EDINBURGH WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER
CONDUCTED BY JOHN JOHNSTONE.
THE SCHOOLMASTER IS ABROAD.-LORD BROUGHAM.
JOHN ANDERSON, JUN., 55, NORTH BRIDGE STREET ;
AND JOHN MʻLEOD, AND ATKINSON & CO., BOOKSELLERS, GLASGOW.
PAGE,
Adventure, A Swiss
312
Address Preliminary..
...1
Address to our Readers
..337
Africa, Civilization of
259
Agriculture, Progress of Scotch,
150
Agriculture, Decline of Scottish
.174
Ancestors, The Wisdom of our
..134
Barometer and Thermometer
229
Bentham Jeremy...
.81
Bill Jones, The Orginal Story of
231
Bishop Burnet's Advice to Bishope-Simon Peter's Ship,
Bishops, The.......
.S35
Bishop, Presbyterian Notion of a ..
115
Biographic Sketch of Helen Walker, a Gentlewoman of
Heavens' own Making....
139
Burns, Original Letter of-Political Martyrs of the end of last
century
177
Burns, The Exhumation of
...111
Burns, Robert
.....59
Do.,
Do.
concluded in page
Brougham and Vaux, Lord
...10
Calculating Machine, Mr Babbage's
158
Chi:dren, on the Moral Training of
116, 241
Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People, A Bachelor's 261
Chalmers, Dr.
212
Cheap Periodicals..
Christmas
321
Cly, John, the Miller-Widow Shanks's Adventures-Scene in
the Baths of Leuk..
326
COLUXX FOR THE Ladies–No. II. Lady Morgan and her Nieces. 31
No. III. Domestic Economy- Female Dress
French Women, by Lady Morgan...
No. IV. Bishop Heber's Widew- The Writing
Widows...
.62
No. V. Female Dress-Miss Wright, the Political
Apostle
.78
No. VII The Philosophy of Old Maidism-Wo-
man, the Source of Evil....
110
No. VIII. The Convent at York.
127
No. IX. Stagnation of Marriages.
..142
No. X. Kissing off Sailors, Wedding Presents....157
No. XI. Adventures of a Female Indian........166
No. XIII. Mrs. Inchbald..
.207
No. XVIII. An Essay on Flirts...
283
No. XXII. Anniversary of a Ma age....
....313
Cobbett, William, Memoir of...
..97
Cobbett, William....
167
Cobbett the Younger-Character of a Parish Priest,
269
Cobbettiana
248
Com laws, alias the Bread Tax,
..150
Corn in Sbeaves, Method of Drying in Sweden..
..79
Craftsmen in Germany
253
December Evening within Doors, A......
..309
Diamond Beetle, The
242
Diseases, Contagious and Fpidemic
118
Donnelly's, Dan, Trip to Paris..
.318
Drama, The
327
Edinburgh Ycar, The Commencement of the
211
Eoinburgh Tradesman, Memoir of an........
..461
ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT,
No. I. Hints to the Operative Classes Society in
Britain
No. 11. The People-Equality of Conditione-Equa-
lity among Citizens
24
No. III. Patience of the British People-Differences
between a Free and a Despotic Government-
When Resistance to a Government becomes jus.
tifiable-Boundloseness of the Creatior.- Want of
Sense of Natural Beauty
40
No. IV. Power of being useful to Mankind-Sym.
pathy, Forbearance London, from St. Paul's
Universities and Schools-Dishonest Wealth-
Motives to Mutual Charity-Artificial Man 56
No. VI. Mind-Great Mer-Orthodoxy
88
No. VIII, Distinction of Classes injurious to Virtue
- The Moral Sense-Strength of Mind-Testi.
mony of Rousseau to the Divine Perfection of the
Saviour..
119
No. XI. Kings, Their Use-The Common Centre
Learning- Punishments
172
No. X. Rich and Pcor-Inferior Gentry, &c. 165
No. XII. The Prese-Judgments-Triennial Parlia-
merits
164
No. XIII. What have I to do with Politics ?---
Conscience-Not Guilty--Rights of Church l'10-
perty, Bishops
200
ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT.
