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in a veteran campaigner. Paul Pry himself the Cockney deity was never a greater slave to an umbrella. Meet his grace where you will-in Downing Street or at Westminster, in Hyde Park or at Windsor-riding or walking, in carriage or cabriolet, the shadow is not more faithful to the substance, than his umbrella to the first Lord Commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury. I am morally certain that some great state mystery is shrouded in its folds, and I shall dive into every Club and Coffee-house in London, until I arrive at its solution. Peel's personal phenomena are not strongly characteristic, and the fugitive expression of his features will always make him a subtile subject for a painter. His appearance does not outstrip the date of his years in the parish register. He is above the middle height, something stoop-shouldered, and of proportions indifferently balanced. His hair is of an earthy red, his dress careless and squire-like, with an air of idiosyncrasy about his chapeau, which he is pleased to wear in a depressed fashion à la puritan. The Secretary's voice is even and harmonious, and his general manner would be decidedly prepossessing, were it not that the oil of humility glisters overmuch upon the surface. The Duke of Wellington, who rushes to his subject like a Highlander to the charge, leaves, without any effort to do so, a far stronger impression of his modesty. There is a wide difference in the style of the two speakers. Mr Peel brings forth his sentiments neatly folded in silk paper, while the Duke declares himself in the pop-pop mode of a corps of skirmishing sharp-shooters on the day of battle.

Another new piece-a farce, entitled, "All at Sixes and Sevens," has been produced at Drury Lane. It was most deservedly and specially well damned. The "Provok'd Husband" has been revived at the same Theatre; but it has proved immeasurably inferior to the revivals at Covent Garden. Mr Price's hothouse flower, Miss Phillips, expanded her petals to little purpose as Lady Townly.

Why does not some great spirit of the North trouble the dull waters of literature? Here the novelties of the hour are all weary, stale, flat, or unprofitable." Why does not Professor Wilson concentrate his gorgeous imagination upon a subject worthy of high poetic illustration? If he, and such as he, do not bestir themselves, the love of poesy will wax cold in British hearts; and the fairest creations of immortal mind will vanish before grim phantoms of arts mechanical, and political economy. There is an announcement from Mr Sharpe, the proprietor of the Anniversary, of an intention to start a new embellished periodical; which I am inclined to hail as likely to do the state some service." If I am informed rightly as to the name of the individual who is to be its conductor, (one of those who do honour to Scotland,) I entertain small doubt of its success, and none whatever of its deserts.

'Tis but a few short days since he,

Our Father, left his native land, And I was there, when by the sea

Ye wept,-and grasp'd each parting hand; I hover'd o'er ye when alone

The farewell thrill'd each wounded heart; Then raised the breeze its warning tone And bade the ship depart.

I saw the bark in sunshine quit
Our own romantic shore ;-
Thou hear'st the tempest-it hath smit
The proudest,-now no more;
Amid the ocean's solitude

Unseen I trode its armied deck
And watch'd our Father, when he stood
In battle and in wreck!

But stronger than a spirit's arm

Is his who measures out the sky, Who rides upon the volley'd storm When it comes sweeping by: The tempest rose ;-I saw it burst Like death upon the ocean's sleep; The warriors nobly strove at first, But perish'd in the deep.

High floating on the riven storm,

I hover'd o'er the staggering bark ;
Oh God! I saw our Father's form
Sink reeling in the dark!

I hung above the crew, and drank
Their wild-their last convulsive prayer;
One thunder roll,-then down they sank,
And all was blackness there!

The wild waves, flung by giant death
Above that lone-that struggling crew-
Shrunk backward-when my viewless breath
Came o'er their bosoms blue;

I saw, beneath the lightning's frown,
Our father on the billows roll,

I smote the hissing tempest down,
And clasp'd his shrinking soul.

Then, hand in hand, we journey'd on Far-far above the whirlwind's roar, And smiled at death, the skeleton,

Who could not scathe us more ;Around, the stars in beauty flung, Their pure, their never-dying light,Lamps by the eternal's fiat hung, To guide the spirit's flight! Glasgow, Dunlop Street.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT.

