BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLIV. APRIL, 1845. Vol. LVII.

CONTENTS.

Virgil, Tasso, and Raphael,[401]
Ping-Kee's View of the Stage,[415]
The Midnight Watch,[424]
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,[448]
Marston; or, the Memoirs of a Statesman. Part XVI.,[461]
Betham's Etruria Celtica,[474]
Suspiria de Profundis: being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,[489]
North's Specimens of the British Critics. No. III.—Dryden,[503]

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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLIV. APRIL, 1845. Vol. LVII.

VIRGIL, TASSO, AND RAPHAEL.