39 29 39 པ 39 43 53. Memorie of the Somervilles 54. Rowlands "The letting of humours blood in the head vaine," 55. The Lord of the Isles 56. Guy Mannering 57. The Field of Waterloo 58. Song" On lifting up the Banner " 61. Edin: Ann: Register, Historical De- 62. Tales of my Landlord, 1st Series; The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality 63. Harold the Dauntless 64. The Sultan of Serendio 65. Kemble's Farewell Address 66. Edin: Ann: Register :-Historical 67. Introduction to "The Border Anti 68. Song, "The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill " 69. Rob Roy 70. Account of the Scottish Regalia 71. Review of Kirkton's Church History 73. Ballad, "The Battle of Sempach" 74. Tales of my Landlord, Second Series, The Heart of Mid-Lothian 75. Review of Gourgaud's Narrative of Maturin's "Women; or, Pour et Contre" of Childe Harold, Canto iv 78. Article for Jamieson's edition of Cap tain Burt's Letters 79. Provincial Antiquities of Scotland 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 85. Ivanhoe 19 47 48 92. Franck's Northern Memoirs-the Contemplative Angler 93. Chronological Notes of Scottish Af 1701, from Lord 48 48 1820 49 49 པ 1821 པ 101. Quentin Durward 102. Essay on Romance 103. St. Ronan's Well 104. Red Gauntlet 105. Tribute to the Memory of Lord Byron 106. Tales of the Crusaders: The Betrothed, The Talisman 107. Introduction and Notes to the Memoirs of Madame Larochejaquelin 108. Review of Pepys' Diary 109. Letters of Malachi Malagrowther 110. Woodstock 111. Review of the Life of J. P. Kemble and Kelly's Reminiscences Galt's Omen 113. Review of Mackenzie's Life and Works of John Home 114. of Hoffman's Novels 115. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte 116. Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Highland Widow: The Surgeon's 117. Essay on the Planting of Waste Lands 118. Reply to General Gourgaud 119. Essay on Ornamental Gardening 1824 ཐཐབ 57 57 57 1829 58 120. 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 Series, The Fair Maid of Perth 125. Tales of a Grandfather, 2nd Series 126. Review of Hajji Baba in England Sir Humphry Davy's Sal 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 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 |