By Dugald Moore, Author of " The African, a Tale,

and other Poems."

SISTER! is this an hour for sleep?

Should slumber mar a daughter's prayer, When drinks her Father on the deep

Death's chalice in despair? Though I have rested in the grave

Long with oblivion's ghastly crowd, Yet the wild tempest on the wave

Has roused me from my shroud.

THE PEERLESS ONE.

By Robert Chambers.

HAST thou ne'er mark'd, in festal hall,
Amidst the lights that shone,

Some one who beam'd more bright than all-
Some gay-some glorious one!

Some one who, in her fairy lightness,

As through the hall she went and came,

And her intensity of brightness,

As ever her eyes sent out their flame,

Was almost foreign to the scene,

Gay as it was, with beauty beaming,
Through which she moved ;-a gemless queen,
A creature of a different seeming
From others of a mortal birth-
An angel sent to walk the earth!

Oh, stranger, if thou e'er hast seen
And singled such a one,

And if thou hast enraptured been-
And felt thyself undone ;

If thou hast sigh'd for such a one,
Till thou wert sad with fears;
If thou hast gazed on such a one,
Till thou wert blind with tears;
If thou hast sat, obscure, remote,

In corner of the hall,

Looking from out thy shroud of thought
Upon the festival;

Thine eye through all the misty throng
Drawn by that peerless light,

As traveller's steps are led along

By wild-fire through the night:
Then, stranger, haply dost thou know
The joy, the rapture, and the woe,
Which, in alternate tides of feeling,

Now thickening quick-now gently stealing
Throughout this lone and hermit breast,
That festal night, my soul possess'd.

O! she was fairest of the fair,

And brightest of the bright;

And there was many a fair one there,
That joyous festal night.

A hundred eyes on her were bent,
A hundred hearts beat high;
It was a thing of ravishment,
O God! to meet her eye!

But 'midst the many who look'd on,
And thought she was divine,
O, need I say that there were none
Who gazed with gaze like mine!
The rest were like the crowd who look

All idly up to Heaven,

And who can see no wonder there,
At either morn or even ;
But I was like the wretch embound,
Deep in a dungeon under ground,
Who only sees, through grating high,
One small blue fragment of the sky,
Which ever, both at noon and night,
Shows but one starlet shining bright,
Down on the darkness of his place,
With cheering and unblenching grace:
The very darkness of my woe
Made her to me more brightly show.

At length the dancing scene was changed
To one of calmer tone,
And she her loveliness arranged
Upon fair Music's throne.
Soft silence fell on all around,
Like dew on summer flowers;

Bright eyes were cast upon the ground,
Like daisies bent with showers.
And o'er that drooping stilly scene
A voice rose gentle and serene,

A voice as soft and slow

As might proceed from angel's tongue,
If angel's heart were sorrow-wrung,
And wish'd to speak its woe.

The song was one of those old lays

Of mingled gloom and gladness,
Which first the tides of joy can raise,
Then still them down to sadness;
A strain in which pure joy doth borrow
The very air and gait of sorrow,
And sorrow takes as much alloy
From the rich sparkling ore of joy.

Its notes, like hieroglyphic thing,
Spoke more than they seem'd meant to sing.
I could have lain my life's whole round
Entranced upon that billowy sound,
Nought touching, tasting, seeing, hearing,
And, knowing nothing, nothing fearing,
Like Indian dreaming in his boat,

As he down waveless stream doth float.
But pleasure's tide ebbs always fast,
And these were joys too loved to last.

There was but one long final swell,

Of full melodious tone,

And all into a cadence fell,

And was in breathing gone.

And she too went: and thus have gone
All-all I ever loved;

At first too fondly doted on,

But soon-too soon removed.

Thus early from each pleasant scene
There ever has been reft

The summer glow-the pride of green,
And but brown autumn left.
And oh what is this cherish'd term,
This tenancy of clay,

When that which gave it all its charm
Has smiled and pass'd away?
A chaplet whence the flowers are fall'n,
A shrine from which the god is stolen!

SONG.

The Lass o' Carron Side.

By C. J. Finlayson.

OH! whar will I gae find a place
To close my sleepless een;
And whar will I gae seek the peace

I witless tint yestreen?

