FOURTH ILLUSTRATION OF BURNS'S POEMS. "The Twa Dogs."-" Peasantry." SPLENDID VIEW IN ITALY, ENGRAVED ON STEEL, FROM A PAINTING BY CLAUDE FOUR FINISHED ETCHINGS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH FASHIONS For August. THE LADYE OF SCALOT AND SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE. By S.S. TEXTS AND COMMENTS. By An Oxford Blue Lord Lennox's Learning !! The "Glorious Days" in Paris. THE humorous Prospectus of the General Grave-diggers' Company has been postponed, to make room for a serious investigation of the General Cemetery Company's project for a disgusting speculation in Funeral Novelties. The pretended letter from the Lady Mayoress is we suspect a hoax. We take leave to remind Alderman Waithman that calico is not spelt with a k. Miss Eleanor is in error, it was not The Royal Lady's Magazine which began the controversy, as she will observe on reference to Nos. 3 and 4. Lady L. G. has good reason to complain, and we have interfered in the proper quarter. Vindex will find an answer in our "Texts and Comments." It was as notorious a piece of ill-judged bombast as was ever uttered in the House of Commons. Madame Du M.'s note to Lady G. in which our fashions were enclosed, as having been just brought from France, has been properly handed to us, her Ladyship being one of our earliest subscribers. Madame had better be careful lest we expose the thing more pointedly. The suggestions of " An Artist," shall be attended to. The lines by our young friend, whose early work was so promising, do not indicate the improvement that we could have wished to find. W. E., Beppo, jun., Mrs. P., and Hayti, are received, read, and rejected. Q. Q. received, read, and ordered to be printed. The second article, "Reminiscences of the late Duke of Kent," will be reserved for publication with the Portrait. The Author of "The Unrevealed," we hope to find room for next month, but the paper is very long, and we cannot in justice to the interest divide it. Miss Mitford, the Ettrick Shepherd, and a celebrated Authoress, who shall be nameless till her paper appears, will enrich our next number. "The Parting," by Miss Pardoe, in our next. We agree with Lady Knowles's friend, that to be excluded from the intellectual feasts at the Mansion House is horrid; we say with Mrs. Figgins "the Lord Mayor's a hard-hearted man, that's what he is." To be serious, Lady Knowles ought to congratulate herself that she is not expected to meet the shopkeepers of the city. Maria is quite right; her "Papa" was a great goose for meddling with Parliament: but is she quite sure he would not be a great goose under any circumstances? The lines on the "Puppets of the City" are inadmissible; and the "Impromptu” on my Husband's Hat is "shocking bad." SIR PETER LAURIE, or rather a friend in his behalf, has requested us to state that he is not the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine. It gives us great pleasure to be enabled to set the literary world right on this subject. Mrs. Willis's liberal offer has been received, and is respectfully declined. We have printed our terms, and we abide by them. Pic Nic's Ode to "My Lord Infallible," Lord High Chancellor, &c., is clever, but too late for this month. The title will stick to the Noble (!) blunderer long after his office. "Juvenal" has mistaken our system. What are we to conciliate? Who are we to conciliate? Why are we to conciliate? We have made our opinions respected, and maintained our ground side by side with the two or three principal Magazines, only by writing as we think, and thinking as we ought. |