EDUCATION, LIBERAL, FOR WOMEN....... EDWARD, THOMAS.-See "Shoe-Maker and Naturalist". ELLEN HARTWIN, SCHOOL-MAʼAM. EMPEDOCLES.... ENGLAND AND AMERICA EREMA; OR, MY FATHER'S SIN.. ESTRANGED. FAWN, THE... FIZZ AND FREEZE. Anna C. Brackett 695 697 Annie R. Annan 906 William Gibson 383 ..Bishop Cleveland Coxe 111 ..John Codman 912 R. D. Blackmore 49, 209, 407, 581, 751, 879 ILLUSTRATIONS. On the Sly. "Empty" .Philip Bourke Marston 543 ...James Maurice Thompson 791 ..........................Mrs. E. T. Corbett 252 254 Frigimand at Dinner.. 254 "Fizz". 253 255 Royal Vengeance. 255 Origin of Icebergs.. 255 Birth of the Aurora 255 GRAVES, PYGMY, IN TENNESSEE, THE SO-CALLED.—See “Pygmy Graves". KNICKERBOCKERS OF NEW YORK TWO CENTURIES AGO....... Egbert L. Viele 33 LIBRARIES, THE PUBLIC, OF THE UNITED STATES...... 43 ..Edward Howland 722 ................................A. F. 64 J. D. Champlin, Jun. 514 516 Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge..... ........ 517 NEW YORK, THE KNICKERBOCKERS OF, TWO CENTURIES AGO.-See "Knickerbockers".. NOEL BREWSTER'S SECRET (with Three Illustrations).. “NOTWITHSTANDING”.. OLD DEACON'S LAMENT, THE........... 33 ..C. Welsh Mason 391 Fannie Hodgson Burnett 375 .Mrs. E. T. Corbett 225 825 Dutch Houses in New York, 1787. "Well, well! I tried to keep Things straight- 227 .H. E. Scudder 825 828 The original Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1742.. .. 829 POPULAR EXPOSITION OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS..Dr. J. W. Draper 565,740,898 PYGMY GRAVES IN TENNESSEE, THE SO-CALLED...........Professor O. T. Mason 43 The King's Alder RAIN, THE.... RAPHAEL'S ST. CECILIA .Ellis Gray 710 .M. G. V. R. 655 RECOLLECTIONS, AN OLD GENTLEMAN'S.-See "Old Gentleman's Recollections" 825 ROMANCE OF A BARN-YARD.... Harriet Prescott Spofford 446 342 Fac-Simile of the second Entry in the Log- 343 344 345 Tea-Kettle presented to Captain Rogers.... 346 SCHENCK, GLADSTONE'S LETTER TO......... SCHOONER "DOLPHIN," THE FREIGHT OF THE. 105 Jane G. Austin 98 SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS, POPULAR EXPOSITION OF..Dr.J. W. Draper 565,740,898 SEA-SIDE STORY, A.. SELF-RECOMPENSED.... ..J. W. De Forest 791 704 705 Boyndie Church-Yard.. SOLOMON PODDY'S COURTSHIP. .E. W. Harrison 830 ILLUSTRATIONS. "Is it really you, Mr. Poddy ?" "Here was a predicament for Solomon".... 830 SONG OF THE GARDEN, A SONG THAT THE BLUEBIRD SINGS, THE.. I. APRIL. 832 ..Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 676 Kate Hillard.-II. APRIL IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. STEAM-SHIP, THE FIRST THAT CROSSED THE ATLANTIC.. SUNSHINE. SYMPATHY. TAFF, ON THE.... Llandaff Cathedral, from the Northeast. 332 333 Entrance to the Bute Docks, Cardiff. 325 Caerphilly Castle. 836 326 The Leaning Tower of Caerphilly Castle.. 337 Cardiff Castle, Home of the Marquis of Bute 327 Pont y Pridd.. 838 328 Welsh Peasants.. 338 Merthyr Market twenty Years ago. 339 330 The Pride of the Market 340 Lady Bute 331 Miner's Wife... 340 The Marquis of Bute.. ILLUSTRATION.-"And you are sitting, as of old, beside my Hearth-Stone, heavenly Maid !" NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. CCCXIX.-DECEMBER, 1876.-VOL. LIV. IT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. [FROM THE VENETIAN MOSAIO.] Tis not our purpose to discourse in guide- | these to be found in Bædeker and Murray ? book fashion of the old historic names We propose rather to give fugitive glimpses and places of Genoa-to speak of the Dorias of the proud old sea queen in her every-day and Spinolas, the Fieschi and Grimaldi, or dress and holiday attire; to speak of the the Fregosi and Adorni; still less to give full, throbbing life of the city of the living, an account of that financial marvel, the Bank and its