Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848

by Various

INDEX TO VOL. LXIV.

Acting in China, 89.
Agriculture of France and England, comparison of, 3.
Alain family, the, extracts from, 560.
Algoa bay, settlement of, 159.
American thoughts on European revolutions, 31.
American war, caricatures illustrating the, 552.
Anne, queen, character of, 327.
Antwerp, a legend from, 444.
Arabian nights, the, 472.
Aristocracy, necessity of a, to Britain, 14.
Art its prospects, 145
Eastlake's literature of, [753].
Art-unions, results of, 146.
Ashley, lord, on the juvenile population, 66.
Ateliers Nationaux, sketches of the, 249.
Auersperg, count, 382, 532.
Australia, importance of, 66
demand for emigration to, 67
Mitchell's researches in, 68.
Austria, the revolution in, 519.
Baden, state of, 378.
Baikal, the lake, 88.
Balloons, rage for, 554.
Balzac, M. de, 572.
Banking act, suspension of the, 262, 263
Barbauld's hymns, 404.
Barnard's cruise, &c., review of, 158.
Bashkirs, the, 81.
Basil, letter to, 31.
Baston, Robert, 222, 223.
Bavaria, the revolution in, 518.
Beauty, Eastlake's theory of, [762].
Beaver and Beaver-stone, the, 84.
Beggar's Opera, origin of the, 336.
Belgium, state of, 521.
Bentinck, lord George, death of, 632.
Beresov, town of, 80, 81.
Bernard, Andrew, 225, 226.
Blue Dragoon, the, 207.
Blum, Robert, 532.
Bright, John, 271.
British navy, the, 595.
Buraets, the, 90.
Buried flower, the, 108.
Burke's eulogy on Walpole, 331.
Byron's address to the ocean, on, 499.
Cabrera, movement under, 630.
Caged skylark, to a, 290.
Call, a, by Julia Day, 625.
Canning, rupture of Castlereagh with, 620.
Canterbury tales, the, 466.
Cape, sketches of the, 158.
Caricatures of the 18th century, the, 543.
Caroline, queen, 331, 332, 334, et seq.
Carpentaria, gulf of, expedition to, 68.
Castlereagh, lord, memoirs of, 610.
Catholic priesthood, proposed endowment of the, 638.
Cavaignac, general, 259.
Caxtons, the, Part IV. chap. ix., 40
chap. x., 41
chap. xi., 43
chap. xii., 44
chap. xiii., 48
chap. xiv., 50
Part V. chap. xv., 171
chap. xv., 179
chap. xvi., 181
chap. xvii., 182
Part VI. chap. xviii., 315
chap. xix., 317
chap. xx., 318
chap. xxi., ib.
chap. xxii., 320
chap. xxiii., 321
chap. xxiv., 323
chap. xxv. 324
Part VII. chap. xxvi., 388
chap. xxvii., 392
chap. xxviii., 395
chap. xxix., 396
chap. xxx., My father's first love, 397
chap. xxxi., Wherein my father continues his story, 400
chap. xxxii., Wherein my father brings about his denouement, 402
chap. xxxiii., 405
chap. xxxiv., ib.
Part VIII. chap. xxxv., [672]
chap. xxxvi., [674]
chap. xxxvii., [677]
chap. xxxviii., [680].
Chartism, classes among whom prevalent, 269.
Chartist demonstration, feeling regarding, in America, 35.
Chartists, sympathy between, and the Irish, 261.
Chaucer as laureate, 224.
Cheremisses, the, 87.
Chesterfield, lord, 334.
China, Erman's travels in, 88.
Chuvasses, the, 87.
Cibber, Colley, 230.
Cinque Cento, the, 145.
Cleghorn's ancient and modern art, review of, 145.
Cobden, Mr, reductions proposed by, 265, 266.
Coercion, necessity of, in Ireland, 485.
Coercion bill, the Irish, 281.
Cologne, state of, 378, 521.
Colonial legislation, review of recent, 275.
Colonisation, 66.
Colours, Goethe's theory of, [759].
