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On the 31st of March was published, price 2s. 6d.,
the First Number of

THE ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE, with a
beautiful Engraving, being the first of a series illustrative of
Byron, Eustace, and Forsyth.

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1. BENT'S LIST of NEW BOOKS and ENGRAVINGS published in London from January to December 1830. Alphabetically arranged. Price 1s.

*** The size and Price is specified of each Book, and the List of Engravings contains the Names of the Painters and Engravers, with the Style, Size, and Price of each Print.

No. I.-CONTENTS:-1. Our Principles.-2. The Country and its Prospects.-3. Journal of a South-African Emigrant.-4. The Autocrat's Prayer.-5. Progress of the Indian Cholera.-6. Scenes in Po2. BENT'S MONTHLY LITERARY ADVERland. No. I. Macejowice and Praga.-7. Runic Rhymes.-8. The TISER, and Register of Engravings,,&c., published on the tenth Incendiary. A Tale of the German Peasant Wars.-9. Ode by Sir day of every month, price 7d. (Postage Free), containing AdvertiseCharles Wetherell.-10. Italia Depicta. Villa di Papa Giulio.-11. ments and intelligence on subjects of Literature and the Fine Arts England and the United States.-12. The Three Homes.-13. Naonly. poleon's Tomb.-14. Home Improvement . Transportation of PauThis is the only publication which contains a Monthly Alphapers' Bill.-15. Recent Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote.betical List of New Books published in London, with their sizes and 16. Scrap from Horace. To a Northern Duke.-17. Wrongs of Hanover.-18. Record Commission. Palgrave and Nicolas.-19. prices, also a Monthly List of Engravings as they appear in this Reform Bill.-20. Colloquial Dictionary.-21. British and Foreign country, with the names of the painters and engravers, including the Monthly Literary Gazette.-22. Sculpture. Laurence Macdonald. style, size, and price of each print. -23. Theatrical Reform, Literary Varieties, &c.

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This day is published,

In One thick Volume, crown 8vo,

A New Edition of

LIFE OF BONAPARTE.
In a few days,

With seventeen beautiful illustrations by the most eminent Artists,
price 18s.

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, Nos. VII. VIII.

and IX.

Containing BOURRIENNE'S LIFE OF BONAPARTE.
To which are now first added, Notes and Illustrations from the
dictations of Napoleon at St Helena, from Notes by Joseph Boua-
parte, the Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo, General Rapp, Count
Las Cases, Constant, and other authentic sources.

** This Edition contains the only complete translation of Bouя-
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the time of Fielding and Smollett, as have, like the productions of those great delineators of nature and manners, taken their rank among English Classics.

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It has been truly observed that well-wrought novels" take their rank by the side of reality, and are appealed to as evidence in all questions concerning man." It follows, therefore, that as manners change, and character (which often depends on manners) varies. "the mirror held up to nature" must change also; and that, valu able as the older fictions are, it is necessary to study also those which have succeeded them, and which enable us to contemplate with ad vantage that" which before us lies in daily life," and which has been designated by a great authority as "the prime wisdom."

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The first number, published on the 1st of March, contains THE WHOLE OF THE PILOT by Mr COOPER, for 6s. The Second Number, to be published on the 1st of April, will contain THE WHOLE OF GODWIN'S CELEBRATED STORY OF CALEB WILLIAMS.

The Volumes will range in the Library with the WAVERLEY SERIES, but they will contain A MUCH GREATER QUANTITY OF MATTER-a quantity indeed equal to two, and sometimes to three ordinary volumes. A number will be published on the first of every month, beautifully printed and illustrated with Engravings, from designs by eminent artists, price 6s. neatly bound.

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This Day was Published, in four thick volumes, Price 20s, extra cloth bds., or on small paper, Price 14s., embellished by a beautiful and hitherto unengraved Portrait of Napoleon asleep in his Study, after David, and other Engravings,

Our correspondent in Nairne must bear with us a week or two longer-we have not yet been able to make up our minds respecting his prose sketch. No poetry accompanied it; and the other pieces he mentions have not come into our hands.-The poetical communication from Dunfermline is good, but scarcely good enough to warrant a reprint.-" B. B." is in the right had his MEMOIRS of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

communication been received earlier, it should have found a place. It may next week, for the subject is important.-Several articles already in types are most unwillingly deferred.

