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Shaw House described, 203
Sheridan, T. Stanzas by, 324
Shakers of America, the, 60
Ships, ancient, 773

Sketches from Spain, 410, 443, 540
Slave Trade, 55, 519

Smolensko, battle of, 506
Snakes. West Indian, 451

Snow Houses, Esquimaux, 259
Southeogony, 258

Spilling the Salt, on, 89

Spring, seven symptons of, 237, 284
Spy, the, 168

Stone Indians, the, 242
Straw-plat Manufactory, 297

St. Bernard, passage of the, 56
Statesmen, American, 28

Steam Navigation, origin of, 15
Sunday Market at Moscow, 179
Surnames, a lyric, 765
Swallow, return of the, 303

Sweden, customs, &c., in, 374, 390, 661
literature in, 347, 363, 376

Table Cloth, origin of the, 774
Tam O'Shanter, memoir of, 587
Taylor, Watson, Esq., pictures of, 397
Temple Bar, mock procession to, 375
Terni, cataract of, 232

Theatrical Amusements, 108

Fund, 268

THEATRES, critical notices of the, in
every uumber.

Toper, the, a tale, 315

Topham, the strong man, 467, 468
Topographer, the, 700
Torch of Liberty, the, 289
Transparency Painting, 779
Troubadours, account of the, 466
Troubles of a Night, the, 313
Tread-Mill, on the, 489, 509, 526
Twelfth Night, 14

Turner the Painter, 202
Tyrolese, anecdotes of the, 246
Ugly Wife, poems on an, 30
Umbrella, introduction of the, 775

United States, ecclesiastical history of,90
customs in, 434, 456

Usury, historical notice of, 278
Valencia, description of, 410
Van Os's Exhibition, 287

Varssala, wretchedness of, 391
Vase Mantuan, the, 383
Vauxhall, account of, 426
Venetian Horses, on the, 717
Vienna, account of, 246

Villemains, M., on Milton, 377

, works of art in, 797

Volcano of Arequipa, 253

Volney refuted, 650, 701

Wake not the Dead, a tale, 469

Wales, New South, 298

Bramsen on the North of Spain, 593
Brenton's Naval History, 517
Brittou's Illustrations of London, 291,
410

Fonthill, 577

Brooke's Travels through Sweden, 660
Burns's Songs and Ballads, 692
Butler's Remains, 659

Byron's Island, a Poem, 385
Barnett's Memoirs, 458

-Reply to Reed, ib.
Belfrage's Mouitor to Families, 757
Benger's, Miss, Life of Mary Queen of
Scots, 361

Bicknell on Reform, 7×8

Blaquiere on the Greek Confederation,

597

Bond's History of Looe, 325
Boone's Men and Things, 389
Bristed on Churches, 130
Buckland's Reliquiæ Diluvianæ, 794
Burges's Son of Erin, 329
Burnaby's School Hours, 649
Burrow's Summary of Faith, 149
Caius Gracchus, 741

Campan's Memoirs of Queen of France,
97, 118, 136, 149
Carbonari, the, 236
Characteristics, 503
Chateaubriand's Speech, 297
Chemical Recreations, 695.
China, Picture of, 420
Churchill's Grammar, 460
Clarke's Travels, 353, 371, 390
Clara Chester, 744

Coles's Discarded Son, 408
Collet's Relics of Literature, 116
Colombia, Description of, 197, 214
Colombian Loan, ou the, 373
Combe's Letters to Marianne, 616
Comines's Memoirs, 547, 581

Cornwall's Flood of Thessaly, 213, 245
Cottle's Dartmoor, 795

Crabb's Technological Dictionary, 243
Credit Pernicious, 123
Critica Biblica, 509

Cruise's New Zealand, 775
Daniel on the Lord's Prayer, 346
Daniel's Meteorological Essays, 026
Deacon's Innkeeper's Album, 66
December Tales, 102-

Delabarre on Dentition, 250
Deumark Delineated, 657, 678, 706
De Pinna's Music, 709

Details of the Arrest of an Englishman,

147

Dibdin's Sea Songs, 689

Dictionary of Quotations, 709
Don Juan, 451, 552, 769

Douglas's Fall of Constantinople, 329
Dubois's Letters on India, 498
Dake of Mantna, a Tragedy, 419
Elmes's Life of Wren, 164, 182
Empecinado, Life of the, 458
Entail, the, a Novel, 19, 39
Erskine, Lord, Letter of, 282
Esprit de Madame de Stael, 250
Essays on Scenes in Italy, 232