Compton, Sir Spencer, 329.
Commerce, statistics of, 496.
Commercial classes, rise of, to power, 115.
Commercial crisis, the, 262.
Conciliation, failure of, in Ireland, 485.
Congress of Vienna, errors of the, 516.
Conservative union, 632.
Constitution of the United States, the, 33.
Continental revolutions—Irish rebellion—English distress, 475.
Cossacks, the, 81.
Cottier system, the, 423.
Cotton manufactures, growth of, 409.
Crown security bill for Ireland, the, 283.
Currency, on the, 492.
Da Vinci, Leonardo, [760].
Dante's Beatrice, 220.
Danube and the Euxine, the, 608.
Davenant, William, 227, 228.
Day, Julia, "A Call" by, 625.
De Chatillon, Mrs Hemans', [652].
Deer forests and deer-stalking, 92.
Denmark, state and character of, 286
sonnet to, 292.
Devonshire, the duke of, 329.
Dickens, the novels of, 468.
Dogs of Siberia, the, 86.
Doomster's first-born, the, chap. I., The tavern, 447
chap. II., The lovers, 450
chap. III., Father and son, 453
chap. IV., The execution, 455.
Drama, decline of the, [648].
Dryden as laureate, 228.
Dudevant, madame, and her works, 568.
Dumas, Alexander, 557, 558, 695.
Dunbar, William, 226.
Eastern life, Miss Martineau's, reviewed, 185.
Eastlake's literature of the fine arts, review of, [753].
Economists, rise and doctrines of the, 408.
Egypt, Miss Martineau on, 185.
Eighteen hundred and twelve, a retrospective review, 190
part II., The Moscow retreat, 359.
Electric telegraph in America, the, 31.
Emersonianism in America, 38.
Emigration, importance of, 66
from Ireland, necessity of, [663].
England, necessity of an aristocracy to, 14
under George II., 327
the history of, illustrated by caricatures, 543
the present position of, 477, 492.
English and French agriculture, comparison of, 3
laureates, sketches of, 221.
Entail, the law of, 1
bill, examination of the, 9.
Erman's Siberia, review of, 76.
Ernest, letter from, 31.
European revolutions, American thoughts on, 31.
Eusden, Lawrence, 229.
Eusebius, letter to, on novels, 459.
Eustathius, the romances of, 472.
Excise bill, Walpole's, 336, et seq.
Exports, diminution of, 274.
Fashions in the 18th century, the, 554.
Female poetesses, on, [641].
Feudal law of succession, the, 5.
Few words about novels, a, 459.
Fielding's novels, on, 460, 466.
Financial measures, recent, 263.
Findhorn river, the, 96.
Fine arts commission, the, 148
Eastlake's literature of the, [753].
Fishing in Russia, 83.
Fitzgerald, lord Edward, 615, 616.
Fleming on the papacy, notice of, [710].
Fleury, cardinal, 332.
Fo, temple of, 89.
Foote, Samuel, 550.
Forty shilling franchise in Ireland, the, 611.
Fox, caricatures of, 553.
France, agriculture of, compared with that of England, 3
her law of real property, succession, &c., 6, 11
feeling in America on the revolution in, 31
State of, June 1848, 51
the present state of, and lessons from it, 476, 477
pictures of, from Jérome Paturot, [87].
François le Champi, notices of, 568.
Frankfort, appearance of the town of, 525
the insurrection in, 541
parliament, the, 375, 380, 515.
Frederick-William, character, policy, &c., of, 518, 519, 523.
Free trade, progress of, 114
its influence on shipping, 125
its failure, 264, 268
examination of its principles, 269, 409.
French actors, riots against, in London, 1755, 549
literature, recent, 557
novels, on, 471.
Fur trade of Siberia, the, 84.
Gagern, Herr von, 381, 531.
Gaming in England, rage for, 554.
George I., accession of, 328.
George II., life and times of, 327
his personal and public character, 329
sketches and anecdotes of him, 334, et seq.
George III., caricatures of, 552.
German novels, modern, 190.
Germanic confederation, the, 285.