My heart, that wont to dance as licht
As moonshine o'er the tide,

Now lies in thrall by luckless love,
For the lass o' Carron Side.

She, mermaid-like, 'mang wild flowers sat,
The stream row'd at her feet,

An' aye she sung her artless sang

Wi' a voice unearthly sweet;

Sae sweet, the birds that wont to wake
The morn wi' glee and pride,

Sat mute, to hear the witchin' strain
O' the lass o' Carron side.

Sair may I rue my reckless haste,

Sair may I ban the hour,

That lured me from my peacefu' cot,
Within the Siren's power.

Oh! had she sprung frae humble race,
As she's frae ane o' pride,

I might hae dre'ed a better wierd
Wi' the lass o' Carron side!

Banks of the Carron, Feb. 1829.

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

We have just received, from London, the first volume of the FAMILY LIBRARY, the monthly publication of which is about still farther to increase the reputation of Mr Murray of Albemarle Street. We are much pleased with the appearance and style of the work. No. I. contains the first part of a Life of Napoleon, which is to be completed in No. II. Of its literary merits, which we hear are highly respectable, we shall speak at greater length next Saturday. The typography is beautiful, and the volume is embellished with six spirited and interesting engravings, one of which, we believe, cost seventy guineas, and none less than twenty-five. This liberality, on the part of the publisher, will be its

own reward.

A new edition of Mr Sadler's work on Ireland will be ready in about a fortnight. It is a curious anecdote in the publishing world, that the whole of the remaining copies of the former edition were sold the day after he delivered his speech against Catholic Emancipation in the House of Commons.

Mr Southey's Dialogues on the Progress and Prospects of Society will be ready in a few weeks.

The Biography of Captain Beaver, a work of a similar nature to the Memoirs of Lord Collingwood, is announced for early publication.

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Mr Edward Lytton Bulwer, author of "Pelham and the "Disowned," has nearly finished another volume, the style of which he very judiciously proposes shall be a mixture of the best

parts of his two former tales.

Mr P. L. Jacob, one of the most eminent of the Parisian booksellers, is about to publish a work, which is entitled Soirees de Walter Scott, the contents of which are understood to have been suggested to the bibliopole by Sir Walter, during his visit to Paris

in 1826.

Elements of Natural History, or an Introduction to systematic Zoology, chiefly according to the classification of Linnæus, with Illustrations of every order, by John Howard Hinton, A.M. will shortly appear.

Mr Sharpe, the proprietor of the " Anniversary," announces a new Annual at Midsummer next, combining engravings from the finest works of British art, with contributions from the pens of the most distinguished writers of the day. We have long been of opinion that Midsummer would be an excellent time for the appearance of a work of this kind, and we made the suggestion in the first number of the Literary Journal, which we are glad to perceive is now about to be put into execution under very favourable auspices.

Thomas Hood, author of Whims and Oddities, is about to write a series of comic ballads of the "Sally Brown" and Nelly Gray", school, which are to be set to music by J. Blewitt, and published in Monthly numbers. The first number, like the song of " Blue Bonnets over the Border," is to commence with "March."

The following singular announcement is made by some unknown but aspiring poet:-" Nearly ready for publication, Gabrielle, a Tale of Switzerland, in which an attempt is made to vary a little from the prevailing style in poetry."—(A truly laudable attempt.) "The story is an endeavour to delineate mental aberration, of the mildest kind, in union with singular and romantic scenery, without the interest of stirring events."

The Rev. H. J. Todd is preparing for the press a Life of Archbishop Cranmer, in one volume 8vo.

A new novel is in considerable forwardness, entitled Jesuitism and Methodism.

