Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 10

BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.



No X. JANUARY 1818. Vol. II




Contents.

Account of Captain Scoresby's Observations on the Greenland or Polar Ice 363
Prince's Street Sketches, No I. 369
Notices of Reprints of Curious Old Books, No II.—Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry 370
Remarks on a Passage in Mr Good's Life of Dr Geddes 376
Hint to the Ladies 377
To my Dog 378
Notices in Natural History, No I. ib.
Fauna Britannica, or British Zoology 381
Unpublished Verses of Allan Ramsay 383
Life of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton, Sect. I. ib.
The Dejeuné; a Pindaric Ode 394
Letter from an Old Indian Officer 396
Sonnet to Walter Scott, Esq. 399
Verses written on the 6th of November 1817 400
A Hebrew Melody; by the Ettrick Shepherd. ib.
On some Calumnies against the Dead ib.
Remarks on Mandeville 402
On the Gypsies of Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany 409
Letter from Z. to Mr Leigh Hunt 414
Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog 417
A Letter on the Management of the University Library at Glasgow 421
To a Lady reading Romeo and Juliet 424
Verses written in 1793, on seeing the Place where the Maid of Orleans suffered 425
Notices of the Acted Drama in London, No I. 426
Answer to P.C.K.'s Conjectural Emendation of a Passage in Othello 432
Anecdote of the late Dr Witherspoon, in 1745 433
Abstract of Meteorological Observations for the year 1817 ib.
The German Somnambulists and Miss M'Avoy 437
 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
Royal Society of Edinburgh 444
Wenerian Natural History Society 446
 
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE 447
Works preparing for Publication 451
Monthly List of New Publications 453
 
MONTHLY REGISTER.
Scottish Chronicle 457
Commercial Report 463
Promotions and Appointments 467
Meteorological Report 469
Agricultural Report 470
Births, Marriages, and Deaths 472