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TO THE

FIRST VOLUME.

NEW SERIES.

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Chatterton, Unpublished Poem by, 160
Chit-Chat; Literary and Miscellaneous.—
For January.-Circulation of Blackwood's
Magazine. Absurd Story of the Arrest of
Sheridan's Corpse corrected.-Rob Roy's
Challenge. French Antidote for the Small
Pox.-Regeneration of the Monthly Maga-
zine, by Messrs. Cox and Baylis.-Pro-
jected Life of Mrs. Siddons.-Dr. Parr and
his three Bozzis.-Newly-invented French
Silk-weaving Machine. The North Pole
Humbug.-Sir Richard Phillips's Vamps,
published by Knight and Lacey.-Singu-
lar Geological Fact respecting the Ame-
thyst.-New Edition of Mr. Campbell's
British Poets, Suggestion respecting.—
Projected Life of Wolfe, Trick of the
annonce of.-Translations of Ariosto and

Tasso, by Stewart Rose, J. H. Wiffen, Sir
John Harrington, and Fairfax, Opinions
of.-Deacon's November Nights.--Folio
Edition of the Scriptures, with Preface,
by Calvin, at Hunsley Beacon, Yorkshire.

Steam Vessels on a novel Principle.-
Discovery of Antiquities at Tusculum.—
Translation into English of La Secchia
Rapita by Mr. Atkinson.—Mr. Pettigrew's
Catalogue of the Duke of Sussex's Library.
-Origin of Mrs. Shelley's Last Man.-
Mrs. Belzoni, liberal Conduct of Mr.
Brockedon, the Artist, to.-Charter of the
Royal Society of Literature, &c., &c., 54,
et seq.

For February.-Mrs. Heman's Forest
Sanctuary, Account of the Subject of.-
Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon.-
Iole, supposed Identity of.-Charles Lamb
a Contributor to the New Monthly Maga-
zine.-Wiffen's projected Specimens of
the Spanish Poets.-Bowles, Roscoe and
the Controversy respecting Pope.-Goe-
the's Young Rifleman advertised as an
original Work.-Miss Roberts's History
of the rival Houses of York and Lancas-
ter. Leeds Literature.-Annual Literary
Works, increase of the Sale of.-French
Law for the Protection of Literary Property.
-French Voyage of Discovery.-Mr.
Hood's admirable Caricature, "The Pro-
gress of Cant."-Madame de Genlis, Miss
Benger, the Rev. C. B. Taylor, Mr. Praed
and John Clare.-Mr. Lockhart not the
Editor of the Representative.-Polwhele's
Traditions.-Spirit of Whittaker's new Se-
ries of the Monthly Magazine, and Orator
Thelwall's Revenge.-New Novel, by Mr.
Crowe.-Death of Captain Beaufort the
African Traveller.-Successes of the Vigo-
Bay Company. - Cradock's Memoirs.-
New Work by Sir John Leicester and Mr.
Jerdan, to be entitled British Ichthyology,
pp. 108, et seq.

For March.-Miss Waldie the Author-
ess of Rome in the Nineteenth Century.
-Death of the last of the Family of Rous-

seau.--List of Editions of English Bibles.
-French Translation of Mackenzie's
Works. The Eves-Dropper, Medwin, Sum
given him for his Conversations.-Bernard
Barton's Devotional Verses, favourable
Notice of.--Sir Walter Scott christened
"THE CREATOR" by the Edinburgh News-
papers. Charles Molloy Westmacott.-
Popular German Stories, Notice of.-Tri-
fling of the Royal Society of Literature.-
Sycophancy of the European Magazine in
speaking of the Deputy Licenser.-Com-
parison of Horace Smith's Brambletye
House with the Novels of the Author of
Waverley-Blackwood's Magazine, Blun-
ders of the Man-of-War's Man.-Origin of
the Systems of Gall and Spurzheim.-
Comparison in the North American Review
between Lord Byron and Timothy Pink-
ney, in which the Palm is given to the
rhyming Yankee.-Margravine of Ans-
pach's Memoirs, Notice of, &c., 165, et seq.

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For April.-Few Works of Interest pub-
lished.-New Edition of Miss Lee's Can-
terbury Tales.-- Memoirs of Lindley Mur-
ray. Arrival of Weber.-Purchase of
Bailey's Eve by the Bristolians.-Charge
of Plagiarism brought by the Literary
Gazette against the Monthly Review,
accounted for.-Mr. Chandos Leigh's Po-

ems.-

-The New Monthly.-Sir Egerton
Brydges. Dr. Halliday, &c., &c., 224.

