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49. Life and Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. 19 vols.

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54. Rowlands "The letting of humours blood in the head vaine,”

55. The Lord of the Isles

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62. Tales of my Landlord, 1st Series; The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality

63. Harold the Dauntless

64. The Sultan of Serendio

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65. Kemble's Farewell Address

66. Edin Ann: Register :-Historical

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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

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73. Ballad, "The Battle of Sempach"
74. Tales of my Landlord, Second Series,
The Heart of Mid-Lothian

75. Review of Gourgaud's Narrative

76.

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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

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89. Lives of the Novelists

90. Kenilworth

91. Account of the Coronation of George

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92. Franck's

Northern Memoirs-the

Contemplative Angler

93. Chronological Notes of Scottish Af

fairs, 1680-1701, from Lord
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97. Macduff's Cross

98. The Fortunes of Nigel

99. Poetry contained in the Waverley

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100. Peveril of the Peak

101. Quentin Durward

102. Essay on Romance

103. St. Ronan's Well

104. Red Gauntlet

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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

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113. Review of Mackenzie's Life and

Works of John Home

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115. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
116. Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st
series: The Two Drovers: The

Highland Widow: The Surgeon's
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117. Essay on the Planting of Waste

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120. Memoir of George Bannatyne

121. Tales of a Grandfather, First Series 122. Essay on Molière

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123. Two Religious Discourses

124. The Chronicles of Canongate, 2nd
Series, The Fair Maid of Perth
125. Tales of a Grandfather, 2nd Series
126. Review of Hajji Baba in England
127.
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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

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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

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