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An Incident at Rome
The narrator, traveling in Italy, meets an English lady, who recounts the story of Mrs. Bathurst and her son Murray, a young antiquarian who goes mad while conducting research in Rome. He is eventually reunited with his mother and restored to sanity.…
Tags: 1845, antiquarian, antiquities, beggars, Cicero, Frascati, Graham's Magazine, India, Italy, madness, marriage, merchants, Mothers, pride, Roman Catholic, Rome, sons, Southey, sympathy, Tusculum, Wordsworth
Susy's Cow
A widowed mother must sell her daughter's beloved cow in order to pay for medical care. The cow demonstrates devotion to its calf and the daughter.
Varieties of Social Life in New York
The narrator, a self-described "old married man," compares and contrasts the entertainment offered in a single evening by a range of New Yorkers of different classes and ages.
Tags: "Lovely Young Jessie", 1846, Antonio Canova, China, class, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, domestic arts, education, fashion, hospsitality, hostess, India, Joseph Fourier, Lord Chesterfield, manners, missionaries, New York City, Ole Bull, Paris, Quakers, Robert Burns, Robert Chambers, sculpture, Scylla and Charybdis, Society of Friends, soirees, The Gem of the Season, transcendentalism, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Wall Street, West Indies