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OF VOLUME. IV. 








ENGRAVINGS. 














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Tue Courr anv Courr Cerzrmonrats—Presentation at Tue Frencu 1N Arcerra—A Captive French Officer in the 

Court cn na a a eS Oe Presence of Abd-el-Kader - + + + © «+ Tal 

Dramatic ENTERTAINMENTS OF THE CHINESE—Group of Tuer Corron ManuracrurE—Factory Girls preparing the 
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Warriors assembled in Council ; i ‘ -« & Warp for the Weaver—“ Drawing In”’ . * «. 132. 
Rev. Joun Wiitt1ams—Portrait : P - 7 . 31| Turkey anp THe Turks—Turkish Soldiers at Drill in 
Extinction oF SLtaveRy—Civilisation of Africa sa S European Costume and Manner. o « « 
Tue Story or MarGaret. From Gorrue’s “ Faust.” An ANCIENT AND ORIENTAL ScenE—Rebekah and Eliezer 

1, First Meeting of Faust with Margaret . . - 49 at the Well . . . . . : : - 158 

2. Margaret discovering the Jewels + «+ 5 + iv) A Scene rs Greenwicn Hosrrrar— Spinning a Yarn” 

3. Martha adorning Margaret ‘ ‘ ‘ . .- ov in Chalk Walk ‘ . ‘ P : - « 169 

4. Scene in the — * 2 2 + + + Vill Massacre or THE HucuEnots—Rescue of young De. la 

5 2 j »& + ott ie . ° 

is Some in the ‘ ummer-house . ° _ * : _ Force from under the dead Bodies of his Father and 

6. ae —— _ + + * & Ha ae ae ee ee ee ee 

7. The Despair ° = . é eC ° . , — , 

. .. | Streer Mvusic—Dutch Itinerant Musicians . « « 5 

8. The Dungeon Scene js " . . - « si 

meee ir or Georrry CHAUCER . ° : : - 199 
SuFreRinGs oF THE JEws—-Group of Syrian Jews. - 49 Fuatnam on @ ‘ he Pil 
. . » CANTERBURY PILGRIms—Group from ‘‘the Pilgrimage 
Retirep Leisure or Tuk Cuinese—Chinese Summer- easly ‘es P 7 “om 
to Canterbury,’’ by Thomas Stothard, R.A. . — 
House . ‘ 2 e - ‘ - « OF 9 
= . ; Tur Pi_GRim oF THE Mippie AGES é ; . 217 
SEARCHING ror Wi.Ls—Interior of the Prerogative Office, . 
Doctors’ Commons fe F ’ ; : . 73 | TH» Pore In PontiricaLs—Portrait of the present Pope, 
ele regory XVI. ‘ ° ; : . ‘° . +o 
ImpRovEMENT OF JRELAND—Father Mathew administer- Gregory ’ 

ing the Temperance Pledge. F s . . . 85 | ScHoLrarsuip—a Scholar of the Middle Ages. . 249 
Convicts AND THE Convict System— Gang of Convicts “La Cuarenains ”—The Lady of the Castle ‘ « = 850 

in Woolwich Dockyard : . : : - + 97] Dreams at tHE Dawn oF Paiosopay—An Empiric 
JEDEDIAH Strutt, oF BeLpEr—Portrait . ‘ «: « 103 watching the Result of an Experiment 3 265 
Poor-Laws AND Provision For THE DestiITUTE—Vincent FrEDERIC THE GREAT PICKING THE POCKET oF A 

de Paul rescuing Children exposed in the Streets of Paris 109 SLEEPING PAGE . . ° ° - « 0 6 27 

