GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XL. June, 1852. No. 6. Contents Fiction, Literature and Articles New York Printing Machine, Press, and Saw Works Edith Morton Ferdinand De Candolles The Ghost-Raiser Tom Moore—The Poet of Erin A Life of Vicissitudes (continued) Two Ways to Manage The Master’s Mate’s Yarn (concluded) The First Age (concluded) Titus Quinctius Flamininus Nelly Nowlan’s Experience Review of New Books Literary Gossip Graham’s Small-Talk Poetry and Music A Farewell Lines, Suggested by Rogers’ Statue of Ruth What Dost Thou Work For? April I Woo Thee, Spring Song The Phantom Field Shakspeare The Actual The Pledge To A Beautiful Girl The Orphan’s Hymn Religion Our Minnie’s Dream Sonnet—Pleasure To Adhemar Hour of Fond Delight Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * [Illustration: J. Hayter, W. H. Mote ISADORE. Graham’s Magazine, 1852.] * * * * * [Illustration: THE BROOME STREET MANUFACTORIES.] GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XL. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE, 1852. No. 6. * * * * * NEW YORK PRINTING MACHINE, PRESS, AND SAW WORKS. R. HOE & CO. [Illustration: GOLD STREET WAREHOUSES.] Had it been possible for any human intellect, at the close of the eighteenth century, or the commencement of this its nineteenth successor, so to grasp and comprehend the development of science, its expansion and diffusion, and, above all, its application to the every-day wants and conveniences of ordinary human life, as to predict, only fifty years beforehand, any one of the almost incredible marvels which have long ceased to move especial wonder, as being now established facts, witnessed by all eyes, and of occurrence at all hours, the owner of that intellect would not have been merely laughed at as a crazy, crack-brained enthusiast, but would have run a very reasonable chance of being consigned to the cell of a madhouse, as an incorrigible and incurable monomaniac. The writer of these lines, lacking several years yet of the completion of his tenth lustre, clearly remembers how, within thirty years at furthest, to assert an opinion of the feasibility of lighting streets by gas was to be sneered at for a visionary, or regarded with suspicion as a probable speculator in the _fancy_, even by the best informed, and most enlightened classes.