TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Spellings are sometimes erratic. A few obvious misprints have been corrected, but in general the original spelling and typesetting conventions (e.g. ellipses as * * *) have been retained. Accents in foreign language phrases are inconsistent, and have not been standardised.

BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLXI. NOVEMBER, 1845. VOL. LXII.

CONTENTS.

The Student of Salamanca. Part I.[521]
Humboldt.[541]
Hakem the Slave.[560]
The Lay of Starkàther.[570]
Mozart.[572]
Account of a Visit to the Volcano of Kirauea.[591]
The Days of the Fronde.[596]
The Grand General Junction and Indefinite
Extension Railway Rhapsody.[614]
Sketches of Italy—Lucca[617]
The Railways.[633]

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