unique, populous, pulseless city of of St. George, once so famous when the Geno- the dead; and most of all with reference to ese were the bankers of Europe; or to de- some names that posterity will not willingly scribe the cathedral, with its Holy Grail and suffer to die. mortuary relics of John the Baptist; or di- Genoa is not a city to detain the tourist late upon the outer shabbiness and inner glo- long with its sight-seeing, though it will ries of the Annunziata and its sister church- probably be the one on his way southward es; or give an inventory of its many palaces, and eastward where he will first encounter the Doria, the Brignole, the Durazzo, the pal- a decided flavor of Orientalism. It can boast ace of the king, and the rest. Are not all no world-renowned masterpiece in art or Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by Harper and Brothers, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. VOL. LIV.-No. 319.-1 architecture, like the Venus de' Medici or the to the mountain summits frowning with forTransfiguration, or that wondrous miracle tifications, palaces and villas, churches and in marble, the cathedral of Milan. It lacks convents, rise one above another in endless the art treasures of Florence, the hoary mon- succession. It would seem as if the queenumental glories of Rome, the romantic charm ly city, too deeply enamored of her beautiof the Venetian sea swan," or the dreamy, ful bay, were every where on tiptoe to catch dolce far niente voluptuousness of incompara- a glimpse of its broad expanse of liquid sapble Naples. But Genoa can boast, instead, phire, whose prismatic play of reflected light of being the commercial metropolis of Italy and color, as it loses itself in a rich autum-a city that belongs to the present as well | nal sunset, with its opulence of purple and adequately portray. as the past, and hence a city of brilliant con- | scarlet and gold, neither pen nor pencil can trasts, where the old and the new civilizations meet in fierce though friendly encounter; where Italian vis inertia and indolence are stimulated by Anglo-Saxon enterprise and energy; where the shrill whistle of the locomotive startles the slumberous chimes of the monastery bells, and the mediaval donkey brays out his solemn protest against the encroachments of the aggressive iron horse-a quaint, picturesque old city, with a subtle charm that grows upon you in spite of unfavorable first impressions, together with I know not what of transport in the majestic breadth of her glorious gulf, and the sublime sweep of its encircling mountains clad in purple and capped with snow. Proudly seated upon her amphitheatre of vine-clad, olive-crowned hills, where many a sinuous fold gives interminable play to sunshine and shadow, for beauty of situation Genoa yields only to Naples and Constantinople in the Mediterranean. From her crescent-shaped port, with its forest of masts, The principal thoroughfare, which is to Genoa what the Grand Canal is to Venice, rambles along through the great heart of the city in so uncertain a fashion as to be constantly losing its name, if not its identity. Here La Superba holds her carnival, and displays her pomp and pageantry. From this great artery, all athrob with the pulses of a restless, surging crowd, vicoli branch off laterally-narrow winding streets sacred to everlasting shade, but not to silence-and the still more remarkable salite-preposterous alleys set on end, where donkeys and sedans maintain their supremacy in spite of the nineteenth century-all together constituting a cunning net-work of streets so perplexing and involved that the city becomes a labyrinth, where the normal condition of every stranger without a guide is that of being lost. Genoa is pre-eminently a city of magnificent vestibules. As you thread its narrow |