THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE: DEVOTED TO Literature, Art, and Religion. JAMES FLOY, EDIT O R. VOLUME XII. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1858. New-York: 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1858. CONTENTS. Page ...... 426 521 ...., 435 ............. 226 ......, 494 Baillie, Joanna............. Leaves from the Diary of a True Woman- London to Rome, From......... 353, 437, 551 Mexico, A Ride in....................... ..... ton............. Nest-building Fishes-H. N. H................... 36, 221, 317 Opossums and Kangaroos–Julia Colman..... Padmavati, A Story of the Coast of Coroman- 400 del-C. Russell...... 136 Paintings, Copies from Modern........... ..255, 311 ................198, 385 Poems, Mrs. Browning's............ 357 Preaching, Systematic....... 329 454 ...... 257 Pyramid of Cephrenes, Ascent of the.......... 114 442 ...... 248 - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner- S. T. Coleridge................................. 155 ........... 544 To the Bramble Flower-Elliott... 301 Arise Ye, and Depart........ 232 Here and There-Luella Clark..... 390 Little Benny and Santa Claus........ 501 370, 469, 561 Our Lettice-A. B. M.............. 462 The Child and the Flowers-H. F. Goud...... 328 The Dark Hour ere Dawning-Ruth Buck................. The Dying Wife J. M...................... - The Irish Emigrant-Lady Dufferin.... The Mountain Stream---G. P. D.......... The Silent Maiden-W.R. Laurence.... 344 The Sure Witness- Alice Cary............ The Whispered Slander–J. B............. 262 Recent Publications....88, 185, 281, 376, 473, 567 Revolutionary Heroes—R. H. Stoddard....... 97, 213, 302, 391 - Patriot-2. Paddock.... ........ 263 Romance, An Old Maid's....... 206 Royal Galaxy, A............ Secrets, Stolen ......... 345 502 Small Change............85, 183, 279, 374, 471, 563 25 504 171 South, Dr., the Wit of the English Pulpit.... 362 Squinting as one of the Arts....................... 555 160 Stereoscope, The........ Streams, Great, from Little Fountains—R. Donkersley.......... . 313 | Suffe Suffering, Present, and Future Glory.......... 127 |