_Seventh._ An Editor's Easy Chair or Drawer, which will be devoted to literary and general gossip, memoranda of the topics talked about in social circles, graphic sketches of the most interesting minor matters of the day, anecdotes of literary men, sentences of interest from papers not worth reprinting at length, and generally an agreeable and entertaining collection of literary miscellany. The object of the Publishers is to combine the greatest possible VARIETY and INTEREST, with the greatest possible UTILITY. Special care will always be exercised in admitting nothing into the Magazine in the slightest degree offensive to the most sensitive delicacy; and there will be a steady aim to exert a healthy moral and intellectual influence, by the most attractive means. For the very liberal patronage the Magazine has already received, and especially for the universally flattering commendations of the Press, the Publishers desire to express their cordial thanks, and to renew their assurances, that no effort shall be spared to render the work still more acceptable and useful, and still more worthy of the encouragement it has received. CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. Adventure with a Grizzly Bear 101 Ally Somers 610 American Notabilities 834 Anecdotes of Curran 108 Anecdotes of Paganini 39 Application of Electro-Magnetism to Railway Transit 786 Autobiography of a Sensitive Spirit 479 Bear-Steak 484 Blind Lovers of Chamouny 68 Bookworms 628 Bored Wells in Mississippi 539 Breton Wedding 87 Brush with a Bison 218 Captain's Self-Devotion 689 Chapter on Giraffes 202 Coffee-Planting in Ceylon 82 Conversation in a Stage Coach 105 Cricket 718 Convict's Tale 209 Daughter of Blood 74 Deserted House 241 Eagle and Swan 691 Eclipse in July, 1851 239 EDITOR'S DRAWER.