The London Magazine

THE

LONDON MAGAZINE.

JULY TO DECEMBER,

1823.

Why should not divers studies, at divers hours, delight, when the
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Ben Jonson's Discoveries.

VOL. VIII.

London:

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ALPHABETICAL TABLE

OF

CONTENTS.

Æschylus, scene from the Agamemnon, 262. Booth, Mr. controversy with Malthus, 586
Agriculture, 107, 226, 338, 451, 562, 667. (note).
Air, action of flowers on, 445.

Botany: plants in New South Wales, 461,

Air-gun, light from, 97.

464, 468, 473.

Algebraic geometry, 556.

Bozzari, Marco, Modern Greek Ode on,
Amicus Redivivus, 613.

573.

Andrew Laurie's Return, 193,

Brazilian diamond, matrix of, 444.

Anecdotes of a suicide, 501.

Brederode, Gerbrand, Dutch poet, 141.

Animals, suicide never committed by, 500. Bride's Tragedy, remarks on, 247.

Annonay, bridge near, 217.

Bridges, economical, 217.

Antagonism, 497.

Byron, Lord, his Sardanapalus, 135,

Antiquities, 440, 540.

Doge of Venice, 138, censure on, 535

Arctic Sea, newly discovered islands in, 658. his plagiarisms and imitations, 597.
Art, not encouraged by the British Go-

vernment, 616.
Arundel, Philip, Earl of, 605.

Cailliaud, his travels in Meroe, 440.
Aurora Borealis, 95, 554.

Capassi, Neapolitan author, 15 (note).

Australians, 466.

Caverswell, 260.

Character, English, 253, French, 253, Fe-

male, 413.

Babbage, Mr. his calculating instrument, Characters: Neapolitan, 14—The lying

328.

traveller, 21 _Gilbert Gauntree, 71-

Bagne, lake and glaciers, 445.

Squire Featherstone, 78_Nancy Ru.

Baillie, Miss, her De Montfort, 646. therford 74_Old Grizel, 197-Daft

Barton, B. verses on Bloomfield's death, Symie, 201-Old Johnny Wolgar, 239

L. H. 347.

- The Lady Aline, 366_Old Jacob

Beddoes' Bride's Tragedy, 647.

Roulson, 420—The travelling preacher,

Beckford, Mr. strictures on his taste in 421_Lord Cheyne, 425-Monoculus,

painting, 359.

614—Old Nayland, 623_Ruth Rush-

Bible, the, from Irving's Orations, 189. brook, 624.

Biography: Dr. Johnson, 57, 169—Brede. Chênedollé, French poet, 581.

rode, Dutch poet, 141--Walking Stewart, Classical Literature, 441.

253-Charles, Duke of Orleans, 304- Clouds, the, a dream, 482.

Schiller, 381–François Villon, 436 Cockney Latin, 475.

Guittone d’Arezzo, 501—Thomas Hob- Coleridge, Mr. 94-a passage of, copied by
son, 589-William Hobson, 590—Phi. Lord Byron, 597.
lip, Earl of Arundel, 605_Justus Lang. Cologne cathedral, Boisserie's work on,
pergius, 608.

441.

Blenheim, 510.

Combe, Mr. the phrenologist, 541.

Bloomfield, R. verses on his death, 347 Commerce, 108, 227, 340, 452, 564, 668

(L. H.)

-Retrospective Review of, 669.

Blue Mountains, New South Wales, excur. Coray, M., his translations into Modern

sion across, 461.

Greek, 540.

Books, new, 110, 229, 342, 454, 566, 674. Coster, Laurens, inventor of printing, 272

preparing for publication, 109, 228, -monument to, 273.

341, 453, 565, 673.

Curse of Coldengame, 621.

Daisy, account of, from the · Flora Do- Fame and Monuments, 37.

mestica,' 144.

Farquharson, Mr., his observation on the

Degerando, 91.

Aurora Borealis, 95.

Deist and Theist, distinction between these Fazio, tragedy, strictures on, 530.

words, 92.

Female character, traits of, 413_Ruth,

Diamond, Brazilian, matrix of, 344. 413_Electra, Antigone, 417.

Dictionaries, English, 493.

Festival at Haerlem, 272.

Doomed Man, the, 306.

Fiesco, Schiller's tragedy of, 395.

Dun Saavedra, Dramatic Poem, 617. Fine Arts, 440, 540 ; see Painters, Pic-
Drama, different schools of, 275—decay,',

tures.

of, 409_its essence, 410.

Flora Domestica, 144.

Drama: Cent per Cent, 102—Haymar. Flowers, action of, on air, 445.

ket; Mrs. Smith; Davis? Amphi. Fonthill, 357—want of fine pictures at, 359.

theatre, 103_English Opera House Foreign Literature, 99, 209, 324, 439,

Improvements ; Mr. Beazley ; the Swing 638.

Bridge; Gretna Green, 212–Miss French character, 253.

