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Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848
Various
A vivid mosaic of nineteenth-century American imagination, this issue blends Venetian romance, high-seas action, quiet domestic tragedy, and sharp literary criticism into a single, vibrant monthly canvas.
Little Miss Grasshopper
Johanna Spyri
Impulsive small steps lead a child over a cliff, where only quiet obedience keeps her alive until rescue comes.
Picked up Adrift: Illustrated
James De Mille
A group of schoolboys adrift in the Gulf of St. Lawrence must survive the sea and their own guardian's wild schemes.
The Adventures of Captain Horn
Frank R. Stockton
A castaway captain unearths an ancient fortune off the Peruvian coast, sparking a global chain of events filled with maritime peril, pirate ambushes, and sudden wealth.
The Alaskan
James Oliver Curwood
In the wilderness of the Far North, a runaway heiress and an idealist fighting for his homeland are drawn into a high-stakes clash against a corporate syndicate.
The Bobbsey Twins at School
Laura Lee Hope
A autumn return to Lakeport turns chaotic when a train derailment strands four siblings, separates them from their prized possessions, and triggers a season of small-town schoolyard mysteries.
The First Mate: The Story of a Strange Cruise
Harry Collingwood
A young English sailor proves his worth aboard a wealthy American's private yacht, taking command through storm, pirate attack, shipwreck, and marooning on a hostile island.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
On a sea swept by gale and fog, where treacherous shoals wait to swallow ships, the men who tend the light-vessels fight a quiet, daily battle to steer souls safely home.
The League of the Leopard
Harold Bindloss
Two men venture into the deadly West African bush for gold, bound by a pact that tests their honor against disease, betrayal, and the shadows of a predatory secret society.
The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House
Laura Lee Hope
Four energetic young women navigate wartime volunteer work, romantic separations, and a small-town mystery while bringing comfort to soldiers preparing for battle.
The Overall Boys in Switzerland
Eulalie Osgood Grover
Two adventurous American brothers journey through early twentieth-century Switzerland, turning geographical discovery into a series of everyday childhood celebrations.
The Story of Red Feather: A Tale of the American Frontier
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A brother and sister trapped in a log cabin by a Dakota raiding party rely on an unexpected act of mercy from a Sioux leader to survive the night.
The War of the Axe
J. Percy (John Percy) Groves
A young English emigrant steps off a merchant ship in Cape Colony, only to be swept into wild frontier hunts, mountain accidents, and the bloody chaos of the Sixth Xhosa War.
To The West
George Manville Fenn
A pair of abused London clerks abandon their desks for the Canadian wilderness, only to discover that the hardest part of finding gold is deciding what it is truly worth.
A Dash from Diamond City
George Manville Fenn
A diamond-mine clerk rides across a war-torn veldt carrying hidden military dispatches, pursued by Boer commandos and a treacherous thief.
Amy in Acadia: A Story for Girls
Helen Leah Reed
A girl’s firm rejection of an unwanted companion sets in motion a summer of maritime travel, historical discovery, and quiet personal growth across Nova Scotia.
Behind the Line: A Story of College Life and Football
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four high school stars move to Erskine College with big athletic dreams, but injuries, rivalries, and choices of character tested on and off the field soon force each to learn what true sportsmanship demands.
Ben, the Luggage Boy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Driven by a hasty impulse, a boy abandons a comfortable home for the streets of New York, only to find that surviving alone demands far more grit, enterprise, and moral stamina than he ever anticipated.
Bengal Dacoits and Tigers
Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee
Night falls swiftly over rural Bengal, bringing with it the rhythmic chant of palanquin bearers, the sudden glare of torches, and the heavy, terrifying breath of a tiger waiting outside a shuttered window.
Four Afloat: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four young companions take to the eastern seaboard aboard a gasoline launch, meeting unexpected perils, lost craft, and runaway boys.
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
Julius M. (Julius Mendes) Price
A journey across the frozen expanse of Siberia, through the silent desolation of the Gobi Desert, and into the heart of Imperial China reveals an unyielding, vanished world.
In the Brooding Wild
Ridgwell Cullum
A lone cabin in the mountain snows becomes a pressure cooker when a trader’s yarn of a mysterious woman fractures the bond between two devoted brothers.
Mavericks
William MacLeod Raine
A high-plains range war over stolen cattle turns intimate and deadly when an undercover ranger falls for the rancher's fierce sister.
More Tish
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A middle-aged spinster with an appetite for misadventure takes her reluctant companions on offbeat escapades, proving that determination and complete disregard for precedent can outmatch any crisis.
