MISS FENIMORE COOPER, MISS ALICE CAREY, MRS. E. OAKES SMITH, MRS. M. E. HEWITT, MRS. ALICE B. NEAL, BISHOP SPENCER, HENRY AUSTIN LAYARD, PARKE GODWIN, JOHN R. THOMPSON, W. C. RICHARDS, W. GILMORE SIMMS, BAYARD TAYLOR, ROBERT HENRY STODDARD, ALFRED B. STREET, THOMAS EWBANK, E. W. ELLSWORTH, G. P. R. JAMES, DR. JOHN W. FRANCIS, MAUNSELL B. FIELD, DR. STARBUCK MAYO, JOHN E. WARREN, A. OAKEY HALL, HORACE GREELEY, RICHARD B. KIMBALL, THE AUTHOR OF "NILE NOTES," THE AUTHOR OF "HARRY FRANCO." REV. J. C. RICHMOND, REV. H. W. PARKER, JAMES T. FIELDS, R. S. CHILTON. The foreign writers, from whom we have selected, need not be enumerated; they embrace the principal living masters of literary art; and we shall continue to avail ourselves of their new productions as largely as justice to them and the advantage and pleasure of our readers may seem to justify. NEW-YORK, December 1, 1851. CONTENTS: VOLUME IV. AUGUST TO DECEMBER, 1851. Alred.--_By Elmina W. Carey_, 27 Alexander, Last days of the Emperor.--_A. Dumas_, 233 America, as Abused by a German, 448 American Intercommunication, 461 American Literature, Studies of.--_Philarete Chasles_, 163 American and European Scenery Compared.--_By the late J. F. Cooper_, 625 Anacreon. Twentieth Ode of.--_By Mary E. Hewitt_, 20 Animal Magnetism. Christopher North on, 27 Ariadne.--_By William C. Bennett_, 315 Autumn Ballad, An.--_By W. A. Sutliffe_, 598 August Reverie.--_By A. Oakey Hall_, 477 Art Expression. 401 Arts among the Aztecs and Indians.--_By Thomas Ewbank._ (Ten Engravings.) 307