other pens than our own, however much we may praise them it cannot be ascribed to personal vanity. But we must be sparing; for we would not disfigure a beautiful and well-finished edifice by endeavoring to add to it an unnecessary or inappropriate ornament. With regard to the source whence are derived our supplies, it is well known that the ENGLISH MAGAZINES are conducted by men of the highest standing in the republic of literature. Among the names of the writers of articles which are occasionally given in the Atheneum, our readers will have noticed those of celebrated authors ; but many of the papers which are published anonymously, are from pens no less deservedly celebrated in the world of letters. Waters from the never-failing springs of true genius now flow in the channel of English Periodical Literature. Their effect must necessarily be, when unadulterated, to enrich and enliven. Our Miscellany is intended as a vehicle in which to transmit a portion of these over this country; and its form is so designed that they may be preserved for use in future time, after administering to the wants of the present. Articles which otherwise possess real merit do not always contain either beauty or vigor in their style ; and those which appear to have much labor bestowed on the latter, are sometimes deficient in beauty and vigor of thought. In selecting for the Atheneum from sources ample and various, we keep in view the merits of style and sentiment; and while, on the one hand, we overlook pieces which are written in an inflated and pompous style, without sufficient merit in the ideas to atone for this defect-on the other we equally avoid those in which the sentiments, though good, are sunk by the lowest expressions, which seem condemned to the first curse, of “ creeping on the ground all the days of their life.” We cannot say that we always have, or always shall, hit the true medium between these distant extremes ; but it is our intention to make use of articles of which we can say that the style adds a charm to truth, and gains the heart by captivating the ear as well as the understanding. The plan which was commenced at the beginning of the Third Series—that of ornamenting the numbers monthly with Plates of the Female Fashions—bas been acceptable. These, with the other Plates which have been given, have added a weight to our former expenses, which the increase of subscribers has hardly counterbalanced. They will be continued, however, in the ensuing volume. Our exertions, strenuous as they have been, will in no respect be relaxed in the volume now to be commenced. In its appearance and contents we trust it will not be inferior to the present, and we respectfully solicit for it a continuance of that patronage which is “The very air we breathe ; If we have it not, we die.” Boston, September 15, 1829. INDEX. power of ABERNETHYANA 51 446 189 218 208 328 162 207 Sessional School 32, 71, 110, 169 409 184 elementary in France 484 in the south of France 368 106 of teachers in Germany 168 popular 249 347 287 universal, considered 404 443 87 448 368 277 Ettrick Shepherd, the. Rover 44 150 Noctes 107, 184, 279, 323, 353, 476 317 471 234 123, 207 445 178 Fever, a night of, recollections of 348 167 50 126, 447 332 425 crime, 412 230 51 48 303 483 226 203 166 405 France and England 40 education in the south of 368 elementary education in 484 manufactures in 368 286 88 167 46 406 167 88 356 124 328 210, 257 406 66 Halle, university of 48 61 Noctes, a fragment from the 184, 279, 323 a passage from the 476 47 107, 353 286 328, 404, 443, 448, 481 9 406 Oak, picturesque beauty of the 367 67 354 288 38 286 416 408 168 Pilgrim's Progress, new edition of by 168 408 Plants, specimens of, preservation of 406 se 436 287 321 118 368 47 Potato-tops, extraction of potash from 285 359 406 488 488 104 Reviews and critical notices of new 189 works. 328 All for love; or, the Sinner well 285 saved. By R. Southey, Esq. 191 366 353 A Universal Prayer, &c. By R. 454 285 Biographical sketches and authentic 168 365 446 Montmorency, a Tragic Drama. By H. W. Montague 404 167 Tbe Age Reviewed. By R. Mont- 450 395 127 The Housekeeper's Oracle. By Dr. 402 324 365 404 The Natural History of Living Ob- 403 402 451 R. Southey, Esq. 191, 269 451 The Poetical Sketch-book. By T. 453 403 The Puffiad. By R. Montgomery 453 121 The Ruined City; a Poem. By G. 328 164 248 Universal education considered, &c. 404 186 Rhetoric, English, and rhetoricians 239 160 125 126 Richter, John Paul. The vision of a 407 83 230 Mock suns 66 Rothschild, Mr., the London banker 31 Spell, breaking the 300 481 398 Steamboats, proportion of power to 406 27 48 243 248 Stubbs, Mr. Henry Augustus Con- 332 125 48 380 Swiss peasantry, superstitions of the 247 88 208 204 87 Thermometer, new 125 167 420 279 428 Turkish mode of dismissal from office 88 449 Varieties 47, 87, 126, 166, 207, 247, 236, 327, 367, 446, 486 Vegetables, how to make them tender 285 83 288 448 287 87, 120 369 283 448 Winter, Rev. Cornelius and the pig 488 447 POETRY. ALBUM, a young lady's, lines for 322 Genius, fate of 454 452 man of 329 242 454 204 Hemans, Mrs. 396 43 The ancestral song 53 387 358 103 302 The Indian with his dead child 203 302 277 229 419 205 221 321 138 Immortality 444, 453 205 Invocations, vernal 119 480 14 282 Kindred spirits 357 Return, the 277 Lamb, Charles. Lines for a young Roprecht the robber 466 lady’s album 322 L. E. L. Hymn of the Calabrian Sadress and mirth 43 shepherds to the Virgin 424 Snuff-box, musical, lines on a 353 The fountain ; a ballad 397 Song 38, 121 Lines to a young lady on her mar. for May morning 91 riage 401 59 Sonnet 485 May morning, song for 91 Southey, Robert. Roprecht the robMines of Hayna, discovery of the 281 ber 466 Montgomery, Robert. The Pilgrim to Compostella 269 A vision of heaven 454 The Sinner well saved 192 Contemplation of the starry heavens 453 Stanzas 403 His personal feelings 455 395 Lines on contemporary poets 454 Stag, the hunted 396 Satirical lines on C and T 450 Summons, the 419 The fate of genius 454 Sunset meditations 229 Ubiquity of God 452 Mother, my 204 Two homes, the 221 Music of dreams, the 39 To a friend on his birthday 380 Nose, on my 256 Universe, the 110 O come, my love 435 Violets, complaint of the 396 Orphan, lines to an 396 176 Picture, the charmed 387 West wind, the dream of 411 Poets, contemporary, lines on 454 Who loves me best ? 186 Prediction, the 162 Recall, the 240 You'll come to our ball 78 |