ILLUSTRATED ESSAYS. PAGE PAG 
PAGE|English Poets—Chaucer ~- ° ° « » 198) The Moss Rose e . ° ° e 24 
The Court and Court Ceremonials —Levees, The Canterbury Tales . e ° + 206] Disjoined Friendship ° ‘ e e 36 
Drawing-Rooms, &c. . « + 2] The Pilgrim of the Middle Ages ° + .» 218] The Negro’s Complaint ra | 
Dramatic Entertainments of the Shine * + 13) The Pope considered officially ° ° - 230|A Working Man’s Address to the w ife of hits: 
Retired Leisure of the Chinese . + + 62) Scholarship . « + 242; Youth (original) ° «=a 
Labours of the late Mr. John W iliams in the ‘La Chatelaine *Sateeuee of Women i in the The Coming Time (original) K4 
South Seas e - 30 Middle Ages . « 254] The Female Convict to her Infant ; F ield F Flowers 60 
Christianity and Civilisation—Extinction of the Dreams at the Dawn of Philosophy _ . + . 266!Mortality . : ° 72 
Slave-Trade, and Civilisation of Africa . . 38] Frederick the Great of Prussia . e - 277| The Mother and her Child ° ° 72 
Sofferings of the Jews. ° - 49 The Rainbow . . 76 
Doctors’ Commons—The Prerogative Will Office, — Michael Angelo on the Death of his Father and 
with Remarks on Wills. ° . 73 THE POETS AND POETRY Brother . o> 
Sketch of Father Mathew, with Remarks on Lines on seeing a Flower blowing ina Prien 
Temperance Societies ‘ 85| The Encuisn Ports—Dawn of English Poetry, Window ° . 
Convicis and the Convict System—Visit to with a Portrait of Chaucer . e + 198} The Birth and Death of the favourite Daughter i: 
Wooiwich Dockyard . . ° + « 97| The Canterbury Tales ° ° 206, 231|The Garden. ° . ; ° beh 
The Cotton Manufacture ° . re. - 103| The Poems and Lyrics of Robert Nicholl + 270| The Inquiry ° . . . ibe 
Poor Laws and Provision for the Destitute + 103) Gray's ‘‘ Bard,” with Observations . + + 33! A Mother's Reflections . ° ° lid 
French Conquests in Africa . . « « 122) The Poetry of Flowers; an Essay . 43| Richard Lovelace, his Poetry—Althea the 
Turkey andthe Turks . e ° - 148| On the Imagery and descriptive Powers of Poetry The Sleeping Beauty—The Waking Beauty Mi 
Pictorial Truth and Pictorial Beauty ° - + 158 118, 141) Household Treasures . . . e . 1% 
Chalk Walk—Greenwich Hospital - + 170| John Clare, the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet 45| To the Memory ofa Son e ° * Oo 
Massacre of the Huguenots e ° « 182) Father Land and Mother Tongue . + 12) The Orphan Boy’s Tale . ‘ ‘ 192 
Street Music e . . ° ° . 194) The Missicnary’s Departure . ° . « 19! The Lover to his Mistress ° ° i . “03 














