THE

INTERNATIONAL

MONTHLY

MAGAZINE

Of Literature, Science, and Art.

VOLUME II.

DECEMBER TO MARCH, 1850-51.

NEW-YORK:

PREFACE.

On completing the second volume of the International Magazine, thepublishers appeal to its pages with confidence for confirmation of allthe promises that have been made with regard to its character. Theybelieve the verdict of the American journals has been unanimous upon thepoint that the International has been the best journal of literaryintelligence in the world, keeping its readers constantly advised of theintellectual activity of Great Britain, Germany, France, the otherEuropean nations, and our own country. As a journal of the fine arts, ithas been the aim of the editor to render it in all respects just, and asparticular as the space allotted to this department would allow. And itsreproductions of the best contemporary foreign literature bear the namesof Walter Savage Landor, Mazzini, Bulwer, Dickens, Thackeray, BarryCornwall, Alfred Tennyson, R.M. Milnes, Charles Mackay, Mrs. Browning,Miss Mitford, Miss Martineau, Mrs. Hall, and others; its originaltranslations the names of several of the leading authors of theContinent, and its anonymous selections the titles of the great Reviews,Magazines, and Journals, as well as of many of the most important newbooks in all departments of literature. But the International is notmerely a compilation; it has embraced in the two volumes already issued,original papers, by Bishop Spencer of Jamaica, Henry Austen Layard,LL.D., the most illustrious of living travellers and antiquaries, G.P.R.James, Alfred B. Street, Bayard Taylor, A.O. Hall, R.H. Stoddard,Richard B. Kimball, Parke Godwin, William C. Richards, John E. Warren,Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Mary E. Hewitt, Alice Carey, and other authors ofeminence, whose compositions have entitled it to a place in the firstclass of original literary periodicals. Besides the writers hithertoengaged for the International, many of distinguished reputations arepledged to contribute to its pages hereafter; and the publishers havetaken measures for securing at the earliest possible day the chiefproductions of the European press, so that to American readers theentire Magazine will be as new and fresh as if it were all composedexpressly for their pleasure.

The style of illustration which has thus far been so much approved bythe readers of the International, will be continued, and among theattractions of future numbers will be admirable portraits of Irving,Cooper, Bryant, Halleck, Prescott, Ticknor, Francis, Hawthorne, Willis,Kennedy, Mitchell, Mayo, Melville, Whipple, Taylor, Dewey, Stoddard, andother authors, accompanied as frequently as may be with views of theirresidences, and sketches of their literary and personal character.

Indeed, every means possible will be used to render the InternationalMagazine to every description of persons the most valuable as well asthe most entertaining miscellany in the English language.

CONTENTS:
VOLUME II. DECEMBER TO MARCH, 1850-51.