ACADEMICAL Institution, on the prospects
of a new one at Edinburgh, 217. Acber II. the Great Mogul, account of, 121. Acted Drama in London, notices of, No. VII. 443.-No VIII. 708. Administration, on the present state of the, 201.
Africa, hints concerning the colonization of, 652.
Ægina marbles, remarks on the, 420. Alkali, vegetable, discovery of a new, 100. Alps, sketches of scenery in the, 582. America, on the means of education and state of learning in the United States of, 546.-Medical profession, 550-The bar, 551.-Divinity, 552.-Libraries, ib. -Professors in universities the only body of men of letters in, 641.-The bar and the senate, 642.-Peculiar character of American eloquence, 643.-The clergy, 644.-Philosophers and poets, 646.- Science and arts, 647.
American sea serpent, account of, 100.- Caught by Captain Rich, 489. Amsterdam, the Mad Banker of, canto V. 563-Canto VIII. 729.
Ancient city, remains of an, discovered near Inverness, 101.
literature, on the revival of a taste
Anecdote, singular one, 330. Anecdotes of Garrick and Barry, 52. Angels, Blessed, extract from Heywood's Hierarchy of, 171.
Antar, remarks on the romance of, 385. Appointments, promotions, &c. 114, 245, 379, 505, 634, 766.
Arabians and Persians, on the trade &c. of, during the middle ages, 135, 292, 460. Arctic regions, Barrow's chronological his- tory of voyages to the, 187. Aristophanes, unpublished translation of,
Ascent to the south needle of Chammouni, account of, 180.-To the blue mountains of Jamaica, 654.
Asteria, a Roman lady of the fourth cen- tury, description of her dressing-box, 47. Athenæus, selections from, 23, 413, 666. Augsburg, catalogue of pictures at, 318. Auncient Waggonere, the rime of, by En- sign Odoherty, 571.
Automaton chess-player, exhibiting in Lon- don, account of an, 579.
Balfour, Dr, of Glasgow, character of the late, 252. Bankrupts, alphabetical lists of English and Scotch, 112, 249, 375, 503, 633, 763. Barrow, Mr, analysis of his history of voy- ages to the Arctic Regions, 187. Belzoni's researches in Egypt, account of, 234-On his removal of Memnon's head from Thebes, 417.
Births, lists of, 116, 251, 380, 508, 636, 767.
Blue mountains of Jamaica, account of as ascent to the summit of, 654.
Books, notices of reprints of curious old ones, 28.
Böttiger, translation from the German of, 42, 164.
Brahmin Rammohun Roy, on the English writings of, 141.
Breakwaters of Plymouth Sound, and of Civita Vecchia, 561.
Bride of Corinth, a poem, from Goëthe, 688. Bruges, the Minstrel of, 5.
Brutus, a tragedy, critique of, 445. Bürger, translation froin, 405. Burns and the Ettrick Shepherd, compari- son of the genius of, 521.—That of Burns moulded and coloured by his agricultural life, 524-The Ettrick Shepherd full of wild enthusiasm towards external nature, which formed a small part of the poetical character of Burns, 527.
Callender, Mr, of Craigforth, his notes on Milton, 658.
Campaign of 1815, remarks on General
Gourgaud's account of the, 220, Campbell, Archibald, author of a voyage round the world, notice of, 437. Campbell's Specimens of English Poetry, 696.-Langlande, 702.-Chaucer, 708. Elizabethan Age, 704-Spenser, 705.- Marlowe and Peele, 706.
Candide of Voltaire, remarks on, 155. Carbonic acid gas, to prevent suffocation by, 239.
Carriages without horses, account of, 237. Catacombs, horrific description of a night among the, 19.
Catalogue of pictures at Augsburg, 318. Cave, description of a huge one in America,
Censorship, literary, remarks on, 176. Ceres, the complaint of, (from the German of Schiller) 161.
Chammouni, ascent to the South needle of, 180.
Character and manners of the Tyrolese, 585. Chateau of Coppet, the, 198, 277. Christophe, the black Emperor of Hayti, account of, 130.
Civita Vecchia, breakwater of, 561. Cod, discovery of a great bank of, 99.—— Description of, 487.
Colonization of Africa, hints respecting, 652, Colours, comparison of the beauty of sounds with that of, 178.
Commercial Reports, 110, 247, 373, 496, 629, 761.
Congelation, limit of, 99.
