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Instinct of the monkey

Intelligence in literature and arts 79, 119, 578 Moot point, illustrated

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Montague, Lady Mary W. letters of
Montgomery's thoughs on wheels

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Inventions and discoveries

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Morality of the Parisians

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Morland, the painter, his life

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121

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318, 627

371

Junius, letters of, ascribed to sir P. Francis 79
Juvenile Books

Kean, the tragedian 159, 428, 570, 695, 911

-and Sheridan

Naples and the Campagna Felice
Napoleon medals

Narrative of Robert Adams, an American

981 Musty grain, experiments on

497

My eye, Betty Martin

478

584

51

563

247

sailor

15, 55

Kemble, the tragedian

372

Natural ingenuity

941

------, his retirement

825

Neely's poems, strictures on

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Neid J. memoirs of

646

Koster's travels in Brazil

New Musical instruments

842

167

Kotzebue

842

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Kumaon mountains

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Night-nare

590

Novel-rading,a cause of female depravity 718

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Predilections of the Scotch

231

Strictures on Neele's poems

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Premature talent

493 Striking contrasts

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Prescot, Catharine, her death

Suicide

490

945

Presence of mind in a sailor

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Prince Malcolm

Swift, dean

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615

Prison of the Conciergerie
Prognosticators

Printing press, new invention

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416

Tales of my landlord

1, 13, 80

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Race and racehorse, their meaning
Rage for novelty

The three blue balls

417

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Rape of the Sabines

Raphael's memoirs announced

- travels in Arabia

239, 286, 538 Water, wood, and mountain scenery

809 Thomson, William, his death

916

825 Thou art a dog in a doublet

418

79 Tiger buning in Ind ia

200

99 Tissue, its meaning

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Darkness, by Byron

518 Progress of British sculpture

518

Daylight, when the storm was o'er

David's lamentation for Saul and Jonathan 78 Religion--There is a calm

355

De Courcy

436 Retirement

115

514

Reynolds, Richard, verses on

73

Deluge, translated from Ovid

Don Sebastian

846 Romance

760

111

Doris, from the German of Haller

Savoyard

517

354

Echoes

Sea Nymph

466

357 She never told her love

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Epistle to the Emperor of China

Eric and Amabel

72 Sighs, by mrs. Rolls

848 Song of a lover

672

193

Soliloquy by dr. Sewell

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596

- by lord Thurlow

116

Extract from an address to Napoleon

847

-- to the river Avon

354

Farewell address, by Kemble

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Fisher's grave

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- to my friend

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Flower of Love

593 Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt

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Four Ages, translated from Ovid

758 Stanzas

671

Helen of Kirkconnell

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Hohenelm

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---- on the sea-shore of Kent

193

Storm, written during a tempest

353

Incantation by lord Byron

277

In every change of busy life

671

Thoughts in a ball-room

73

In vain I court refreshing sleep

197

The orb of light descending gave

193

Jonah's Gourd

596

There is an eye whose shaded light

191

To the oak that near my cottage grew

390

Keepsake, the

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Tomb of love

593

Lalla Rookh extracts from

578, 675

Lines by a Mother

194

Vanity of Life

358

-- on a goblet, by Byron

Vola, or sybil of the north

925

594

Visions of Youth

755

- sent with a repeating watch

674

--- written in Richmond church-yard

849

When Cupid prompts the virgin sigh

756

Lost dove

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When winds breathe soft

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Love of fame, by Neele

Winter in Canada

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598 You bid me hope

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TALES OF MY LANDLORD."

By the Author of Waverley, Guy Mannering, and the Antiquary.

IT is impossible to read the first sheet "Old Mortality" is a sort of nickof this production without a convic- name, given by the people of Scotland to tion that it is by the author of Waverly, an antiquated Presbyterian, who having Guy Mannering, and the Antiquary, engaged and suffered in the struggles of though the title-page gives no such in- 1679, preserved his unshaken zeal for formation. his party, and, in his declining years, journied from burial-ground to burialground with his hammer and chisel, renewing the decayed names on the tombstones of those who had fought and fallen in the cause he had reverenced: from the details he supplied, Peter Pattieson is supposed to have framed the novel which bears his title.

The Tales are two in number, and are called "The Black Dwarf" and "Old Mortality." The scenes of both lie in Scotland, and the design of the author is declared to be, to portray the manners of his countrymen; and they are to be followed by others of the same character, at a future period. The "Black Dwart" refers to the state of Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne, and "Old Mortality" speaks of its condition during the struggles by the Presbyterians in favour of the solemn league and covenant," in the latter end of the reign of Charles II.

