Instinct of the monkey Intelligence in literature and arts 79, 119, 578 Moot point, illustrated 872 Montague, Lady Mary W. letters of 805 739 496 Inventions and discoveries 344 Morality of the Parisians 144 Morland, the painter, his life 629,912 184 592 121 342 318, 627 371 Junius, letters of, ascribed to sir P. Francis 79 Kean, the tragedian 159, 428, 570, 695, 911 -and Sheridan Naples and the Campagna Felice Narrative of Robert Adams, an American 981 Musty grain, experiments on 497 My eye, Betty Martin 478 584 51 563 247 sailor 15, 55 Kemble, the tragedian 372 Natural ingenuity 941 ------, his retirement 825 Neely's poems, strictures on 219 Neid J. memoirs of 646 Koster's travels in Brazil New Musical instruments 842 167 Kotzebue 842 Kumaon mountains 954 Night-nare 590 Novel-rading,a cause of female depravity 718 Predilections of the Scotch 231 Strictures on Neele's poems 219 Premature talent 493 Striking contrasts 96 Prescot, Catharine, her death Suicide 490 945 Presence of mind in a sailor 588 Prince Malcolm Swift, dean 333 615 Prison of the Conciergerie Printing press, new invention 279 877 416 Tales of my landlord 1, 13, 80 443 Race and racehorse, their meaning The three blue balls 417 Rape of the Sabines Raphael's memoirs announced - travels in Arabia 239, 286, 538 Water, wood, and mountain scenery 809 Thomson, William, his death 916 825 Thou art a dog in a doublet 418 79 Tiger buning in Ind ia 200 99 Tissue, its meaning 316 178 Transfusion of blood 569 937 Translation of the bible 414 69 Primrose, to the 593 Darkness, by Byron 518 Progress of British sculpture 518 Daylight, when the storm was o'er David's lamentation for Saul and Jonathan 78 Religion--There is a calm 355 De Courcy 436 Retirement 115 514 Reynolds, Richard, verses on 73 Deluge, translated from Ovid Don Sebastian 846 Romance 760 111 Doris, from the German of Haller Savoyard 517 354 Echoes Sea Nymph 466 357 She never told her love 517 356 Epistle to the Emperor of China Eric and Amabel 72 Sighs, by mrs. Rolls 848 Song of a lover 672 193 Soliloquy by dr. Sewell 759 596 - by lord Thurlow 116 Extract from an address to Napoleon 847 -- to the river Avon 354 Farewell address, by Kemble 439 Fisher's grave 197 - to my friend 440 Flower of Love 593 Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt 920 Four Ages, translated from Ovid 758 Stanzas 671 Helen of Kirkconnell 197 275 Hohenelm 434 ---- on the sea-shore of Kent 193 Storm, written during a tempest 353 Incantation by lord Byron 277 In every change of busy life 671 Thoughts in a ball-room 73 In vain I court refreshing sleep 197 The orb of light descending gave 193 Jonah's Gourd 596 There is an eye whose shaded light 191 To the oak that near my cottage grew 390 Keepsake, the 608 Tomb of love 593 Lalla Rookh extracts from 578, 675 Lines by a Mother 194 Vanity of Life 358 -- on a goblet, by Byron Vola, or sybil of the north 925 594 Visions of Youth 755 - sent with a repeating watch 674 --- written in Richmond church-yard 849 When Cupid prompts the virgin sigh 756 Lost dove 751 When winds breathe soft 56 Love of fame, by Neele Winter in Canada 439 222 70 Yorkshire angling 598 You bid me hope 930 194 Τ TALES OF MY LANDLORD." By the Author of Waverley, Guy Mannering, and the Antiquary. IT is impossible to read the first sheet "Old Mortality" is a sort of nickof this production without a convic- name, given by the people of Scotland to tion that it is by the author of Waverly, an antiquated Presbyterian, who having Guy Mannering, and the Antiquary, engaged and suffered in the struggles of though the title-page gives no such in- 1679, preserved his unshaken zeal for formation. his party, and, in his declining years, journied from burial-ground to burialground with his hammer and chisel, renewing the decayed names on the tombstones of those who had fought and fallen in the cause he had reverenced: from the details he supplied, Peter Pattieson is supposed to have framed the novel which bears his title. The Tales are two in number, and are called "The Black Dwarf" and "Old Mortality." The scenes of both lie in Scotland, and the design of the author is declared to be, to portray the manners of his countrymen; and they are to be followed by others of the same character, at a future period. The "Black Dwart" refers to the state of Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne, and "Old Mortality" speaks of its condition during the struggles by the Presbyterians in favour of the solemn league and covenant," in the latter end of the reign of Charles II. The man who forms the principal feature, and who first excites and afterwards heads the Co e anters in the battles of London-Hill and Bothwell-Bridge, is John Balfour, of Burley, who assassina. ted Dr. Thorpe, archbishop of St. AnThe general title of "Tales of my drew's. He is a Highlander, or