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Title: The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851

Author: Various

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THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

Of Literature, Art, and Science.

Vol. III. NEW-YORK, MAY 1, 1851. No. II.

GEORGE WILKINS KENDALL.

[Illustration]

We have here a capital portrait of the editor in chief of the New
Orleans _Picayune_, GEORGE W. KENDALL, who, as an editor, author,
traveller, or _bon garcon_, is world-famous, and every where entitled to
be chairman in assemblies of these several necessary classes of people.
Take him for all in all, he may be described as a new Chevalier Bayard,
baptized in the spirit of fun, and with a steel pen in lieu of a blade
of Damascus. He is a Vermonter--of the state which has sent out Orestes
Brownson, Herman Hooker, the Coltons, Hiram Powers, Hannah Gould, and a
crowd of other men and women with the sharpest intellects, and for the
most part the genialist tempers too, that can be found in all the
country. His boyhood was passed in the delightful village of Burlington,
from which, when he was of age, he came to New-York, and here he lived
until about the year 1835, when he went to New Orleans, where his
subsequent career may be found traced in the most witty and brilliant
and altogether successful journal ever published in the southern or
western states.

Partly for the love of adventure and partly for advantage to his health,
in the spring of 1841 Mr. Kendall determined to make an excursion into
the great south-western prairies, and the contemplated trading
expedition to Santa-Fe offering escort and agreeable companions, he
procured passports from the Mexican vice-consul at New-Orleans, and
joined it, at Austin. The history o