Germany, objects of the revolutionary party in, 373
and its parliament, a glimpse at, 515
errors of the congress of Vienna regarding, 516
democratic character of the smaller states, 517
first outbreak and rapid progress of the movement, 518
objects of the democratic party, 536
state of the country, 538.
Gillray the caricaturist, 544, 553.
Glass, painting on, 156.
Glimpse at Germany and its parliament, a, 515.
Godwin's novels, on, 466.
Goethe's Theory of Colours, [759].
Gothic architecture, rise of, 145.
Gower the poet, 224.
Grattan, close of the career of, 620.
Gravière's sketches of the naval war, review of, 595.
Great Britain, importance of Australia to, 66
present state of 479, 492.
Great Tragedian, the, chap. I., 345
chap. II., 348
chap. III., 349
chap. IV., 352
chap. V., 355
chap. VI, 358.
Greek sculpture, on, 154
romances, 472.
Green Hand, the, [743].
Gulielmus, the first English laureate, 222.
Habeas corpus act, suspension of the, in Ireland, 284.
Harrington, lord, 341.
Harrowby, lord, notices of Castlereagh by, 621
Heidelberg, first revolutionary assembly at, 518
state of, 378.
Hemans, Mrs, [641].
Hervey's life and times of George II., review of, 327.
Heywood the poet, 226.
Highway robbery, prevalence of, in 1720, 546.
Hoadley, bishop, 342.
Hogarth as a painter, 153
his first caricature, 548
career of, 551.
Horse-dealer, the, a tale of Denmark, 232.
Huzzah for the rule of the Whigs, 112.
Imports, increase of manufactured, 273.
Income tax, modifications of, proposed, 421, note.
Intestacy, law of succession in, 5.
Ireland, agriculture and laws of property in, 12
amount of immigration from, 261
legislation of the session regarding, 279
its state, remedies proposed, &c., 421, 423
the rebellion in, 480, et seq.
proper government for, 489
state of, before the union, 611
the rebellion of 1798, 615
the union, 619
the miseries of, and their remedies, [658].
Irish crime bill, the, 281.
Irkutsk, town of, 88.
Italy, Whig policy toward, 286
present state of, 476.
Jacobitism, prevalence of, under George I., 545.
Jahn, professor, 531.
Jane Eyre, remarks on, 473.
Jérome Paturot, review of, [687].
Jervis, Sir John, 599.
Jewish disabilities bill, the, 279
an American on the, 36.
John, the archduke, 520.
Johnson, Daniel and Ben, 227.
Kaffirland, 158.
Kames, lord, on the law of entail, 3.
Karr, M., and his writings, 560.
King, lord chancellor, 339.
Kock, Paul de, 571.
Kosacks of the Ural, the, 81.
La Famille Alain, the, 560.
Lady tourists, on, 185.
Laffan, archdeacon, 280.
Lamb plant, the, 79.
Lamoricière, general, 259.
Land, the laws of, 1.
Last Constantine, Mrs Hemans', [652].
Laurels and laureates, 220.
Law, John, career of, 546.
Laws of land, the, 1.
Lays of the Deer Forest, review of, 92.
Legend from Antwerp, a. Introduction, 444
The Doomster's first-born; chap. I., The tavern, 447
chap. II., The lovers, 450
chap. III., Father and son, 453
chap. IV., The execution, 455.
Leiningen, prince, 383.
Letter to Eusebius, a, on novels, 459.
Lichnowsky, prince, 532
his murder, 533.
Life and times of George II., the, 327.
Life in the Far West, part II., 17
part III., 130
part IV., 293
part V., 429
part VI., 573
memoir of the author, 591
London, state of, under George I., 545.
Londonderry, lord, memoirs of Lord Castlereagh by, reviewed, 610.
Louis XV., character of, 332.
Louis Philippe, American estimation of, 32.
Lyons, state of, 59.
Macculloch on the succession to property vacant by death, review of, 1.
Madame de Malguet, remarks on, 474.
Maimachen, town of, 88.
Manufactures, state of exports and imports, 273, 274.
