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PUTNAM'S MONTHLY may be obtained of Booksellers, News Agents, or of the Publishers. TERMS,-Three Dollars a-year, or Twenty-Five Cents a Number. Those remitting Three Dollars will receive the Magazine free of postage. To Clergymen, School Teachers, and Postmasters, Two Dollars a-year. Putnam's Monthly and Household Words, Five Dollars, Putnam's Monthly and the Schoolfellow, Three Dollars and Fifty Cents. All three of the Magazines, Five Dollars and Fifty Cents. DIX & EDWARDS, 321 Broadway, New York. Miller & Holman, Printers and Stereotypers, New York. No. xli. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, by Dix & EDWARDS. in the Clerk's Office of the ," "Household Words," The Post Master General has decided that the advertising sheet in "Putnam's Monthly,' or "The Schoolfellow" does not subject them to any additional postage. 1. THE KANE RELIEF EXPEDITION, PAGE 449 The Two Vessels of our Expedition, Release and Arctic-Out to Sea-The Weather-My Sea Sick- 2. ON A PICTURE OF BEATRICE IN PARADISE, 464 3. THE APPLE-TREE TABLE; OR, ORIGINAL SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS, 465 4. NATHAN HALE-THE MARTYR SPY OF THE REVOLUTION, 5. SCAMPAVIAS-PART III.-A NIGHT AT NAPLES, 476 483 The Waters of the Gulf of Spezia-Leaving Elba and Monte Christo-Bay of Naples-Moonlight Appearance of an Italian Night-A Peripatetic Artist-Punch and Judy-A Boat Load of Charlatans and Ballet-tumblers-On Shore-The Vittoria Hotel-Dowager Queen Adelaide's Handkerchief-The Polite Porter-Dinner-An Evening Drive-Count Bambozzi-The Count invites Dr. Bristles and myself to his House-"Death of the Pale Horse "-The Estab lishment of the Count-Novel Locomotion-The Fishermen of Santa Lucia-Our Supper on Mullets-Street Beggars-Back to our Vessel. 6. THE ICONOCLAST, 7. RUSKIN'S WRITINGS, 8. SCENES IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT, 489 490 501 Providence Plantations-Three Kinds of Greatness-Our Physical Greatness-" Monsieur l' Ambassadeur de Rhode Island et Providence Plantations "Our State landered-The Village Store and Village Talk-“ Aint we a Pretty Pair?"-An Honorable Court-A Notorious Scoun drel Arraigned for Stealing "Beans, Cabbage, Potatoes, and other Agricultural Products"Brought in Guilty; but Acquitted for Want of Evidence. 9. THE SPIRITS IN 1692, AND WHAT THEY DID AT SALEM, 10. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AS A FAMILY MAN, 11. A CHILD'S WISH, 12. A VISIT TO MY GRANDPARENTS, 13. KINGSLEY'S POEMS, 14. THE DEMON OF MUSIC, 15. OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND, 16. EDITORIAL NOTES, 505 511 524 525 532 539 540 546 A Perceptible Falling off of "Sensation Books"-What is likely to take their Place?-Our Young Writers-A Few Words as Hints-Appleton's Cyclopædia of Biography-Literary Criticisms, and other Papers, by the late Horace Binney Wallace-Dr. Gilman's Contributions to LiteratureAt Home and Abroad, by Margaret Fuller-Liberty and Slavery, by Professor Bledsoe-List's National System of Political Economy-Ida Pfeiffer's Second Journey-The Madeira of Mr. March-Lieut. Brewerton's Kansas-Bohn's Libraries-Smyth's Lectures on the French Revolution-Beaumont and Fletcher-Defoe's Works-Memoirs of Philip de Comines-Motley's Dutch Republic-Harper's Classical Library. The World of New York. 553 A Welcome to May-The Ancient Holiday-Rustic May-May in the City-May-day-May in the Country and on Broadway-Winter Gone-The Ball Room-Lord Melbourne-The "Ball for the Nurses"-Our Opera House-Signor Arditi-The Spy-Brignoli-Hensler-Lagrange-Mr. Paine -Maretzek-The Ravels-Our Theatres-The Lecturers-Miss Keene-Mr. Wallack-Miss Louisa Howard-Mr. Burton-The Blessed Baby-The Imperial Prince" of the French-A LayetteThe Dramatic Fund Dinner-Judge Daly-The Academy of Design. Dupl. Momen PUTNAM'S MONTHLY. 3 Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art. VOL. VII.-MAY, 1856.-NO. XLI. THE KANE RELIEF EXPEDITION. THE two vessels of our expedition, the good barque Release of Boston, and propeller Arctic of Philadelphia, having on board together forty officers and men, sailed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the 31st of May, 1855-by a coincidence, which cost some effort to bring it about, precisely two years after the sailing of the party for which they were to seek. We were detained for a few days off the Quarantine, by bad weather; so that it was not until the 3rd of June that we passed the Narrows, and got fairly out to sea. I am told that the weather, after this, was fine; but I only know that, when my sea-sickness first allowed me to walk the deck, all traces of fine weather had disappeared. The wind was fair, it is true; but we had a succession of cold fogs, broken by drizzling rains, till we got inside the Arctic circle. I remember, as we were crossing the banks of Newfoundland, in one of these dreary days, the barque nearly ran down a small fishing smack. The propeller, too, towing blindly after, for we were saving our coal, came down on the skipper just as be found breath to congratulate himself on escaping from our consort. sheered off in time to save him; but the unlucky wight was so frightened, that, not knowing what might be coming next, he seized a long tin horn, and began blowing a recheat, to which his terror lent a singular shrillness. We heard him at it for half an hour afterwards, VOL. VII.-29 We still sounding one shriek after another. I have an indistinct impression, too, that, just at this time, the prospects of an impending dissolution seemed to me a very small matter to make so much noise about, and that I regarded his notes of alarm as most dastardly. I was not only sea-sick, but wet and chilly: indeed, we suffered more from cold, I am sure, in this damp weather, than afterwards in the dry, sparkling climate of the Frigid zone. The By the time I began to get about, we were well advanced to the north. birds had begun to assume an Arctic character; the mother Carey's chickens gave place to their relations the molemokes, birds at least half a dozen times their size; strange white gulls flew screaming around us, which the men said were kittiwakes; and we passed numbers of large black and pearl-colored divers, which our progress did not seem to disturb from their repast on the floating sea-weed. The thermometer began to show quite a respectable degree of cold; but, as yet, we had seen no ice, which, by the way, gave no very encouraging prospect of an open season ahead. The first ice we saw, was on a Sunday in June. It was a mere aggrega tion of loose floating fragments, and it amuses me to remember, how carefully we steered out of the way of every piece of it that was larger than a washing-tub. We learnt better afterwards. |