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EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, 


FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 


1856. 


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VOL. XXIIL 


EDINBURGH: 
SUTHERLAND & KNOX.—LONDON: PARTRIDGE & CO. 


M DCCC LVI. 

















INREX TO VOLUME XXIII. 








PAGE 


American Elections, The. . . . . .- - (54 
Australia, The Metropolisof . . . . . 42 
Alexander Dumas , . 99, 152 
Australian Sketches . . 78, 739 


Betting and Poison . . . « + + + . 372 
Britain and America. . . - - « « « 406 





Coasts of Norway, The . . . 553, 563 
Coming Reform Bill, The . . . . . « 641 | 
Ce. era ere , 656 | 
Cardinal de Retz . . . . «© « « « «© 9386 
Chrichton, Sir Alexander . . .. . . 443 
Commercial Felonies. . . . . . . - 177 
Cockburn’s Memorials, Lord . . . . . 434 
Creation, Typical Forms and Special Ends in. 238 


Dalhousie and Oude, Lord . . .. . .« 102 
Dream of Napoleou IIL,The . . . . . 465 
Don Sebastian, King of Portugal . 473, 518 
Dressing Gown and the Sentiuel’s Cloak, The 599, 

677, 721 
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Embalmed Patriarch, An. . . .. . . “il 
Euphrates Valley Railway, The . . 360, 758 


Free Trade in Money . ..... . 58 
Forbes Mackenzie’s Act,. . ....-. d 


Grace Dorrien . 37, 94, 143, 209, 265, 340 
Goethe: His Life and Character . . . 136 
Getting up and getting down of Joint Stock 
Companies, The. . .-. . . . « 304 
Green Spots iu London . . . ... «. 5490 
Gleanings and Fragments . . . . 622, 754 


Hamilton, Sir William, Bart. . . . . . 440 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel . ..... - 756 


Imaginary Conversations . .. . . . 460 
ie ul ek ee ten. ge nn 
International Congress . . . . . . « 666 


Kitto, John . . . 408 
Klapka on the War in 1 the East, General . . &4 





Literary Register, 62, 118, 186, 249, 313, 377 | 


444, 509, 575, 632, 700, 764 


Life of a Publisher, The . . . 106 | 


Life of a German Mercenary, Some Pasaages 
inthe Life of . . , . 199 
Lost Faculty, or the Sixth Seuse * . 657, 726 
Leicester versus London. . . . . . « 734 
Labour and Life . . - » 385 





Ladies’ Pets and What they Cost, Our . . 270 
London Joint Stock Banks. . . . . . 577 





PAGE 
Military Education . . . . « « « » OM 


Meteorology . . , . 354, 397, 460 
Marseilles, A Peep uc .« .cheeeeeie, 470 
Montgomery, Memoirs of James . . . . 492 
- Personal Recollections of James 737 
Magistracy of France, The. . . . . « 538 
Macaulay’s History of England . «<&4 
M‘Neill and Tulloch’s Crimean Report . 116, 225 


Te, Te +) tt Se ee ee eee 


Original, The. . . — se 
Overland Trip from Bombay to London, The. 20 
Orgauisation . . oS Be 


Pilgrimage to La Trappe, A. . . . . . 89 

Poetry :— 
A Love Lyric . . 93, 752 
A Poem from Goethe » « C9 688 
A Day Dream... . oo + fi 
As one by one our F riends De part. . . 467 
Be Ce AE winae evel el orecndl 
Censtened 0 36! cineicd ms tian l. ore 


Ce SO eee ee 
GON Fe ee ee 
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Just Dead . .. » ite eee 


Laughing and Crying . bite oo, woelae 
Lily: a Legend of Guernsey. . . . . 164 
My Bowerof State ...... . 647 
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Oh! WhereforeSigh? ... . . . 697 
On the Death of James Montgomery . . 592 
Pansias and Glycera; or the First Flower 
Painter . . . 370 
Prince Charles Stuart's March down the 
SOGREIES . « ose 0 es ee 
Robin. . a Ts 
St. Nicholas’ Inkstand. es — 
Sonnets . . . . 390, 336, "363, 402, 418 
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The Minstrel’s Curse. . . . . . + 699 
The Mountaineer’s Hymn. . . . , . 632 
The Summer of the Heart . . . . . 443 
The Vagrant atthe Church Door . . . 744 
Throstin Thanen . . o « « SI 
Warnung : a Poem from Géethe . ose tee 
Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The . 14 
Poets and Poetry. . . . 418, 566, 652, 715 
Prescott’s History of the Reign of Philip LL. 118 
Political Narrative . 61, 115, 182, 246, 309, 376 


506, 629, 697, 761 
Peace Conferences, The. . ... . . 180 
Prisons aud Poverty . ec. 2a 


Payment of Members of Parliament - « . 61 











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iv. INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII. 


PAGE 
Profit and Loss of Insurance Companies, The 502, 
542, 627, 683, 745 

Preachers and =e" C. H. _ 
geon . . - . 689 
Peel, Jelinger Symons on . 718 
Religious Novels . 554 

Ras Mala: A Chronicle of the Province of 
Goozerat. . . . 584 
Ross, Sir John, the Arctic Voyager . 693 
Rainy Day in Egypt, A . : . 468 
Russian Inheritance, A . 486 
Social Legislation 1 


Scottish Rights Association and the Franchise, 


Tee 6 . 66 
Scottish Fishery Board . 204 
Syrian Land, The . . 285 
Sunday and the Democracy . . 364 
Spirit Rapping, Notes on . . . 605 
Supreme Court of Appeal and Peers for Life, 

The . 609 
Six Days’ Trip in a Government Transport . 664 
Solitude in Cities . . 623 
Two Testimonies, The , - « 625 | 
Thorneycroft G. B., of Wolverhampton . 645 
Treaty of Paris, The. . 257 | 
Thompson, Major Henry Langhorne, C. B., . 442 
Tenure of Land in Ireland, The . 221 





Tangled Talk :— 
1. Of Talk — Drops of Brandy—Old 


Fashioned Books . . ne 
II. Sound and Refreshing Sleep at Will 
—The British House of Conmons—Fan- 
ciful Symbolic Meanings—Keeping Se- 
crets . . . 85 
III. Comparisons ‘Compared—The High- 
est Moral Use of Friendship—The most , 
Iusolent Letter in the World. - . . 160 
IV. Il Segreto per Esser Felici—‘‘ Con- 
suelo” and “ — ”*—-Curiosities of 
Literature . . 215 
V. The Doctrine of ‘Cireumstances — 
Responsibility—“‘ Thou Knowest the 
Commandments ”—‘‘ Child-nature” . 275 
VI. A Droll Procession—The Domestic 
Relations of Literary Men—-A Genuine 
VII. Handsome is that handsome does 
—The Principiis Obsta—“ Only a Week 
Ago”—Little Bethliana . 402 
United States Controversy, The . 429 
mn » The Government of the . 279 


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_ Winifred Mowbray, or Queen Mary’s Maiden 296, 


326, 387 
Wilson, James . . 449 
Wallace and his Mesanment. . 441 














