NOTICE FROM THE EDITOR.
Several interesting articles intended for insertion in this Number have, owing to the press of matter, been necessarily delayed; and among others, Reviews of Kirkton's Memoirs, Hazlitt's Shakespeare, Stirling Head's, and the Lament of Tasso;—the Case of the Deaf Mute; Prospectus of a Work intended to give a correct View of the State of Education in Scotland, with some Remarks, and a Specimen of the Mode in which the Work will be executed, by the Rev. Andrew Thomson, A.M. Minister of St George's Church, Edinburgh; Sketches of Foreign Scenery, &c. They will probably appear in our next.
In place of a formal Prospectus, we now lay before our Readers the titles of some of the articles which we have either already received, or which are in preparation by our numerous Correspondents, among whom we are happy to announce almost all the distinguished Contributors to the late Edinburgh Monthly Magazine.
A series of Essays on the Pulpit Eloquence of Scotland, No I.; being a parallel between Mr Alison and Dr Chalmers.
A series of Essays, entitled "Baroniana;" being disquisitions concerning the Origin and Early History of Scottish Families.
Regular Intelligence from the Scientific Circles of Paris, by a distinguished Member of the Institute.
Letter to Walter Scott, Esq. from Mr William Laidlaw, on an interesting Agricultural Subject.
Defence of Drummond of Hawthornden, against an attack in Gifford's Life of Ben Jonson.
On the Life and Writings of Isaac Walton, and his friend Bishop Ken.
Strictures on the Latinity of Dr Gregory.
On the Sports and Games of the Crimea.
"Bibliopola Detectus," being an account of the Tricks, Squabbles, and Schemes of Booksellers.
Notices of Reprints of curious Old Books, No I. Dekker's Gull's Horn Book.
The Knight Errants, No I.
Some Account of the Life and Unpublished Poems of John Finlay, Author of the Vale of Ellerslie.
A series of Essays on the Greek Drama, containing New Translations both of the Dialogue and Chorusses. By the writer of the Analytical Essays on the Early English Dramatic Poets.
A series of Essays on the French Theatre, by the same Gentleman, and on a similar plan.
A series of Essays on the Italian Theatre, containing numerous Translations of Compositions that have never before appeared in English; by the same Gentleman.
An Essay on Romance, prefatory to the Lives of the most eminent Troubadours.
An Account of all the great Public Schools in England, Eton, Winchester, Harrow, Rugby, Christ's Hospital, St Paul's, &c.: to be followed by a more full account than has yet been laid before the Public, of the English Universities; and the subject to be concluded by a series of Essays on Education, containing a complete discussion of the comparative merits of the English and Scottish Systems.
Specimens of Translation from Spanish Poetry, written during the Peninsular War.
Dialogues over a Punch-bowl, No I. II. III. IV.
Historical and Critical Essay on Blue Stockings.
On the Ancient Modes of Interment and Incremation.
Answer to the Question, "Why is the Church of Scotland illiterate?"
On the Latin Poems of Petrarch and Bocaccio.
On Marino and his Poetry, considered in relation with the Writings of Guarini.
On the Infancy and Youth of Shakespeare.
Remarks on Dunlop's History of Fiction, and an Essay on the Prose Romances.
Essays on the Writings of Lope de Vega and Calderon, with Specimens.
