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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLXXXII. AUGUST, 1847. VOL. LXII.

CONTENTS.

GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE. 129
BEN NEVIS AND BEN MUICH DHUI. 149
LETTERS ON THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN POPULAR
SUPERSTITIONS.--LETTER VII 166
HISTORY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON AT ST HELENA. 178
JUANCHO THE BULL-FIGHTER. 197
THE EMERALD STUDS. 214
CAESAR. 235
REID AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMON SENSE. 239

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GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE.[1]

The appearance of a new history of Greece, of the pretensions, and the
just pretensions, of this of Mr Grote, is an event in literature which
must not pass by without some note or comment. Never were historical
studies pursued with so much success, or in so philosophical a spirit,
as in the present day, and that by the whole corps of European
scholarship, whether German, or French, or English; and it is saying
much, when we say of the work before us, that it is equal to the demands
of the critical age in which it appears, and that in just estimate of
historical testimony, and in true appreciation of the spirit of past
times, it is as superior to its predecessors as, in these very points,
the nineteenth century is in advance of all preceding centuries.

The progress made in this depa