Philadelphia:
CAREY & LEA.
SOLD IN PHILADELPHIA BY E. L. CAREY & A. HART.
NEW-YORK, BY G. & C. & H. CARVILL.
LONDON:—R. J. KENNETT, 59 GREAT QUEEN STREET.
PARIS:—A. & W. GALIGNANI, RUE VIVIENNE.
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Art. I.—France in 1829-30. By Lady Morgan.
Art. II.—Physiologie des Passions.
Art. III.—Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia.
Art. IV.—Précis de la Geographie Universelle.
Art. V.—Auto-biography Of Thieves.
Art. VI.—Tobacco.
Art. VII.—Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus.
Art. VIII.—The History of Louisiana, from the earliest period.
Art. IX.—A Full and Accurate Method of Curing Dyspepsia.
Art. X.—Bank Of The United States.
It was that solemn hour of the night, when, in the words of the poet,"creation sleeps;"—a silence as of the dead reigned amid the streetsand alleys of the great city of Dublin, interrupted, ever and anon, onlyby the solitary voice of the watchman, announcing the time, and theprospects of fair or foul weather for the ensuing day. Even the noise ofcarriages returning from revels and festive scenes of various kinds, wasno longer heard—
All! save the inhabitants of one mansion, situated in Kildare street,who were still invading nature's rest. Why were they alone up andstirring? Why were they debarred from taking their needful repose, andobliged to employ the time which should have been devoted to it, inactive occupation? The reason is easily understood. Early in themorning, the master and mistress were to set off on a trip to Paris, andthere was no small quantity of "packing up" yet to be done. Trunksinnumerable lay scattered about a romantically furnished bed-chamber;some were partly filled with different articles of female habiliment;others seemed to be appropriated to literary purposes, and bo