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EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

BEING A NEW SERIES OF

The Scots Magazine.

AUGUST 1817.

CONTENTS.

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REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland. By the Rev. Mr James Kirktonte 44

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Lament of Tasso. By Lord Byron
Reports of some Recent Decisions, by the
Consistorial Court of Scotland. By Jas.
Fergusson, Esq. one of the Judges 50
Historical Account of Discoveries and
Travels in Africa. By the late John
Leyden, M. D.; Enlarged by Hugh
Murray, Esq. F.R.S. E...52
ANALYTICAL NOTICES

Of the Supplement to the Encyclopædia
Britannica, Vol. II. Part II......55
ORIGINAL POETRY.

The Minstrel's Vision, or, the Isle of Eyra. A Fragment...

The Celestiall Vestallis. An ancient Metrical Romaunt..

ib An Answer to the Question, What is Love? By Thomas Paine..........................05 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE

MONTHLY LIST OF NEW FUBLICA

MONTHLY REGISTER.

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WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION

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On the Proper Use of Terms in Writing 31 Observations on the Principles of the Poor Lawso

General View of the Credit and Commerce of the Country

Border Sketches

Appointments and Promotions. Meteorological Reports Agricultural Report

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGII, AND LONGMAN, HURST, Rees, orme, and brown,

LONDON.

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Mr Jamieson's curious communication on the Origin of the Picts,-Mr Duncan's View of the Commerce and Manufactures of Glasgow,-A very able article on the merits of Mr Kemble as an Actor, and a learned paper on Atmospheric Phenomena,-will appear in our next.

An interesting account of Block-Printing is in preparation.

A series of Original Letters to and from Queen Elizabeth-Also Original Letters of Burns-will appear successively, as our arrangements permit.

As soon as we have recovered from the alarm occasioned by the abrupt appearance of Satan, his very characteristic address may find a place in our Mis cellany.

Our materials will soon enable us to present our readers with a comprehensive view of the improvements which have taken place in this Metropolis from a very early period to the present time.

Printed by George Ramsay & Co.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE SCOTS MAGAZINE was begun in 1739, and has been continued, without interruption, during the seventy-eight years which have since elapsed. It forms now a record of Scottish Literature and History, during that long period, the value of which is so universally acknowledged, as to render all panegyric superfluous. For some time past, however, it has been strongly pressed on the Proprietors, from various quarters, that, in order more fully to adapt it to the taste of the times, a considerable enlargement of plan was become necessary, and that it ought to receive some improvements in typography and appearThe Proprietors felt some hesitation in making any change upon the plan of a work so long established; but the ample and highly respectable assurances which they have received, both of regular support, and of occasional contributions, in the event of such a change, have at length determined them to enter with spirit and zeal upon the execution of the improvements suggested.

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The Proprietors, therefore, beg to intimate, that the present series closes with the Number for July; and that the Number for August forms the first of a new series, upon a plan greatly enlarged and improved, and which will combine, with the objects hitherto treated in the SCOTS MAGAZINE, a variety of others, which the narrower limits of that Miscellany did not permit it to embrace.

To form a repository for the short and occasional productions of men of genius,-to draw illustrations of the manners, history, and antiquities of Scotland, from mines

yet unexhausted or unexplored,-to record the remarkable occurrences of the Republic of Letters, including an obituary of its eminent characters,-to illustrate the progress and present state of the fine, as well as of the useful, arts, and to preserve a faithful journal of foreign and domestic occurrences ;-these are objects which, with many others of a nature too miscellaneous to be particularly enumerated, they confidently expect to fulfil, with a success not attained by any similar work hitherto attempted in this country.

The work will now be entitled, "THE EDinburgh MAGAZINE, OF LITERARY MISCELLANY, being a new series of the SCOTS MAGAZINE," and will be published monthly. The Magazine bearing the former title was, in 1804, incorporated with the SCOTS MAGAZINE, and the two united have since been published under the title of the SCOTS MAGAZINE AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY. It will contain Six Sheets of Letter-Press, and, being printed in a closer manner, will comprise in each number nearly double the present quantity of matter. The price will be Two Shillings. This moderate addition is rendered unavoidable by the enlargement of the plan and the improvement of the materials; nor is there now any publication of the kind which is sold at a lower rate.

August 1817.

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