BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCLXXX. JUNE, 1847. Vol. LXI.
Transcriber's note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article. Table of contents has been created for the HTML version. The index for Volume 61 is included at the end of this issue.
CONTENTS.
[NORTH AMERICA, SIBERIA, AND RUSSIA.]
[LETTERS ON THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.]
[THE HYMN OF KING OLAF THE SAINT.]
[FOUR SONNETS BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.]
[CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE DECLINING OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.]
[HORÆ CATULLIANÆ.]
[PROSPER MÉRIMÉE.]
[HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE AND LIVE IN IT.]
[A TURKISH WATERING-PLACE.]
[PACIFIC ROVINGS.]
[ON THE NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF THE BREAD NOW IN USE.]
[INDEX TO VOL. LXI.]
NORTH AMERICA, SIBERIA, AND RUSSIA.[A]
The circumnavigation of the world is now a matter of ordinary occurrence to our bold mariners: and after a few years it will be a sort of summer excursion to our steamers. We shall have the requisitions of the Travellers' Club more stringent as the sphere of action grows wider; and no man will be eligible who has not paid a visit to Pekin, or sunned himself in Siam.