PUTNAM'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF American Literature, Science, and Art. VOL. II. JULY TO DECEMBER, 1853. NEW-YORK: G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE. M.DCCC.LIII. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by G. P. PUTNAM & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. JOHN F. TROW, 49 Ann Street. Crucifix, The,.. 481 Curiosities of Puritan History: Witchcraft,.... 249 Crystal Palace,. 181 Clouds and Sunshine-Fern Leaves-Life of Cole-Shilla- 220 Poetry of the Vegetable World-Dr. Waddell's Review of . 446 Hours of Life, and other Poems, by Mrs. Whitman- Willis's Fun Jottings-Headley's Second War with Eng- land-Wayland's Memoirs of Judson-The Mud Cabin- Lieber's Civil Liberty-Simms' Egeria-Beecher's Con- Rantoul's Writings-Banvard's Webster-Life of William Pinkney-Eliot's Early Christians-O'Callagan's Docu- mentary History of New-York-Hosmer's Poems, Holi- day Books-Judge Edmonds on Spiritualism-Tract on Government-The Lost Prince-Field's City Architecture -Dr. Hawks' Peruvian Antiquities-Spooner's Anec- dotes of Painters-Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities -Schele de Vere's Comparative Philology-The Bow in Lord John Russell's Memoirs of C. J. Fox-W. Tyrone Power's Three Years in China-Diary of M. B. Baliol Frank Merryweather-Singer's New Edition of Shaks- peare Ruskin's Stones of Venice, vol. ii.-Chorley's Music in Germany-11th vol, of Grote's Greece.. The Greville Correspondence-The Thistle and Cedar of Lebanon-London Illustrated Magazine-Frontier Lands Miss Bremer's Homes of the New World. Comte's Positive Philosophy, by Lewes-Hoffman's Chron icles of Cartaphilus-Gray and Mason's Correspondence 107 Krasinski's Slaves-Villaumery's Batailles-Mahon's Guil |