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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY;

Including REPRESENTATIONS of the Principal INSECTS, FOREST TREES, and FRUITS of AMERICA, Drawn, Etched, and Coloured under the superintendence of Captain THOMAS BROWN, F.L.S. M.W.S.

President of the Royal Physical Society.

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From the French of M. FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE, Private Secretary to the Emperor.

A new Edition.

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This enlarged Edition may now be considered the only complete translation of Bourrienne's extraordinary work, and besides the various pamphlets written by Napoleon, including his "Notes on Egypt," will be found to contain an interesting Life of Bourrienne.

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Containing BOURRIENNE'S LIFE of BONAPARTE. To which are now first added, Notes and Illustrations from the dictations of Napoleon at St Helena, from Notes by Joseph Bonaparte, the Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo, General Rapp, Count Las Cases, Constant, and other authentic sources.

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No. X., to be published on the 1st of July, will contain the second and concluding volume of Dr THOMSON'S HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY. HENRY COLBURN and RICHARD BENTLEY, London; and sold by BELL and BRADFUTE, No. 12, Bank Street, Edinburgh.

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No. I. comprises the whole of the PILOT, by COOPER, price 68. No. III., to be published May 1, will contain the whole of the SPY, by COOPER, corrected and revised, with a new Introduction and Notes, written expressly for this Publication by the Author. This additional matter will be chiefly explanatory of the origin of the Tale and of some of the principal Incidents, with an account of the actual Individuals, who are designated as the leading characters.

*** Many of the Subscribers having expressed a wish that a selection of the most unexceptionable novels of Fielding and Smollett, and their contemporaries, should form a part of the above Collection, it is the intention of the Proprietors to publish a Supplementary Series, containing the best works of those writers.

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APRIL, is embellished with a Portrait of J. F. COOPER, Esq., author of the "Pilot," accompanied by a Memoir, and contains also among other original papers -The Unreported Meeting!-Sketches of the Scottish Bar; F. Jeffrey, Esq. Lord Advocate-A letter to Dr Southey-Confessions of an Ambitious Student-Speakers and Speeches in Parliament-After-Dinner Chit-Chat-The Adventures of a Revolution-The Master of Logan, a Tale-The Poet's DreamBook: The bright Summer Time-Captain Beechey's Voyage to the Pacific-Prospectus of the "Help Yourself Society," &c. &c.

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This volume completes KENILWORTH, and isillustrated by A.

"The volume is a collection of fugitive pieces; some are long, some short; some glad, some sad; some in praise of ladies fair, and some in praise of fairer nature. Their distinguishing feature is spirit; there are continual gleams of beauty, and gushes of melodious versification; but the main impression left upon the reader's mind, is, that the author is a determined lover of strength and scorner of affectation; that his mind is earnest, impassioned, and sin-Cooper and A. Fraser. cere; that he is one who never writes on tinted paper, or forbears splitting his pen when it affronts him. Mr Bell, with the taste of good feeling, evidently despises the prevailing literary fashion of the day -that of playing the juggler with emotions; his love is real love; and equally real are his fits of exultation and depression.

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We look for his next appearance with high, but confident expectations."-The Athenæum.

"The most prominent features of Mr Bell's poetry are manly vigour, and clearness; just, and often impassioned feeling; great power of picturesque description; and sound judgment."-Edinburgh Literary Journal.

VOL. IV. of the New Issue is also published this day, which concludes GUY MANNERING.

CAPTAIN BASIL HALL'S FRAGMENTS of VOYAGES and TRAVELS, 3 small volumes, 15s. boards, WAS PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY LAST.

This day is published,

Handsomely printed in octavo, with two Maps,
Price 9s.

"There are many such passages' (as those quoted) in Mr Bell's A NARRATIVE of a VISIT to the COURT of

volume, and this fact ought to be of itself sufficient to secure it the favour of all poetical readers."-New Monthly Magazine.

