Chatterton, Unpublished Poem by, 160 Chit-Chat; Literary and Miscellaneous.— For January.-Circulation of Blackwood's Magazine. Absurd Story of the Arrest of Sheridan's Corpse corrected.-Rob Roy's Challenge. French Antidote for the Small Pox.-Regeneration of the Monthly Maga- zine, by Messrs. Cox and Baylis.-Pro- jected Life of Mrs. Siddons.-Dr. Parr and his three Bozzis.-Newly-invented French Silk-weaving Machine. The North Pole Humbug.-Sir Richard Phillips's Vamps, published by Knight and Lacey.-Singu- lar Geological Fact respecting the Ame- thyst.-New Edition of Mr. Campbell's British Poets, Suggestion respecting.— Projected Life of Wolfe, Trick of the annonce of.-Translations of Ariosto and
Tasso, by Stewart Rose, J. H. Wiffen, Sir John Harrington, and Fairfax, Opinions of.-Deacon's November Nights.--Folio Edition of the Scriptures, with Preface, by Calvin, at Hunsley Beacon, Yorkshire.
Steam Vessels on a novel Principle.- Discovery of Antiquities at Tusculum.— Translation into English of La Secchia Rapita by Mr. Atkinson.—Mr. Pettigrew's Catalogue of the Duke of Sussex's Library. -Origin of Mrs. Shelley's Last Man.- Mrs. Belzoni, liberal Conduct of Mr. Brockedon, the Artist, to.-Charter of the Royal Society of Literature, &c., &c., 54, et seq.
For February.-Mrs. Heman's Forest Sanctuary, Account of the Subject of.- Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon.- Iole, supposed Identity of.-Charles Lamb a Contributor to the New Monthly Maga- zine.-Wiffen's projected Specimens of the Spanish Poets.-Bowles, Roscoe and the Controversy respecting Pope.-Goe- the's Young Rifleman advertised as an original Work.-Miss Roberts's History of the rival Houses of York and Lancas- ter. Leeds Literature.-Annual Literary Works, increase of the Sale of.-French Law for the Protection of Literary Property. -French Voyage of Discovery.-Mr. Hood's admirable Caricature, "The Pro- gress of Cant."-Madame de Genlis, Miss Benger, the Rev. C. B. Taylor, Mr. Praed and John Clare.-Mr. Lockhart not the Editor of the Representative.-Polwhele's Traditions.-Spirit of Whittaker's new Se- ries of the Monthly Magazine, and Orator Thelwall's Revenge.-New Novel, by Mr. Crowe.-Death of Captain Beaufort the African Traveller.-Successes of the Vigo- Bay Company. - Cradock's Memoirs.- New Work by Sir John Leicester and Mr. Jerdan, to be entitled British Ichthyology, pp. 108, et seq.
For March.-Miss Waldie the Author- ess of Rome in the Nineteenth Century. -Death of the last of the Family of Rous-
seau.--List of Editions of English Bibles. -French Translation of Mackenzie's Works. The Eves-Dropper, Medwin, Sum given him for his Conversations.-Bernard Barton's Devotional Verses, favourable Notice of.--Sir Walter Scott christened "THE CREATOR" by the Edinburgh News- papers. Charles Molloy Westmacott.- Popular German Stories, Notice of.-Tri- fling of the Royal Society of Literature.- Sycophancy of the European Magazine in speaking of the Deputy Licenser.-Com- parison of Horace Smith's Brambletye House with the Novels of the Author of Waverley-Blackwood's Magazine, Blun- ders of the Man-of-War's Man.-Origin of the Systems of Gall and Spurzheim.- Comparison in the North American Review between Lord Byron and Timothy Pink- ney, in which the Palm is given to the rhyming Yankee.-Margravine of Ans- pach's Memoirs, Notice of, &c., 165, et seq.
For April.-Few Works of Interest pub- lished.-New Edition of Miss Lee's Can- terbury Tales.-- Memoirs of Lindley Mur- ray. Arrival of Weber.-Purchase of Bailey's Eve by the Bristolians.-Charge of Plagiarism brought by the Literary Gazette against the Monthly Review, accounted for.-Mr. Chandos Leigh's Po-
-The New Monthly.-Sir Egerton Brydges. Dr. Halliday, &c., &c., 224.
