Transcriber's Note

Spellings are sometimes erratic. A few obvious misprints have been corrected, but in general the original spelling has been retained. Accents in the French phrases are inconsistent, and have not been standardised.

BLACKWOOD’S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No CCCXLVIII. OCTOBER, 1844. VOL. LVI.

CONTENTS.

The Life of a Diplomatist[401]
Poems and Ballads of Goethe. No. II.[417]
The Great Drought[433]
A Tender Conscience[454]
Thierry’s History of the Gauls[466]
The Witchfinder. Conclusion[487]
My Last Courtship; or, Life in Louisiana,[507]
Greece under the Romans.[524]

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