Little Snow-Ball

Peterson's Magazine, January 1857, number includes "My New Year" by Emma Garrison Jones, a domestic sentimentality story in which a poor widow with three children and an ailing husband sacrifices her last five-dollar bill to save a neighbor boy from prison, only to be discovered and rewarded with substantial assistance and one hundred dollars from the boy's grateful merchant-sailor father. The issue also features "The Two Ethels—Evaline," a narrative poem by Alexander A. Irvine set in medieval England recounting the tragic love between a maiden, the knight Roland, and an earl, culminating in the maiden's death and the knight and earl's eventual deaths in Crusade-era combat in Palestine, ending with the three entombed together in the Minster. Additionally included is a lyric poem titled "Evaline" by J. William Van Namer, M.D., mourning an absent beloved now deceased. The issue begins with a serial titled "The New Governess" by F. Hodgson, apparently continuing from a previous installment. Fashion illustrations and a sheet music selection for "Dublin Bay" appear throughout.