BENTLEY'S

MISCELLANY.

VOL. XXX.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1851.

HARVARD COLLEGE

APR 6 1916

LIBRARY

A LOWELL FUND

LONDON:

Printed by SAMUEL BENTLEY and Co.,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

The Ring. From the German,

Reminiscences of La Plata,

Sermons in Trees,

Stray Leaves from the Levant,

A Frenchman's Excursion to the Field of Waterloo, 18th June, 1849,

A Visit to the "Maid of Athens,"

A Voyage to the Spanish Main,

The Picture-Galleries of England.-The Earl of Ellesmere's Collec-

tion.-Northumberland House and Syon House.-The Dul-

wich Gallery,

The Cobbler of Toledo. A Legend of Castille,

Recent Travellers, .

Something About Earthquakes, by the Author of "Paddiana,”

The Priest Miracles of Rome,

The Kaleidoscope,

Zoological Notes and Anecdotes.-Eagles-Leopards,

Vauxhall in the Eighteenth Century. By Alfred Crowquill,

Anecdotes of Duelling,

Ode to Beauty,

The Two Painters,

My Uncle's Will,

Stoney Batter's Ghost. A Legend of Blighted Hollow,

Sonnet. From the Italian,

Historical Sketches of the Cape of Good Hope,

Anacreontic,

The Obeah-Man. A Tale of St. Christopher's,

The Wilds of the South West Coast of Ireland,

Swedish Novelists,

The Weather,

A Visit to a County Gaol at the Public Expense,

The Angel's Mission,

Note on Lord Ellesmere's Picture Gallery,

A Memoir of the Late Dr. Lingard,

A Cathedral Reverie,

The Opera in Paris during the last Thirty Years,

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The Cape and the Kafirs; or, Notes of Five Years' Residence in

South Africa. By Alfred W. Cole,

A Day in the Vines of Vouvray,

Usury and Usurers,

The Arab Maiden, a Legend of the Crusades,

The Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor: -Frank and the Pro-