88 198 42 116 116 On gud or freestcovery in proof of 190 164 Nankin, Chinese cloth, notice of 155 Religion 177 178 Reflections of a young man in prison 24 267 Recluse of the Pyrenees, poem of 469 493 122 369 130 203 305 318 368 156 Roubiliac the sculptor 176, 267, 294 Romaine, rev. mr. 95 Rome, Andrew, the smoggler Russian Voyage of Discovery 116, 199, 200, 281 Salt, new medicinal uses of Saint Catherine 132 ... Cecilia 218 ... Clement 124 -.- Remigius ... Faith --- Denys, abbey of --- Crispin 191 ... Luke, Simon and Jude 203 •. - Michael 199 200 313 of the week Saturday, or Seater-day, Henry's and Verstegan's account of 281 Salmon-hunting 158 Schill, major 85 288, 446 Scenery of Autumn 141 Scolds, ancient punishments of 30, 109 Scotch honour and attachment 312 188 Scientific miscellanies 284,324, 316, 406 322 13 187 Seater, pagan-Saxon god of time 281 178 Servant, remarkable instance of fidelity in 204 Seat of modesty 268 83 34 394 395 Shetland islands, Kater's measurement of the pendulum at 163 Shatir's tower. Persian tradition of 188 Shipwreck, Fracker's narrative of 220 Shifts of ignorance, by M. de Staël 268 104 151 Sitting for a picture 344 35 321 Sketches of manners 20, 51, 106, 145, 173, 218, 261, 297, 344, 374, 109, 457 Sloane, Sir Hans, the botanist 281 Smart, Christopher, the poet 286, 115 Smollett's tomb in Italy 232 152 Snake, large, Gumilla's account of 162 Snakes, cure for the bite of 193 188 Suow, its nature and properties 320 288 119 Spence's, iniss, sketches of Scotland 368 400 369 82 423 177 36 911 94 105 109 Um 143 77 192 908 491 Soog-writing 268 Umbrella, first introduction in London 394 491 Una with the Satyrs, picture of Urchin, or hedgehog Use of the preteroatural in fiction 305 45 Useful arts 120, 124, 191, 316 444 Variation Charts, new construction of 165 427 15,57 Verstegan's account of Saxon deities 279 194. Vernet and Voltaire, avecdote of 233 120 490 Visit to Glasgow .... to Edinburgh 239 Vipers, antidote for their bite Volney's modern researches on ancient 248 history Wassel-bowl and health drinking 114 150 105 ....... Panorama 261 Walford's scientific tourist Watson, Sir Brooke 393 374 475 393 909 248 23Wearing the breeches, proverb of 397 912 Whittington and his Cat 64 280 Whales, bottle-nose 431 162, 274 -179 194 Winter 242, 320 263, 300 393, 484 117 490 Wonders of the new world 415 189 Yeates' new variation charts 279 Zenzeed, or Persian love-plant 189 85 160, 170 165 179 POETRY Arctic moon 406 407 133 327 287 166 Ellen Bhoyochyd, ancient Scottish ballad 319 Epitaph, by Roberts. 203 Father's adieu to his daughter 167 148 366 167 926 For ease the harassed seaman prays 325 47 328 198 168 206 Ground swell 202 205 Had I the wit of Newstead's noble bard 287 126 Hence all you vain delights He sung of God, the mighty source . 286 367 46 202 209 482 408 246, 285, 447, 495 167 Her departure from the fountain 285 Oaks, from Körner 119 158 Oh, no where blossoms so bright the sum- 242 168 149 86 Poem by Burns 248 Portuguese hymn 276 Reverie of poor Susan 408 Row weel, my boatie, row vel 312 447 158 See the leaves around us fall *3 325 47 314 Shooting, a poem, extraci from 168 207 206 Sketch---the picture Sketches taken from Dover castle during a storm So stood the sibyl,stream'd her hoary hair 168 325 157 Song from the French of Florian 207 Song of the zephyrs 496 448 496 46,93 407 495 336 48 284 118 149 149 Star of the wide and pathless sea 365 167 Star, on a Stanzas 495 206 Stanzas on love Stanzas by lord Byron Sunday, by W. c. Harvey 214 325 245 Sword song, by Körner Swift's, E. L. translation of Juvenal 285 287 The sun went down in splendour 246 325 The bower it is of Indian drapery 119 · Through,' from the German of Körner 86 y belted vest 197 247 The loud wind roar'd, the raio fell fast 118 167 The wind was wild, the sea was dark 168 206 205 251 Unpublished poems of Thomson 87 Verses on women, by sir Aston Cockayne 117 126 Verses by lord Thurlow Wae worth thy power, thou cursed leaf 42 483 When Briorni sat on the land of ice 407 483 86 Wish 126 Woman 126 233 408 198 287 skies 325 of 46 87 From the Literary Gazette. THE author of this novel will have furnish a bad foundation for a narrative I no one to accuse so much as him. of this length. The law with which the self, if the critical judgment passed up- volumes abouod, tho' sometimes witty on it should not be so tavourable as he and generally whimsical, is by far too wishes. He has raised the standard by prolix : and the endless definitions of which such productions are tried so Mr. Saddletree, an artisan prone to athigh, that it is not surprising that even tending the court of session, become rehe should sometimes be found to fall ally tedious. To conclude our objecshort of it. In a word, we think The tions, there are more evident symptoins Heart of Mid-Lothian, for such is the of carelessness in this composition than title of the story which occupies these we remember in any of the former; aud four volumes, inferior in almost every tho' the author cannot write ill, nor what respec: to the preceding works from the would fail to be entertaining, he has saine source, including the Waverley upon the whole permitted as much alloy series with that designated as Tales of to creep into these pages as we could my Landlord. bave anticipated at his hands. It appears to us that this new publi. Notwithstanding these defects, howcation has less of the portraiture of na- ever, there