For May.-Manuscript of the Iliad and Odyssey in Letters of Gold upon a Ser- pent's Gut, Destruction of.-Sale of an illustrated Pennant at Evans's for £250.- Swedish Translation of Tasso.-A Post- humous Work of Rousseau.-Boaden's Life of Mrs. Siddons.-Burford's Panorama of Madrid. Klopstock's Messiah once more done into English.-Curious Entry in the Diary of a Baptist Missionary.-Establish- ment of Botanical Gardens, and Culture of the Tea Plant, at Brazil.-Subject of Woodstock.-Capital Number of the Quar- terly Review.-British Gallery.-Horace Smith's Ode on the Death of Chuny the Elephant.-Squib's Pun on the Rev. Mr. Irving. The Sabbath Morning, Notice of. -Attempted Identification of Junius with Burke.-Dubois' Life of Sir Philip Francis. --George Noakes's astonishing Powers of Calculation, incredible Stories of.-Mar- tin's Death of Sardanapalus.-French Editions of the Works of the Author of
into this Country by Mr. Brockedon.- Sale of the Effects of the French Painter, David, and Character of.-The Northern Society of Leeds, their Prudence contrasted with the Folly of some of the Manchester would-be Patrons of the Fine Arts.-Tour through Owyhee.-The Lord Chancellor's Portrait. Subject of the Seatonian Prize Poem.-New Machine for towing Vessels. -Poverty of Mozart's Son.-The National Gallery and the Crokers.-Lord Berwick's Paintings. Buonaparte's earliest Wish.— A vulgar Error corrected.-Absurdity of the Stories respecting O'Keefe.-German Medal in Honour of Goethe.-The Rev. Mr. Croly's Paper on the British Empire in the Monthly Review.-Burke's Heraldic Dictionary, Notice of.-A Russian Pea- sant Poet. Humbug of Mr. Bowdler's ex- purgated edition of Gibbon exposed.-Plan for communicating verbal Intelligence to vast Distances by the Human Voice.- Mr. Newton's Scene from the Beggar's Opera, Account of, purchased by the Mar- quis of Lansdowne.-Modest Expectations of some Literary Aspirants, 275, et seq.
For June.-Gifford's Shirley.-The Bra- zen Head.---Milinan's Anne Boleyn, No- tice of.---The Sheridiana, a Vamp.-Miss Stephens' Debut in Breeches.-A Foreign manufactured Falsehood corrected.-Tur- ner's Ports of England.-Mr. Frere's View of the Prophecies.-Professor Rezzi's Dis- covery of a Manuscript of the Divina Com- media of Dante at Rome.- Accession to the National Gallery.---Gifford's Edition of Ford.---The Royal Society of Literature, Push-Pin Play of.---Miss E. W. Miles's Poems, Notice of.---The Ass.---French Edition of Lord Byron.---Horticultural Humbug.---The Rev. Blanco White.--- Existence of a beautiful Manuscript of the Sonnets of Petrarch.---Medals presented to Mr. Herschell, Mr. South, and Pro- fessor Struve.---Tales, in Verse, illustra- tive of the Lord's Prayer, by the Rev. H. F. Lyte, Notice of.---Relics of M. Denon's Cabinet.---Model of St. Peter's at Rome.---Sum paid for the Copyright of Woodstock.---Curious Historical Disco- veries by Mr. Ellis.---Boaden's Gossip.--- Woodburn's Collection of Pictures by the old Masters.---The largest Newspaper ever printed.---History of the Iron Mask, by the Hon. Agar Ellis, Notice of.---Literary Fund, Speech of Mr. Moore, the coyness of the Rev. Mr. Croly, and the humbug of the whole Affair.
