THE

INTERNATIONAL

MONTHLY

MAGAZINE

Of Literature, Science, and Art.

VOLUME V.

JANUARY TO APRIL, 1852.

NEW-YORK:

STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 BROADWAY.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

The April number of the International Monthly Magazine completes thefifth volume, and the series. The Publishers respectfully announce toits readers and the public, that from the issue of the present Volume,the Magazine will be blended with Harpers' Monthly Magazine, and,therefore, suspended as a distinct publication.

To the numerous subscribers to The International Magazine, thePublishers beg to say, that each one will be served with Harpers'Magazine to the end of his term; or, if preferred, furnished with anyother Magazine to the amount of his unexpired subscription.

The Publishers cannot take leave of the friends of the work, withoutexpressing in terms of thankfulness their sense of the extensive andcordial support it has received during the period of its publication.They are happy to know that its good qualities will be perpetuated inthe prosperous, admirable, and widely circulated periodical with whichit will hereafter be united.

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CONTENTS

VOLUME V. JANUARY TO APRIL, 1852.