PORTRAIT OF THE LATE DUKE OF YORK. VIEW OF THE FORTRESS OF HAM, THE PRISON OF PRINCE POLIGNAC.' FIVE PORTRAITS OF LADIES IN LONDON COSTUMES, &c. FOR NOVEMBER. Etched REFORM. By W. Harrison, Author of "Tales of a Physician." FRERE DU DIABLE. By the Old Sailor THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE. By the Ettrick Shepherd MARGARET AND MARY. By Allan Cunningham TO SUBSCRIBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. We earnestly request those subscribers who have not completed their back numbers to perfect their sets without delay by ordering them of any bookseller; the continued increase of subscribers must prevent the possibility of completing the sets already subscribed for, and many of those who leave it till the binding in the hope of procuring the deficient numbers will assuredly be disappointed. The following Text and Comment from our Oxford Blue was hardly worth a separate head, but it must not be lost. TEXT-"What have the Lords done?"Times.-COMMENT-THEIR DUTY. “Titled Authors and the Keepsake.'”—This celebrated review of the "Keepsake" for 1831, caused No. I. of the Royal Lady's Magazine, to be reprinted. Our readers will be gratified to learn that "The Keepsake" for 1832, will be reviewed in our next, by the same writer. A Worcester correspondent is referred to the cover of this work, where he will see that the Magazine published by Mr. Sams, and the Magazine published by Mr. Robinson, is the same; and we are authorized to say, Mr. Robinson publishes no other, the improvement mentioned is perceivable in every successive number. The Dismissal of Earl Howe from the Queen's Household, has excited such intense interest, that we have devoted the space usually occupied by the " Archives of the Court of St. James's," to a paper on this extraordinary proceeding, under the title of "The Approaching Revolution." The "Mouse in the Wall" cannot enlighten us upon the proceedings at the Palace; on the contrary, the very alleged fact mentioned in his (or her) packet, is untrue. With every sense of intended kindness, we take leave to say, that our information on all subjects connected with the Royal Family cannot be improved. We can inform the Lady Mayoress, that our circulation depends not on Mansionhouse patronage. Her copy will not be an object.-By the by there is a Lady's Periodical much more adapted to her notions of gentility. The Life of the Duke of Sully will be concluded in our next,-its omission in the present number is unavoidable. "OUR AMBITION IS TO RAISE THE FEMALE MIND OF ENGLAND TO ITS TRUE LEVEL." Dedication to the Queen. NOVEMBER, 1831. TALES OF THE CAVALIERS. No. II. THE RED EAGLE. "Whom the fire of Heaven met in the sky, and spoiled of half his wings!"-Ossian. "Glasgerion was a king's son."-Old Ballad. IN the good old time, when houses never changed their inmates nor their furniture-when the parents left their velvet kirtles to their children in their last will, and the children lived at the same board, died in the same chamber, and were laid in the same earth with twenty generations, there was scarce a family in the Highlands which had not its heirloom, like the ivory hand of Charlemagne, or the black stone of Scone. At Calder, you may yet see the bed in which King Duncan was murdered; at Moy, the swords of King Charles and Dundee; at Dunolly, the brotche, which was torn from Robert the Bruce, in the battle of Strathfillan, and at Dunvegan, the little four-legged black oak cup, called "Gluin-dubh," in which the "mighty of the Isles" have drank "Hael," at the christening, and "rest," at the funeral, of twenty Mac Leods. In our house there was a little old ebony cabinet, called the "BLACK KIST OF GLEN-DULOCHAN." It was believed to have been the very same in which Moses was laid in the bulrushes, and to have been brought into Ireland by Gathelus, along with Jacob's pillow.* was a thick, short, hump-backed coffer, supported on four little grinning dumpy black dwarfs, who squatted on their It Perhaps some may not be informed, that such is the origin and antiquity of the inauguration-stone of Scotland, now in Westminster Abbey. VOL. II. U |