Corinth, the Bride of, a poem, 688. Cornwall, transactions of the Royal Geolo- gical Society of, 363.
Crusades, remarks on the, (from the Ger- man of Schlegel) 303.
Dandy Club, the, a pantomime, performed in London, account of, 448.
Deaths, lists of, 117, 252, 381, 509, 637, 768.
in Paris, during 1817, 489. Delhi, modern history of the city of, 121. Destruction of the Val de Bagne, account of the, 87.
D'Israeli, Mr, review of his work on the literary character, 14.
Domestic Letters of the Earl of Rochester, 541.
Dragoon, a heavy, remarks on poems by, 574.
Drama, acted, in London, notices of, No.
VII. 443.-No VIII. 708. Dramatists, essays on the early English ones, No VI. 66.
Dressing-room of a rich Roman lady, scenes in, 42, 164.
Dressing-box of a Roman lady of the fourth century, description of, 47.
Edinburgh, remarks on the new academical institution at, 217.-On the medical schools of Dublin and, 439.-Proposed horticultural and academical institution at, 488.-Account of the jail and bride- well of, 606.
Edith and Nora, a pastoral poet's dream, 76.
Education in the United States, on the means of, 546.-Defect in the system of, 548.
Naval, remarks on, 345.
Egypt, Belzoni's researches in, 234. English Dramatists, essays on the early, 66. Politics, Scheffer's essay on, 432. Opera, notices of the, 715. Essays on the early English Dramatists, 66. On the trade of the Arabians and Per- sians, during the middle ages, 135, 292, 460.-On the Lake School of poetry, 257.
Esquimaux, account of a tribe of, discover- ed by the Isabella and Alexander, 339. account of the late John Sack-
eouse, the, 656. Ettrick Shepherd, the, and Burns, com- parative view of the genius of, 521. Eve of St Jerry, by Ensign Odoherty, 569. Everard, Edward Cape, memoirs of, 51. Exmoor Courtship, a dramatic pastoral, 530. Expedition to the North Pole, account of the, 95.-Letter from an officer concern- ing the, 193.
Fascinating power of serpents, example of,
Fortune (from the Italian of Guidi) 162. France, extracts from a tour through, in 1818, 594.
Franklin, Dr, the only American philoso- pher, whose discoveries have benefited mankind, 646.
Funds, public, on the principles of the, 55, 287.
Garrick, anecdotes of, 52.
Gas, discovery of a new inflammable, 100. Genethliaca Venetian, 62. Glorvina's Warning, 720.
Goethe, on the critique of his life in the Edinburgh Review, 211.-Translation from, 688.
Gourgaud, General, on his account of the campaign of 1815, 220.
Gray the poet, letter of, to Count Algarotti,
Greece, remarks on the present state of civi- lization in, 513.-Effect of the late war in kindling a spirit of independent feel- ing among the Greeks, 518.-Cannot now retrograde in civilization, 520. Greenland, on the temperature of, 234 Guidi, translation from the Italian of, 162. Gurney's visit to the prisons of Scotland, ob- servations on, 603.-His account of the Jail and Bridewell of Edinburgh, 606. Hayti, interesting account of, 150. Heights, measurement of, by barometer, 99. Heywood's hierarchy of blessed angels, ex- tract from, 171.
Hills, height of, in Scotland, 99. Holland, New, letter from Lieut. King, on his survey of, 286. Horæ Cantabrigienses, 63. Hora Historica, No II., 600. Horticultural and botanical institution at Edinburgh, prospectus of the, 488. Hot weather, remarks on the late, 157. Human Life, a poem, review of, 553.
Nature, remarks on the capacities
Hume, Patrick's, notes on Milton, 658. Jamaica, ascent to the summit of the Blue Mountains of, 654.
Jerry, St, the Eve of, by Ensign Odoherty, 569.
India, mineralogy of, 599.
Instrument, notice of one to hear by the eye and see by the ear, 442. Insurrection of the Tyrolese in 1809, ac- count of, 585.
Interlude, account of a religious one per- formed at the Carnival in Rome, 452. Islam, the revolt of, a poem, observations on, 475.
Kalendar, Perpetual, notice of a, 694. Kater, Captain, account of his new method of measuring the length of the pendulum, 182.
Kempf herhausen, translations from the Ger- man of, 396, 735.
Knebelite, account of a mineral so named,
Knowledge, of its effects upon society, 80. Krudener, Madame, a German fanatic, ac- count of, 609.
