GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XX. March, 1842 No. 3. Contents Fiction, Literature and Articles The Crowning of Powhatan German Writers, Heinrich Heine The Two Dukes May Evelyn The Doom of the Traitress The First Step Dreams of the Land and Sea The Lady and the Page Imagination Harry Cavendish continued Review of New Books Poetry, Music and Fashion To One Departed The Young Widow The Freshet Marches for the Dead To Isa in Heaven An Epistle to Fanny The Stranger’s Funeral Agathè.—A Necromaunt Western hospitality Fancies About a Rosebud A Lady Heard a Minstrel Sing Spring Fashions Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * [Illustration: J. G. Chapman, R. Hinshelwood. _The Crowning of Powhatan._ _Engraved for Graham’s Magazine from an Original Picture_] GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XX. PHILADELPHIA: MARCH, 1842. No. 3. * * * * * THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN. The settlement at Jamestown was begun in 1606. Among the earliest of the adventurers was the chivalrous Captain Smith, whose life was a romance even in those romantic days. He soon came to be the leader of the colonists, and it was through his exertions that the settlement was kept up, amid privations and dangers almost incredible. The story of his capture by the Indians, and his preservation from death by Pocahontas, has become a national tradition, and poets have sung, orators declaimed, and novelists penned volumes to record the bravery of the Captain, and the love of the Indian maid. But, perhaps, nowhere is the story told with such effect as in the “Generall Historie” of the gallant Smith himself, a work published in 1624, and still to be met with in the libraries of the curious. The book is a rarity. It is adorned with maps,—not the most correct, to be sure—and with engravings setting forth the various perilous situations of the author, over which a book-worm would gloat for a month. The narrative is written in a plain, frank, unassuming style, and the author is always spoken of in the third person. To this book we are indebted for an account of the crowning of Powhatan, and our only regret is that our limits will not suffer us to give the quaint language of Smith.