PAOB
No: XIV. Religious Toleration
216
No XV. Happiness - Well-being,
232
No. XVI. The Sources of Human Happiness 246
No. XVIII. Words in Season from Napolcon-The
Future Prospects of Europe and America 280
No. XIX. Changing sides on Politics or Religion
Standard of Things~ Equality -Discretionary
Power in Judges The Established Clergy 300
No, XXII. The Author by Profession-High Liy.
ing and Mean Thinking
314
Emigration
323
Emigration-Who should go to America .........
Emigration, The United States-Canada.....
.....11
English Manners, Peter Jones's Opinion of
....126
Water, Expansion of
..302
Famers, Hints for, &c.....
........319
Flogging in the Army..........
.9
Free Trade, Advantages of.....
Fumigation
243
Glasgow, Social Life in....
Good Luck at Last, A Shetland Parson,
.88
Henry Brougbam, Original Anecdote of..
Highland Emigrant, Humorous Letter of a
257
Hydrophobia, trom a Paper in the Westminster Review...
Il;drostatic Bed..
179
HOLYDAY RAMBLLS ROUND EDINBURGH--No. I. The Railway..3
No. II. The Roman Camp.
...17
No. II!. Crichton Castle The Vale of Borthwick. 113
No, IV. The Eldon Hills...
...257
Jeremy Diddler, the Original
270
Justice, Price of..
179
Jack Taylor
280
Kenyon, Lord
312
King James and the Witches
$26
Kirk, The Petticoat
Korner, Theodor
Portraits by a Lady-taken in the Ventilator of the House of
Commons
15
Marriage, The most Important ever celebrated in Scotland....ib.
Dissenters in England,
MEDICAL SELECTION :-No. VI. Premature Interment-Ef.
ects of the Passions on Health-the Spasmodic
Cholera, &c...
......95
No. vin. Etfects of Ditferent Professions and
Trades on health-Contagious and Epidemic
Diseases
......Ils
No. XIV. Diseases of Tradesmen..... ..........210
No. XVII. Air...
...271
No. XX. Influence of Dress on the Skin-Effects
of Cold Feet and Damp...
.308
Middle and Lower Classes, Moral and Physical Condition of the 133
Moustache, a Blographical Sketch
...75
Napoleon, Young
.65
Neutrals, To the...
..215
New Monthly Magazine, The
166
Nore, Mutiny at the
312
NOTES OF THE MONTH-August..
SEPTEMBER-Enjoyments of the Poor- The Highland Reaper's
Song-The Harvest Moon- Nemorabilia, &c... 72
OCTORER-Harvest Home-The Kim-The Maiden-Memo.
rabilia-The Woods of October-Trees-On
the Colouring of the Woods ................145
NOVEMBER-Flowers, &c.....
DECEMBER.-Chtistmas-Winter,
296
Dr. Chalmers's, late Work
Itinerating Libraries
275
Oj erative Classes, Hints to the......
....8
Operative Marutacturers, Conuition of...
...33
Cperatives, Manufacturing....
Parliaments, Triennial
...306
People, Education of the....
225
Postki-Verses by Francis Jeffrey, Esq.
.........16
The Jubilce Glce...
Rules for Chess, by a Lady...
........ib
The Dirge of Wallace, by Campbell.. ...........46
The Leveller, by Barry Cornwall.
'The Poor Man's Song..
The Irish Widow's Farewell to her Infant.... ...63
The Puir Mau's Bairn.
......141
The Wood. Mouse, by Vary Howitt, a Quakeress. ib.
The Weaver's Song, by Barry Cornwall..........ib.
Farewell to Abbotsford, by Mrs. Biemans...........13
On the Church of Krisuvik in Icel: nd,.
..71
Farewell to fite...
.ib.
Verses by an Old Poet..
..80
The Old Beggar...
POETRY,
PAGE
Lessons to be learned from the Wandering Beggar 84
Sword Song..
tb.
The Grave of Korner.
Scottish Tea-Party, from Whistlebinkie............94
Stanzas to a Daughter, by David Vedder.. .......ib.
Song of the Rhenish Provinces...
Statistical Verses......