one Landlord" is derived from the circum-" of the hill-folk," of uncommonly sturstance, that they are supposed to have dy proportions, and of a mind corresbeen collected from the relations of diffe- ponding with his make-undaunted, rent persons at the Wallace-Inn at Gan- fierce, and zealous to the last degree in dercleugh. Mr. Peter Pattieson is sup- the holy cause he has espoused. He has posed to have been the writer and com- fled from the murder he has committed, piler of the tales, who, dying young, left them to the care of Mr. Jedidiah Cleishbotham, the schoolmaster, to whom he had been usher and assistant. and is sheltered, as a distressed traveller merely, by Henry Morton, the hero of the tale, a young man of benevolence, courage, and handsome proportions, who is in love with Miss Edith Bellenger, the grand-daughter of Lady Margaret Bel- confined by a green ribband from wanlenger, and neice to Major Bellenger. toning over her shoulders; her cast of The rival of Morton is Lord Evandale, features, soft and feminine, yet not withwho, though unsuccessful with the lady, out an expression of playful archness, is, we apprehend, too successful with the which redeemed their sweetness from the reader, for he attracts even more interest charge of insipidity, sometimes brought than Morton. against blondes and blue-eyed beauties,these attracted more admiration from the western youth than either the splendour of her equipment, or the figure of her Henry Morton unites himself with the Covenanters, and becomes one of their leaders, his associates besides Balfour, being the fanatical preachers, who put palfrey." themselves at the head of the rebels to vindicate the cause against the Prelatists, of an old penurious Scotch laird's table The following is a humorous account upon whom they denounce, and after and family-party dinner about the year execute, the most bloody vengeance. 1680: tioned : On the other side, at the head of the royalists, is Colonel Grahame, of Clav- old fashions which were connected with "The Laird of Milowood kept up all erhouse, afterwards created for his services, Viscount Dundee. At the period custom of his house, as it had been unieconomy. It was, therefore, still the embraced by this story he is the enter-versal in Scotland about fifty years beprising, courageous, and skilful antagonist fore, that the domestics, after having of Balfour and his zeal-blinded friends, placed the dinner on the table, sate down and is supported principally by Lord at the end of the board, and partook of Evandale and others. the share which was assigned to them, The person of the heroine, Edith Bel- in lenger, is thus spoken of. Her grand- the day, therefore, after Cuddie's arrival, company with their masters. Upon mother, Lady Margaret, is first men- being the third froin the opening of this narrative, old Robin, who was butler, "Near to the enormous leather vehi- valet-de-chambre, footman, gardener, and cle which we have attempted to de- what not, in the house of Milnwood, scribe, vindicating her title to precedence placed on the table an immense charger over the untitled gentry of the country, of broth, thickened with oatmeal and might be seen the sober palfrey of Lady colewort, in which ocean of liquid was Margaret Bellenger, bearing the erect indistinctly discovered, by close observ and primitive form of Lady Margaret ers, two or three short ribs of lean mutherself, decked in those widow's weeds ton sailing to and fro. Two huge bas which the good lady had never laid aside kets, one of bread made of barley and since the execution of her husband for peas, and one of oat-cakes, flanked this his adherence to Montrose. standing dish. A large boiled salmon "Her grand-daughter, and only would now-a-days have indicated more earthly care, the fair-haired Edith, who liberal house-keeping; but, at that periwas generally allowed to be the prettiest od, it was caught in such plenty in the lass in the Upper Ward, appeared beside considerable rivers in Scotland, that it her aged relative like Spring placed close was generally applied to feed the ser to Winter. Her black Spanish jennet, vants, who are said sometimes to have which she managed with great grace, stipulated that they should not be requir her gay riding-dress, and laced side- ed to eat a food so luscious and surfeitsaddle, had been anxiously prepared to ing in its quality above five times a week. set her forth to the best advantage. But The large black-jack, filled with very the clustering profusion of ringlets, which, small beer of Milnwood's own brewing, escaping from under her cap, were only was indulged to the servants at discretion, as were the bannocks, cakes, and broth; The antique coach of the Lord Lieutenant but the mutton was reserved for the of the county. heads of the family, Mrs. Wilson inclu |