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The man who forms the principal feature, and who first excites and afterwards heads the Co e anters in the battles of London-Hill and Bothwell-Bridge, is John Balfour, of Burley, who assassina. ted Dr. Thorpe, archbishop of St. AnThe general title of "Tales of my drew's. He is a Highlander, or one Landlord" is derived from the circum-" of the hill-folk," of uncommonly sturstance, that they are supposed to have dy proportions, and of a mind corresbeen collected from the relations of diffe- ponding with his make-undaunted, rent persons at the Wallace-Inn at Gan- fierce, and zealous to the last degree in dercleugh. Mr. Peter Pattieson is sup- the holy cause he has espoused. He has posed to have been the writer and com- fled from the murder he has committed, piler of the tales, who, dying young, left them to the care of Mr. Jedidiah Cleishbotham, the schoolmaster, to whom he had been usher and assistant.

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and is sheltered, as a distressed traveller merely, by Henry Morton, the hero of the tale, a young man of benevolence, courage, and handsome proportions, who is in love with Miss Edith Bellenger, the

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grand-daughter of Lady Margaret Bel- confined by a green ribband from wanlenger, and neice to Major Bellenger. toning over her shoulders; her cast of The rival of Morton is Lord Evandale, features, soft and feminine, yet not withwho, though unsuccessful with the lady, out an expression of playful archness, is, we apprehend, too successful with the which redeemed their sweetness from the reader, for he attracts even more interest charge of insipidity, sometimes brought than Morton. against blondes and blue-eyed beauties,these attracted more admiration from the western youth than either the splendour of her equipment, or the figure of her

Henry Morton unites himself with the Covenanters, and becomes one of their leaders, his associates besides Balfour, being the fanatical preachers, who put palfrey." themselves at the head of the rebels to vindicate the cause against the Prelatists, of an old penurious Scotch laird's table The following is a humorous account upon whom they denounce, and after and family-party dinner about the year execute, the most bloody vengeance. 1680:

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On the other side, at the head of the royalists, is Colonel Grahame, of Clav- old fashions which were connected with "The Laird of Milowood kept up all erhouse, afterwards created for his services, Viscount Dundee. At the period custom of his house, as it had been unieconomy. It was, therefore, still the embraced by this story he is the enter-versal in Scotland about fifty years beprising, courageous, and skilful antagonist fore, that the domestics, after having of Balfour and his zeal-blinded friends, placed the dinner on the table, sate down and is supported principally by Lord at the end of the board, and partook of Evandale and others. the share which was assigned to them, The person of the heroine, Edith Bel- in lenger, is thus spoken of. Her grand- the day, therefore, after Cuddie's arrival, company with their masters. Upon mother, Lady Margaret, is first men- being the third froin the opening of this narrative, old Robin, who was butler, "Near to the enormous leather vehi- valet-de-chambre, footman, gardener, and cle which we have attempted to de- what not, in the house of Milnwood, scribe, vindicating her title to precedence placed on the table an immense charger over the untitled gentry of the country, of broth, thickened with oatmeal and might be seen the sober palfrey of Lady colewort, in which ocean of liquid was Margaret Bellenger, bearing the erect indistinctly discovered, by close observ and primitive form of Lady Margaret ers, two or three short ribs of lean mutherself, decked in those widow's weeds ton sailing to and fro. Two huge bas which the good lady had never laid aside kets, one of bread made of barley and since the execution of her husband for peas, and one of oat-cakes, flanked this his adherence to Montrose. standing dish. A large boiled salmon "Her grand-daughter, and only would now-a-days have indicated more earthly care, the fair-haired Edith, who liberal house-keeping; but, at that periwas generally allowed to be the prettiest od, it was caught in such plenty in the lass in the Upper Ward, appeared beside considerable rivers in Scotland, that it her aged relative like Spring placed close was generally applied to feed the ser to Winter. Her black Spanish jennet, vants, who are said sometimes to have which she managed with great grace, stipulated that they should not be requir her gay riding-dress, and laced side- ed to eat a food so luscious and surfeitsaddle, had been anxiously prepared to ing in its quality above five times a week. set her forth to the best advantage. But The large black-jack, filled with very the clustering profusion of ringlets, which, small beer of Milnwood's own brewing, escaping from under her cap, were only was indulged to the servants at discretion, as were the bannocks, cakes, and broth; The antique coach of the Lord Lieutenant but the mutton was reserved for the of the county. heads of the family, Mrs. Wilson inclu

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