-on Liberalism, 529
Essay on Dancing, 748
Ewing's Geography, 443

Fables for the Holy Alliance, 289, 309
Fain's Manuscript, 628, 647
Falearo, 810

Faux's Days in America, 433, 456
Ferdinand VII, life of, 817

Fire Eater, 747

Hannay on Usury Laws, 277
Harding's Stenography, 168
Harmonicou, the, 57
Harrison on Fruit Trees, 802
Hauberk Hall, 757
Hawkins's Anecdotes, 34
Hayley's Life, 369

Haynes's Durazzo, 273, 293
Heman's Vespers of Palermo, 801
Henniker's Visit to Egypt, 17, 36, 51
Heraldic Anomalies, 311, 357
Hermit of Dumpton Cave, 54

-Abroad, the, 439

-in Prison, 610
Herriot, George, Memoirs of, 65
Herwald de Wake, 771
Highlanders' Superstitions, 225
Highways and Byways, 145
Hill's, Mrs., Zaphna, 710

Hindoo Widows, Papers concerning,
641, 664, 680

Hippesley, Sir J., on Tread Mill, 489
Hofland, Mrs., Tale of Integrity, 235
Hogg's Perils of Women, 615
Holderness's Journey from Riga, 500
Hone's Ancient Mysteries, 345
Horne's Study of the Scriptures, 89
Hora Momenta Cravens, 762
Horticultural Journal, 136
Howitt's Forest Minstrel, 327
Hughes on the Greek Revolution, 203
Hudson on Sweeping Chimnies, 409
Hulbert's Museum Africanum, 69
Hunter's Memoirs, 281

Illustrations of Scotch Novels, 292
Quentin Durward, 45

Influence and Example, 584
Inside out, 710

Ipsiboe, by Comte d'Arlincourt, 74
Irving's Orations, 483
Isabel de Barsas, 409
Isabella, a Novel, 373
Italiaa Wife, the, 247

Jacobs's Fall of Constantinople, 755
James's Expedition, 533, 560
Jennings's Lecture, 282
Jones's Blackstone, 761
Joplin's Political Economy, 328
Knowles's Discourses, 185
Kolli's Memoirs, 549, 567

Las Cases's Journal of St. Helena, Vol. I.
1, 23, 38, 106; Vol. II. 133, 147, 166;
Vol. III. 294, 309, 326; Vol. IV. 563,
583, 600.-

Leibnitz, Exposition de, 250
Lewis's Zelinda, 460
Liber Amoris, 409

Liberal, the, No. II. 8, 26; III. 257; IV.

481

Fischer's Considerations on Germany, M'Diarmid's Vicar of Wakefield, 184

264

First Affections, 519

Footman's Directory, 460
Forman on the Tides, 374
Porget me not, 691

Fosbroke's Encyclopedia of Antiquities,
33, 120, 200, 773.

Franklin, Captain, Narrative of, 241, 259,
278, 296

Friendship's Offering, 724

Fulvius Valens, a Tragedy, 590

Gazetteer, General, 666

Geulis's Memoirs of M. de Bonchamps,

488

Ghost Stories,405

Gordon's American Revolution, 89

Memoirs of a Greek Lady, 393, 545
-Allied Armies, 743
Meyrick on Ancient Armour, 673, 693,
745

Milton's Apiarian Guide, 602
Mitford, Miss, her Julian, 177

, John, on Madhouses, 597
Monopoly Unmasked, 200
Montalvyn, a Drama, 281
Montholon's Historical Miscellanies, 5,
401, 424, 441, 708, 725
Napoleon's Memoirs, Vol. I. 5, 25, 56
Nash's Views in Paris, 490
Naval and Military Anecdotes, 168
Neale's Views of Noblemen's Seats, 308
Westminster Abbey, 753, 806, 825

Gourgaud's Memoirs of Napoleon, I. 5; Neeles's Poems, 193, 234

vol. II. 401, 424, 441, 708
Gray's Elements of Pharmacy, 342
Guizot on Conspiracies, 297

Gurney's Lectures on Chemistry, 675
Guzmau d'Alfarache, 649
Gwenllean, a Tale, 139
Gymnastic Exercise, 455

Hammond's Travels in Rotherhithe, 695

Nelson's History of Islington, 465, 491
No Fiction, a Tale, 458
Note Book, the, 421
O'Driscoll's Views of Ireland, 431
Other Times, a Novel, 216, 232
Papworth on Gardening, 437
Pamphleteer, No. XLII. 184; XLIII
374; XLIV, 694.

