PREFACE. “ May you live a thousand years," is the magnificent greeting of a Spaniard, but with all its magnificence, the wish is cold and fantastical; our English salutation,“ a good day to you," is unquestionably more humble, and yet far more pleasing. The one originated in an overheated imagination; the other was first poured forth from a kind and gentle heart; the Spaniard desires that you may live, the Englishman prays that you may live well, and for every thing beyond that rests meekly dependant upon a Higher Power. As it is in the common intercourse of life, so, also, we find it in literature ; and the feeling of the public towards periodical publications, partakes of the nature of our English greeting; it is not merely referable to the duration of our existence, but more especially to its quality. For the past, we claim some merit—in the volume now presented to our readers we hope there will be found much to commend and little to condemn; and for the future, we can speak with a confidence which partakes of the spirit of the Spanish proverb, but without its exaggeration—a confidence arising from the increased resources and additional merit derivable from a junction with a fellow candidate for public favor. The causes which have led to the relinquishment of the National Magazine as a separate work, are chiefly private and personal, and therefore unfit to be laid before the world; but our friends will find a spirit and vigour in the joint publication of “ The Inspector and National Magazine,” which will cause them to rejoice at so auspicious a conjunction. To those friends who have supported us, and to the correspondents whose communications have been forwarded to us anonymously, we beg to return our public and grateful acknowledgments; letters will be found at our publisher's for T. H. K. and w. May 31, 1827. Eloquence ............. ticism ..... Exchange, the .... 212 438 21 144 380 124 121 181 124 Bacon, Roger ...... Review of .. No.2. ......... No. 2. No. 6 .... No. 2 ..... 365 Gifford, Lord, Memoir of ........ 141 81 Gildas, Notice of .... 75 276 “God save the King"........ 332 107 Godwin's History of the Common241 wealth ................. 309 336 Golden Opportunity, the ....... 410 97 Good Night .............. 214 168 - Gower, John ................. 275 226 Greece, Lines to ....... ...... 106 281 350 Harp, the .............. ... 264 414 Head's Rough Notes of the Pampas 376 411. Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, Memoir of 140 442 Henry I...................... 209 87 Hogg's Two Hundred and Nine Days 455 139 Honor O'Hara, Review of ......... 123 143 Hope ........................ 171 Reflection....... 237 96 295 Lanfranc, Notice of 150 End of the Town on Improvement. 399 406 332 73 145 209 273 337 401 286 . 304 No. 2. . . . . . . . . No. 3. . . . . . . . . 217 . 100 441 368 . 315 444 Saint Grayle, The ...,., 208 No. 2 .... 215 No. 3 . . . . . . . 408 War......... 313 War . . . . . . . . 373 Term, The last day of ..... 269 tations of the Ancients . ... 172 Venus, Hymn to ..... 20 . . . 438 Pearls of Poesy---No. 1. Southey.. No. 2. Shelley .. No. 3. Coleridge. suggested amendments in the law shank, reviewed .............. Wallace on Desk Diseases, Review of 187 |