[Illustration: DECEMBER. VOL. IV. No. 5 THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE. New-York: STRINGER & TOWNSEND. 1851. J.W. ORR, N.Y.] Contents for December. NAUVOO AND DESERET: THE MORMONS. _Six Engravings_, 577 WINDSOR CASTLE AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. _Two Engravings_, 585 M. JULES GERARD AND THE BARON MUNCHAUSEN, IN AFRICA, 587 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, AND HIS WORKS: _Portrait_, 588 SLIDING SCALES OF DESPAIR, 592 DEATH IN YOUTH: BY H. W. PARKER, 593 A GERMAN HAND-BOOK OF AMERICA, 593 GONDOLETTAS: TWO SONGS: BY ALICE B. NEAL, 597 THE DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW AMSTERDAM: BY J. R. BRODHEAD, 597 AN AUTUMN BALLAD: BY W. A. SUTLIFFE, 598 CARLYLE'S LIFE OF JOHN STERLING, 599 SONGS OF THE CASCADE: BY A. OAKEY HALL, 602 HERMAN MELVILLE'S NEW NOVEL OF "THE WHALE," 602 A STORY WITHOUT A NAME: BY G. P. R. JAMES. _Concluded_, 604 CALCUTTA: SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, POLITICAL.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 611 REVOLUTIONS IN RUSSIA. BY ALEXANDER DUMAS.--_Sharpe's Magazine_, 616 DRINKING EXPERIENCES: A TEMPERANCE LECTURE BY "NIMROD," 621 AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SCENERY COMPARED: BY THE LATE J. F. COOPER, 625 A BULL FIGHT AT RONDA.--_United Service Magazine_, 631 VAGARIES OF THE IMAGINATION.--_Chambers's Edinburgh Journal_, 638 THE FRENCH FLOWER GIRL.--_Dickens's Household Words_, 641 THE THREE ERAS OF OTTOMAN HISTORY.--_The Antheneum_, 643 THE CAPTAIN AND THE NEGRO.--_United Service Magazine_, 646 THE VEILED PICTURE: A TRAVELLER'S STORY.--_New Monthly Magazine_, 648 THE SPENDTHRIFT'S DAUGHTER: IN SIX CHAPTERS.--_Household Words_, 664 MY NOVEL: BY SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. _Continued_, 683 AUTHORS AND BOOKS: