The Rustic Shrine. By GEO. W. DEWEY, 296 The Grass of the Field. By CAROLINE MAY, 309 To an Absent Sister. By MARY G. HORSFORD, 309 Thoughts. By MARIE ROSEAU, 346 Turn Not Away. By HENRY MORFORD, 353 The Sleep of the Dead. By S. G. HAGERT, 361 The New Search After Happiness. By E. FOXTON, 371 Visitants from Spirit-Land. By E. CURTISS HINE, U. S. N. 70 Vincente Filicaja’s Sonnet to Italy. By FAYETTE ROBINSON, 384 What is Beautiful? By AUGUSTA, 7 MUSIC. Softly O’er My Memory Stealing. Words by S. D. Patterson. Music by John A. Janke, Jr. The Bells of Ostend. Words by W. L. Bowles. Music by J. Hilton Jones. Oh, Have I Not Been True to Thee? Written and adapted to a beautiful melody by John H. Hewitt. Adieu, My Native Land. Words by D. W. Belisle. Arranged for the piano by James Piper. Virtue’s Evergreen. Words by Theodore A. Gould. Music by Theodore Von La Hache. I Can’t Make Up My Mind. Words from Hood’s Magazine. Arranged for the piano by C. Grobe. ENGRAVINGS. Day on the Mountains, engraved by W. E. Tucker. The Belle of the Opera, engraved by W. E. Tucker. The Wounded Guerilla, engraved by Rice. Oglethorp University, engraved by Rawdon & Co. A Valentine, engraved by W. E. Tucker. Home Treasures, engraved by Addison. The Mirror of Life, engraved by Wilmer. Portrait of Mrs. Davidson, by Rawdon & Co. Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem, by W. E. Tucker. Why Don’t He Come, engraved by Addison. The Bridal Night, engraved by Addison. View of the Plantation of Gen. Taylor. The Gipsy Queen, engraved by Thomas B. Welsh. The Church of St. Isaac’s, engraved by A. L. Dick. The Miniature, engraved by an American Artist. Paris Fashions, from Le Follet. May Morning, engraved by T. B. Welsh. View of Tortosa, engraved by J. Dill. Paris Fashions, from Le Follet. The Star of the Night, engraved by Addison. The Cottage Door, engraved by Humphreys. Col. Washington at the Cowpens. Paris Fashions, from Le Follet. * * * * * [Illustration: OGLETHORP UNIVERSITY, Engraved by Rawdon & Co.] [Illustration: THE BELLE OF THE OPERA, Engraved by W. E. Tucker.] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. * * * * * VOL. XXXIV. PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, 1849. No. 1. * * * * * THE BELLE OF THE OPERA. AN ESSAY UPON WOMAN’S ACCOMPLISHMENT, HER CHARACTER AND HER MISSION.