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CONTENTS

Observations on Coleridges.Biographia Literaria.
Meteorological Phenomena observed in Argyllshire.
Letter from Mr. Scoresby, junior, to Professor tainescm.
Analytical Essays on the early English Dramatists (conti-
nued from No..y. Edinburgh Mom hlyMagazine, No. 9..)

Account of Bothwell's Attempt on Holyrood House in 1591.
Curious Facts relative to the AlAlication of Queen Mary,
communicated by J. It.'Esci.
Optical Properties of Mother-of-Pearl, by David Brewster,
LL.D. &c.,

Letter to the Lord High Constable, from Mr. Dinmont.
Present. State of Animal Magnetism in Germany (continued
front Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, No. IV.) -.•
On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. 1.
Strictures on an Article in No. LVI. of the Edinburgh Re-
view; entitled, " Present State of West India Affairs."
. Elegy by the Ett rick Shepherd.
Medical Report of Edinburgh (continued from Edinburgh
Monthly Magazine, No. IV.)
Account • of, a Manuscript of Bishop Lesley's History of
Scotland, in •the possession of the Earl of Leven and Mel-
ville, hy Thomas M'Crie, D.D. Communicated by Thnoas
Thomson, Esq.
'Remarks- on the Review of Mr. Stewart's Dissertation in
the Quarterly Review, No. 'XXXII'.
Vindication of Mr. Wordsworth's Letter to Mrt Gray, on
a New Edition of Burns' NVorks.
Verses by Mr. Walter Paterson.
'Memoir of Rob Roy Macgregor, and some Branches of his
Family.
Tlie Progress, of Learning, a Poem, by an Oxonian.
Alarming Increase of Depravity among- Animals.
Characthr of the Honourable Henry Erskine.
'Verses written on Oak-Island, Killarney. -
Translation of an ancient Chaldee Manuscript.
Literary and Scientific Intelligence—monthly Register, 8:0.
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