SINDE at HYDERABAD; a SKETCH of the HISTORY of CUTCH, from its first connexion with the British Government in India, till the conclusion of the Treaty of 1819; and some Remarks on the Medical Topography of Bhooj.

By JAMES BURNES,

Surgeon to the Residency at Bhooj.

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"This volume contains the desultory efforts of Mr Bell's muse in the different phases of her humour-grave and gay-the bold, the sportive, the pathetic, and the sentimental. We entertain little fear of being detected in a dishonest verdict, when we pronounce them to be the outpouring of a superior spirit-of a man who has breathed the rarer atmosphere of the Mons Sacer, and who, if he resolve to 'continue his devotions at the shrine of song, will make unto himself a name of which his grandchildren-if he have the good fortune to attain patriarchal honours-may be proud. As the offering of one not yet a trigintarian, they decidedly hold out the prospect of high achievement; and if we might venture to speculate in what branch of poetic literature, we should say the drama. The accurate per-THE BRIDAL NIGHT, THE FIRST POET, ception of human feeling, and the vigorous expression of that perception which they exhibit, lead us right on' to this conclusion." -The Englishman's Magazine.

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"Of all the poetical works that have fallen into our hands of late years, the effusions now before us are incomparably the most indicative of a high poetic temperament, and of a graceful and boundless mastery in versification."-Edinburgh Observer.

"Mr Bell is no servile imitator of the style of others-he trusts to the stores of his own mind, and they seldom play him false; for there is scarcely a page in this little volume that does not present lines of either power or pathos; and (a rare quality) every variety of style-the tender-the playful-the grave-the impassioned-he assumes with equal ease and felicity."-La Belle Assemblée. London: HURST, CHANCE, and Co. Edinburgh: HENRY CON

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THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW,

No. XXVIII.,

Just published,

In one volume, 12mo, price 7s. 6d. Cloth,

and other Poems. By DUGALD MOORE, Author of " The
A few opies of Mr
African," "Scenes from the Flood," &c. &c.
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CONTENTS.

1. Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society.-2. Kotzebue's Voyage.-3. Hinck's Greek Lexicon.-4. Ecclesiastical Courts.-5. Brissot.-6. Traditions of Palestine.-7. Useful Knowledge Society.-8. Stories of American Life.-9. Ancient Egyptian Kings.-10. Mothers and Daughters.-11. Parliamentary Reform.-12. Howett's Book of the Season.-13. Professional Morality.-14. Anatomy of Society.15. D'Israeli's Charles I.-16. Timber Trade.-17. Poland and France.-Index, List of Books, &c.

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And one loved form is there,
Ob pale, but passing fair-

has left us. He proceeds in the first place to Paris, and thence, in the month of August, to New Orleans. It is his purpose to spend a couple

Hush, hush, my beating heart! that youthful bride of years in exploring the western side of the valley of the Missis

Is but the seraph shade

Of beauty lowly laid,

That in her budding spring time droop'd and died.

And they who the first stage
Of life's pale pilgrimage,
Companions to my youthful years were given,
But, early call'd away,

Left this world's vernal day,

And weeping friends on earth, to dwell in heaven.

And they who by my side,

In manhood's power and pride,

Were smote to death, and slumber with the slain,

In Glory's distant graves,

That bloom beyond the waves,

Amid the vales and vine-clad hills of Spain.

Nor lacks there sound of song
'Midst that pale midnight throng-
A music waken'd by no mortal hand,
Through dreams sublimely rolls—
Such strains as parted souls

May hail, perchance, into the Spirits' land.

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

A PORTRAIT of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Denham, the Afri. ean Traveller, engraved on steel by Bromley, jun., is on the eve of publication.

We see announced, "Haverhill, or Memoirs of an Officer in the Army of Wolfe."

About to be published—A view of the general tenor of the New Testament, regarding the Nature and Dignity of Christ, by Joanna Baillie, author of the "Martyrs" and the "Bride."

