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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845

Author: Various

Release Date: January 16, 2009 [EBook #27818]

Language: English

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLVIII. AUGUST, 1845. VOL. LVIII.

CONTENTS.

ON PUNISHMENT. 129

PUSHKIN, THE RUSSIAN POET. CONCLUDED. 140

MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART XVIII. 157

A LETTER FROM LONDON. BY A RAILWAY WITNESS, 173

PRIESTS, WOMEN, AND FAMILIES, 185

MY COLLEGE FRIENDS. NO. II.--HORACE LEICESTER, 197

ZUMALACARREGUI, 210

NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS. NO. VII.--MAC-FLECNOE
AND THE DUNCIAD, 229

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, 45, GEORGE STREET; AND 37, PATERNOSTER ROW,
LONDON.

_To whom all Communications (post paid) must be addressed._

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PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES, EDINBURGH.

BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLVIII. AUGUST, 1845. VOL. LVIII.

ON PUNISHMENT.

How to punish crime, and in so doing reform the criminal; how to uphold
the man as a terror to evil-doers, and yet at the same time be
implanting in him the seeds of a future more happy and prosperous
life--this is perhaps the most difficu