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Price $2,50 stitched; or $3 bound. Harvard Cola Library Gift of Jul 18, 1922 OP THE ATUENEUM, or Spirit of the English Magazines, is published in Boston, on the 1st and 15th of every month. Each number contains 40 pages large octavo, forming 2 vols. of 500 pages each in a year, at the low price of Five Dollars per annum. The work is regularly forwarded by mail to subscribers at a distance. Its appearance twice a month renders it more convenient to transport, and with less delay, than monthly publications, whilst by this mode of publication it is enabled to anticipate whatever is novel or entertaining in the literary, scientific, and fashionable world. The publishers receive by every arrival from England the Magazines printed in London, and the selections are made with the most scrupulous regard to the tastes of those who read for reJaxation, amusement, or instruction. The work commenced in April, 1817; and the volumes are dated from April and October each year. GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. IV. of 112 282 278 284 on BEL's, Dr. C. narrative 019 A Acquisition of languages, extraor Brothers, or castle of Liebenstein 322 dinary instance of 283 Brutus, Payne's new tragedy of 398 Adam and his family, a French drama 489 Burns, original letter and poem by 203 Adams, Joho, of Pitcairn's island 83 Bulls 324 Advent-sunday 117 Bulls and bears of the stock exchange 350 Adder, bite of the 245 Burton's melancholy 324, 366 Agriculture 125 Buchanan, Claudius 366 Aix-la-Chapelle, historical particulars Burning dragon, sign of 384 317 391 Buchan, captain, voyage of 432 All saints day, ceremonies on Burckhard,' the enterprising African Alexandrian library traveller 434 All souls, celebration of 113 Byron, lord 49, 93, 177, 300 Alder, betula alnus, uses of 321 Byron aod Waller 177 Almanack, calendar, and ephemeris, origin of the words Carriages without horses 492 Alderman Goodbehere 406 Castles of Liebenstein and Sternfels 131 Algerines 493 Catholic Church 368 Allhallow eve, soperstitious ceremonies Catholic Emblems 113 Catholic service at Rome Ancient punishment of scolds Cat and Hecate Anecdotes of literature 33 Cat in the pan, proverb of Anecdotes of Bonaparte 74, 99, 203 Cat loves fish, proverb of Anecdotes of Curran 184 Cat and Fiddle, sigo of Anecdotes of maniacs 185 Cat and Bagpipes Anecdotes 33, 153, 203, 184, 25), 310, 311, Cat o' nine tails 317, 328, 367, 376, 394, 406, 443 Captain Bligh, murder of Anecdote, Russian 163 124 Ancients, public buildings of 427 Campbell's selected beauties of British 481 988 Antiquarian, the 193 433 Animals, sagacity of 273, 313 Caution to females 492 Apparition, story of 459 Celestial apparition 404 Apotheosis, Howard's picture of the 159 Chaucer and Dryden 296 Arctic regions, voyages to 499 109 Arctic colony, origin of 451 Chap and Chapman, origin of names of 143 Arctic, navigator's journal Chateau of Coppet 441, 449 Arctic islander in London 385 Chalk, virtues of, for the bite of vipers, &c. 193 Ararat, mount, ascent of 475 Characteristic traits Astronomical and civil day 279 Charenton, philosophical romance of 248 Ash, fraxinus excelsior 322 Charlemagne 317, 391 Atmospheric illusions 172 Chequers, sign of 315 Autumn near the Rhine 129 Chesnut Tree, description of 481 Austrian archdukes, tour of 31, 77 Chevalier and his dog, sign of 813 Childe Harold's Monitor 214 Barrow's history of polar voyages 429 China, narrative of a journey in 152, Bacon, lord 33, 296 China, Amherst's embassy to Bacon's essays Chinese feeding 155 Bark of the larch for tanning 316 Chinese costumes 153 Babylon, Rich's second memoir of 208 Chinese ladies 153 Barber's boxes, origin of 201 Christmas Boxes, origin of Baffin, William, the voyager 432 Christmas ceremonies 