BV 10: The Harbinger 1846-1847

1846 - Apr.-Sept. - Oct.-Dec. - 1847 - Jan.-Mar. - Apr.-June

This magazine of the Transcendentalist Movement in New England carried articles of the leading intellectuals of the day. The Index pages contain the names of all the contributors. Though many pages of the volume are misbound, the highlights are in order of issues bound, not always chronological.

1846 

Apr. 25

  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter IX (continued)
  • Consuelo by George Sand, chapter XII
  • Review of "What Constitutes the State?" lecture by Henry James

May 9

  • Consuelo by George Sand, chapter IV
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XI
  • Poetry by Thomas Hood
  • "New Social System"

May 16

  • Consuelo by George Sand, chapter V
  • Review of Thomas Hood's poems
  • Review of The Philharmonic Society's "Beethoven's Choral Symphony"
  • Review of Beethoven's "Adelaide"
  • Poetry by Thomas Hood
  • "Unity in Catholicity in the Church"

May 23

  • Consuelo by George Sand, chapter VI
  • "Machinery and Pauperism"
  • "The Social and Religious Movements"

June 6

  • Consuelo by George Sand, chapter VIII
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XII (with diagrams)
  • Constitution of "The American Union of Associationists" - Horace Greeley, President

July 4

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter I
  • "The Political State of the World"
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XIV
  • Review of "Father Heinrich" in Boston

Aug. 1

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter VI
  • Poem, "The Lost Lender" by Robert Browning
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XVI
  • Poem, "The Ice Ravine" by William Ellery Channing

Aug. 8

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter VII
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, complement of the first part

Aug. 15

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter VIII
  • "An Unpublished Fragment of Fourier"
  • "Statement of the American Union of Associationists with reference to recent attacks"

Aug. 22

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter IX
  • "The Condition of the Working Classes"
  • Poem, "Sonnet. Buonaparte." by Alfred Tennyson

Aug. 29

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter X
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XVII

Sept. 5

  • "The Catholics and Associationists"
  • "The Condition of the Working Classes" (continued)
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XI

Sept. 12

  • "Social Evils and Their Remedies" from the New-York Tribune
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XII
  • Review of Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words" No. I

Sept. 19

  • "Education and Association"
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XIII
  • Review of Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words" No. II

Sept. 26

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XIV
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XIX
  • Review of Papers on Literature and Art by S. Margaret Fuller
  • "Influence of Association on Women"

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Oct. 3 

  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XX
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XVI

Oct. 10

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XVIII
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XX concluded
  • Review of an address by Charles Sumner

Oct. 17

  • "Significance of the Alphabet" by C. Kraitsir, M.D.
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, no chapter number
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, Section III Notice V Conclusions

Oct. 24

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, no chapter number
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XXI
  • "Guarantyism"

Oct. 31

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, no chapter number
  • The New Industrial World by Charles Fourier, chapter XXII
  • Poem, "On Another's Sorrow" by William Blake
  • "Forms of Guarantyism"

Nov. 7

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXI
  • "Society-An Aspiration-or the Actual and the Possible" (cont.) with diagrams of Sensation, Intellect and Affection

Nov. 14

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXIII
  • "Our Social State, and it's Evils" from the Chicago Western Citizen
  • Review of Camillo Sivori, musician and pupil of Paganini

Nov. 21

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXIV
  • Poem, "The Reformer" by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Review of History of the Thirty Years' War by Frederick Schiller

Nov. 28

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXVI
  • Poem, "Sonnets" by William Ellery Channing
  • "The Conservative Principles of Order in Society"

Dec. 5

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXVIII
  • “The Church of Humanity”

Dec. 12 * missing pages 1-2 *

  • Review of The Auto-Biography of Goethe, edited by Parker Godwin
  • Review of Mendelssohn and His Works
  • "Anti-Slavery at Washington"

Dec. 19

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXX
  • "Religion and Journalism" from the New-York Tribune
  • Poem, "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • "John Jacob Astor and his Benevolent Project"

