Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 9

BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.



No IX. DECEMBER 1817. Vol. II.




Contents.

On the late National Calamity 249
Account of an Ascent of Mount Rigi in Switzerland, and of a Night's Residence on the Summit of that Mountain 255
Analytical Essays on the Early English Dramatists, No III.—Marlow's Jew of Malta 260
The Maiden's Bloody Garland, by Warton 266
Conjectural Emendation of a Passage in Othello 267
Remarks on Godwin's New Novel, Mandeville 268
Account of Scotland in 1679 280
Anecdotes of the Fife Gypsies, No I. 282
Letter to the Reviewer of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria 285
Memoir of Rob Roy Macgregor, and some Branches of his Family (concluded) 288
Lines written in a lonely Burial-Ground on the Northern Coast of the West Highlands 295
Petrarch, Canzone 14 296
Lines on the Death of a Brother ib.
Literary Gleanings 297
A New Arrangement of Minerals 299
Remarks on Cookery 300
A Letter to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. on his Original Mode of editing Church History 305
Letter from Dalkeith 310
Pecuniary Distress of James VI. 312
Letters on the Living Artists of Scotland. Letter I.—Allan 313
Ode on the breaking of a China Quart Mug belonging to the Buttery of Lincoln Cottage 317
Epitaph on Prince Charles Stuart 318
On the Pulpit Eloquence of Scotland, No II.—Alison 318
 
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE 330
Works preparing for Publication 334
Monthly List of New Publications 338
 
MONTHLY REGISTER.
Scottish Chronicle 342
Commercial Report 348
Meteorological Report 354
Promotions and Appointments 356
Births, Marriages, and Deaths 472