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THE

SOOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. LXXXVI.

FOR 1820.-PART II.

THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY;

A NEW SERIES

OF THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE.

JULY-DECEMBER, 1820.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

VOL. VII.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY.

1820.

THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

BEING A NEW SERIES OF

The Scots Magazine.

JULY 1820.

CONTENTS.

On the Causes of the Excellence of ear-

The Bystander. No. V. .............................59

Peter Bell v. Peter Bell. By Peter Cor-

...............64

ly Poetry
.........~~~~~ 3

Remarks on Marcian Colonna 7

Anecdotes of the late King and Queen 14 Verses by a young Lady

Observations on the Literature of Scot-

land in the Age of A. Melville......................17

Remarks on Maturin's Sermons ............ 21

Remarks on Crawfurd's History of the

26

Correspondence of the De Coverley Fa-

mily

...............32

Extracts from Southey's Life of Wesley..36

Extract from Mr Wordsworth's last Vo-

lume-Memoir of the Rev. Robert

Letter from the Author of Essays on

Phrenology

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC

INTELLIGENCE.

Society of Civil Engineers-New Musi

cal Instrument-Physical Strength of

Men-Height and Thickness of Men

in Scotland-Increase of Sound dur

ing the Night-Golden Image of the

Idol Vishnu-The Assassins-Com-

pressibility of Water, &c. &c. &c.65

Works Preparing for Publication....................68

Monthly List of New Publications.~..~69