Marriages, lists of, 118, 245, 364, 492, 628, Platinum, mass of, found in South Ameri- 737.
Menil's edition of Antara, remarks on, 513. Metal, a new one discovered, called seleni- um, 95. Meteorological establishment at St Bernard, description of, 97.
Reports, 116, 243, 359, 487,
Metrical versions of the Psalms, remarks on, 63, 178.
notices to correspondents, 248. Minerals, discovery of new ones, 472, 473. Minstrel, the, of Bruges, version of the old French story of, 661.
Montagu, Mr, Horace Walpole's letters to, 162.
Mountains, method of ascertaining the heights of, 473.
Murderer, remarkable confession of a, 596. Music, on the state of in Scotland, 255.-
On the state of in Edinburgh, 538. Napier, Macvey, Esq. observations on his essay on the writings of Bacon, 657. Napoleon's Head, the craniologist's review of, 146.
National monument for Scotland, proceed- ings respecting one, 234.
National Character in Literature, remarks on, 707.
Natural and revealed religon, dialogues on, No I. 90.-No II. 170.
Observations of M. Biot, to determine the figure of the earth, 463.-On Mr Macvey Napier's essay on the writings of Bacon, 657. On the state of Parties, and the Edinburgh Review, 715.-On a National Character in Literature, 707. Odoherty, Adjutant, account of the life and writings of, continued, 51. Olive Trees, on the raising of, *219. Optics, new discovery in, 614. Othello, remarks on a disputed passage in the tragedy of, 8.
Overseers, effects of, on the morals of farm servants, 83.
Oxford examination, poetical account of an, 280.
Pacific Ocean, view of the commerce of the principal shores of, 695.
Paris, the English in, 446.
Parties, state of, remarks on, 715.-On an article on this subject in the Edinburgh Review, 719.
Party spirit, remarks on, 129. Petrarch, letter of, to posterity, 313. Peudemots, M de, extract from the works of, 46.
Phantasmagoria, No I. 213.
Phantasmagoriana, or tales of the dead, 580. Philippine Islands, details respecting the, 576.-Review of Captain M'Konochie's statistics of the principal shores of, 695. Philosophical education, review of Jardine's Outlines of, 420.
Photometer, a new invented one, 36. Pit and Fox, sketch of, by Baron Von Lauerwinkel, 456. VOL. III.
Poetry, verses on the death of the Princess Charlotte, 5.The Fairies, 30.-Sonnet to John Carnegy, Esq. 58.-On Carmel's Brow, a Hebrew melody, 90.-Humo- rous description of shipwreck by drink, 141.-Fragment of a fifth canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 201.-The Herald, 211.-Notices to Correspondents, 248.- Account of an Oxford Examination, 280. -The Mad Banker of Amsterdam, 402, 530. From the German of Klopstock, 416. Of Körner, 417.-And of Schiller, 418.-Sanscrit Ode, 460.
on the Lake School of, No I. 369. on the Cockney School of, No III. No IV. 519.
453. Poor Laws of England, remarks on, 9.
in Scotland, answers to queries respect- ing the maintenance of, 11.-Report by Principal Baird, on the management of, 320.
Popular superstitions in Wales, account of, 188. Witch stories, ib.--Stories of ghosts, evil spirits, demons, &c. 189.- Stories of fairies, 190.-Dogs of hell, 192. -Corpse-candles, 193.-The kyhirraeth,
Portugal, horrid hospital scene in, 87. Preternatural, on the use of the, in works of fiction, 640.
Princess Charlotte, verses on the death of, 5. Psalms, remarks on various metrical versions of, 63, 178.
Public Feeling, a few thoughts on, 294. Publications, Monthly Lists of new ones, 101, 225, 344, 476, 617, 728. Queen Elizabeth, on the fashion of dress in the reign of, 534.
Railways, premium offered by the High- land Society for the improvement and extension of, 726.
Ready Reckoner, the British, review of, 317. Red earth, shower of, in Italy, 338.
Redness of the sea, remarks on the, 339. Religion, natural and revealed, dialogues on, No I. 90.-No II. 170.
