Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 7

BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.


OCTOBER 1817.



Contents.

Observations on Coleridge's Biographia Literaria 3
Meteorological Phenomena observed in Argyllshire 18
Letter from Mr Scoresby, jun. to Professor Jameson 20
Analytical Essays on the early English Dramatists, (continued from No IV. Edinburgh Monthly Magazine) No II. 21
Account of Bothwell's Attempt on Holyroodhouse in 1591 30
Curious Facts relative to the Abdication of Queen Mary, communicated by J. R. Esq. 31
On the Optical Properties of Mother-of-pearl, by David Brewster, LL. D. &c. 33
Letter to the Lord High Constable from Mr Dinmont 35
Present State of Animal Magnetism in Germany, (continued from Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, No VI.) 36
On the Cockney School of Poetry, No I. 38
Strictures on an Article in No LVI. of the Edinburgh Review, entitled, "Present State of West Indian Affairs." 41
Elegy by the Ettrick Shepherd 47
Medical Report of Edinburgh, (continued from Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, No IV.) 48
Account of a Manuscript of Bishop Lesley's History of Scotland, in possession of the Earl of Leven and Melville; by Thomas M'Crie, D. D. Communicated by Thomas Thomson, Esq. 52
Remarks on the Review of Mr Stewart's Dissertation in the Quarterly, No XXXIII. 57
Vindication of Mr Wordsworth's Letter to Mr Gray on a new edition of Burns' Works 65
Verses by Mr Walter Paterson 74
Memoir of Rob Roy Macgregor, and some Branches of his Family ib.
The Progress of Learning, a Poem; by an Oxonian 80
Alarming Increase of Depravity among Animals 82
Character of the Hon. Henry Erskine 86
Verses written at Killarney 87
Translation of an ancient Chaldee Manuscript 89
 
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE 97
Works preparing for Publication 98
Monthly List of New Publications 99
 
MONTHLY REGISTER.
Foreign Intelligence. 102
British Chronicle. 107
British Revenue 115
Commercial Report 116
Meteorological Report 121
Promotions and Appointments 123
Births, Marriages, and Deaths 125