Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VII [7], June to November, 1853

viii, 864 pp. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VII, June to November, 1853. Contents include: Ancient Peru--Its People and Monuments; Arlington House; Ballet Dancer; Bleak House, by Charles Dickens; Charity and Humor--A Lecture, by W.M. Thackeray; Edinburgh Review on the Influence of Novels; Fashions for June to November; Funeral Rites in Ceylon; Ghosts and Sorceresses of India; Growth of Cities in the United States; History and Incidents of the Plague in New Orleans; How Steel Pens are Made; Ibis Shooting in Louisiana; Monthly Record of Current Events; Napoleon Bonaparte, by John S. C. Abbott; Niagara; Prisons and Prisoners of France; Ride with Kit Carson, by George D. Brewerton; Scenes in the Life of Louis XIV, by John S. C. Abbott; Shells; Sketches of the Upper Mississippi; Sugar and the Sugar Region of Louisiana, by T. B. Thorpe; Teetotaler's Story; and more.