Remarks on the " Petit Volume" of Mons.
Say, 58.-On various metrical versions of the Psalms, 63, 178.-On a publication called "the Fudge Family in Paris," 129. -On the Aristophanic comedy, 152.- On Horace Walpole's letters to Mr Mon- tagu, 162.-On the writings of George Buchanan, 251.-On the writings of Kidd and Brande, 277.-On dress, 301.-On Schlegel's history of literature, 497.-On Menil's edition of Antara, 513.-On the anonymous essays of the Earl of Buchan, 515.-On Currents, 579.-On the Pos- thumous Works of Madame de Stael, 633.-On some passages of Mr Cole- ridge's Biographia Literaria, 653.-On the state of parties, and the Edinburgh Review, 715.-On a letter to Sir Henry Steuart of Allanton, 709.
Review of "The Fudge Family of Paris," 5 B
129. Of the fourth canto of Childe Har- old, 216.-Of Marriage, a novel, 286.- Of Stenhouse's British Ready Reckoner, 317.-Of Wordsworth's White Doe of Rylstone, 372.-Of a Six Weeks Tour through France, 412.-Of Outlines of Philosophical Education, 420.-Of Let- ters from the North Highlands, by E. J. Spence, 428. Of letters of an English commercial traveller in Scotland, 431.- Of Altham and his wife, a tale, 542.- Of Tales of my Landlord, 567.-Of the works of Charles Lamb, 599.-Of M'Kon- ochie's Statistics, &c. of the principal Shores of the Pacific Ocean, 695. Review, Edinburgh, letters to the supporters
of, 155.-State of Parties and the, 715. Rhinoceros, experiments to make a mus- ket ball pierce the hide of, 724. Robertson, Rev. Joseph, trial of, for cele- brating unlawful marriages, 108. Rome," One Night in," translated from the French of M. de Peudemots, 47. Russell, William, LL. D. biographical notice of, 398,
Mr, his reception at Haymarket Theatre, 588. Salt, method of making it in the Great Loo Choo Island, 612.
Savings Banks in Scotland, abstract of a proposed bill for the protection of, 68. Say, Monsieur, remarks on the "Petit Volume" of, 58,
Schiller, translations from the German of, 418.
Schlegel's History of Literature, remarks on, 497.
Scientific and Literary Intelligence, 95, *219, 338, 471, 611, 723.
Scotch Burghs, bill of the Lord Advocate for regulating the, 231.-Resolutions of the guildry of Edinburgh respecting it,
Scotland, Poor in, answers to queries re- specting the maintenance of the, 11.- Burghs in, who have stirred in the cause of reform, and those who have not, with the relative populations, 107.-Answers to queries respecting the tythe system of Scotland, 149.-Proceedings of the com- mission of the General Assembly of the Church of, 230.-Proceedings of the com- mittee on the proposed national monu- ment for, 234.-On the state of music in, 265.-Principal Baird's report on the management of the poor in, 320.-Pro- ceedings of the General Assembly of,
Scott, Wordsworth, and Byron, on their se- veral merits as poets, 369. Sebastians, St, account of the storming of, by an English officer, 565. Second Sight, remarkable instance of, 18. Selections from Athenæus, No 1. 650. Serpent, great sea one, on the history of the, 33.-Accounts of some seen on the coast of Norway, 34.-Of one on the coast of Scotland, 37.Of one seen near Ply-
mouth, 39.-Of several seen on the coasts of America, 40.-Remarks on W.'s ac- count of, 204.
Shakrak and the Magician of Constantinople,
Shakspeare's Sonnets, remarks on, 585. Shipwreck, melancholy one near Slains Cas- tle, 107.-Humorous description of one by drink, 141.
Speaker of the House of Commons, a whig's thoughts on the qualifications of a, 141. Spence, Miss, and the Bagman, 428. Spring, its earliness or lateness, neither hastens nor retards the harvest, 229. Stael, Madame de, one of the brightest or- naments of European literature, 633.- Observations on her Posthumous Works, ib.-Comparative characters of Charles I. and Louis XVI. by, 638.-Her re- marks on the manners of the English, 645. Staffordshire, account of a pseudo-volcano there, 340.
