[Illustration: =THE WILLING CAPTIVE.= Engraved by W. E. Tucker] GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XLI.. July, 1852. No. 1. Table of Contents I’d Offer Thee This Heart Summer New York Printing Machine, Press, and Saw Works Osceola’s Address to His Warriors The Miseries of Music Not Dead The Game of the Month Sonnet The Pedant To Adhemar My First Sunday in Mexico Endymion The Vintage Light of Nature The Mother’s Prophecy “Settling to a Jemima.” Snow Flakes A Life of Vicissitudes My Forefathers Cleopatra Reminiscence To the Picture of My Child Paqueta Recollections The Boy Afar Unto His Sister Blind Rosa I Dream of All Things Beautiful Anecdotes of Ostriches Impressions of England The Exile Review of New Books Literary Gossip Graham’s Small-Talk Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. GRAHAM’S AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE Of Literature and Art. EMBELLISHED WITH MEZZOTINT AND STEEL ENGRAVINGS, MUSIC, ETC. WILLIAM C. BRYANT, RICHARD H. DANA, JAMES K. PAULDING, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, N. P. WILLIS, J. R. LOWELL, HENRY W. HERBERT, GEO. D. PRENTICE. MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY, MISS C. M. SEDGWICK, MRS. EMMA C. EMBURY, MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS, MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY, MRS. A. M. F. ANNAN, ETC. PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS. GEORGE R. GRAHAM, EDITOR. VOLUME XLI. PHILADELPHIA: GEORGE R. GRAHAM, 134 CHESTNUT STREET. 1852. CONTENTS OF THE FORTY-FIRST VOLUME. JUNE, 1852, TO JANUARY, 1853.