Scallop for Flannel (Illustrated)
166
Seraphina, by W. H.
Drake [poem]
61
Shadows of Beams, by Charlotte
A. Stuart [poem]
349
Social Charities, by Alice
B. Haven [fiction]
433
Social Games [Proverbs,
Acting Rhymes, Cock and Bull Story]
322
Sonnet—Millenium, by William
Alexander [poem]
544
Stanzas, by Cassie
Calderwood [poem]
143
Stanzas, by Harriet
N. Havens [poem]
347
Strawberry Emery Cushion (Illustrated)
549
Street Music (Illustrated)
1
St. Valentine’s Day, by Virginia
De Forrest [fiction]
125
The Angel Hand, by Mary
L. Lawson [poem]
348
The Art of Ornamental Hair-work (Illustrated)
Applications of Hair-Work;
Apparatus—Hair, Thread, Bobbins
123
Frame; Arranging the Strands; Balance; Moulds; Finishing the
Work;
Boiling the
Work
218
Elastic; General Directions; No. 1—Round Chain Plait
357
No. 2—Square Chain Plait; No. 3—Two-Ribbed Spiral Chain
Plait;
No. 4—Four-Ribbed Spiral Chain Plait
455
No. 5—Twisted Chain Plait; No. 6—Inlaid Spiral Chain
Plait 551
The Bells of St. Joseph, by F. H. Stauffer [poem]
451
The Betty, by Pattie
Parsley [fiction]
249
The Broken Vase, by T.
S. Arthur [fiction]
444
The Brothers, by Mary
Graham [fiction]
209
The Deserted Cottage, by Carrie
[poem]
450
The Embroidered Handkerchief, by Mary W. Janvrin [fiction]
312
The Invalid’s Journey, by Mary A. Rice [poem]
347
The Lambs of the Flock, by Lillian [poem]
252
The Lament of Winter, by G.
W. B. Hassinger [poem]
448
The Lips
512
The Mask of Plaster, by Helen
Hamilton [poem]
542
The Philosophy of Rain
217
The Picture, by Carrie
Calderwood [poem]
450
The Pleasant Month of May [poem]
451
The Portrait, translated from the French, by Anne
T. Wilbur [fiction]
418
The Present, by S. P.
Bryan, M. D. [poem]
542
The Rain Spirits, by Flora
Wildwood [poem]
156
The Secret Minister, from
an Unpublished Journal [US minister to France,
1778]
343
The Self-Supporting Tournure (Illustrated)
166
The Song of the Hat, by Alvira S******* [poem]
528
The Story of a Carpet, by Alice B. Haven [fiction]
531
The Stricken Household, by Charles Stewart [poem]
449
The Sweet and Lonely Glen, by Norman W. Bridge [poem]
542
The Three Pictures, by Nilla
[poem]
158
The Unexpected Visitor (Illustrated)
[fiction—make-shift furniture]
13
The Weeping Sowers
346
The Wild Rose, by Harwood
G. Robertson [poem]
60
They Think I Have No Heart, by N. C. W. [poem]
253
Thinking, Ever Thinking, by Carrie Calderwood [poem]
347
Thy Will be Done, by Harriet
E. Francis [poem]
252
Tidy in Darned Netting (Illustrated)
263
Toilet Cover or Tidy (Illustrated)
[crochet]
488, 550
Toilet-Table Drapery (Illustrated)
299, 354
To My Mute Friend, Marianna [poem]
349
To-Night, by Myrta
May [poem]
450
“Too Late the Vow,” by Nilla
[poem]
61
To Sorrow, by Willie
E. Pabor [poem]
349
To the Comet, by Robert
G. Allison [poem]
450
Trimming for Petticoats, in Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
491
Trussing Poultry for Roasting (Illustrated)
75, 171
Tudor Cottage and Plan (Illustrated)
63
Twilight Musings, by Arabella
Jennings [poem]
253
Two Epitaphs, by F.
H. Stauffer [poem]
253
Two Sides to the Picture, by Alice B. Haven [fiction]
135
Unconstant, by Clara
Augusta [poem]
448
Undersleeves (Illustrated)
64, 160, 256, 352, 454, 546
Vandyke Bracelet (Illustrated)
[beads]
457
Verna Capel, by Helen
Hamilton [poem]
155
When First I Gazed, by Finley
Johnson [poem]
62
Where is My Home? By Lily
Lea [poem]
251
Where is the Friend for Whom We Pine? By Hattie
Boomer Barber
[poem] 157
Winter: or,
Jessie, the Lame Girl, by Annie Fraust
(Illustrated) [fiction]
144
Who is the Widow Polly Lee?
A Sketch, By Patience Perkins (late
Price)
[fiction]
56
Young Brecken’s Wooing, by Paul Laurie [poem]
253