Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in June 1850, it is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U. S. Harper's Magazine was launched as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in June 1850, by the New York City publisher Harper & Brothers; who also founded Harper's Bazaar magazine, later growing to become HarperCollins Publishing. The first press run, of 7, 500 copies, sold out almost immediately; circulation was some 50, 000 issues six months later. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851 contents: THE NOVELTY WORKS, CHARLES WOLFE, MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, THE UNNAMED SHELL, THE STORY OF GIOVANNI BELZONI, PHANTOMS AND REALITIES. —AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, STORY OF SILVER-VOICE AND HER SISTER ZOE, THE CROCODILE BATTERY, A CHAPTER ON DREAMS, A FAIR IN MUNICH, THE WIFE'S STRATAGEM, THE CHAMPION, THE FARM-LABORER. —THE SON, A CHAPTER ON WOLVES, A SPECIMEN OF RUSSIAN JUSTICE, NAPOLEON AND THE POPE. —A SCENE AT FONTAINEBLEAU, GABRIELLE; OR, THE SISTERS, THE WASTE OF WAR, A NIGHT WITH AN EARTHQUAKE, A PLEA FOR BRITISH REPTILES, A DREAM, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF, THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOMAS MORE, THE STOLEN FRUIT. —A STORY OF NAPOLEON'S CHILDHOOD, WILBERFORCE AND CHALMERS, MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE, UNCLE JOHN; OR, THE ROUGH ROAD TO RICHES, DARLING DOREL, COURTESY OF AMERICANS, MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS, LITERARY NOTICES, TWO LEAVES FROM PUNCH, FASHIONS FOR MAY.
