The Knickerbocker

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Title: The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January
1844 Volume 23, Number 1
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THE
Knickerbocker,
OR
NEW-YORK MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
VOLUME XXIII.
NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY JOHN ALLEN, NASSAU-STREET.
1844.

INDEX.
A.
Apostrophe to an Old Hat. By J. G. SAXE, 69 A Lady on the Rights of
Women, 79 A Second Ralph Ringwood, 81 Ascent of Mount Ætna. By
THOMAS COLE, 103 A Night on the Prairie. By a Buffalo Hunter,
114 A Winter Trip to Trenton Falls, 133 A Veritable Sea-Story. By
HARRY FRANCO, 151 A Few Hints on the Philosophy of Size, 156
American Manners and American Literature, 180 An Apostrophe to
Health, 217 Anacreontic. By 'G. H. H.', 275 A Christmas Carol in Prose,
276 American Ptyalism: 'Quid Rides?' 288 A Pilgrimage to Penshurst.
By C. ALEXANDER, Esq., 307 A First Night of Racine. By
FLANEUR, 345 Apostrophe to Time. By Miss MARY GARDINER,
353 An Alligatorical Sketch, 361 Address and Poem at Boston, 387 A
Brace of 'Pellets' from Julian, 391 A Dream. By JOHN WATERS, 432
A Piscatorial Eclogue, 46 A Picture by Murillo, 503 A Song. By JOHN
WATERS, 516 Autobiography of the Prairie Hermit, 557 A Dream of
Youth, 561 A New Spirit of the Age, 583 A Day With the great
SEATSFIELD, 584 A Thrust with a Two-edged Weapon, 590 Another
'Pellet' from JULIAN, 595
B.

Benthamiana, 282 Belizarius: A Historical Sketch, 337 Birth-Day
Meditations, 527
C.
Coronation of George the Fourth, 138 Curiosities of Foreign and
Domestic Literature, 490 CLARK'S Literary Remains, 495, 578
D.
Descriptive Poetry, 1 Drawings and Tintings. By ALFRED B. STREET,
387 Disguised Derivative Words in English, 570
E.
EDITOR'S TABLE, 78, 180, 283, 389, 499, 584 Essay on a Passage in
Macbeth. By JOHN WATERS, 153 Elementary Treatise on Human
Physiology, 178 Early Spring at the Homestead, 438 English State
Trials under the Popish Plot, 447 Exhibition of the National Academy
of Design, 595
F.
Freedom's Beacon at Bunker-Hill, 132 Fragments from the Greek. By
'G. H. H.', 361
G.
Ganguernet: or a Capital Joke, 62 GOSSIP with Readers and
Correspondents, 83, 192, 289, 396, 505, 599
I.
I Follow: from the French, 145 Isabel: the Death of the Young, 218
Idyll: in imitation of Theocritus, 323 Inscription for a Sarcophagus, 367
Italy and the Italians. By J. T. HEADLEY, Esq., 498 Impudence of the
French, 499
J.

JOSEPH C. NEALE'S 'Charcoal Sketches,' 184
K.
KENDALL'S Narrative of the Santa Fe Expedition, 382
L.
Lines to a Fringed Gentian. By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Esq.,
28 Lines to Death, the Great Conqueror, 44 Letter to the Editor from
Mr. JAMES JESSAMINE, 58 Love's Elysium: from the German, 61
Lines to an Evening Cloud, 73 LITERARY NOTICES, 74, 170, 276,
382, 490, 578 Lines to Time. By Mrs. J. WEBB, 113 Life's Young
Dream, 119 Life: a Sonnet, 159 Lines to J. T. of Ireland. By C. W.
DAY, Esq., 169 Life and Times of the late WILLIAM ABBOTT, 187
Lines sent with a Bouquet. By PARK BENJAMIN, Esq., 211 Legend
of Don Roderick. By WASHINGTON IRVING, 262, 324, 418 Literary
Record, 305 Lines with a 'Floral Messenger,' 534 Lines written under a
portrait of Jupiter and Danäe, 430 Lines to my Sister. By R. S.
CHILTON, 472 Legend of the Subjugation of Spain. By
WASHINGTON IRVING, 572 Lines by Prof. Plutarch Shaw, of
Tinnecum, 577 Life in the New World. By SEATSFIELD, 581
M.
Mexico as it was and is. By BRANTZ MAYER, Esq., 77 Music,
Musicians, Musical Critics, and Ole Bull, 80 Mr. CHEEVER'S
Lectures on the Pilgrims, 388 MARY MAY: the Newfoundland Indian,
523 Mental Hygiene. By WILLIAM SWEETSER, M. D., 581
Magazine Writing, 589
N.
Night and Morning. By 'POLYGON', 257 Night-Thoughts: to
BLUMINE, 436 North-American Review for the April quarter, 492
O.

Old reflections on the New Year, 78 One Reading from Two Poets. By
JOHN WATERS, 218 On Rivers and Other Things. By do., 349
P.
Poems of JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 170 Professor Shaw, of
Tinnecum, 549 Poetry and History of Wyoming. By WILLIAM L.
STONE, Esq., 382
R.
Reminiscenses of a Dartmoor Prisoner, 146, 356, 517 Rêves et
Souvenirs, 343 Religious Controversy. By 'FLACCUS,' 445
S.
Song of the