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 |