Dec. 26

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXXI
  • Review of Lucretia, or Children of Night by Sir. E. Bulwer Lytton (who first used the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" to begin his book, Paul Clifford)
  • "President Polk on National Prosperity"

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1847 

Jan. 2

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXXII
  • Poem, "The Crowded Street" by William Cullen Bryant
  • "Gloria In Excelsis"

Jan. 9

  • Poem, "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race" by William Cullen Bryant
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXXIV
  • Review of the Boston Academy of Music and the Boston Philharmonic Society's concerts
  • Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jan. 16

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXXV
  • "Education of the Poor"
  • Review of poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ellery Channing, and William W. Story
  • Poem, "Si Descendero in Infernum, Ades" by James Russell Lowell

Jan. 23

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXXVII
  • Review on poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ellery Channing, and William W. Story (concluded)

Jan. 30

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XXXIX
  • Review of Jacques by George Sand

Feb. 6

  • Poem, "A Hymn of the Day that is Dawning" by William D. Gallagher
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XL
  • "Life and Manners in Congress" from the National Era
  • Poem, "A Dream of Summer" by J. G. Whittier
  • Review of "Music in Germany"

Feb. 13

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, chapter XLI

Feb. 20

  • Poem, "Poesy" by George Wither (note - "Written while Imprisoned in the Tower")
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, Epilogue

Feb. 27

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, A Letter from Philon, to Ignatius Joseph Martinowiez, Professor of Physics at the University of Lemburg
  • Bad Review of George Sand from the London Spectator
  • Poem, "The Artists" from Schiller's Ode
  • "Woman in an Isolated Household"

Mar. 6

  • "The Doctrine of Redemption and the Return to the Christianity of Jesus Christ"
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, no chapter number
  • "Cannibalism"
  • Review of The Supernaturalism of New England by J. G. Whittier

Mar. 13

  • "Of Property, and the Various Legitimate Modes of Acquiring It"
  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, no chapter number
  • "Cannibalism" (continued)

Mar. 20

  • The Countess of Rudolstadt (sequel to Consuelo) by George Sand, concluded
  • "The Doctrine of Redemption and the Return to the Christianity of Jesus Christ" (continued)
  • "Of Property, and the Various Legitimate Modes of Acquiring It" (continued)

Mar. 27

  • "Of Property, and the Various Legitimate Modes of Acquiring It" (continued)
  • "The Doctrine of Redemption and the Return to the Christianity of Jesus Christ" (continued)
  • "Cannibalism" (continued)

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Apr. 3 

  • "Cannibalism" (continued)
  • "The Little Match Girl: A Christmas Story" by the Danish poet, Andenson
  • "The Doctrine of Redemption and the Return to the Christianity of Jesus Christ" (continued)
  • "Guarantyism"

Apr. 10

  • "The Great Men of Germany"
  • "Cannibalism" (continued)
  • "Results of Civilization"

Apr. 17

  • "Cannibalism" (continued)
  • Poem, "The Search" by James Russell Lowell
  • Poem, "Hymn to the Sun" from the Greek of Dionysius
  • "The Famine in Ireland"

Apr. 24

  • The Sanctus by Theodore William Hoffman
  • "Cannibalism" (continued)
  • Poem, "Dithyrambic" by Goethe

May 8

  • "Cannibalism" (continued)
  • "George Sand" from Howitt's Journal
  • Poem, "Metamorphosis of Plants" by Goethe
  • Industrial Organization by Victor Considerant, chapter II
  • Review of Pacini's "Saffo" in Boston

May 22

  • "A Discourse" by William Henry Channing
  • Industrial Organization by Victor Considerant, chapter IV

May 29

  • Annual Meeting of the American Union of Associationists
  • "George Sand" by Joseph Mazzini, from the People's Journal

June 5

  • “A Plain Lecture on Association”
  • “Progress of Guarantyism”

June 12

  • Industrial Organization by Victor Considerant, chapter V

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