Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 11

BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.



No XI. FEBRUARY 1818. Vol. II




Contents.

Observations on the Autobiography of Bishop Watson 479
Observations on Catullus, suggested by a piece of French criticism 486
The Soldier in Egypt; by the late John Finlay 490
To the Swiss; by the same ib.
Remarkable preservation from Death at Sea ib.
Topography of Troy 494
Notices of Thomas Blacklock, D.D. 495
A Portuguese Miss M'Avoy 496
Vindication of Drummond of Hawthornden, against the attack of Mr Gifford in his edition of Ben Jonson 497
Letter to Mr James Hogg 501
Letters on Shakspeare, No I.—Hamlet. 504
Sonnets to Mr Wordsworth.
No I. 512
No II. 513
Letter from a Young Fellow ib.
Improprieties in common Speech 514
Lines to Crookston Castle 515
On a Dying Sister (from the German of Stolberg) ib.
Translation of a Greek Fragment of Simonides 516
Meteor observed by Dr Clarke, Cambridge ib.
Extract from an Old Tour in Scotland 517
Anecdotes of the Fife Gypsies, No II.
The Dampers 528
The Battle of Sempach 530
The Passion (from the Old Spanish) 533
Lines, from the German of the late Prince Louis of Prussia ib.
Elegy on the Death of an Idiot Girl; by a Lady ib.
Remarks on the Liverpool Royal Institution, and Mr Roscoe's Discourse 534
Opinion on the Scots Law of Divorce, in the clear but common place manner of a late celebrated Judge 539
Alpina's Reply to "An Old Indian" 539
Letter on the Scenery of the North of Italy 544
Description of the New Mineral called Pargasite 549
Medical Report of Edinburgh 550
The Jumpers, a New School of Poetry 555
Notice of a Course of Lectures on English Poetry, now delivering at the Surrey Institution, London, by W. Hazlitt, Esq. No I.
Lecture First—On Poetry in general 556
Lecture Second—On Chaucer and Spencer 558
Lecture Third—On Shakspeare and Milton 560
Some Account of the Life and Writings of Ensign and Adjutant Odoherty, late of the 99th regiment 562
Notices of the Acted Drama in London, No II. 567
Horæ Scandicæ, No I—Notice of the "Maga, Stormboyars Trollkona Skiœkia," an Icelandic Poem, in Five Books 570
Wilberforce and Foster 574
Captain Basil Hall's Voyage to Loo-Choo 576
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 579
 
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE 582
Works preparing for Publication 584
Monthly List of New Publications 586
 
MONTHLY REGISTER.
Scottish Chronicle. 591
Commercial Report 596
Promotions and Appointments 602
Meteorological Report 604
Births, Marriages, and Deaths 606