Mariage de Paris, notice of the, 565.
Martineau's Eastern life, review of, 185.
Masquerades, prevalence of, during the eighteenth century, 548, 550.
Mayence, state of, 525.
Memoirs of Lord Castlereagh 610.
Menchikoff, a Russian favourite, 81.
Mery, M., the works of, 565.
Mill's political economy, review of, 407.
Mill, Mr, on the waste lands of Ireland and their improvement, [668], et seq.
Miseries: of Ireland, the, and their remedies, [658].
Mississippi scheme, the, 546.
Mitchell, trial and condemnation of, 283.
Mitchell's Australia, review of, 66.
Modern tourism, 185.
Molesworth, Sir William, 271.
Monceaux, sketches in the park of, 249, [691].
Monsieur Bonardin, review of, [687], [700].
Montemolin, the Count de, and his party in Spain, 627.
More, Hannah, works of, 461.
Mormons, sketches of the, 577.
Mosaic law, the, relative to land, 3.
Moscow, the burning of, 79
the retreat from, 359.
Moses, Miss Martineau's theory of, 188.
Muggite societies in London, the, 545.
Musset, Paul de, 567.
Naples, affairs of, 286.
Napoleon, caricatures of, 555.
National gallery, the, 150.
National workshops of Paris, sketches of the, 249, [691].
Narvaez, the policy of, 627, 629.
Naval war of the French Revolution, the, 595.
Navigation laws, the, 114.
Nelson, career and character of, 597.
Nicholson's The Cape and its colonists, review of, 158.
Nijni Novgorod, fair of, 79.
Novels, a few words about, 459.
O'Connell, John, on Ireland, 281.
Orange, the princess of, 339, 342.
Orval, the prophecy of, [704], [705], et seq.
Ostyaks, the, 82, 83, et seq.
Painting, Eastlake on, [757].
Painting on glass, on, 156.
Parcel from Paris, a, 557.
Paris, state of, 51
its supremacy, 53
this beginning to fail, 55, et seq.
sketches in, 248
a parcel from, 557
pictures of, from Jérome Paturot, [688].
Passavant's Life of Raphael, notice of, [758].
Peel, Sir R., on the sugar act, 276
the adherents of, 633
his banking act, suspension of it, 263.
Pericles, the age of, 155.
Petrarch's Laura, 220.
Philosophy of the fine arts, Eastlake's, [755].
Poetry: The Buried flower, 108
Huzzah for the rule of the Whigs, 112
To a caged skylark, 290
Sonnet to Denmark, 292
Danube and the Euxine, 608
A Call, 625.
Poitiers prophecy, the, [708].
Polar bear, the, 85.
Political economy, 407.
Poor-law, long want of, in Ireland, [661]
that lately passed, and supplementary measures required, [662].
Population, redundancy of, in Ireland, and means of restraining it, [660].
Previsions of the solitary of Orval, the, [704], et seq.
Primogeniture, sketch of the history of, 3
its advantages, 5.
Prisons, &c., expense of, 67, 75.
Prophecies for the present, [703].
Prussia, state of, 476
recent policy of, 517
the revolutionary movement in, 519.
Pye, Henry James, 231.
Pyramids, the, 186.
Queensberry, the duchess of, 335.
Rachel, mademoiselle, [693].
Raffaelle, the Madonnas of, 152
Passavant's Life of, [758].
Ragged schools, statistics of, 67.
Reaction, dread of, in France, 56.
Rebellion, the Irish, of 1798, 615, et seq.
Records of Woman, Mrs Hemans', [653].
Reichsverweser of Germany, the, 520, 535.
Rellstab, Lewis, 190, 359.
Republican France, June 1848, 51
First-fruits, [687].
Review of the last session, a, 261.
Revolutions of England, the, 327
on the Continent, the, 475
of 1830 and 1848, coincidences between, [712].
Reybaud's Jérome Paturot, review of, [687].
Richardson, the novels of, 460.
Roads of Russia, the, 83.
Roman law of succession, the, 5.
Rowe, Nicholas, 229.