...138
Lines set to a beautiful Welsh air, by Bishop He-
ber....
..157
The Temple of Nature, by David Vedder........158
America and England...
The Bride, by Samuel Rogers...
..184
Field-paths, by the Author of the Corn Law
Rhymes..
Ode to Freedom, by David Vedder..
The Evening Wind..
Caged Rats...
.......221
The Battle of Blenheim...
.. 230
To my Carrier Pigeon...............
.....243
To my Cigar
..245
The Irish Potato ....
..219
Portrait of an Intelligent and Virtuous Artisan..253
The Spinning Wheel Song, by Miss Mitford.......256
My Coach Acquaintance.
Inscription for a Tablet at Pensburst, the Birth.
place of Sir Philip Sydney...
...261
Phæbe Dawson..
Mary, by Charles Wolfe..
......270
Simon Peter's Ship..
...271
The Breast's Brightest Gem, by Mrs. Grimstone..279
The Rabble....
.288
Stanzas, by David Vedder.
...302
The Dove sent forth from the Ark..
My Birthday..
... ib.
The Swiss Girl
.312
The Boar Song...
ib.
Good Night! Good Night.....
The Christmas Waits
The Polish Fugitives, by the Author of Corn Law
Rhymes....
.336
The Anniversary of a Marriage.
.313
To T. L, H., six years old, during a sickness......251
Population, European...
156
Politics? What have you to do with
..178
Poor in England, Condition of the..
103
Press, The
..301
Scottish Tenantry, Present State of the ...
222
Secession Church, Rise, Progress, and Present State of the....180
Sea Serpent, Solved
..152
Scotch Bankrupt Law
285
PAGE,
Scotland, Years of Pestilence and Famine in
279
Short-Hand Writing and the Press.....
SAE-A late Adventure in the Queensferry Coach............ 305
Sinde, The Court of ....
..322
Sir Walter Scott, the Death of..
Sir Walter Scott's Writings, On the Political Tendency of....ib.
Sir Walter Scott's Childhood...
133
Society in Britain...
......8
Society, Sketches of-Butchers-Bakers
........336
Spectral Illusion
.221
Stirrup Cup, The
352
Taxation, Universality of
287
Times, the Good Old
.311
The Quakers and the Church
627
Truths, Political
289
THE STORY TELLER-The Flogged Soldier, by Mrs. Johnstone..9
Mary Lawson, a Story for Young Women...... ..25
The Three Westminster Boys, by Mrs. Johnstone, 41
Elizabeth Villiers, a Tale for the Young..
......57
The Ghaist o' Kininvie, a True Story.
73
To-Morrow, abridged from Miss Edgeworth.. .....89
Do.
Do. concluded in page........105
Andrew Howie, a Man of the West.... ...J21
A Female Monster, effects of Ignorance and Super.
stition...
..137
Elen, by Miss Mitford............
.........153
Little Davy, a Juvenile Tale...
..169
The Old White Hat, and the Old Grey Mare....185
The Soldier's Return, abridged from Mrs. Opie....201
John Kiernander, or, the Deceitfulness of Riches, 217
Grisell Baillie-A Tale for the Young, by Mrs.
Johnstone....
.233
Residence in the Alhambra....
.249
Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra, by Washing.
ton Irving....
.265
Props of the Pulpit-Paddy Foorhane's Fricasee 281
Four old Maids, by the Author of “ Atherton,
“ Truckleborough Hall, &c.....
.297
The Two Scotch Williams, by Mrs Johnstone....313
Love and Authorship, by J. Sheridan Knowles,
Esq.........
English Smugglers-Harry Woodriff.
..........345
The Polish Heroine
142
Unhappy Object, Autobiography of an
159
Political Martyrs of the end of the last century,
177
Whale Fishery of New South Wales..:
.156
Waits; The Superstitions of the Welsh .....
........328
Wilson, Sketch of Professor-by Mr. De Quincey ............340
Witch, The, Dance on the Brocken .....
...........351
PAGE
A ctress, the Young, Barbara S.
213
Ai-Respiration,
146, 193
A literation–The Battle of the Pigs,
His
Alpine Strawberries,
ib.
