49. Life and Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. 19 vols. 54. Rowlands "The letting of humours blood in the head vaine,” 55. The Lord of the Isles 62. Tales of my Landlord, 1st Series; The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality 63. Harold the Dauntless 64. The Sultan of Serendio 35 44 33 33 1816 33 65. Kemble's Farewell Address 66. Edin Ann: Register :-Historical Department 68. Song, "The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill" 69. Rob Roy 70. Account of the Scottish Regalia 71. Review of Kirkton's Church History Shelley's Frankenstein 33 46 46 47 47 47 73. Ballad, "The Battle of Sempach" 75. Review of Gourgaud's Narrative 76. 77. of Maturin's "Women; or, Pour et Contre" وو of Childe Harold, Canto iv 78. Article for Jamieson's edition of Captain Burt's Letters 79. Provincial Antiquities of Scotland 80. Ballad of "The Noble Moringer" 81. Sketch of the character of Charles, Duke of Buccleuch 82. Tales of my Landlord, third series, The Bride of Lammermoor, and Legend of Montrose 83. Memorials of the Haliburtons 84. Patrick Carey's Trivial Poems and Triolets 89. Lives of the Novelists 90. Kenilworth 91. Account of the Coronation of George IV. 92. Franck's Northern Memoirs-the Contemplative Angler 93. Chronological Notes of Scottish Af fairs, 1680-1701, from Lord 550 50 51 96. Halidon Hill 97. Macduff's Cross 98. The Fortunes of Nigel 99. Poetry contained in the Waverley Novels 100. Peveril of the Peak 101. Quentin Durward 102. Essay on Romance 103. St. Ronan's Well 104. Red Gauntlet FNNNNX 51 52 52 52 52 53 53 105. Tribute to the Memory of Lord Byron 106. Tales of the Crusaders: The Be trothed, The Talisman 107. Introduction and Notes to the Memoirs of Madame Larochejaquelin 113. Review of Mackenzie's Life and Works of John Home 1824 1826 115. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte Highland Widow: The Surgeon's 117. Essay on the Planting of Waste 120. Memoir of George Bannatyne 121. Tales of a Grandfather, First Series 122. Essay on Molière 123. Two Religious Discourses 124. The Chronicles of Canongate, 2nd monia 128. Anne of Gierstein 129. History of Scotland for Lardner's Cyclopædia 130. Tales of a Grandfather, 3rd Series 131. Review of Pitcairn's Ancient Criminal Trials 132. The Doom of Devergoil and Auchindrane 133. Essays on Ballad Poetry 184. Letter on Demonology and Witchcraft, for Murray's Family Library 135. Tales of a Grandfather, 4th Series, History of France 136. History of Scotland, Vol. II. for Lardner's Cyclopædia 137. Review of Southey's Life of John Bunyan 138. Tales of my Landlord, 4th Series: Count Robert of Paris, and Castle Dangerous 36 CHAPTER V. JANE AUSTEN. THE novels of Miss Austen are now but little read, andeven when read gain few sincere admirers, notwithstanding that it is now the fashion indiscriminately to praise them. They are however amongst the best specimens of one department of the fictitious art in literature, and will, we doubt not, be much studied five hundred years hence by scholars anxious to obtain a true insight into the family life, and form a correct estimate, of the simple, gently-bred women, of the nineteenth century. For ourselves we do not hesitate to confess that the novels of Miss Austen, and all the best female writers, have a peculiar charm for us, and that we never rise from a perusal of their works without some new information concerning the human nature they delineate, or the structure of the feminine intellect, and taste, and morality, as shown by the views they take of life, and the aspirations they cherish. Certainly no man can be said to understand the heart of woman, or to be educated for its conquest, who has not studied it in the imaginative productions of female writers. From them we learn what it is they most admire in the manly character, or rather what they wish and believe the manly character to be; and so we are instructed how to flatter, feign, and win. On the 16th of December 1775, Jane Austen was born at Steventon, in Hampshire. Her father was rector of that parish for upwards of forty years; but when he arrived at the advanced age of three-score and ten he quitted his flock, and resided for the last four years of his life at Bath. On his death his widow with Jane and another daughter, moved to Southampton, where they resided for a short time, and thence migrated to Chawton, a pleasant village in the same |