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. INDEX. Absence 243 Dramatists, Old English, No. 1, The Ada, Lines to, on her Birth Day 344 Witch of Edmonton 39 Ada, Lines to 79 109 Eolian Harp, Lines to 45 No. 3, The English Traveller.. 229 Ahab, Review of 245 393 Alcuin 146 Druery's Historical Notices of YarAlfred the Great 147 255 Aldhelm 145 Duns, John 73 Anselm 151 Durham, Bishop of, Memoir of 137 Appeal, The 240 Assizes, a Visit to the 333 Eloquence 179 English Writers, and Foreign Cri- 212 28 Bees, the peculiarities of 28 Exchange, the 87 Bede, Notice of 145 Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, Falkland 438 Review of 183 Feudal System, account of 21 Bride, The +26 144 Bruce, Elizabeth de, Notice of 315 Fleet's Voluntary for the Organ 380 Brunne, Robert of 274 Forget Me Not, Notice of 124 Foscari, Mitford's, a review of 121 Calcutta, a First Arrival at 345 Four Years in France, review of 181 Canning, Rt. Hon. G., Memoir of .. 1 Friendship's Offering, do. 124 Capillology, versus Phrenology, No. 1 298 No. 2. 365 Gifford, Lord, Memoir of 141 Chancellor, account of Office of 81 Gildas, Notice of 75 Chaucer, Geoffrey . 276 332 Cherry Ripe” and its Author 107 Godwin's History of the CommonChinese, Funeral Ceremonies of 241 wealth 309 Christian's Peace, The .... 336 Golden Opportunity, the 410 Collectanea, No. 1.... 97 214 275 No. 3 226 Greece, Lines to 106 No. 4 281 261 No. 6 414 Head's Rough Notes of the Pampas 376 Confessions of an Ugly Gent. 411, Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, Memoir of Confessions of an Old Batchelor 412 Henry I... 209 Content 87 Hogg's Two Hundred and Nine Days 155 Combe, Taylor, Esq., Memoir of 139 Honor O'Hara, Review of 123 Court Cards 143 Hope 171 Cowey Stakes, Account of 54 Crockford House 487 Is he Married ? 80 Cupid 106 150 140 237 96 460 . 208 29 . Lanfranc, Notice of 150 Reflection..... Ralph de Diceto Reid's Memoirs of Buonaparte 406 Remembrance. Reminiscenses of Radcliffe. 332 Retrospection Ride, a pleasant 73 Rolle's Poems, review of 145 Rolle, Richard 209 Rose, Lines to a given 273 337 Saint Grayle, The 401 Serenade 286 Siddons, Mrs. vide Boaden 124 Silvertone, Simeon, Esq. No. 1 304 No. 2 174 No. S 295 South, The Cross of the 423 Sonnet to the Evening Primrose . 17 Southey's History of the Peninsular 21 War Solitude 217 Snodgrass's Narrative of the Burmese 100 War 342 Spirit's, the, Song 377 Stream of Life, The 337 Stirrup Cup, The Storm, A. 138 Sunset, Description of 420 441 The Tyrant's Funeral 139 Theatres and Theatrical Represen- 368 tations of the Ancients 401 " To Trump," Origin of 136 Turks, Funeral Ceremonies of Turner's Henry VIII., Review of 315 Truckleborough Hall 444 Two-legged Tom 160 78 . 313 . . . . . 373 . |