Lake School of Poetry, essays on, 257. Lakes, letters from the, 396, 735. Lambert, Jonathan, account of his taking sovereign possession of the island of Tris- tan d'Acunha, 280.-Interesting letter from, 282.
Landaff, the late Bishop of, on the Edin- burgh Reviewer's account of, 34. Lauerwinkel, Baron von, remarks of, on the poetry of Thomas Moore, 1. Lausanne, letters from, 198, 277. Learning, state of, in America, 546. Letter of Gray the poet to Count Algarotti, 38.
of the Hon. Horace Walpole, 40.- Unpublished one, 148.
Letter of the Emperor of Morocco to Queen Anne, 41.
concerning Hayti, and its black
to Professor Pictet, on ascents to Mont Blanc, &c., 180.
from an officer concerning the polar expedition, 193.
on the present state of administra- tion, 201.
from Lieut. King, on his survey of New Holland, 286.
s of Dr Sternstare, on the national character of the Scots, 328, 430.
from Lausanne, 198, 277.
from the Lakes, 396, 735. Literary and Scientific Intelligence, 99, 234, 359, 487, 622, 753.
Literary Censorship, remarks on, 176. Literary Premium, proposed one, 336. Literature, ancient, on the revival of a taste for, 264.
Natural History, inaccuracies of poets in,
Naval Education, remarks on, 345. Newcastle, Duchess of, remarks on her poems and plays, 309.
Northern Herculaneum, searches for a, in Sanda, 101.
North Pole, account of the expedition to, 95.-Letter from an officer concerning it, 193.
North-west passage, progress of the expedi- tion sent in search of it under Captain Ross, 338.-Their discovery of a new tribe of Esquimaux, 339. Novel-writing, thoughts on, 394. Observations on the English writings of the Brahmin Rammohun Roy, 141.-On the critique of Goethe's life in the Edinburgh Review, 211.-On the Revolt of Islam, a poem, 475.-On Gurney's visit to the prisons of Scotland, 603.-On Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolks, 612.
Ludlow, General, monument of, in Swit- Odoherty, Ensign, life and writings of, con-
Mackenzie, Lieut., account of his system of the weather in the British islands, 84. Macneill, Hector, account of the life of, 273. Mammoth cave of Indiana, description of the, 103.
Manners and character of the Tyrolese, 585. Marriages, lists of, 117, 251, 381, 509, 636, 767.
Medical instrument, account of a new one, 101.
Medical Schools of Dublin and Edinburgh, remarks on, 439.
Memnon's Head, on its removal from The
bes to Alexandria, by M. Belzoni, 417. Memoirs of Edward Cape Everard, the come- dian, 51.
Memoirs written in the fifteenth century, 407. Mental Impressions, on the indestructibili- ty of, 690.
Meridian, measurement of an arc of, in India, 753.
Metaphysics, on the decline of a taste for, 682.
Meteorological Reports, 109, 246, 377, 495, 628, 759.
Meteorological observations, abstract of, for 1818, 472.
Mineral called Knebelite, account of, 237. Mineralogical chemistry, 622. Mineralogy of India, 599.
Minerals, new ones, 622.
Minstrel, the, of Bruges (concluded), 5. Milton, Hume and Callender's notes on, 658.
Mogul, the Great, account of, 121. Mont Blanc, and the South Needle of Chammouni, account of an ascent to, 180.
Moore, Thomas, remarks on his poetry, 1. More, Sir Thomas, remarks on Roper's life
Morocco, letter of the Emperor of, to Queen Anne, 1,
Narrative illustrative of Pastoral Life, 663. National character of the Scots, Dr Stern- stare's, letters on the, 328, 430.
tinued, 320.-Note from him to the Edi- tor, 567.- His garland, in honour of Mrs Cook, the great, and other poems, 568. Old Books, reprints of curious ones, 28. Opera, the English, No I. 715. Painting, Statuary, Poetry, Politics, and
Pugilism, on the connexion between, 722. Paris, account of a night in the catacombs of, 19.-Deaths there in 1817, 489. Parisiana, 560.
Parisina, the story of, 411. Pasquinades on the late French ministry, 457.
Pastoral Life, narrative illustrative of, 663. Pendulum, Captain Kater's method of
measuring the length of the, 182. Perpetual Kalendar, notice of a, 694. Persians and Arabians, on the trade of, with Russia and Scandinavia, in the middle ages, 135, 292, 460.