Nearly ready, "The Fallacies of Dr Wayte's Anti-Phrenology exposed, in a critical Review of his observations to prove the fallacy of the modern doctrine of the mind."

In the press," An account of the Dynasty of the Khajars, from a

manuscript presented by his Majesty Feth Ally Shah, in the year 1811, to Sir Harford Jones Brydges, Bart., with historical notes

and an introduction."

MR GLEIG has ceased to be the editor of the National Library; from the appearance of Bourrienne, which fills up the months till July, and the subsequent announcements, it appears as if this branch of the prevalent system were to consist rather of republications than of original productions or epitomes.

Steele the Sculptor is again employed on his colossal group of "The Taming of Bucephalus," which had been interrupted by a necessary removal from the studio where it was begun, and the difficulty of getting proper accommodation. It promises well, and will add to the reputation of this rising artist. His bust of the Rev. Dr Gordon is excellent, and should be done in marble for some church or other public place.

sippi, up towards the Rocky Mountains. He then returns to Edinburgh, where he will, in all probability, permanently take root, in order to arrange his collections, and publish three additional volumes of his Ornithological Biography. The portions of these volumes dedicated to the description of American Scenery and Manners, he proposes to devote chiefly to sketches of the va rious Indian Tribes.-A few weeks ago, Captain Alexander, Author of "Travels to the Seat of War," set out for America, and Cyril Thornton is already there. Edinburgh has thus dispatch. ed three spies to examine the land inhabited by our brethren beyond the Atlantic. We trust their reports will prove more to the purpose than the one rendered by our last traveller.-Roland's Assault was numerously and fashionably attended. The young swordsmen were as gay as butterflies. The contest was maintained with spirit. Our old acquaintances, Foucard and Knowless, kept up their reputation. A Mr Dunbar also distinguished himself. But we were most delighted with an assault by Roland and his son, We remember Master George in the ROOMS-going through his work with the listless air of one who knows he can do it. The presence of spectators seemed to inspire him with new energy, and the little devil set about it in good earnest. He promises to inherit his father's unequalled grace, rapidity, precision, and firmness of point. Are the Roland's born fencing? A foil comes as natural to them, to use the words of one of Scott's characters, "as the boul o' a pint stoup."—The King's Royal Body-guard of Archers shot for " The Horn," on Saturday last. We understand it is in contemplation, that the next time this prize is contended for, the whole body shall escort the successful competitor home, singing in chorus, Shakspeare's

"What shall he have who killed the deer ?”: Theatrical Gossip.-The English version of Victor Hugo's Her. nani, produced at Drury-Lane, has been entirely successful-Taglioni has arrived in town, Pasta is expected in a few days, and Paganini is said to have entered into an engagement with Laporte. The Duke of Sussex has expressed his intention of laying the first stone of the new theatre, to be erected at Knightsbridge by Warde, Egerton, and Abbott.-A new opera is said to be in pre paration for Drury-Lane, and a new prima donna is to appear in it. Macready has received £150 for his adaptation of Byron's inhabitants got up a horse-race in honour of his performances, Werner. Velluti has been received with enthusiam at Lugo. The overwhelmed him with wreaths of laurel and sonnets, and finally escorted him home on the evening of his benefit with torches, and has lately been imported into Jamaica. Is this an extension of the kept serenading him till morning.-A corps of American actors, lumber trade? We advise the Canadians to look to it.-We hear, although "the arguments are as yet but ear-kissing ones," that Kean is to pay us a visit. We do not hear any thing of "Il Ma trimonio Segreto," which was announced some time ago. WEEKLY LIST OF PERFORMANCES. APRIL 9-15.

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Know your own Mind, & The Castle of Andalusia.

A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Pong Wong, & The Three
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Rob Roy, & The Forty Thieves.

The Bride of Lammermoor, The Sleeping Draught, & For
England Ho!

TO CORRESPONDENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS. OUR subscribers who receive the Journal by post, may obtain the portrait of Young, which accompanies to-day's number, from any of our agents.