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as , ——: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Pace} CHRONICLES OF THE PONT NEUF. 
The Millions of the Ancients e ° 2 « 204 res 
— +. | The Rev. John Williams . ’ ° - 3 
The Prayer of a coloured Man (original) o & Thomas Telford 68 ; PaGR 
The Bended Bow. ° . .  « 216 : . * : - . The Pont Neuf—its character and events - 196 
The Voices of the Night . . . + 228 Porter Mathew : . 2 : = s * Napoleon’s first appearance, &c. . + « 214 
The Convict Ship . . . . 240/ Jedediah Strutt, of Belper =. + ~ — + 102] professionals of the Pont Neuf ._ « a 
Verses by Chidiock Titchbourne | * . 252 rm d Yemen oa ipteeiin . ssi pe Parisian Tricksters, dexterity of, &c. 2 » 236 
The Housetold Festival . * ‘ = eae ’ , e . 
Youth’s Dreams. e - 270 _— 
I dare not Scorn—The Ww idow' 's Child o «M71 e, 
Minister Tam—I am Blind—Visions .. rrenannd See Someone oe MISCELLANEOUS. 
[ha’e Nobody now—Prussic Acid ° . . 283] Casual Observations =. ° ? . 7 5 
Homes and Graves i a is x . 199 Notes on Noses e e ° e + « 28) The Cotton Manufacture—its Origin, History, 
The Vision of Beauty 2 - . .300|A Laconical Chapter . e . ° - i4 and present State . + 103, 134, 153, 173 
The Exile’s Song e e e * . 308| Loan Societies . 2 . + «+ 41| The Slave Trade and its Remedy ° - 66, 81 
Christianity and Civilisation . . . . ee | Italy and the Italians . ° > «+ 172, 198 
onenenees Hat-hunting . . ae 4) History of the Popes ° . 220, 229, 289 
Misdirection of Gentes and Talent . . ro The Abbé Edgeworth . e . . « @ 
SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. The true Objects of Femperance Societies . - 105 | Preservation from Drowning ° ° o « & 
Old Friends with new Bodies . + 160| Celebrated Women of Athens ° Fs - 35 
A Scientific Holiday ° ° ° ° + 16) Disturbers of Public aids of inp. | Witches hanged by Sir Matthew Hale —c 
A few Words about Geology. Nos. 1 and2, 52, 89/ probation ° . + 259! The Judge and the Moralist on the Marriage 
Reasonings upon Natural Phenomena— Amusements of the Seate a . - 200! Contract ‘ ‘ ‘ . 4 
Meteorolites . ° + 126! Tares ov THE Avvections—Faithfoloess in Love, A Regular ipeeene 4 ‘ ‘ - « & 
Moisture in the Atmosphere—Rain + + 188! or Aunt Lucy’s History ‘ + 6,25/The Hair. ; : ' ss ‘  & 
The Winds ° . ° ° + 238 Faithlessness in Love ; or a common Story | Indian Paradise 4 - 63 
Social Economy of a Beehive. + + 3 of a too common Occurrence E . 55| Remnant of Serfdom in the North of England - 68 
Trade Winds and Land and Sea Breezes + 05 Imprudence in Love; a Tale of Caution, 101,| State of the Poor in our large Towns . - 70 
Discovery of the Compass ° e ~ « 4 136, 148| Music in Words < - 
Saltness and Depth of the Sea ° ° - AT Half Pay and Whole Pay ° . . 256| A Visit to the Royal pon of ‘Music i . 107 
Science of the Rainbow. ° + + 76) The Commercial Traveller and the Highwayman 9) | Tin Canisters ; - . 108 
Vital Statistics of our large Towns ° - $3) The History of a Young Woman that came to | The Inhabitants of Pitcairn’ s Island ; . 130 
Hydrophobia and its Cure . + + 94) London for Service : is . + «+ 20'A Luminous Advemure . ‘ ‘ - « 66 
Effects of an Eclipse of the Moon in the Interior Reconciliation ° . ‘ . ‘ - 22! A Perilous Situation. ‘ > . - 200 
of Africa ° . ° ° : + 117| The Knight of Sheppy ” + « 23! Vicissitudes of War Pe ° F . . 201 
The Proteus Anguinus : . + + 155| Recollections of a four-tooted Fav ourite . 64 | Eagles in the Hebrides . . ‘ . 202 
Steam-Vessels of the United States | . + 165) Old Gentlemen who have nothing particular to Destitution and Crime —.« . ‘ ~ «oe 
do ~ . - + 78) Statistics of Marriage ‘ . . - 208 
— Padge Barber ; a a Devbyshive Tale « 79, 87) Condition of the Country - ° « « 213 
Ks The Tanner of Mascara. ° * + + 93) Oriental Character . . . . + 230 
RAMBLING NOTES OF A NATURALIST. | pie Parisian at Sea . : ° + 112, 128) Last Hours of Nelson ° e ° o « 1 
, 7 Montorio ‘ : . + «+ 130) Every-day People . . ° . e - 261 
in lhe — rt ae a The Soul in Purgatory; or, * Love stronger than Lapland Travelling : e. » —e 
The Garden—at Home . . . «1lig| Death °. e ° e ° . - 143) The Origin of Names. + 262 
Boxhill : iu : ” A . 125 oe eyed m ,, . i ° . « pe = and Insolence of the Clever ia ‘the Middle a 
’ i orinda and Jorinde’ - ° . . ges i * s ’ 
> ll : . “ 7 z ° . “ : i ps Millar the Publisher and Fielding ° . + ib.| Scottish Song . - ib 
Napoleon’s Aides-de-Camp ~- ° ° . 176] Affecting Letter of Dr. Southey to Mr. Ww ‘ilber- 
Going to be Married ° e ° - . 178)  foree, on the Death of his Son e - . 294 
Barry the Painter > ‘ ° ‘ - 179| The Desire of Society . - 298 
A TRIP TO SCOTLAND. Glances at my Childhood e . « « 185) That we should lie down with the Leuibs a 
The Widow and her Son . . e - 186) Popular Fallacy . . . : 2 «+ 299 
1, Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, and Dunkeld —. 211 | Popping the Question ‘ ° ° + .190| The Serpent-Charmer of India ‘ ‘ . 303 
2. Ascent of Cairn Gowr . . + 222) Mad Collins ° > e ° - 209} Letter Writing ‘ « « 
3. Falls of Bruar—Loch Katrine : + + 234) An Incident at Gibraltar. . ‘ « « 225] Instinctive Animosity to the Untertanate . 304 
4. Ascent of Ben Lomond—Glasgow, &c. + 247/| The Lioness and her Husband ° ‘. . 244] Hints for Literary Societies . ib. 
The Main-Truck ; or, a Leap for Life « + 268] The three Spanish Painters, Murillo, Velanques, 
The Mad Student ° ° . ° - 270) and Zurbaran . ° ° ‘ e + 305 
maelemtomateiuuettl 2 ee ee 
1, Hamburgh, Altona, Lubeck, St. Petersburg . 113| The Stout Gentleman . e . e . 292) Exaggeration e . . e o « ih 
2 Russia, Poland, and external —_— of The Old Lawyer e . . . - 294] Napoleon in his Youth . . + 307 
St. Petersburg e . - 138|Amelia . s . ° e . + . 296| The Lykewake of a Circassian Noble ¥ o o ih 
3. Abo, Stockholm, Gottenburg, im e + « 160| Genius ° ° . . e Fy - 301} Estimate of a Wife ° e ° ‘ - 308 














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