Waverley.-Popish Ideas of the Liberty of the Press. Experiment on Fruit Trees.- Pinkerton, Literary Character of.-Six Months in the West Indies, Notice of. Circumstantial Evidence, Inadequacy of Singular Petrefaction.-Dr. P.A. Nuttall's Edition of Virgil's Bucalics, favourable Notice of.-Introduction of Weber's Music
Coeur de Lion at the Bier of his Father. By Mrs. Hemans, 294
Diary of a Commercial Traveller, 230 Dutch Postboy, Sketch of a, 205 Dying Infant, The. By the Author of Solitary Hours, 322
Epigram written on hearing that a poor Woman had been brought to bed in a stage coach, 121
Epigram written on the fly-leaf of a modern Epic. By Thomas Campbell, Esq. 121 Epigram. From the Greek. On the Spar- tans who fell at Thermopylæ, 251 Epigram on a swindling Music Master, 134 Epigram to a dirty Friend in trouble, 121 Epigram on reading in a Newspaper that Miss Paton had stipulated with the mana- ger of Covent Garden that she should not be required to appear in Male attire, 256
Epithalamium of Cupid and Psyche. By Mrs. Henry Rolls, 82
Evening. By N. T. Carrington, 238 Evening Thoughts, 142
Excursion. Extracts from, 19
worth, Remarks on the Writings and Genius of, 17
Living Poets of England, No. II. Words- worth, Remarks on the Writings and Genius of, concluded, 68
Living Poets of England, No. III. Mrs. Hemans, Remarks on the Writings and Genius of, 113
Lost Pleiad, The. By Mrs. Hemans, 116 Love till Death. By Cornelius Webbe, 305 Lover's Reverie in a Ball Room, by Mrs. C. B. Wilson, 248
My native Village. By Robert Franklin, Stanzas to an Infant asleep in its Mother's
My Retreat. By M. J. J. 96
Notices to Correspondents, 111
Notices to Correspondents, 167
Stanzas for Music, 78 Stanzas. By J. M., 96
Nun. Sonnet to an old Engraving of a, Stanzas. By J. H. Wiffen, Esq., 107
Supernatural Appearances, 316
Tale of Real Life, 199
The Lady and the Merlin, from a Picture by Newton. By Alaric A. Watts, 67
The Merry Wives of Madrid. A Spanish Story, 57. Conclusion of, 145
The Flight of the Exile (from the Forest Sanctuary). By Mrs. Hemans, 292 The Exile to his Child (from the Forest Sanctuary). By Mrs. Hemans, 290 The Chapel-Master's Miseries, from the Ger- man of Hoffman, 307
The Lady's Album, 183 ·
The Inconstant's Apology, By M. G. Lewis, Esq., 132
The Infant and Bird. By M. J. J., 164 The Swallow's Return. By Robert Frank- lin, 217
The Procession of an Auto da fe (from the Forest Sanctuary). By Mrs. Hemans,
Stanzas from the Icelandic. By J. H. Wif- Wordsworth, Selections from the Sonnets of,
fen, Esq., 220
Stanzas for Music, 206
Stanzas on a Dead Infant.
wall Baron Wilson, 193 Stanzas written after having perused Death of the First Born," 179 Stanzas for Music. By J. H. Wiffen, Esq.,
Would I had Wist. A Ditty, by Mrs. How- itt, 212
Wrecker, The. A Cornish Legend, 222
Yarrow Unvisited. By W. Wordsworth, Extracted, 73.
MORNING CALLS, the hatred and annoyance of all persons who know the value of time, formed at S
the staple business of life. After this it is quite unnecessary to say that S- was a small country town, abounding with genteel idle people,-who, having limited incomes, and few occupations, and much leisure, and little mind, mainly occupied themselves in hearing and retailing news. By many people, S- was considered a charming residence; in the country sense of the term it contained so much ' good society,'-and this good society was so very sociable :'-in other words-every body drank tea with every body, and every body knew every body's business. As far as news was concerned they had all things in common; scandal was certainly communicated from mouth to mouth under the charge of secrecy, but that, as all the world knows, is equivalent to proclaiming it by sound of trumpet; so that such a thing as a secret was perfectly unknown in S. Surprise was next to impossible, for all events, no matter of what kind, public or private, petty or important, were known beforehand; sudden death was the only circumstance ever known to baffle these omniscient people. It was quite a straight forward proceeding to report births and marriages before their occurrence; but sudden death was an awkward subject to meddle with; it was not to be foreseen even by those who foresaw all things. The town of S—, was like a bee-hive always in a buzz,-of hints, wonderments, suspicions, doubts, hopes, fears, and conjectures; it was a vast whispering-gallery; one large ear; but this last figure rather fails in similarity, as the self-same whisper often found a hundred different echoes. The surmise at one end of the town that a lady and gentleman were attached, grew to a suspicion in the middle, that they were engaged; from which started a full-grown report at the other end, that the wedding-clothes were in hand. Disasters went through the same exaggerating process. A piece of news past through as many changes as a chrysalis; a simple fact in the hands of these philosophic newsmongers became the germ of a hundred. Life at S-, was a round-robin monotony of putting on the same dresses, seeing the same people, taking the same walks, playing at cards with the same partners, dancing to the same tunes, and coming away at the same hour, over and over again, from the beginning of one year to the end of another. Hence, arose craving for excitement in the only attainable shape, that of news ; out of which originated a talent for gossip, and a passion for morning calls. ; there needed none; nor any
There was no newspaper printed at S
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