The Rev. W. Liddiard has in the press, The Legend of Einsidlin, a Tale of Switzerland, and other Poems, dedicated to Thomas Moore, Esq.

of getting it up exceeded £1300. It closes with an "unrivalled representation" of the eruption of Vesuvius, and is expected to draw crowds for the rest of the season." The Provok'd Hus

band" has been revived at Drury Lane; Liston, Moody; Young, Lord Townly; Farren, Sir F. Wronghead; and Miss Phillips, Lady Townly. It seems to be the general opinion, however, that the powers of this young lady are not suited for comedy.-Miss Paton and Madame Vestris continue the chief attractions at Covent Garden.-A conjuror, called Mr Henry, is performing at the Adelphi; he is thus spoken of in the Literary Gazette:-" If you wish to find thirty sovereigns in your hand, when only twenty were paid into it, go to Mr Henry, and he will show yon that such things can be. If you have a difficult conundrum, ask Mr Henry to guess it, and he will cut a lemon into halves, then into quarters, and out of the quarter which you select shall fly the solution, tied to the leg of a little living canary bird. Besides these things, and a thousand others equally amazing, you shall see a lovely landscape, which, while you are gazing upon it, changes into a different picture, and so strangely that you cannot tell at what point it has changed; all you know is, you were looking at one, and are looking at another. Mr Henry plays the musical glasses too; raises ghosts of the dead, and fetches of the living; and does all these various feats equally well."-Charles Kemble has been playing here for the last week. It is amazing how well he wears; he has all the spirit and vivacity of youth still about him, yet we suspect he is on the wrong side of sixty. In genteel comedy he is still without a rival-" so gallant, gay, and debonair." Though a pleasing, he is not a great tragedian, and tragedy is one of those things which hardly admits of mediocrity.We have now lost Miss Noel; she sung her first and last song, "Say, my heart, why wildly beating," last Saturday evening. The manager must be particularly cautious in selecting her successor; we shall not submit very tamely to have our favourite airs mangled, although, to have them sung equally well is beyond our expectations.-The state of her health has also compelled Mrs Henry Siddons to leave the stage for a season. Something spirited must be done to fill up these blanks.

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STOULTZE IN REQUEST;

Or a late MEASURE towards the adjustment of
The Catholic question.

An Impromptu, by W. Ainslie, M.D.
HAS brave Winchilsea lived till this day without knowing,
That Irishmen ne'er are insulted in vain ;

Nor fail, unappeased, to be soon after blowing

A ball through the thorax, to wipe off the stain? But our Duke, too humane to seek blood, may God bless him! Yet faithful, withal, to himself, and high station; Thus said, while deciding, just barely to miss him, "If he won't, his tailor shall make reparation."

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

MR MULLER'S CONCERT.-This Concert, which took place in the Hopetoun Rooms on Monday evening, was well attended, and spiritedly conducted. Mr Muller stands unquestionably at the We have received a communication from a respectable member head of Scottish Pianists; and the style in which he executed of the Royal Medical Society, who is also a phrenologist, comHummel's Concerto in A minor, and the "Recollections of Ire-plaining that we have bestowed too much praise on Mr Stone's land" by Moscheles, proved him well worthy of the reputation he anti-phrenological paper. This is of course matter of opinion, enjoys. One of the finest parts of the entertainment was Murray's solo on the violin. Comparatively speaking, there are few men living, except Mr Murray, who understand what may be done with that instrument.

Theatrical Gossip.-Just when all the London critics were getting into very bad humour at the manner in which the King's Theatre was going on under the management of Laporte, he has produced a Ballet called " Massianello," the splendid magnificence of which has won them all over to his side again. The scenery, dresses, and dancing, are reported to be beyond all praise ;-it employs about three hundred performers, and the cost

and we notice the communication principally with the view of
assuring the author, that he is wrong in supposing the paragraph
on this subject in last Saturday's Journal was not an Editorial
one. We do not see that the "Anecdote of Principal Robertson"
establishes any thing, except that the Historian (preached upon
one occasion a very good sermon without his written notes before
him. The mode in which they were lost is somewhat curious.
If" C. J. F." will send us the original melodies he mentions,
we shall be glad to procure for him an opinion as to their merits,
which he may find useful.-"The Minstrel's Grave" will not suit

us.

ADVERTISEMENTS,

In stating it to be revised and corrected, it is not to be inferred that any attempt is made to alter the tenor of the stories, the cha

Connected with Science, Literature, and the Arts. racter of the actors, or the spirit of the dialogue. There is no

NEW SONGS.
Just Published,

THE MAD MAIDEN'S SONG. Composed
and dedicated to Miss NOEL, by FINLAY DUN.
THE BONNIE LAD THAT'S FAR AWA:
Scotch Song. Composed and dedicated to Miss E. PATON, by
FINLAY DUN.