Steuart, Sir Henry, of Allanton, letter to him, from the author of the "Vindica- tion of the Memorie of the Somervilles," 438.
Sugar, experiment in France to produce it from beet root, 611.
Swindling, in a female fortune-teller, 230. Tales of my Landlord, review of, 567. Tales of the Dead, 580.
Taste, fragment of an essay on, 21. Thoughts on Public Feeling, 294. Tickler, Timothy, letters of, to various lite-
rary characters, No III. to Francis Jef- frey, Esq. 75.-No IV. to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, 461.-No V. to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, 527. Time's Magic Lanthern, No II. 3.-No
III. 4. No IV. 137.-No V. 270.- No VI. 274.-No VII. 419. Timor, narrative of the taking of, in 1811, by the ship Hesper, 306. Tree Goose, or Bernacle, singular credulity respecting the history of this bird, 671. Truth, the reverie of an enthusiast on, 123. Tythes, thoughts concerning, 147.-An-
swers to queries respecting the tythe sys- tem in Scotland, 149.
Violet Rays, on the magnetising power of, *219.
Voltaire's Head, craniological view of, 300. Wales, account of some popular supersti- tions in, 188.
Wales, New South, discovery of a river in the interior of, 613.
Walpole, Horace, his letters to Mr Mon- tagu, 162.-His account of Lord Ferrers' murdering his own stewart, and of his trial, &c. 165.
War, letter to a politician on the policy and termination of the late one in Europe, 381.
Water Spouts, observations on, *220. Wernerian and Huttonian disputants, the rival, a word to, 583.
Whigs and Tories, choice between a stupid young Tory and a clever young Whig,
130. Thoughts from a Whig, on the qualifications of a Speaker of the House of Commons, 141.
White Doe of Rylstone, a poem, review of, 372.
Wight, Isle of, on the vertical strata of the, 585.
Wolf, Christian, a German freebooter, in- teresting history of, 679. Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron, on their poetical talents, 369.
Works preparing for publication, 99, *221, 342, 474, 615, 797. Younger Days, in my, 517.
INDEX TO PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
Buchanan, 244.
Buller, 628.
Cadell, 737.
Campbell, 244, ib.
ib. 245, 363, 492, 628, ib.
Cathcart, 628. Cavan, 118. Chalmers, 737.
Christie, 363, 628. Church, 118. Cleghorn, 118.
Erskine, 244, 492. Ewing, 737. Fell, 628.
Ferrier, 628, 737. Fitzherbert, 363.
Folkestone, 245.
Ford, 118, 737. Fordyce, 737. Forsyth, 492.
Fortescue, 492.
Gillespie, 628.
Gordon, 363, 492, ib. 787, ib. Graham, 118. Gray, 244, ib. Hamilton, 492. Hobhouse, 118. Horner, 737. Horsburgh, 244. Huntingdon, 737. Johnstone, 364, 737, ib.
Kennedy, 363, 492.
Millar, 244, ib. 628.
Mills, 118.
Mitchell, 492.
Molesworth, 364.
Montgomery, 363, 492, 628.
Morrison, 245. Mowbray, 244, 737. Munro, 118.
Murray, 118, 244. Napier, 245. Northumberland,
Ogilvy, 364. Oliphant, 118. Oliver, 628.
Patison, 118, 492. Paul, 244, ib. Rattray, 244. Reid, 492, Riddell, 492. Robertson, 118, ib.
737. Ross, 244, 492. Russell, 244.
Teignmouth, 489. Vansittart, 489.
Court, 118. Craigie, 363.
Craufuird, 737.
Crawford, 118, 363. Cumming, 363.
Lee, 628. Legge, 118. Lock, 363.
Lockhart, 492.
Shum, 628. Sillar, 118 Simpson, 628. Sinclair, 118, 245.
Smith, 628. Snell, 628.
Somervell, 492. Souter, 492.
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