STATE PROSECUTIONS.
The Englishman who, however well inclined to defer
to the wisdom “of former ages,” should
throw a glance at the stern realities of the past,
as connected with the histo...
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PART II.
“Have I not in my time
heard lions roar?
Have I not heard the
sea, puft up with wind,
Rage like...
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THE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
The English mania for travelling, which supplies our
continental neighbours with such abundant matter for
wonderment and witticism, is of no very recent date.
Now...
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ETHIOPIA[1]
[1] The Highlands of Ethiopa.
by Major W. Cornwallis Harris, H.E.
I.C. Engineers. 3 vols.
From the various circumstances of our day, the impression
is powerfully made upon inte...
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THE PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE
Skilful practice is applied science. This fact
is illustrated in every chapter of the excellent and
comprehensive work now before us [1].
In a previous article, (see ...
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ADVENTURES IN TEXAS.
No. 1.
A scamper in the prairie of
Jacinto.
Reader! Were you ever in a Texian prairie?
Probably not. I have been; and this was how
it happened. When a very young...
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DUMAS IN ITALY.
[Souvenirs de Voyage en
Italie, par Alexandre Dumas. 5 vols.
duod.]
France has lately sent forth her poets in great force,
to travel, and to write travels. ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844