To be had at the Music Shops, price 2s. each.

SOLFEGGI, 8s. by the same Author.

SEGUR'S HISTORY OF RUSSIA.
This day is published, in 8vo, 10s. 6d. boards,

doubt ample room for emendation in all these points,-but where the tree falls it must lie. Any attempt to obviate criticism, however just, by altering a work already in the hands of the public, is generally unsuccessful. In the most improbable fiction, the reader still desires some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish

that the incidents of a tale familiar to him should be altered to

suit the taste of critics, or the caprice of the author himself. This children, who cannot endure that a nursery story should be reprocess of feeling is so natural, that it may be observed even in peated to them differently from the manner in which it was first told.

But without altering, in the slightest degree, either the story, or the mode of telling it, the Author has taken this opportunity to correct errors of the press and slips of the pen. That such should exist cannot be wondered at, when it is considered that the Publishers found it their interest to hurry through the press a succession of the early editions of the various Novels, and that

HISTORY of RUSSIA, and of PETER the the Author had not the usual opportunity of revision. It is

GREAT. By General Count PHILIP DE SEGUR, Author of the History of Napoleon's Expedition to Russia in 1812. Printed for TREUTTEL and Co. London; and CADELL and Co. Edin burgh.

Of whom may be had,

The FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. VI. 7s. 6d.
PORTUGAL ILLUSTRATED, by W. M. KINSEY, L.2, 28.

This day is published, in foolscap 8vo, price 6s.

THE PORTRAITURE of a CHRISTIAN

GENTLEMAN.

By a BARRISTER.

"It is a very excellent, moral, and Christian production."— Literary Gazette.

Printed for J. A. HESSEY, 93, Fleet Street; and Sold by WAUGH & INNES, 2, Hunter Square, and 41, South Hanover Street, Edinburgh,

WAVERLEY NOVELS.

On the first of June will be published,

INSCRIBED BY PERMISSION

To the King's Most Gracious Majesty,
VOLUME FIRST

OF A NEW EDITION OF

THE WAVERLEY NOVELS;

TO BE CONTINUED IN MONTHLY VOLUMES, REVISED AND

CORRECTED,

WITH A GENERAL PREFACE,

AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH NOVEL,
AND NOTES, HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATIVE, BY
THE AUTHOR.

Embellished with Frontispieces and Vignette Titles, from Designs
Executed expressly for the present Edition, by the
MOST EMINENT ARTISTS.

NOTICE BY THE PUBLISHERS.

There are few circumstances in the history of letters more remarkable than the rise and progress of the WAVERLEY NOVELS. Unlike most other productions of genius, they had no infancy to struggle with, but reached at once the highest point of public favour,-a station which they have ever since maintained with undiminished popularity.

hoped that the present edition will be found free from errors of that accidental kind.

The Author has also ventured to make some emendations of a different character, which, without being such apparent deviations from the original stories as to disturb the reader's fold associations, will, he thinks, add something to the spirit of the dialogue, narrative, or description. These consist in occasional pruning where the language is redundant, compression where the style is loose, infusion of vigour where it is languid, the exchange of less forcible for more appropriate epithets-slight alterations, in short, like the last touches of an artist, which contribute to heighten and finish the picture, though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist.

The General Preface to the new Edition, and the Introductory Notices to each separate work, will contain an account of such circumstances attending the first publication of the Novels and Tales, as may appear interesting in themselves, or proper to be communicated to the public. The Author also proposes to publish, on this occasion, the various legends, family traditions, or obscure historical facts, which have formed the ground-work of these Novels, and to give some account of the places where the scenes are laid, when these are altogether, or in part, real; as well as a statement of particular incidents founded on fact; together with a more copious Glossary, and Notes explanatory of the ancient customs, and popular superstitions, referred to in the Romances.