Rowlandson the caricaturist, 544, 554, 556.
Russell, Lord John, review of the policy and measures of, 262, 270.
Russia, Erman's travels in, 78.
Ruxton, the late George Frederick, 591.
St John's Wild Sports of the Highlands, 96.
St Maur, the national workshops at, 253.
St Paul's church, Frankfort, 530.
St Vincent, lord, 599.
Samoyedes, the, 85, 87.
Sand, George, and her works, 568.
Satires and Caricatures of the eighteenth century, 543.
Saxon law of succession, the, 3, 6.
Sayer the caricaturist, 553.
Scarborough, lord, 334.
Scotch agriculture, effects of entail on, 3.
Scotland, the law of entail in, 7.
Scottish Deer Forests, the, 92.
Scrope's deer-stalking, 94.
Sculpture, Eastlake on, [756].
Seal-catching in the North, 85.
Session, review of the, 261.
Shadwell the laureate, 228.
Shipping, influence of the navigation laws on, 116
statistics of, 118.
Siberia, 76
treatment of the exiles in, 80.
Sicily, the revolt of, 286.
Sigismund Fatello, chap. I., The opera, [714]
chap. II., The masquerade, [714]
chap. III., The accusation, [724]
chap. IV., The captain's room, [734]
chap. V. The day after the wedding, [739].
Silk, increased importation of, 274.
Simmons, B., To a caged skylark, by, 290.
Skelton, the laureate, 225.
Sketches in Paris, 248.
Smith, Adam, 407
on the navigation laws, 114.
Sonnet to Denmark, 292.
South Sea scheme, the, 547.
Southey as laureate, 231
remarks on his "Doctor," 470.
Spain, Whig policy toward, 289
present state of, 627.
Spenser as laureate, 226.
Stuart's Lays of the deer-forest, review of, 92.
Sturgeon, fishing for the, 83.
Stuttgardt, state of, 379.
Succession, the laws of, 1.
Suffolk, lady, 341, 343.
Sugar duties, the committee on, 276.
Sugar trade, statistics regarding the, 273.
Switzerland, present state of, 538.
Tapestry, on, 157.
Taquinet le Bossu, notice of, 571.
Tasso, 221.
Tatar domination in Russia, the, 79.
Tate, Nahum, 229.
Taxes, abolition of indirect, 268.
Thompson, colonel, 271.
Tobolsk, town of, 82.
Tourists, publications of, 185.
Townshend, lord, 334.
Trollope, Mrs, the novels of, 469.
Tunguzes, the, 91.
Uhland the poet, 531.
Union of Ireland, the, 617, et seq.
Venetian school of painting, the, 153.
Vespers of Palermo, Mrs Hemans', [648], [649].
Vicar of Wakefield, the, 466.
Vienna, the insurrection in, 537.
Vincennes, the castle and forest of, 253, et seq.
W. E. A., The Buried flower, by, 108
Danube and the Euxine, by, 608.
Walmoden, Madame, 343.
Walpole, Sir Robert, 329, et seq.
Ward's Five years in Kaffirland, review of, 158.
Warren's novels, remarks on, 469.
Warton, Thomas, 231.
Waste lands of Ireland, proposed employment of the, [665], et seq.
Watering-places of Germany, state of the, 538.
Wealth, the duties of, 414.
Wellington, a Frenchman's estimate of, 601
sketch of his career in answer to it, 603.
West Indies, legislation toward the, 276.
What is Spain about?, 627.
What would revolutionising Germany be at?, 373.
Whig ministry, review of the conduct of the, 262.
Whitehead, William, 230.
Winther, Christian, the Horse-dealer, by, 232.
Wood, Sir Charles, 264.
Woodward, caricature by, 556.
Wright's England under the house of Hanover, review of, 543.
Wurtemberg, state of, 379.
Yakutsk, town of, 91.
Yekaterinburg, town of, 81.
Yenisei, the Ostyaks of the, 85.
Yellow Goat, the, 567.
Zitz, a member of the Frankfort parliament, 533.
Zollverein, real object of the, 517.

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