Kelly; Wrench ; Figaro ; Miss L. French Poets, early, Charles Duke of Or-

Dance, 213—Mrs. Austin ; Knight of leans, 301-Villon, 437.

Snowdon ; Wallack and Cooke; My

modern, 578.—Chênedollé,

Aunt, 214_Haymarket : Sweethearts 581.

and Wives ; Kenny, 215–Haymarket: Froissart, edition of his chronicles, by M.

Liston ; Spanish Bonds, 321-Simpson Dacier, 326.

and Co.; English Opera House ; Pre- Funds, 673.

sumption, 322—I will have a Wife,

323 — Matthews, 324 - Haymarket;

Liston's face, 433- Harley, 434_Fish Gall, Dr., origin of his system, 541.

out of Water, 435–English Opera Galleries, British ; see Pictures—Difficulty

House ; Rayner; Matthews ; Wrench,

of access to, 616.

435–Drury Lane Browne, Rayner, Ganges, journey to the head of, by Messrs.
Clara Fisher; Hamlet, 550_Remarks
on Shakspeare, 551– Alterations of his Gases, condensation of, 555.

Hodgson and Herbert, 215.

text by actors, 652

Drury Lane; Gau's Nubia, 441.

Fazio ; Mrs. Bunn; Cataract of the Geognosy of the country from Hudson's

Ganges, 637 . Caius Gracchus; Ma-

cready, 639-Covent Garden ; Young; Geography, 440, 540.

Bay to the Polar Sea, 553.

Venice Preserved; Sinclair ; Mrs. Bart, Germany, literature in, 99, 210, 326, 442,
ley ; Gamester, 640-Cortez, 641-Miss

538.

Paton, 642.

Gianni, Lapo, early Italian poet, 643.

Dramaticle, the Chase, 10.

Dramatists of the day, letters to, 81, 133, Greek Tragedy: scenes from Æschylus'

Glass, etching on, 659.

275, 407, 530, 645.

Agamemnon, 262—Sophocles' Electra,

Duke of Mercia, tragedy, remarks on, 83.

373_Euripides' 'Orestes, 503.—Ditto

Đurazzo, tragedy, 84, 134.

Medea, 611.

Dutch poets : Westerbaen, 45-Brederode, Grosvenor's, Lord, collection of pictures,

142-Tollens, 300.

32.

Guittone d'Arezzo, Italian poet, 501.

Earth-worms, 556.

Guy Faux, 477.

Ecclesiastical preferments, 111, 230, 343,

455, 567, 675.

Elgin Gallery, a poem, 26.

Haerlem, festival at, in commemoration of

Elia, papers by: the Old Margate Hoy,

the invention of printing, 272.

21-Letter to Southey, 400 — Guy

Haloes, artificial, 446.

Faux, 471_Nugæ Criticæ, 492-Ami Happiness of heaven, 190.

cus Redivivus, 613.

Hazlitt, Mr., letter on Malthus, 459—

Electra, Sophocles', scene from, 273.

reply to ditto, 569 (L. H.)

Electrical Machine, horizontal, 659.

Heaven, happiness of, 190.

Encyclopædia, French, 440.

Heiress in jeopardy, 43.

Engine boilers, feeding of, 98.

Himalaya mountains, heights of, 659.

English character, 253__ dictionaries, re."

Hobson, Thomas, 589. William, 590.

: marks on, 493.

Hunt, L., 404.

Etching on Glass, 659.

Euripides, scene from his Orestes, 513_
Ditto, Medea, 611.

Ice-caves at the source of the Jumna, 555.
Excursion across the Blue Mountains, New Imitations, poetical, 597.
South Wales, 461.

Implicit, on the meaning of the word, 494.
Facetiæ Bibliographicæ, No. III. 589. Instrument for finding the Latitude, 556.

on, 512.

Irving, Mr., review of his Orations, 186. Measure of value, 586.
Italian poets, early, Guittone d'Arezzo, Mechanics, 441.
501.-Lapo Gianni, 643.

Medicine, 540.
Jesters, old English, 589.

Mental Faculties, influence of the organs
Johnson, Dr., life of, 57, 160—list of of the stomach on, 258.

works projected by him, 178-person Metals, action of, on elastic fluids, 657.
and habits, 179-character, 180-lite- Metaphysics, remarks on, 542 compared
rary attainments, and style, 182–preju. with phrenology, 543.
dices, 183_-general estimate of his Milman, Professor, his tragedies, 580.
works, 183.

Mirandola, remarks on the tragedy of, 135,

Richard, 590.

645, 649.

Journey, to the head of the Ganges, 215- Modern bravo, described, from Irving's

across the Blue Mountains, New South Orations, 191.

Wales, 461.

Montezuma, tragedy, remarks on, 83.

Monuments, 37_names of streets, 39

portraits, 40—signs, 41.

Moore's “Loves of the Angels,' strictures
Kant, his philosophy, 87-English notices
of, 89_his terminology, 93.

Moreau, his Histoire physique des Antilles,
King of Hayti, a tale, 517.

440.
Mortar, 444.
Music, Australian, 465.