The papers of which our Saltcoats correspondent speaks never came into our hands. Does he wish the article he sent to the

LONDON.-The remaining pictures and sketches of Sir Thomas Lawrence are to be sold at the end of this month. Among them are the artist's "Satan," and a portrait of George IV., along with several copies from the works of Michael Angelo, in the Sistene Chapel, painted for the late President by Mr Bewick. At the last meeting of the Artists and Amateurs' Conversazione for the season, there were exhibited "A View of the Coast of Normandy," by Bonington-a vignette for one of the forthcoming Waverley volumes; the late President's unfinished sketch of the head of King William, a beautiful picture and striking likeness; and a spirited sketch from the Grecian history, by Rubens." The En-Journal since our accession returned ?--Our fair correspondent's thusiast," a painting by the late Theodore Lane, of whom some account was given in a previous number of the Edinburgh Literary Journal, has been engraved by Graves. It is published for the benefit of the widow. The merits of the work, and the cause it is intended to serve, give it a strong claim upon public patronage. -At the last meeting of the Zoological Society, the usual Report was read. The funds of this body are in a flourishing condition. Five hundred skins of East Indian birds have, embracing about eighty species, been presented by Mr Heath, of Madras. The female kangaroos, the Axis doe, and Cereopsis goose, have all pro--Lambda has the right stuff in him, but we must decline his two duced young. Lord Stanley was put in nomination as president, vice the Marquis of Lansdowne.

EDINBURGH.-We learn from a gentleman who has been visiting Abbotsford, that Sir Walter is in perfect health. Two volumes of "Count Robert" are ready.-Audubon, the celebrated naturalist,

favour from Lerwick has been received. We have not got her MSS, but are making enquiry after them; and as soon as we ascertain their fate, shall write to her. She may rely upon our best wishes, and if any thing is in our power, our good offices.-"Stanzas on an Æolian Lyre" are declined--the book adverted to shall be reviewed probably in our next. Are we eligible ?We know nothing of the elegy our Blackford correspondent speaks of. It is too much to request of us that we should “insert in our valuable Literal Journal the nature of his Dialogues,”

latest communications." The Devil's Visit to the Modern Exhi bition" does not strike us as unduly personal, but it wants point. sadly.-The Communication, dated Edinburgh Castle, is creditable to the author, but, like most young writers, he is too ambitious in his language.

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fully informs the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general of Edinburgh and its Vicinity, that he has arrived in this City with his MECHANICAL and PICTURESQUE THEATRE, which has been honoured with the most unbounded approbation in every part of England.

It is composed of beautiful Representations of celebrated LANDSCAPES, SEA and RIVER VIEWS, &c., enlivened by figures of PERSONS. SHIPPING, CARRIAGES, HORSES, and other Animals, with varying aspects of light and shade; all the Actions and Movements representing Nature, as much as the Art of Mechanism will permit.

*** Although Scene-painting is usually regarded as an inferior branch of the Pictorial Art, M.Thiodon may be permitted to observe, that this part of his Exhibition displays a degree of excellence which has universally commanded the warmest applause.

The celebrated Representations of a SEA-STORM,SHIPWRECK, &c., and the unrivalled AUTOMATON on the SLACK ROPE, form a part of the Exhibition.

. For particulars, see the Handbills.

Front Seats, 38.-Second, 28.-Gallery, 1s. Doors open at Seven, and the Exhibition will commence at Eight o'clock.

Catalogues may be had at the Rooms.

This great Sale will be continued for 32 days. 3, Drummond Street.

Edinburgh: Published for the Proprietors, every Saturday Morning,
by JOHN AITKEN, (of CONSTABLE & Co.) 19, WATERLOO
PLACE;

Sold also by THOMAS ATKINSON & Co., 84, Trongate, Glasgow; W.
CURRY, jun. and Co., Dublin; HURST, CHANCE, and Co., St
Paul's Churchyard; and EFFINGHAM WILSON, Royal Exchange,
London; and by all Newsmen, Postmasters, and Clerks of the
Roads throughout the United Kingdom.

Price 6d. ; or Stamped and sent free by post, 10d.

Printed by BALLANTYNE & Co., Paul's Work, Canongate.

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