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, observations on, 612.-Peter's account of the Whigs of Edinburgh, 614-Of the state of edu- cation there, 616.-His account of his visit to Glasgow, and entertainment there, 618. Of the university of Glasgow, 620. -Farther strictures on, 745.-The gaye- ties of Edinburgh, ib.-His sketches of some of the ornaments of the bar, 748.- Mr John Clerk, ib.-Mr Cranstoun, 750. -Mr Jeffrey, 751.
Phillips, Charles, remarks on his speech in refutation of the remarks of the Quarterly Review, 213.
Pictet, Professor, of Geneva, his account of
the destruction of the Val de Bagne, 87. Pictures at Augsburg, catalogue of, 318. Platinum, method of purifying, 489. Plymouth Sound, the breakwater there, 561.
Poems and Plays by the Duchess of New- castle, remarks on, 309.
by a Heavy Dragoon, remarks on, 574. Poetry-The Prisoner's Prayer to Sleep, 13.-Verses to Lady Anne Scott, 74.- Edith and Nora, a pastoral poet's dream,
76.-The Complaint of Ceres, 161.- Fortune, 162.-Songs by Ensign Odo- herty, 321.A Tale of Terror, 233.- To the Child of Corinna, 325.-A Por- trait, 332.-Elegy, 333.-Our Joys (from Goethe), 404.--The Interview (from Schiller), 405.-The Elements (from Burger), ib.-Speech, to the tune of the Emerald Isle, 406.A Church-yard Dream, 445.-Sonnet, ib.-St Helena, 456.-The King's Crutches, and the Roy- al Vision, 457.-The Mad Banker of Amsterdam, 563, 729.-Odoherty's Gar- land, 568.-The Eve of St Jerry, 569.- The Rime of the Auncient Waggonere, 571.-Lines to Miss Grace Maddox, the fair Pugilist, 725.-The Annual Pill, 726.-Account of a Milling Match, by one of the Fancy, ib.-Elegiac verses, 744.
Poetry, on the Lake School of, 257.
of the Agricultural and Pastoral Districts of Scotland considered, 521.
English, remarks on Campbell's spe- cimens of, 696.
Painting, Statuary, Politics, and Pugilism, on the connexion between, 722. Poets, on their inaccuracies in Natural History, 159.
Polar Expedition, account of the, 95.- Letter concerning the, 193. Politics, Statuary, Painting, Poetry, and
Pugilism, on the connexion between, 722. Population, reflections on the theory of,
Provençal Language and Literature, Schle- gel on the, 300.
Publications, monthly list of new ones, 106, 242, 369, 492, 624, 756.
Public prints, reflections occasioned by some late sins of the, 353. Public Funds, explanation of the principles of the, 55, 287.
Pugilism, Painting, Statuary, Poetry, and Politics, remarks on the connexion be- tween, 722.
Purchas, versification of a passage in, 344. Rammohun Roy, the Bramin, on the Eng- lish Writings of, 141. Red Snow, 754.
Reflections on the Theory of Population, 207. On some late sins of the public prints, 353.
Religion and Patriotism of the Edinburgh Review, remarks on the, 228. Remarks on Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More, 28.-On Mr Ricardo's Work on Political Economy, 58.-On the Candide of Voltaire, 155.-On the late Hot Weather, 157.-On Literary Censorship, 176.-On Phillips' Speech against the Quarterly Review, 213.-On the Pro- spectus of a new Academical Institution at Edinburgh, 217.-On General Gour- gaud's Account of the Campaign of 1815,
220.-On the Religion and Patriotism of the Edinburgh Review, 228.-On the revival of a taste for our ancient Litera- ture, 264-On Prediction, 266.-On the Duchess of Newcastle's Poems and Plays, 309.-On Training, 313.--On Naval Education, 345.-On the Romance of Antar, 385.-On Scheffer's Essay on English Politics, 432.-On a Pamphlet on the Medical Schools of Dublin and Edinburgh, 439.-On Poems by a Heavy Dragoon, 574.-On Madame Krudener, a German Fanatic, 609.-On the capaci- ties of Human Nature, 649.-On the de- cline of a taste for Metaphysics, 682.-On the indestructibility of mental impres- sions, 690.-On Campbell's specimens of English Poetry, 696. On the connexion between pugilism, statuary, painting, poetry, and politics, 722.
