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FIRST QUARTERLY PART OF
WRIGHT'S LITERARY MAGNET,
APRIL 1, 1828.
CONTENTS.
I. EMBELLISHMENTS.---SEVEN ENGRAVINGS.
II. LITERARY MATTERS.
1. My Four Friends page 1
2. To the Rainbow 2
3. The Awkward Man 5
4. Historical Questions 7
5. Lines addressed to Thomas Moore ib.
6. The Ephemeres, an Essay 8
7. To a Lady 9
8. The Silent Academy 10
9. Mr. Haydon's Picture 11
10. Bishop Heber's Travels in India 13
11. Helpless Infants 16
12. Monuments in the Isola di Farnese ib.
13. The Hackney Coachman 16
14. Boileau's Epigrams 17
15. State of the German Drama 49
16. A Song. By Henry Neele 51
17. Henry Melville. By S. Mackenzie, Esq. Author of the "Lays of Palestine" 52
18. Sonnet 56
19. To Julia. By Rowland Hill Mackenzie 57
20. Elysium: A Rhapsody. By W.H.S. 58
21. Sonnet. By P. I. Meagher}}. 61
22. Influential Star. By Mr. Stafford; with an Engraving 62
23. Story of Mad, Davidoff 68
24. On Steam Carriages, Humorous and Serious, with an Engraving 79
25. Woman's Love. By Mr. Stafford 95
26. Fools 101
27. The Sunflower ib.
28. The Snow Storm 102
29. Maria Derville 108
30. To Hope 113
31. Lines on the Death of a beautiful Young Lady ib.
32. Southend 114
36. Monody. By Shelton Mackenzie, Esq. Author of "Airs of Palestine" 115
34. To Beatrice. By P. I. Meagher, Author of "Zedechias" ib.
35. The Maniac. From a Volume of unpublished Poems 116
36. Stanzas. By John Augustus Shea, Author of "Rudekhe" 117
37. Lines ib.
38. Superstitions practised in France 118
39. The Soul ib.
40. Harolde Harefoot, (a Saxon Chaunt) 119
41. Translation 120
42. A Serenade ib.
43. Observations on the Cruelty of Employing Climbing Boys as Chimney-Sweepers. With an Engraving 121
Notices of the Drama:
1. King's Theatre, 42. 2. Drury Lane, ib. 3. Covent Garden, ib 4. Surrey, ib. 5. Adelphi, ib. 6. Olympic ib. 7. Cobourg 42
Notices of the Fine Arts:
1. The Misers. 2. John Kemble as Hamlet. 3. The Missletoe. 4. Monkeyana. 5. The Larder. page 42
6. Mr. Smart's "Battle of Navarino," in 2 plates 94
7. Scenery, Costumes, and Architecture of India ib.
8. The Spoilt Child ib.
9. Howitt's British Preserve, No. 1 ib.
REVIEWS.
1. Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries, by Leigh Hunt
2. Life of Columbus, by Washington Irving, 82. 3. Letters from Greece, by Edward Blaquire, Esq. 84. 4. Metropolitan Improvements, 85.—5. Dr. Styles's Life of the Right Hon. George Canning, ib. 6. Confessions of an Old Maid. ib. 7. The Harmonican, (New Series) 86. 8. Whims and Oddities for the Young, ib. 9. Notes of a Bookworm, ib. 10, The Keepsake for 1828, ib. 11. Cuthbert, a Novel, 87. 12. Early Prose Romances, ib. 13. Longinus, by Jacob Jones, Esq. ib. 14. Lit Pocket Book for 1828, ib. 15. Montgomery's Omnipresence of the Deity 88
16. Manual of Astrology, by Raphael 127
17. Cameleon Sketches 130
FOREIGN BOOKS.
I. Les Suèdois à Prague 89
2. Traduction des Mémoires da Vénitien ib.
8. Les Contes du Gay ib.
4. Frédéric Styndall, ou la Fatale Anné, par M. Kératry ib.
SHORT CRITIQUES ON NEW MUSIC.
1. Miss Pyne's Variations on "Cease your Funning" 92
2. The Beauties of Melody ib.
3. Reminiscences of Fairy Land ib
4. The Fall of Paris ib.
5. Mountain Maid Quadrilles ib.
6. Oh clear that brow ib.
7. My Mary Love ib.
MATTERS OF INFORMATION.
(Original and Select.).
1. Destruction of an Oak by Lightning 90
2. New Metals ib.
3. Remarkable Meteoric Phenomenon ib.
4. Burmese Petroleum Wells ib.
5. Direction of the Branches of Trees 91
6. Effects of Light on Vegetation ib.
7. Aurora Borealis seen in the day-time at Canon-mills ib.
8. Aurora Borealis in Siberia ib.
Literary Intelligence, &c. 39