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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S

Edinburgh

MAGAZINE

VOL. LIX.

JANUARY-JUNE, 1846.

[Illustration]

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH;

AND

37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

1846.

BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLXIII. JANUARY, 1846. VOL. LIX.

CONTENTS.

SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT, 1

LET NEVER CRUELTY DISHONOUR BEAUTY, 16

THE LAST HOURS OF A REIGN. CONCLUSION, 17

A CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS, 37

THE MOTHER AND HER DEAD CHILD, 53

THE GREEK AND ROMANTIC DRAMA, 54

MY COLLEGE FRIENDS. NO. III., 73

THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA. PART III., 85

SICILIAN SKETCHES. SYRACUSIANA, 103

AESTHETICS OF DRESS. MILITARY COSTUME, 114

FROM GOETHE, 120

CHRISTMAS CAROL. 1845, 122

THE CRISIS, 124

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

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

SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES, EDINBURGH.

SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT.

The disappearance from the legal hemisphere of so bright a star as the
late Sir William Follett, cast a gloom, not yet dissipated, over the
legal profession, and all classes of society capable of appreciating
great intellectual emin