Voltaire, character of, as a historian, 787.

W. E. A., Heart of the Bruce by, 15
the old Scottish cavalier by, 195
the execution of Montrose, by, 289.

Walworth, the milkman of, 687.

Week of an emperor, the, 127.

Westminster hall and the works of art on a free admission day, by B.
Simmons, 652.

Who'll buy a Cupid, from Goethe, 62.

Wild rose, the, from Goethe, 427.

Wilson, Professor, speech of, at the Burns' festival, 378.

Witchfinder, the Part I., 297
conclusion, 487.

Writ of error, proceedings on the, 545.

END OF VOL. LVI.

_Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, Paul's Work_.

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by underscore _italics_.

The following misprints have been corrected:
"corresspondence" corrected to "correspondence" (page 755)
"headach" corrected to "headache" (page 768)
"subsisttence" corrected to "subsistence" (page 798)

The original text included Greek charcters. For this text version these
letters have been replaced with *Greek* transliterations.

Additional spacing after some of the block quotes is intentional to
indicate both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new
paragraph as presented in the original text.

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