BENTLEY'S

MISCELLANY.

VOL. XXIII.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1848.

CONTENTS.

Lord Hardinge, and the recent Victories in India,

Origin of the Story of Bluebeard,

The late Isaac D'Israeli, Esq. and the Genius of

582

11, 143

The Three Nuns,

The Fairy Cup

The Country Towns and Inns of France, By J. Marvel,

A Pipe with the Dutchmen,

226, 417

Para; a Narrative of Scenes and Adventures on the Banks of the

Amazon, by J. E. Warren,

17, 159, 239, 347, 484

An Old Man's Recollections of the Pastoral Cantons of Switzerland.

Edited by Mrs. Percy Sinnett,

A Fête Champêtre in Constantinople, By Mrs. Percy Sinnett,
Gossip from Paris,

The Lucky Grocer, by Abraham Elder,

Fêtes at Madrid, The Montpensier Marriage,

The Six decisive Battles of the World; by Professor Creasy

IV. Arminius's Victory over the Roman Legions under Varus,

Visit to his Highness Rajah Brooke, at Sarawak, by Peter M'Quhae,

A New Year's Eve,

The Old Man and his Guests, By H. J. Whitling,

Career of the Hero of Acre,

74

88

Captain Spike; or, The Islets of the Gulf; by J. F. Cooper, 78, 192, 375

My Birth-day Dream, by Edward Kenealy, LL.B.

Government Plan of Defence for the Country, by J. A. St. John,

A Visit to the Haunt of a Poetess,

A Ramble along the old Kentish Road from Canterbury to London, 111, 266

Memoir of Beethoven, by Miss Thomasina Ross,

Characteristics of the Poet Gray, by E. Jesse,

Summer Sketches in Switzerland, by Miss Costello,

What Tom Pringle did with a £100 Note,

The Heiress of Budowa, a Tale of the Thirty Years' War,

What can Sorrow do?

The Postman, by H. R. Addison,

The Two Pigs, a Swinish Colloquy, by W. E. Burton,

Rattery Brown; or, The Privateer's Carousal, By Robert Postans,

270

575

Hoax of the Shakspeare Birth-house, and Relic Trade at Stratford on

Avon, by a Warwickshire Man,

Mrs. Alfred Augustus Potts; a Tale of the Influenza, by Mrs. Frank

Elliott,

289

Visits, Dinners, and Evenings, at the Quai D'Orsay, and at Neuilly, 297