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SHACKELL AND ARROWSMITH, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET.
CONTENTS.
VOL. II.
LETTER LVI. TO M. L'ADVOCAT.-The Newspapers and
Advertisements; The Puff of the Solitaire; The Liberty of the
Press compared to a transparent Digestion....
LETTER LVII. TO MR. BOSQUET.-The Reviews; the
Spectator; the Life of Richard Steele; English and Scotch
Critics; Shade of Buonaparte
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LETTER LVIII. TO M. P. BONNARIC.-History of the
English Language.....
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LETTER LIX. TO M. COULMANN.-Summary of the Lite-
rary History of Great Britain......
28
LETTER LX. TO DR. GOURY.-M. Darwin and Delille;
the Loves of the Plants and the Loves of the Doctor.
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LETTER LXI. TO M. PIERRUGUES.-Cowper; his Life;
his Hares; his Platonic Friendships, and Poems; of the
Greek style in English Poetry.....
46
LETTER LXII. To M. V. GUEBIN.-The Della Crusca
School; another Family of the Precieuses Redicules; Mr.
Gifford; the Baviad and Meviad; Peter Pindar; the Epic
Poem of the Lusiad; Canning in the Character of a Poet;
Frere and Smith
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LETTER LXIII. TO M. TAGES.-Three parts of the English
People subsisting on Charity; Mr. Crabbe; The Juvenal of
the Poor; his Shepherds and Shepherdesses; Hazlitt the Pas-
quin of English Criticism...
LETTER LXIV. TO M. SOULIE.-The Lake School;
Wordsworth; Politics and Poetry of the Lakists
LETTER LXV. To M. DE LA MARTINE.-Coleridge's
dreamy Style; a metaphysical Poet; his Genevieve; his singu
lar Ballad of the Ancient Mariner; Coleridge compared to
Madame Catalani and the Automaton of Droz; his Tragedy.
LETTER LXVI. TO SENORA BLAIN Y CERVANTES.-Ro-
bert Southey; his Universality; his five Epic Poems; Joan
of Arc; Madoc; Thalaba; Kehama; Roderigo......
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LETTER LXVII. TO MADEMOISELLE EMILIE DE M.-
Religious Poets; Kirk White; Montgomery...
150
LETTER LXVIII. TO M. CHARLES NODIER.-Thomas
Moore, the Parny of English Poetry; the Poet of Radicalism
and the Boudoir; his Orientalism; his Little Amours; his
Little Scandals on Females; his Disgust with American Liber-
ty; his Melodies; Lalla Rookh; the Twopenny Post-bag;
the Fudge Family; the Ears of George IV.; the Calicots of
Paris; The Loves of the Angels; Heaven and Earth....... 160
LETTER LXIX. To M. P. BLAIN.-The Negligences of
English Poetry and Painting; M. S. Rogers the Banker and
Poet; Newtonian Law of Gravitation demonstrated by a Tear;
the Pleasures of Memory; Human Life; T. Campbell; the
Pleasures of Hope; Gertrude of Wyoming and Atala; The
Last Man
...
183
LETTER LXX. TO M. CASIMIR DELAVIGNE.-Lord Byron;
Sir Walter Scott; Viscount De Chateaubriand; First Impres-
sions; a Mulatto Physician in France; Cosmopolism of Lord
Byron; War on Cant; Historic Impartiality of Sir W. Scott. 204
LETTER LXXI. TO M. FRED. DONNADIEU.-Don Juan;
Real Sentiments of Byron; his Superstition; Anecdote of the
Crucifix; Poetical Crusade in favour of the Greeks.. ...... 216
LETTER LXXII. TO M. AVENEL.-Auto-da-fé of an
Atheist; the Theologians declare War against Byron; Leigh
Hunt and Rimini; Cockney School; Proctor; John Keats;
P. B. Shelley, the Poet of Atheism; his Works; his unhappy
Life; Cenci; Queen Mab; Female Authors; Charlotte Smith;
Lines by M. A. Soulie.
LETTER LXXIII. TO M. A. DE HAUTERIVE-London
Deserted; Departure of the Bon Ton; Yorkshire; Travelling
Companion; Gurth and Wamba.
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LETTER LXXIV. TO M. GILBERT.-York; a Roman Town;
Arles; the Three Ages of English Architecture; York Ca-
thedral; Pride and Wealth of the Prelates of the Church of
England ....
LETTER LXXV. TO M. BRIAVOINE.-County of Dur-
ham; Unintentional Epigram of C. Nodier; Durham and its
Palatine Bishop; the Cathedral Bells; Saint Cuthbert; his
Travels after Death; his Aversion to the Fair Sex; his present
Successor equally ungallant; Sunderland; Newcastle; Wark-
worth; the Hermitage; the Duke of Northumberland's Cha-
teau; Manners of the Borderers; Agriculture according to the
Feudal System......
LETTER LXXVI. TO THE VISCOUNT CHAUINS.-Cornhill;
General Monk; the Author declares himself to be a Jacobite
on entering Scotland: Apparition of some of the Heroes of
Walter Scott
LETTER LXXVII. TO M. CLAPIER.-The Travelling Law
Student; View of Edinburgh from the Eminence called
Arthur's Seat
LETTER LXXVIII. TO M. G.--First Rencontre with
Sir Walter Scott; the Streets of Edinburgh; Assassination of
Two Children by their Preceptor ...
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LETTER LXXIX. TO
--Literary Coteries; the
Booksellers; the Plutonists and the Neptunians; National
Physiognomy of the Scotch; Influence of the Lawyers .... 290
LETTER LXXX. TO M. DUMONT.-Smollett and Captain
Lismahago; Sir W. Scott, a Lawyer; "The Great Unknown"
also a Lawyer; Paulus Pleydell and his Prototype; Hoax on
Counsellor Crosbie; Principal Barristers of Scotland ...... 299
LETTER LXXXI. TO M. LESOURD.-Of the Fine Arts
in general at Edinburgh; Leith Water; Bernard's Well; the
Theatre; Bagpipe Players; Music and Songs criticised by
the Author, who avows himself to be a Goth on that head;
Romantic Amours of the Scotch Peasantry; Dancing; Jeannie
and her Sister.
LETTER LXXXII. TO
-Walter Scott judged
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by his Fellow Citizens; his House; First Visit of the Author
to Sir W. Scott; Conversations with him; his Opinions on the
subject of Molière, Racine, Dryden, Chateaubriand; Madame
De Staël; the Skull of Robert Bruce: Paul's Letters ..... 319
LETTER LXXXIII. TO M. T. L'AB.-Rob Roy at the Edin-
burgh Theatre; Fine Subject for a Tragi Comedy; Morality
of Play-goers
LETTER LXXXIV. TO M. LE COMTE D'HAUTERIVE.-
Climate of Edinburgh; Craig Millar; Mary Stuart; Second
Visit to Sir W. Scott; Mr. Crabbe a Guest of the Scotch
Poet; Edinburgh Society depicted by Sir W. Scott; his
Family; Portrait of Mr. Crabbe; Breakfast with Sir Walter
Scott; Eulogium on Scotch Breakfasts by a Papal Legate;
Samuel Johnson; Opinion of Lady Scott on the Subject of
C. Nodier; Excellent Bon Mot of Sir W. Scott; Anatomy of
the Feet of the Scotch Belles; the Stuarts at Holyrood; the
Bourbons at Edinburgh; Destruction of Holyrood Abbey
related by Sir W. Scott
LETTER LXXXV. TO M. BILLING.-Banks of the Esk;
Sir Walter Scott at Harden; Banquet of Spurs; the Young
Captive
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