are many parts of deep pational manners than the best of its pre- thos; there is great spirit and truth in cursors, while it has more of the uncom- the drawing of most of the characters; mon incidents common to the class of the fabulous portion of the story is adwritings to which it belongs. It pro- mirably connected with the history of duces an inferior effect from delineating, Captain Porteous' death, and its conseand that in a fainter manner, the charac- quences ; and the catastrophe is dreadteristics of a sect (Cameronjaps) neither fully just, though perhaps the inoral lesso important nor so interesting as the son instilled hy the lives of Euphemia Covenanters, personified in Balfour of Deans and George Robertson, is rather Burley, old Mrs. Headrigg, and their calculated to produce evil than good. teachers and partisans. Ils actors are of Novels are to us the most difficult too low an order, and the scene of a things to review in a satisfactory manner. gaol, with the adventures of its iomates Neither a dry outline of the plot, nor an of thieftakers, prostitutes, rogues, roh- extract of any particular part, sullice to bers and murderers, does, we conceive, convey an adequate idea of the subject B ATHENEUM. Vol. 4. in hand, and our limits do not admit of sort of adventures ; one of which going more at large into illustration. As is to persuade Jeanie Deans to swear far as we may go we now proceed to tha: her uphappy sister had not concealanalyze the Heart of Mid-Lothian.' ed her pregnancy from her,which would The Heart of Mid-Lothian, then, is do away with the capital charge against the Tolbooth,or Newgate of Edinburgh, her. This perjury the religious and virand it is facetiously declared to be a sad tuous Jeanie refuses to commit, and heart, a close heart, a wicked beart and Ellie is convicted and condemned to die. a poor heart, a strong heart and a high Jeanie now determines to walk to Lon. heart. At the execution of one Wilson, don, and solicit her pardon of the Queen; in Sept. 1736, for robbing a custom- and through the mediation of the great house officer, some tumult arose, and Duke of Argyle, she obtains an interPorteous, captain of the town guard, view of Her Majesty, and miraculousfired among the mob, by which several ly carries her point. In her journey, persons were killed. For this offence however, she encounters some strange he was tried, and condemned to death, obstacles.' She is made captive by an but reprieved by Queen Carolive on the old gipsy of the name of Murdockson, day appointed for his doom. The pop- who, with her mad daughter, are the ulace were infuriated by this baulk on parties that disposed of Effie's child, out justice as they considered it, and at night of revenge for the seduction of the daughthe extraordinary spectacle was seen of ter by Robertson. She also encounters an organized multitude disarming the Robertson bimself, who turns out to be soldiery securing the gates, breaking the son of Mr. Staunton, a dignitary of open the prison, dragging forth the the Church, and of a very ancient lamcriminaiid hanging him near the usual ily. He is now reclaimed and repentant. place !or carrying into effect the sen- Having accomplished her purpose in tence of the law. No disorder of any London, Jeanie returns, marries Butler, kind accompanied this tumultuous ri- who is presented to a church by the sing, in winch politics were deeply con- Duke of Argyle ; and David Deans, becerned. ing appointed a kind of overseer at the The fiction woven upon this real in- same place, the whole family settle comcident is thus managed. In the Tol- fortably on the borders of Dumbartonbooth, at the period of Porteous' mob, shire. Effie, when released, elopes from is a girl nained Effie Deans, accused of her father's house, and is secretly united child-murder, and at least of concealing to her lover, who gets her polished by a the birth of a natural child, which was few years' residence upon the continent, a capital offence by the then laws of and returns to England and to large Scotlavd. She is the youngest daugh- property with his wife, whose history is ter of David Deans, a cow-keeper, Dear contined to his own bosom, and that of Edinburgh, a rigid Dissenter of the sect her sister. They live in splendid of Cameronians. Reuben Butler, a wretchedness, while the bumbler branpoor young schoolmaster in holy orders, ches of the Deans connection enjoy and attached to Jeanie Deans, the elder comfort and happiness. Mrs. Mursister, is forced by the mob to officiate dockson being very properly banged at as chaplain to Capt. Porteous ; and it Carlisle, her confession affords reason turns out that an accomplice of Wil- to believe that Eflie's infant had not son's, who acted a conspicuous part in been murdered ; and Robertson, alias this riot in a female dress, is the seducer Sir George Staunton, with his lady, of poor Effie, and the father of her lost visit Scotland, in order to trace bim if child. To rescue her is one of his in- possible. In his search he lands at an ducements to undertake this desperate island near Butler's residence, where he exploit, but she refuses to escape when is attacked by a desperate smuggler and the doors of her duogeon are opened to his associates, and killed, it is believed, her. Robertson is obliged to fly, and by a youag lad, one of the gang. This figures in half a dozen Jonathan Wild savage is his own son, who had been |