LONDON: SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,

COVENT GARDEN,

SKETCHES ON THE NORTH COAST. BY A NATURALIST.

FRASER'S MAGAZINE FOR JUNE, 1856,

CONTAINS,

A WHIT-WEEK IN MANCHESTER. EDITED BY A MANCHESTER MAN.

RUSKIN ON THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN POETS. - HOMER AND

TENNYSON.

PEACE.

THE ORGAN QUESTION.

KATE COVENTRY. AN AUTOBIOGRAPIY, EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'DIGBY

GRAND CHAPTERS XXI. To XXIV.

PRE-RAPHAELITISM FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW.

NIGHT SCENE AT PISA.

KARS, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE.

DECLINE OF FRENCH ROMANTIC LITERATURE.

THE ART OF STORY-TELLING.

SUNSET.

ARAGO'S POPULAR ASTRONOMY.

POLITICAL RUMINATIONS.

M. MONTALEMBERT, JOHN WILSON CROKER, AND JOHN MURRAY.

INDEX.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Editor of FRASER’S MAGAZINE does not undertake to return papers
that are sent to him for consideration.

DWARFS AND GIANTS. An Essay, IN TWO PARTS. PART I._DESCRIPTIVE 140

SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON

.... 154

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AN EPISTLE

169

THE DOUBLE HOUSE. BY THE AUTHOR OP 'John HALIFAX, GENTLE-

MAN'

170

THE OPERA SEASON OF 1856

186

LIFE AT THE WATER CURE

197

CURIOSITIES OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE FROM THE TWO

SICILIES. BY VICESIMUS SMATTERLING, B...............

.... 208

LIFE AND MANNERS IN PERSIA......

220