America, (North) Society in,
243
American's account of a Levee of the time of George IV., an 83
American Indians in Canada - Missionary labours,
402
Anecdotes,
251
Autobiography of a Greenwich Out. Pensioner,
32+
Authors, reward of,
406
Balsson of Mecca,
367
Barber of Dunse, the,
173
Bankrupts,
401
Bees, on,
134, 273
Bible, the,
179, 287, 328
Biographic Sketch, Susanna Annesley, the mother of John Wesley, 69
Biographical Sketch of the late Rev. Rowland Hill,
269
Black Death in the 14th Century, the,
341
Black Hole of Calcutta,
110
Books of the Month,
2, 82
Book Stalls,
198
Bourgeois of Paris, the-a Sketch,
19
Brougham, Lord, early Days of,
406
Buonaparte's May Days,
86
Canada, authentic Letters from,
369
Canada, emigration to,
275
Candidates, Wealth of,
275
Capital in Trade,
63
Cards, Origin of
416
Catalepals,
169
Caterpillars, receipt for the destruction of,
383
Chemical recreations,
147
Children, destruction of,
232
Children, on the Moral Training of,
61, 130, 209, 289
(buna, trade with,
301
China, old,
166
Church Establishments, versus Voluntary Churches,
177
Church of England, brief History of the Established,
396
Church Reform with a vengeance,
399
Clarkson, Anecdote of Thomas,
255
Clarke, the late Dr. Adam,
255
Clasp Knife, King James's,
405
Compliment, Clerical, in Germany,
416
Corbett's account of New Lanark,
15
Colbett on Scotland,
COLOMS FOR THE LADIES.
No. XXIV. French and English Women-Tight La.
cing-Winter Fashions,
31
No. XXVII. Fortunate Mistake-Cupid and Mi.
72
No. XXVIII. sketches of Natural History, the Co-
quette-Hints for Wives Woman,
88
No. XXIX. Principles of Female Dress-Farewell
Mary Lindsay,
100
No XXX. Condition of Women in England and Italy,
contrasted, &c.
126
No. XXXI. 'Duties of a Wife-Fashionable Dancing, 143
No. XXXV. Courtship and Marriage in the United
States,
205
No XXXVI. Education of Infancy,
212
No. XXXVII. Mrs. Hemans - Caroline - Christian
names of ,
239
No. XLIII. * The virgin, virgin violet”-Young Maid-
en's Logic-Cobbett and the Ladies,
336
No. XLV. Black Eyes and blue-Mr Moore's new
Work,
360
No. XL'vu. Free Trade-a Scottish D'Eon, Helen
Oliver,
392
No. XLVIII. Praise of Women,
408
COLCMX FOR THE YOUNG.
The Royal Game of Goose,
06
Stories of Birds-The Robin,
98
“ A righteous Man regardeth the life of his beast"-
'I houghtless Cruelty,
160
Commercial Thieves,
Confession of an Irish Peasant,
355, 379
199
Convics, Condit:on of banished_ New South Wales,
8
Copper. Leg Conspiracy, the,
379
Court of London, the,
382
Cowper, person and manners of,
68
Critics of the daily London Press,
168
Cure for a (ripple,
15
Curious Penu.anahip-Gastrography,
215
Deed, first Engiish.
300
Dhary of a Sporting Oxonian,
5
Dress, Revolution in,
150
Dry tot, practical remeriy for the,
20
Dublin, description of, by an American,
351
327
Dueio, technicalities of the,
305
Deut. Servants and Nobles,
214
Duties of the People at the resent seriod,
33
20)
Education, self-supported,
ELEMESTS OF THoLGHT.
No. XXIV. Value of Literary Men-Literature in
England-Education of the People,
No. XXV. Signs of the Times—The Fiction Writers,
Sir Walter scott--Parties,
40
56
No. XXIX. Patriotism-Philanthropy,
No XXXII. Spring solitude-Political passages,
152
No. XXXIV. Some of the evil consequences of Church
Establishments-Tendency of the age - Coercive
181
No. XXXV. Study – Catholic Church Property
Combinations against imposts,
200
No. XXXVI. Ministers-Factions in England-Na.
tural connexion between the feelings and intellect, 216
ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT.
