Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in June 1850, it is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U. S. Harper's Magazine was launched as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in June 1850, by the New York City publisher Harper & Brothers; who also founded Harper's Bazaar magazine, later growing to become HarperCollins Publishing. The first press run, of 7, 500 copies, sold out almost immediately; circulation was some 50, 000 issues six months later. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 contents: Memories of Miss Jane Porter, Shooting Stars and Meteoric Showers, A Five Days’ Tour in The Odenwald, The Mysterious Preacher, Assyrian Sects, The Approach of Christmas, Ugliness Redeemed—a Tale of a London Dust-heap, The Old Squire, The Young Squire, Presence of Mind—a Fragment, Fearful Tragedy—a Man-Eating Lion, The Haunted House in Charnwood Forest, Ledru Rollin—Biographical Sketch, A Chip from a Sailor’s Log, The Two Thompsons, Habits of the African Lion, The Old Church-Yard Tree, The English Peasant, Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune, An Aerial Voyage, Andrew Carson’s Money; A Story of Gold, Neander, The Disasters of a Man Who Wouldn’t Trust His Wife, Little Mary, —a Tale of the Irish Famine, The Old Well in Languedoc, Summer Pastime, The Chemistry of a Candle, The Mysterious Compact, Wordsworth’s Posthumous Poem, The Literary Profession—Authors and Publishers, The Brothers Cheeryble, Writing for Periodicals, Anecdote of Lord Clive, The Imprisoned Lady, Literary and Scientific Miscellany, Monthly Record of Current Events, Literary Notices, Fashions for Early Autumn.