For May.-Manuscript of the Iliad and
Odyssey in Letters of Gold upon a Ser-
pent's Gut, Destruction of.-Sale of an
illustrated Pennant at Evans's for £250.-
Swedish Translation of Tasso.-A Post-
humous Work of Rousseau.-Boaden's Life
of Mrs. Siddons.-Burford's Panorama of
Madrid. Klopstock's Messiah once more
done into English.-Curious Entry in the
Diary of a Baptist Missionary.-Establish-
ment of Botanical Gardens, and Culture
of the Tea Plant, at Brazil.-Subject of
Woodstock.-Capital Number of the Quar-
terly Review.-British Gallery.-Horace
Smith's Ode on the Death of Chuny the
Elephant.-Squib's Pun on the Rev. Mr.
Irving. The Sabbath Morning, Notice of.
-Attempted Identification of Junius with
Burke.-Dubois' Life of Sir Philip Francis.
--George Noakes's astonishing Powers of
Calculation, incredible Stories of.-Mar-
tin's Death of Sardanapalus.-French
Editions of the Works of the Author of

into this Country by Mr. Brockedon.-
Sale of the Effects of the French Painter,
David, and Character of.-The Northern
Society of Leeds, their Prudence contrasted
with the Folly of some of the Manchester
would-be Patrons of the Fine Arts.-Tour
through Owyhee.-The Lord Chancellor's
Portrait. Subject of the Seatonian Prize
Poem.-New Machine for towing Vessels.
-Poverty of Mozart's Son.-The National
Gallery and the Crokers.-Lord Berwick's
Paintings. Buonaparte's earliest Wish.—
A vulgar Error corrected.-Absurdity of
the Stories respecting O'Keefe.-German
Medal in Honour of Goethe.-The Rev.
Mr. Croly's Paper on the British Empire
in the Monthly Review.-Burke's Heraldic
Dictionary, Notice of.-A Russian Pea-
sant Poet. Humbug of Mr. Bowdler's ex-
purgated edition of Gibbon exposed.-Plan
for communicating verbal Intelligence to
vast Distances by the Human Voice.-
Mr. Newton's Scene from the Beggar's
Opera, Account of, purchased by the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne.-Modest Expectations
of some Literary Aspirants, 275, et seq.

For June.-Gifford's Shirley.-The Bra-
zen Head.---Milinan's Anne Boleyn, No-
tice of.---The Sheridiana, a Vamp.-Miss
Stephens' Debut in Breeches.-A Foreign
manufactured Falsehood corrected.-Tur-
ner's Ports of England.-Mr. Frere's View
of the Prophecies.-Professor Rezzi's Dis-
covery of a Manuscript of the Divina Com-
media of Dante at Rome.- Accession to
the National Gallery.---Gifford's Edition
of Ford.---The Royal Society of Literature,
Push-Pin Play of.---Miss E. W. Miles's
Poems, Notice of.---The Ass.---French
Edition of Lord Byron.---Horticultural
Humbug.---The Rev. Blanco White.---
Existence of a beautiful Manuscript of the
Sonnets of Petrarch.---Medals presented
to Mr. Herschell, Mr. South, and Pro-
fessor Struve.---Tales, in Verse, illustra-
tive of the Lord's Prayer, by the Rev.
H. F. Lyte, Notice of.---Relics of M.
Denon's Cabinet.---Model of St. Peter's
at Rome.---Sum paid for the Copyright
of Woodstock.---Curious Historical Disco-
veries by Mr. Ellis.---Boaden's Gossip.---
Woodburn's Collection of Pictures by the
old Masters.---The largest Newspaper ever
printed.---History of the Iron Mask, by the
Hon. Agar Ellis, Notice of.---Literary
Fund, Speech of Mr. Moore, the coyness
of the Rev. Mr. Croly, and the humbug
of the whole Affair.

Waverley.-Popish Ideas of the Liberty of
the Press. Experiment on Fruit Trees.-
Pinkerton, Literary Character of.-Six
Months in the West Indies, Notice of. Circumstantial Evidence, Inadequacy of
Singular Petrefaction.-Dr. P.A. Nuttall's
Edition of Virgil's Bucalics, favourable
Notice of.-Introduction of Weber's Music

manifested, 158

Coeur de Lion at the Bier of his Father. By
Mrs. Hemans, 294

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Diary of a Commercial Traveller, 230
Dutch Postboy, Sketch of a, 205
Dying Infant, The. By the Author of
Solitary Hours, 322

Epigram written on hearing that a poor
Woman had been brought to bed in a
stage coach, 121

Epigram written on the fly-leaf of a modern
Epic. By Thomas Campbell, Esq. 121
Epigram. From the Greek. On the Spar-
tans who fell at Thermopylæ, 251
Epigram on a swindling Music Master, 134
Epigram to a dirty Friend in trouble, 121
Epigram on reading in a Newspaper that
Miss Paton had stipulated with the mana-
ger of Covent Garden that she should
not be required to appear in Male attire,
256