PAGE
No. XLIII. The British Constitution-Truth-Pro-
gression of Opinion-Freedoin of the Press,
No. XLV. Education-The formation of habit-Ex.
ercise, Courage, and Recreation. The causes of Bad
Government-A noble resource in painful moments, 359
Elizabeth's Progresses,
17+
Elizabeth, Death of Queen,
175
Emigration,
190
Epistolary condensation, or coming to the point,
317
Examination of the accused,
External comfort, and domestic accommodation of the People,
Factory children,
17, 94
Fair and Happy Milkmaid, a,
318
Family Dignity,
317
Farmer's Centenary contrasted, the,
39
Farms, large and small,
Fashionable World, the Females of the,
337
Fashion in its low Places,
Female Blue Beards,
Ferdusi, the Persian Poet,
Fiddlers, Four-and-Twenty,
213
French Moll Flagons, the,
French Revolution, vulgar idea of,
397
Gallantry, modern,
Galt, anecdote of,
328
Garden Pease, how to prevent field mice from destroying,
Gas in London, consumption of,
Gas, roasting by,
Gastronomical Precepts and Anecdotes,
173
Gentleman, the,
Geology,
Geology, popular estimation of,
George Mi ligan,
German Manners,
German Peasantry,
German Tale,
Ghost Story, a,
84
Ghost Story- Professor Junker,
Ghosts by Waggery,
Glass, means of preventing from cracking by tire,
270
Gouda Checke, an Improved Method of Waking,
Grafted Fruits,
Hall, the Rev. Robert,
Happiness, on true,
Hazlitt's Death-bed,
Havannah, Dinner at,
Hemp, on the cultivation of,
Hereditary Legislators,
11:
Herr ing, the,
Herefordshire Boors,
される。
Highland Indorsation,
Hints for Conversation,
Hofer, the dwelling of,
Holiday Rambles, No. v.-- Juchkritb,
Holidays, old Scottish,
Horse Jockeys, skill of,
327
Hours of Labour for Children,
Hume, character of Mr.
Impossibility, an,
India, new route to,
India, progress of Knowledge in,
Ireland, cursory Remarks on,
237
Irish Gentry and the Irish Poor, the,
25+
Irish Northern Circuit, anecdote of the
253
Irish Peasant, sketch of an,
23
James the Sixt, the joyful receiving of, &c.,
173
Jews,
Journal of a Scientific Lady,
Kind Inquiry,
38
Kings and Courtiers,
200
Lady Grange,
228
Lady Louisa's Cow,
Lawrie Tod, the identical, or the Way to get on,
Leather Breeches, the luxury of,
293
Leonard's Voyage to the Western Coasts of Africa, &c.
161
London,
London Newsmen, the,
London, Picture of a quarter of, and moral education of the People, 105
Lotteries,
Love at first sight, and a Love Letter,
39
Macaulay's (Mr.) Writing, how to detect,
Marat, assassination of, by Charlotte Corday,
Marriages, scale of,
Marvel, anecdote of Andrew,
Matthews the Sinuggler,
May in Perth, a most remarkable,
May Games, English,
Mechanics, first lines of,
MEDICAL SELECTIONS, No, IV.--Diet,
No. V.-Treatinent of Burns,
No. V1.-Dislocation,
311
No. VII.--Estimate of different descriptious
of food in regard to nutriment, &c.
Milking,
Miners of Bois-Monzil, the
201
Ministry in the Valley of the Mississippi, the,
Miser's opinion of Books, a,
Modern Dictionary,
3:3
Modern Brownie, the, or the little Man wi' the braid bannet,
Monks of the Screw, the,
Moving Powers, the,
Mrs. Arbuthnott, Lad ey, &c.,
Muir, (Rev. Wm. D. 1).) minister of St Stephen's Church,
Napoleon and Isabey the painter, curious anecdote of,
Narrative of John Williains,
Narrative of the wreck of the Isabelle oil Lastbourne,
Natural History,
New Year's Girls,
Newspapers, cheap,
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