THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. LXXXV.

FOR 1820.-PART I.

THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY;

A NEW SERIES

OF THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE.

JANUARY-JUNE 1820.

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1820.

Reflections on a New Year.

Ivanhoe, by the Author of Waverley, &c. 7
Journal of a Visit to Holland.

Letter

VIII........

Ellen

The Rose of Paradise

Lines on Visiting the Mansion of a deceased Friend

THE

On the University of Cambridge.
Criminal Law

Jacobite Relics.

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On the Present State of Mexico ............ Extracts from a General Reader's Common-place Book ....................

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On Gawin Douglas's Translation of
Virgil's Eneid

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Defence of Scottish Poetry
Remarks on Williams's Travels in Italy
and Greece...

Strictures on Ivanhoe
Eighteen Hundred and Twenty

31 Society of Arts in Edinburgh.-New
Siliceous Grass.-Glass from Straw.
-Annual Quantity of Salt raised
from Earth in Europe.-Silk of the
Pinna Marina.-Canary Bird with-
out Feathers.-Method of taking
Impressions of Gems end Seals in
Shell-lac.-Experiments on the Co-
lour of Minerals.-Economy of Fuel.
-Statistics of Austria.-Excavations
at Pompeii.-Manuscript of the Iliad.
-Greatest Waterfall in Europe dis-
covered in Lapland, &c.--------65
Works preparing for Publication.
Monthly List of New Publications.

MONTHLY REGISTER.

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LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INTELLIGENCE.

Regent Fishing Bank.-George Bidder.
-Germination of the Musci.-New

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Appointments and Promotions, &c.83
Meteorological Table.....
Agricultural Report.
Commercial Report...

The late Lord Eglinton ........
Births, Marriages, Deaths92

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