Epithalamium of Cupid and Psyche. By
Mrs. Henry Rolls, 82

Evening. By N. T. Carrington, 238
Evening Thoughts, 142

Excursion. Extracts from, 19

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worth, Remarks on the Writings and
Genius of, 17

Living Poets of England, No. II. Words-
worth, Remarks on the Writings and
Genius of, concluded, 68

Living Poets of England, No. III. Mrs.
Hemans, Remarks on the Writings and
Genius of, 113

Lost Pleiad, The. By Mrs. Hemans, 116
Love till Death. By Cornelius Webbe, 305
Lover's Reverie in a Ball Room, by Mrs. C.
B. Wilson, 248

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My native Village. By Robert Franklin, Stanzas to an Infant asleep in its Mother's

215

My Retreat. By M. J. J. 96

Notices to Correspondents, 111

Notices to Correspondents, 167

Arms, 7

Stanzas for Music, 13

Stanzas for Music, 25

Stanzas for Music, 78
Stanzas. By J. M., 96

Nun. Sonnet to an old Engraving of a, Stanzas. By J. H. Wiffen, Esq., 107

245

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Supernatural Appearances, 316

Tale of Real Life, 199

The Lady and the Merlin, from a Picture by
Newton. By Alaric A. Watts, 67

The Merry Wives of Madrid. A Spanish
Story, 57. Conclusion of, 145

The Flight of the Exile (from the Forest
Sanctuary). By Mrs. Hemans, 292
The Exile to his Child (from the Forest
Sanctuary). By Mrs. Hemans, 290
The Chapel-Master's Miseries, from the Ger-
man of Hoffman, 307

The Lady's Album, 183 ·

The Inconstant's Apology, By M. G. Lewis,
Esq., 132

The Infant and Bird. By M. J. J., 164
The Swallow's Return. By Robert Frank-
lin, 217

The Procession of an Auto da fe (from the
Forest Sanctuary). By Mrs. Hemans,

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Stanzas from the Icelandic. By J. H. Wif- Wordsworth, Selections from the Sonnets of,

fen, Esq., 220

Stanzas for Music, 206

Stanzas on a Dead Infant.

By Mrs. Corn-

"The

wall Baron Wilson, 193
Stanzas written after having perused
Death of the First Born," 179
Stanzas for Music. By J. H. Wiffen, Esq.,

27

71

Would I had Wist. A Ditty, by Mrs. How-
itt, 212

Wrecker, The. A Cornish Legend, 222

Yarrow Unvisited. By W. Wordsworth,
Extracted, 73.

THE

LITERARY MAGNET.

JANUARY, 1826.

MORNING CALLS

MORNING CALLS, the hatred and annoyance of all persons who know the value of time, formed at S

the staple business of life. After this it is quite unnecessary to say that S- was a small country town, abounding with genteel idle people,-who, having limited incomes, and few occupations, and much leisure, and little mind, mainly occupied themselves in hearing and retailing news. By many people, S- was considered a charming residence; in the country sense of the term it contained so much ' good society,'-and this good society was so very sociable :'-in other words-every body drank tea with every body, and every body knew every body's business. As far as news was concerned they had all things in common; scandal was certainly communicated from mouth to mouth under the charge of secrecy, but that, as all the world knows, is equivalent to proclaiming it by sound of trumpet; so that such a thing as a secret was perfectly unknown in S. Surprise was next to impossible, for all events, no matter of what kind, public or private, petty or important, were known beforehand; sudden death was the only circumstance ever known to baffle these omniscient people. It was quite a straight forward proceeding to report births and marriages before their occurrence; but sudden death was an awkward subject to meddle with; it was not to be foreseen even by those who foresaw all things. The town of S—, was like a bee-hive always in a buzz,-of hints, wonderments, suspicions, doubts, hopes, fears, and conjectures; it was a vast whispering-gallery; one large ear; but this last figure rather fails in similarity, as the self-same whisper often found a hundred different echoes. The surmise at one end of the town that a lady and gentleman were attached, grew to a suspicion in the middle, that they were engaged; from which started a full-grown report at the other end, that the wedding-clothes were in hand. Disasters went through the same exaggerating process. A piece of news past through as many changes as a chrysalis; a simple fact in the hands of these philosophic newsmongers became the germ of a hundred. Life at S-, was a round-robin monotony of putting on the same dresses, seeing the same people, taking the same walks, playing at cards with the same partners, dancing to the same tunes, and coming away at the same hour, over and over again, from the beginning of one year to the end of another. Hence, arose craving for excitement in the only attainable shape, that of news ; out of which originated a talent for gossip, and a passion for morning calls. ; there needed none; nor any

There was no newspaper printed at S

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