Upon the whole, it is hoped that the Waverley Novels, in their new dress, will not be found to have lost any part of their attractions in consequence of receiving illustrations by the Author, and undergoing his careful revision.

ABBOTSFORD, January 1829.

This Edition will not only be improved in the manner just stated, but also enriched by the pencils of the eminent Artists who have been engaged to embellish it; among these may be named,

DAVID WILKIE, R.A.; EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A.; C. R. LES-
LIE, R.A.; ABRAHAM COOPER, R.A.; A. E. CHALON, R.A.;
G. S. NEWTON, A.R.A.; E. P. STEPHANOFF; H. COR-
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and R. P. BONNINGTON.

The engravings will be executed on steel, by
CHARLES HEATH; WILLIAM FINDEN; CHARLES ROLLS;
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ENSOM; DAVENPORT: SHENTON; DUNCAN; MILLER;
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The circulation of these works having been hitherto confined, in a great degree, to the wealthier ranks of society, the Proprie-5s. done up in cloth. tors have resolved to place them within the reach of readers of all classes, by republishing them in a less costly, but at the same time more elegant shape, and with the additional advantage of a periodical issue.

The Publishers have therefore the honour of announcing the speedy commencement of a NEW EDITION, to be published in MONTHLY VOLUMES.

In this undertaking they have had the cheerful co-operation of the Author himself, who has not only revised every one of the Novels, but has added Explanatory Notes, and a new Introduction to each of them.

The nature and extent of these corrections and additions will be best understood by giving entire, from Volume First, The AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

It has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley, for several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous series of Novels which pass under that name; in order that, if they shoull ever appear as his avowed productions, he might render them in some degree deserving of a continuance of the public favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication. But the course of events, which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name, having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them. Such being his purpose, it is necessary to say a few words on the plan of the proposed Edition.

II. The publication to commence on 1st June next; and to be continued regularly, on the first day of each month, till the whole is completed.

III. Each volume to have a Frontispiece and Vignette titlepage, both containing subjects illustrative of the Novel to which they are attached.

IV. The Work will be completed in FORTY VOLUMES, commencing with WAVERLEY, and closing with WOODSTOCK. The Author's additions will form about two of these Forty Volumes. **The Edition is so far advanced at press, that regularity of publication may be depended on; and, to such subscribers as may wish to have some of the Novels complete on the appearance of the first volume of each respectively, the Publishers have to state, that the whole of WAVERLEY may be had on the first of June, in 2 vols. for 10s.

And, in like manner,
GUY MANNERING, in 2 vols. on the 1st of August.
THE ANTIQUARY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of October.
ROB ROY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of December.

As well as such others, during the progress of the Edition, as its arrangement enables the Publishers to deliver in complete

Tales.

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Captain Clapperton's Second (and Last) Travels in Africa, 2 vols 4to, with plates.

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Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole, by Captain Farry, plates.

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CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY.

Vol. XXXIX.

Twelve Years' Military Adventures in India, the Peninsula, &c. THE HISTORY of SCULPTURE, PAINT

2 vols.

Tales of a Voyager, First Series, 3 vols.

Tales of a Voyager, Second Series, 3 vols.

Annual Biography for the year 1828. Just published.

Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, 2 vols.

Dr Walsh's Travels to Constantinople, with plates. This is an exceedingly interesting little Work at the present moment, inasmuch as it developes the resources of the Turkish Empire, and the prospects of Russian conquest. Notions of the Americans, by Cooper, 2 vols.

Life and Voyages of Columbus, by Washington Irving, 4 vols. Private Anecdotes of Foreign Courts, 2 vols.

Life and Times of Sir Jonah Barrington, 2 vols.

History of the Rebellion in 1638, under Montrose, 2 vols.
History of the Rebellion in 1745, 2 vols.

Life and Memoirs of Admiral Collingwood.

Lord Byron and his Contemporaries, by Hunt, 2 vols. plates.
Dr Granville's Travels to St Petersburgh, 4 vols, plates.
Memoirs of the extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, of

the 87th Regiment, 3 vols.

The Night Watch; or, Tales of the Sea, 2 vols.

Sketches of Persia, by Sir John Malcolm, 2 vols.

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