200 Battle of Waterloo, col. Poosonby's ac ------------ Chatterton's description of 201 count of 150 Christian Wolf, the bandit, a true story 351 Beef, &c. Dew method of coring 192 Church at Gutzkow 413 Beech tree, description of 401 Cigars, Manilla, manufacture of Belzoni, the traveller 493 Clerical wit 201 Birkbeck's letters from Illinois 124 Clyde Canal 32 Birds, usefulness of 244 Climate of Nice 241 ee, description of 401 Cocoa, etymology of the word Blunderers 51 Coincidence, singular 162 Blackstone, sir William 866 Coincidences, superstitious 277,487 Boy-bishop, ceremony of electing 199 Colosseum at Rome 425 Box Tree, description of Coleridge, the poet, literary character of 433 Bonaparte, anecdotes of 74, 99, 203, 204 Composition for statues, &c. Boileau and Racine 85 Contemporary authors Bonaparte, Lacien, secret memoirs of 38,74 Conger-eel 85 178 207 99 001 175 Birch-tree, description 129 nal 289 84 308 279 393 490 95 Comparison 295 283 185 995 143 Evening-star, Beechey's picture of 160 395 Extracts from an Arctic pavigator's jour- 104 178 412 88, 156 104 Fate of genius 409 122 162 143 Fairfax and Lorenzo de Medicis 266 106 444 Fernales, Persian, seclusion of 185, 238 145 316 Felix Alvarez, or maupers in Spain 235,254 109 201 Fire, under water 284 Figure of Britannia, origin of 485 Fidelity, remarkable instance of 204 218, 406 282 Fine arts 105, 159 Florence Macarthy, an Irish tale, by Lady Morgan 361 92 Ford's mother Sawyer, the witch 277 83 38 Forest trees, description of 321, 401, 483 Forgery, executions for 119 143 Frea, or Friga, Saxon-pagan goddess 281 185 220 Friendship of Apollo dangerous 269 171 Frige-day, or Friday, origin of name of 281 237 Gall's Poems 208 Gazette, origin of the term 178 281 Galileo, the astronomer 284 161, 322, 398 Genius 176 Gessner, Conrad 270 132 Giant's column 385 Giant's altar in the wood of Odin 132 Glaciers of Mexico 160, 170 Godeya, countess 383 Goldsmith, original anecdotes of 81 162 162, 490 Goodness of beart, attendant upon genius 178 143 161 92, 253 Greek, Roman, and Irish fairies, coinci- 277, 487 Guy of Warwick 384 413 399 177 269 Hedgehogs, superstitious notion on 244 312 493 384 93 398 Good 88 85 30 115 163 172 216 77 96 $8 263 33 34 Heart of Mid-Lothian 9 London, etymology of 261, 297, 344, 374, 409, 457 Love-making, Wilkie's picture of 159 Lord's prayer, English version, 1000 108 years old 432 Love-plant, pretended properties of Lunatic 487 322 Mammoth 324 Maturin, author of Bertram 395 March of the ten thousand 96 Mad-dogs, new remedy for the bite of 193 Mass-boxes and Christmas carols 201 312 Machine for freeing shaft-horses 316 110 Mabogany,Callender's mode of seasoning 316 185 Man found on a rock 492 366 192 Mary, queen of Scots, Chalmers' life of 368 432 243 468 Meteoric stones 192 Merchant, origin of the name of 143 155 Mexico, glaciers and volcanoes of 160, 170 165 334 144 245 375 143 Milton and Thomson 162 177 184 Milton's Lycidas, illustration of a pas- 171, 207 269 Michaelmas-day, ceremonies of 336, 377, 417 176 Millar's chemistry, new work 368 Milliner, origin of the name of 143 Mitzlaff, count, affecting anecdote of 443 194 109 Montmorenci, constable of France 125 Modern Persia, military spirit of 270 138 Modern Persia, manners and customs in 197, 172,25 Modern relics 230 427 Moreau, Gen. Dew monument to 491 491 Moore, Thomas,remarks on the poetry of 329 394 189 Mooneday,or Monday,origin of the name 279 154 Morhof, the German genius 485 402 Monastery of the great St. Bernard 437 297 271 Morier's second journey thro' Persia,&c. 138, 187, 270 36 Moxa, or actual cautery, Chinese mode 155 243 269 278 190 Murat, original anecdotes of 40, 428 316 406 428 465 324 Mysteries of Udolpho 239 995 Narrative of the shipwreck of the Medusa 66 396 Naturalist's diary 80, 369, 181 43 415 |