THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLAN Y.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. LXXXIII.

FOR 1819.-PART I.

THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY;

A NEW SERIES

OF THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE.

JANUARY-JUNE, 1819.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

VOL. IV.

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1819.

THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

BEING A NEW SERIES OF

The Scots Magazine,

JANUARY 1819.

CONTENTS.

ty?..

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

Ot Dante's Inferno.

3 Dr King's Literary and Political Anec-

On Hygrometry and Meteorological Ob dotes of his Own Times como masaran... 56

servations in General...

..10 EDINBURGH NOVELS:-1. St Patrick,

Mr Hazlitt's Lectures on the Comic a National Tale of the Fifth Century:

Genius of England :

-2. Campbell, or the Scottish Proba-

LECTURE THIRD.Cowley, But tioner ;-3. Marriage;-4. Coquetry.60

ler, Suckling, Etherege, fcommun12 Antar, a Bedoueen Romance.com ..62

State of Glasgow in 1692 and 1815........14

A New-Year's Day Epistle on the Sing-

ORIGINAL POETRY.

ing of Birds.com

17

Arabian Song.--Chansonette. Fragment.

An Answer to the Question, What are

-Paraphrase of Psalm 137.-Son-

the probable Effects of increasing

net to a Lady.-Stanzas at Midnight 68

Knowledge on the Condition of Socie. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC

22

INTELLIGENCE.

Relation of a Singular Modern Miracle..27 Proposal for Establishing a Horticultu.

Strictures on the Doctrine that the Prin-

ral and Botanical Institution in Edin-

ciple of Population is the Great Source burgh ;-Literary Premium ;-Scotch

of Vice and Misery cosasamano

28 Penny Wedding by Wilkie ;-Deaths

Accident at Quarrelton Coal-pit, near

in Paris during 1817, &c. &c. ......70

Paisley, and Rescue of two Men who Works preparing for Publication cannor...73

had been immured for ten days.........33 Monthly List of New Publications comme

-74

On the Use of Corporal Pánishments in

MONTHLY REGISTER.

our Public Schools

.....36 Foreign Intelligencemaman

-78

Historical Illustrations of Shakespeare 39 ) British Chronicle

80

On the Repeal of the Bank Restriction British Finances.com

m.83

Act

43 Patents

.84

Remarks on the Character and Writings Appointments and Promotions.... mib.

of the late Mrs Brunton, Author of Meteorological Report

88

Self-Control and Discipline.ropocenama... 45 Agricultural Report,

Circumstances attending the Execution Commercial Report....

91

of Robert Johnston, with Reflections.40 Births, Marriages, Deathermanos 93

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