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Rh Remarks on the Religion of the Edinburgh Review.

On Literary and Critical Pretenders.

A Peep into the Parliament-house.

On old Scottish Proverbs on the Marriage State.

On old Scotch Songs and Ballads on the same subject.

Original Letters of King Charles II.

Essays on the Living Poets of Britain. No I. Crabbe in our January Number.

Dialogues between the Dead and the Living, viz.

I. Duke of Marlborough and Duke of Wellington.&mdash;II. Kant and Coleridge.&mdash;III. Milton and Wordsworth.&mdash;IV. Goldsmith and Crabbe.&mdash;V. Sterne and Mackenzie.&mdash;VI. Julius Caesar and Napoleon.&mdash;VII. Cataline and Brougham.&mdash;VIII. Dennis and Jeffrey.&mdash;IX. Pope and Dr Thomas Brown.&mdash;X. Thersites and Leigh Hunt.&mdash;XI. Palladio and Bailie Johnstone.&mdash;XII. Plato and Forsyth.&mdash;XIII. Aristotle and Francis Maximus McNab.&mdash;XIV. Adam Smith and James Grahame, Esq. Advocate.

A series of Letters from Lord Reays' Country.

Public will observe, from the above List of Articles, that we intend our Magazine to be a Depository of Miscellaneous Information and Discussion. We shall admit every Communication of Merit, whatever may be the opinion of the writer, on Literature, Poetry, Philosophy, Statistics, Politics, Manners, and Human Life. Our own opinions, and those of our regular Correspondents, will be found uniformly consistent&mdash;but we invite all intelligent persons who choose it, to lay their ideas before the world in our Publication; and we only reserve to ourselves the right of commenting upon what we do not approve. No Anonymous Communication, either in Prose or Verse, however great its merit, will be received or noticed. But every Contributor to our Work may depend upon the most inviolable secrecy; and all Letters, addressed to us, will meet with a prompt and decisive Reply. .

 

The communication of Lupus is not admissible. D. B.'s Archaeological Notices are rather heavy. We are obliged to our worthy Correspondent M. for his History of "Bowed David," but all the anecdotes of that personage are incredibly stupid, so let his bones rest in peace. When G's communications on Natural History are not anonymous, they will be attended to. Cornelius Webb will observe that we have availed ourselves of his Letter. We have received an interesting Note, inclosing a beautiful little Poem, from Mr Hector Macneil, the celebrated author of Will and Jean, and need not say how highly we value his communication. Mrs Grant's (of Laggan) beautiful Verses were unfortunately received after our last sheet had gone to press, but they will appear in our next. The beautiful Verses on Mungo Park will be inserted. Also, "Edith and Nora," and "The Earthquake." "O were my Love, &c." is pretty, though not very original, but it will find a corner. Duck-lane, a Town Eclogue, by Leigh Hunt&mdash;and the Innocent Incest, by the same gentleman, are under consideration; their gross indecency must however be washed out. If we have been imposed upon by some wit, these compositions will not be inserted. Mr James Thomson, private secretary for the charities of the Dukes of York and Kent, is, we are afraid, a very bad Poet, nor can the Critical Opinions of the Princes of the Blood Royal be allowed to influence ours. Some Remarks on an interesting little volume, "Evening Hours," may perhaps appear. If not, the author of that work has our best wishes. Reason has been given for our declining to notice various other Communications. 