THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MISCELLANY; A NEW SERIES OF THE SCOTS MAGAZINE. JANUARY-JUNE 1820. Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. VOL. VI. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY. 1820. THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MISCELLANY, BEING A NEW SERIES OF The Scots agazine. JANUARY 1820. CONTENTS. Reflections on a New Year o 3. Society of Arts in Edinburgh.- New Ivanhoe, by the Author of Waverley, &c. 7 Siliceous Grass.-Glass from Straw. Journal of a Visit to Holland. Letter -Annual Quantity of Salt raised VIII... 17 from Earth in Europe.--Silk of the On the University of Cambridge ............19 Pinna Marina.-Canary Bird withCriminal Law 26 out Feathers.—Method of taking Jacobite Relics.com.co 31 Impressions of Gems end Seals in On the Present State of Mexico ........... .37 Shell-lac.-Experiments on the CoExtracts from a General Reader's Com lour of Minerals.-Economy of Fuel. mon-place Book care 40 -Statistics of Austria.-Excavations On Gawin Douglas's Translation of at Pompeii.—Manuscript of the Iliad. Virgil's Æneid 41 -Greatest Waterfall in Europe disEllen 44 covered in Lapland, &c.c...socco...65 The Rose of Paradise ib. Works preparing for Publication ..........68 Lines on Visiting the Mansion of a de Monthly List of New Publications non-70 ceased Friend 46 Defence of Scottish Poetry MONTHLY REGISTER. -47 Remarks on Williams's Travels in Italy Foreign Intelligence.......... -72 and Greece and 49 Proceedings of Parliament -76 Strictures on Ivanhoe 54 British Chronicle -77 Eighteen Hundred and Twenty ........61 Appointments and Promotions, &c.co...83 .87 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC Meteorological Table...... Agricultural Report .89 Regent Fishing Bank.-George Bidder. The late Lord Eglinton 91 -Germination of the Musci.--New Births, Marriages, Deaths 92 ib. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY. |