Praed's Lillian, 326

Prison Discipline Reports, 100
Proud Shepherd's Tragedy, 762
Public Characters of all Nations, 294
Quentin Durward, 321, 362
Quin's Visit to Spaiu, 643, 662
Rapp's Memoirs, 486, 506
Rasselas in Italiau, 203

Raymond's Village Schoolmaster, 795
Reed's Martha, 458

Reginald Dalton, 387, 407

Reid's Travels in Ireland, 530
Renou's Ionian, 810

Rhodes's Peak Scenery, 609, 630
Rich and Poor, 497

Ringan Gilhaize, 305, 339.

Reply to Rostopchin's Pamphlet, 712
Robins's Enfield, 513, 537

Rogers's Italy, 307

Rose's Orlando Inamorato, 263

Rouge et Noir, 562

Royal Exile, the, 361

Russia, Picture of, 178

Sabbath among the Mountains, 203
Salmagundi, 791

Salmons's Logic, 393
Savary's Memoirs, 721
Scientia Biblica, 712
Scoresby's Whale Fishery, 780
Segur's Maxims, 425
Serratea's Ferdinand VII., 728
Seventy-Six, a Novel, 409
Sextuple Alliance, the, 361
Shamrock Leaves, 712
Shortt's Visit to Milan, 632

Sismondi on European Literature, 465,

504

Simpson's Histories, 728

Introduction to Schools, 795

Sketches in Bedlam, 535

Smiles for all Seasons, 424

Soliguy's Letters on England, 261, 275
Spaewife, the, 785, 807

St. Aubyn's Phantoms, 460

St. Ronan's Well, 820

Stewart's Collections and Recollections,
129

Jamaica, 449, 472

St. Johnstoun, a Romance, 737, 758
Student's Manual, the, 296
Sweet's British Warblers, 727
Tales of my Father and Friends, 86
of Old Mr. Jefferson, 358
of Humour, 754
Temple of Truth, 757
Tennant's, Cardinal Beaton, 442
Thiers's Tour to the Pyrenees, 211
Ticheburn's Maid's Revenge, 282
Tilloch on the Apocalypse, 437
Times' Telescope, 761

Tour through the upper Provinces of
of Hindostan, 819

Trial of Rev. Mr. Irving, 561
Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, 161, 180
Underwood's Diary, 712
Vallance on Caloric, 533
Valperga, 113

Villiers's France and Italy, 617, 650
Villemain's Miscellanies, 330

Young Countess, 602-

Walton's Angler, 459
Warner's Illustrations, 514
Waterloo, a Poem, 712

Watts's Poetical Sketches, 677
Week's Amusements, 810

Wensley's Four Songs, 709

White, H. Kirke, MSS. 138.
Wieland's Graces, 406

Wright's Guide to the Giant's Causeway,

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Memorial de Sainte Helene. Journal of
the Private Life and Conversations of
the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena.
By the COUNT DE LAS CASES.
2 vols. 8vo. London, 1823.
WHEN we consider with what avidity
every catch-penny publication relating
to Bonaparte has been seized, we cannot
be surprised that the publication of me-
moirs, dictated and corrected by him-
self, and a journal of his private life
and conversations, recorded by one of
the most faithful of his followers, should

excite an unusual sensation. We are
not, we confess, among those who give
implicit credence to statements which
have evidently a taint of prejudice in
their composition; and we regret that
those who, from their intercourse with
Napoleon, have had such good opportu-
nities of becoming his historians, should
mix that history with personalities.
Mr. O'Meara's work, valuable and in-
teresting as it was, appeared to some
disadvantage on this account; and even
the journal of Las Cases, though thus
offending in a much less degree, is not
altogether free from such a disadvan-
tage. There are, however, grounds of
extenuation in the one which we look in
vain for in the other: Count Las Cases
was strongly attached to his royal mas-
ter, and shared with him in all his suf-
ferings; and, although he may not be
wholly free from political tergiversation,
yet the fidelity with which he attended
Napoleon in his misfortunes was un-
shaken and sincere, and ought to cover
a multitude of sins.

The Napoleon works now published, and which are by far the most important that ever appeared on the subject, are four in number. Two of them are the journal of Las Cases; the other two are Napoleon's own Memoirs, as dictated to General Gourgaud and Count Montholon. Count Las Cases, in a preface to the volumes now before us, says, that he collected and recorded, day by day, all that he saw of Napoleon, and all that he heard him say, during the period of eighteen months,