GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXIV. May, 1849. No. 5. Table of Contents Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson Jones Lines to an Idea that Wouldn’t “Come.” A Summer Evening Thought The Naval Officer The Rustic Shrine Luna.—An Ode. From Buchannan The Recluse. No. II. A Voice from the Wayside A Sonnet Passages of Life in Europe The Grass of the Field To an Absent Sister Taste The Man of Mind and the Man of Money A May Song Fifty Suggestions History of the Costume of Men Wild-Birds of America Ariel in the Cloven Pine Reminiscences Parting Montgomery’s House Editor’s Table Review of New Books Virtue’s Evergreen Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * [Illustration: Anaïs Toudouze LE FOLLET Boulevart S^{t}. Martin, 61. _Robes de M^{me}._ Bara Bréjard, _r. Lafitte, 5—_ _Coiffures de_ Hamelin, _pass. du Saumon, 21_. _Fleurs de_ Chagot ainé, _r. Richelieu, 81—Dentelles de_ Violard, _r. Choiseul, 2^{bis}_. Graham’s Magazine] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. * * * * * VOL. XXXIV. PHILADELPHIA, May, 1849. NO. 5. * * * * * MR. AND MRS. JOHN JOHNSON JONES. A TALE OF EVERYDAY LIFE. BY ANGELE DE V. HULL. “These are the spiders of society.” Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson Jones were commonplace people, but like him who cried because there were no more worlds to conquer, they were ambitious. There was one sphere within whose sacred precincts they could not enter, and they wanted—to be fashionable. They looked around—they beheld others, who, like themselves, had once been excluded from the “land of promise,” and with a mighty resolution, determined to die or conquer—to overthrow the _chevaux-de-frise_ surrounding Japonicadom, with “the impudence of wealth;” and at length—at length the charmed gates at which Mrs. Jones had sat in an agony of despair, burst open to her delighted gaze, and she rose in public estimation high as the frothy pyramids with which she ornamented her expensive suppers and baited her guests.