FEBRUARY, 1832. 

 CONTENTS. 



Page 



I. A Project for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance 138 



II. The Re-assembling of Parliament 137 



III. A Ramble with the Travellers 138 



IV. An Ode to Sir Charles Wetherell, with a Graphic Sketch of 



"Anti-Radical" 144 



V. Specimens of Latin Comedy, No. I. The Captives Plautus.... 147 



VI. Calamities of Carving 156 



VII. A Modest Defence of Literary Puffing 161 



VIII. The Parisian Newspaper Press 166 



IX. Rivers! 174 



X. The Currency and the Bank of England * 178 



XI. Elliston, and the Ass's Head 185 



XII. A Legend of the Egean 187 



XIII. Sonnet from Petrarch 194 



XIV. A Warrior of the Nineteenth Century 195 



XV. The Polish Widow to her Son 198 



XVI. Tithes versus Rent 199 



XVII. Parliamentary Pastorals, No. I. by Corydon Croker. No. II. 



by the Damon of Newcastle .. 208 



XVIII. The Dramatic. Monopoly t , 210 



XIX. Brevities 216 



XX. The Lay of aLost Minstrel 217 



XXI. NOTES OF THE MONTH ON AFFAIRS IN GENERAL : Savings 

 in St. Saviour's " Peculiarities" of the Press The School- 

 master " Abroad" Black and White Anti-Mustachio Decree 

 Fire-Proof Dresses Jack Mitford The Greenwich Rail- 

 Road The Advantages of going to Jail A Proposition fairly 

 canvassed Theatricals in High Life Burns and his Dinnerless 

 Devotees Magisterial Mummeries Marvels of Literature 



Dramas to Order Remarkable Confession 218 



XXII. THE DRAMA 229 



XXIII. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS HO 



XXIV. FINE ARTS 244 



XXV. WORKS IN THE PRESS, AND NEW PUBLICATIONS 245 



XXVI. AGRICULTURAL REPORT, &c 24 7 