Review of Mr D'Israeli on the Literary Character, 14.-Of Barrow's History of Voyages to the Arctic Regions, 187.-Of Human Life, a poem; by Samuel Ro- gers, 553.
Review, Edinburgh, on its account of the late Bishop of Landaff, 34-Exposure of its Infidelity to the Christian Faith, 37.- On the Review of Ricardo's Political Economy in, 58.-On the Critique of Goethe's Life in the, 211.-On the ques- tion, whether it is a Religious and Patri- otic Work, 228.
Revolt of Islam, a poem, observations on, 475. Rhine, tour on the banks of the, 674. Ricardo, Mr, on his Work on Political Eco-
Rochester, Domestic Letters of John Wil- mot, Earl of, 541.
Rogers, Samuel, Review of his Poem, Hu- man Life, 553.
Roper, W. remarks on his Life of Sir Thomas More, 28.
Sabina (from the German of Böttiger), 42, 164.
Sackeouse, John, the Esquimaux, account of the late, 656.
Savoy, Sketches of Scenery in, 582. Scenes in the dressing-room of a rich Ro- man Lady, 42, 164.
Scheffer's Essay on English Politics, re- marks on, 432.
Schiller, translations from the German of, 161, 405.
Schlegel, observations by, on the Provençal Language and Literature, 300.-On the Crusades, 303.
Scientific and Literary Intelligence, 99, 234, 359, 487, 622, 753.
Scoresby, Captain, on the temperature of Greenland, 234.
Scotland, height of hills in, 99. Scott, Lady Anne, Verses addressed to, 74. Scots, Letter on the National Character of the, 328, 430. Scottish Peasantry, poetical because they are religious, 522.
Selections from Athenæus, 23, 413. Serpents, on the fascinating power of, 102.
Shetland, discovery of a bank of Cod on the
coast of, 99.-Description of, 487. Sins of the public prints, reflections on, 353. Sketches of Scenery in Savoy, Switzerland, and the Alps, 582. Snow, red, 754.
Society, of the effects of knowledge upon,
Sounds, comparison of the beauty of with that of Colours, 178.
Specimen of a Translation of Aristophanes, 421.
Speech, to the tune of the Emerald Isle, 406.
Spiders, found to feed upon sulphate of zinc,
Stael, Madame de, letters concerning, 198, 277.
Statuary, Painting, Poetry, Politics, and Pugilism, on the connexion between, 722. Sternstare, Dr, letters of, on the national Character of the Scots, 328, 430.
Stocks, or Public Funds, the nature and principles of the, 55, 287. Suffocation by Carbonic Acid Gas, method of preventing, 239.
Sultan Katte-Ghery, notice of, 362.
Switzerland, Sketches of Scenery in, 582. Tale of Terror, by Ensign Odoherty, 233. Thebes, on the removal from thence of Memnon's Head, by M. Belzoni, 417. Thorvaldsden, Albert, sketch of the Life of, 336.
Thought, on the habits of, inculcated by Wordsworth, 257.
Thoughts on Novel Writing, 394. Time's Magic Lanthern, No VIII. Dia- logue between Ben Jonson and Drum- mond of Hawthornden, 558.
Tour through France in 1818, extract from,
on the Banks of the Rhine, 674. Trade and Communications of the Arabians and Persians, with the Russians, &c. in the middle ages, 135, 292, 460. Training, remarks on, 313. Tristan D'Acunha, interesting account of the Island of, 280.
Tyrolese, on the character and manners of the, 585.
United States-See America.
Val de Bagne in the Bas Valais, description of, 87.-Its destruction by a deluge, 90. Vanity and Pride, on the difference between,
Vegetable Alkali, notice of a new, 100. Verses to Lady Anne Scott of Buccleuch, 74. Voltaire, on the Candide of, 155. Walpole, Horace, Letter from, 40.-Nine unpublished Letters of, 148.
War in the Tyrol in 1809, interesting ac- count of, 585.
Weather, account of M'Kenzie's system of the, 84.-On the late hot, 157. Whigs of Edinburgh, account of the, from Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, 614. Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, domestic letters of, 541. *
Wordsworth, on the habits of thought in- culcated by, 257.-He may, in some re- spects, be considered the Rousseau of the present times, 263.-Three original Son- nets of, 471.
Works preparing for publication, 103, 239, 365, 490, 623, 755. Yorkshire, Sonnets by Wordsworth, sug. gested by Westall's Views of the Caves in, 471.
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