Pee-wee Harris Adrift
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A small boy loses his scout patrol, claims a drifting patch of earth, and turns an accidental river voyage into a community event.
Reube Dare's Shad Boat: A Tale of the Tide Country
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A young man buys a shad boat to pay for his blind mother's medical care, but local rivalries, mud flats, and dangerous tides turn his summer's work into a fight for survival.
Snarleyyow
Frederick Marryat
A tyrannical naval commander, a resilient cabin boy, and a surprisingly indestructible dog clash in an eighteen-century tale of maritime intrigue, smuggling, and vengeance.
The American Baron: A Novel
James De Mille
A helpless English heiress ricochets through Italy, unwittingly collecting devoted fiances at every turn, while her exhausted traveling companions fight off duels, brigands, and sheer exasperation.
The American family Robinson
D. W. (David W.) Belisle
Driven into the western wilderness by discontent, an American family faces captivity, desert hazards, and mysterious ancient ruins as they fight to survive.
The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen's Isle
Hildegard G. Frey
A scorched June heatwave sends a band of lively friends escaping to a northern island for a summer of wilderness camping, high-spirited practical jokes, unexpected rescues, and subtle personal growth.
The Circassian Chief: A Romance of Russia
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young noble raised in the heart of the Russian empire discovers that his true blood belongs to the wild, unconquered peaks of the Caucasus, where he must choose between imperial power and his people’s freedom.
The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
Frederick P. Gibbon
A young British ensign fights through the horrors of the 1857 Indian Mutiny while a deceitful rival attempts to steal his military honors.
The Flying Legion
George Allan England
A band of war-weary veterans steals an advanced experimental airship to conquer the world’s last unexplored fastness, only to find that total freedom demands a far heavier price than any war they ever fought.
The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes
Clifford Smyth
A hidden kingdom, an ancient treasure, and a psychological mystery collide beneath the high peaks of the South American Andes.
The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific
Harry Collingwood
A sunken ship off the English coast sets off a long chain of rescues, fires, pirate captivities, and subterranean perils across the Pacific.
The Portal of Dreams
Charles Neville Buck
A man flees life only to be pursued by a face that haunts him across oceans, through island reefs, and into a bloody mountain feud.
The Quest of the Golden Pearl
J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
A pair of British teenagers on a Ceylon pearl-schooner suspect a native shark-charmer of theft and launch a hot-headed chase across dangerous waters, discovering along the way that courage counts for little without humility.
The Repairman
Harry Harrison
Fixing an interstellar beacon requires an engineer who can out-talk a boss, out-think a priesthood, and walk away with his skin intact.
The silent places
Stewart Edward White
A lone traitor vanishes into the frozen wilderness, pursued by two fur-trade trackers who will follow his trail to the edge of death.
The Travels and Adventures of James Massey
Simon Tyssot de Patot
A castaway, a hidden empire, and a rational mind adrift in an irrational world combine to turn a high-seas adventure into a trenchant critique of European religion and power.
The Winds of Chance
Rex Beach
An inexperienced young traveler gets swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, discovering that surviving the trail and its characters requires more than raw optimism.
Thirty Years on the Frontier
Robert McReynolds
A wide-eyed Kentucky boy goes west for gold, stays to chase wild mustangs and outlaws, and ends up reflecting on a vanishing wilderness.
With Sully into the Sioux Land
Joseph Mills Hanson
Driven from his Minnesota homestead by the Dakota outbreak of 1862, a teenage boy joins General Sully’s western campaign to search the Northern Plains for his stolen younger brother.
Wyoming
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A frantic young soldier rides into a burning valley to save his family, only to find himself trapped in a deadly game of wilderness hide-and-seek.
Boy Scouts in Southern Waters
G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Out on the open waters of the Gulf, a crew of quick-thinking youths faces fog, treacherous rivals, and sunken fortunes with only their Scout training to steer them true.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, September, 1880
Various
Wandering through nineteenth-century wildernesses, European high society, and urban tenements, a broad cultural tapestry captures the restless ambition and quiet transformations of a changing era.
The boys' book of buccaneers
A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill
A framed history of Caribbean sea-robbers unveils the grim realities behind famous piratical legends, contrasting popular romantic myths with historical record.
The Erie Train Boy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
A plucky seventeen-year-old takes to the rail cars to support his family, only to find that doing the right thing draws both desperate scoundrels and extraordinary luck.