OR, COMPREHENDING ORIGINAL LETTERS. CURIOUS FRAGMENTS, &C. INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE, THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. NEW PUBLICATIONS WITH CRITI- REVIEWS OF THE FINE ARTS. TRANSACTIONS OF LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES. ORIGINAL POETRY. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; VOL. III. APRIL, TO OCTOBER, 1818. Monthly Magazines have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and information. The intelligence and BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY MUNROE AND FRANCIS, No. 4, CORNHILL, SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED ALSO BY THE FOLLOWING AGENTS :---HENRY WHIPPLE, SALEM; Published holf-monthly, at $5 per annum, THE ATHENEUM, or Spirit of the English Magazines, is published in Boston, on the 1st and 15th of every month. Each number contains 40 pages large octavo, forming 2 vols. of 500 pages each in a year, at the low price of Five Dollars per annum. The work is regularly forwarded by mail to subscribers at a distance. Its appearance twice a month renders it more convenient to transport, and with less delay, than monthly publications, whilst by this mode of publication it is enabled to anticipate whatever is novel or entertaining in the literary, scientific, and fashionable world. The publishers receive by every arrival from England the Magazines printed in London, and the selections are made with the most scrupulous regard to the tastes of those who read for relaxation, amusement, or instruction. The work commenced in April, 1817; and the volumes are dated from April and October each year. GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. III. ALISMA PLANTAGO, with design Bloomfield, his poetical character 428, 468, 481 Acoustic experiment Boulton, Matthew 260 Aeronautic Voyage across the English channel Africa, travels in African expedition Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, anecdote of Alchemist Ali Pacha, his barbarity Alfred's head of Bernadotte of the dog- of Dr. Johnson of a Frenchman of the Sultana Valide of a young cavalry officer 263 Campbell, the poet Americau resources 445 Cathedral, almost finished Analogies in animal and vegetable creation 365 Cascade of Tourtmague 372 Canada, ilal's travels in of sir Ralph Abercrombie Animal flower 41 121 Bernadotte, anecdote of Bristed's American resources 474 Buffon died 487 Burgoing's letters on Sweden 26 Bishop Blaze Births Blight in fruit trees remedied 29 Canine sagacity 237 Cary's letter on West's painting 188 Cervantes died 190 Chatterton 265 Chartres aërial voyage 316 Chinese forms and ceremonies 357 Chinese generosity 29 Childe Harold, canto IV. 485 Coffee denounced 263 Connolly, Daniel, his death 29 Couplet wrongly attributed to Pope 170 Confession of the novice of St. Clair 171, 213, 289 Crabbe, the poet, his character 157 Curran, John Philpot 40 Dante's hell described 354 Daniel's picturesque voyage D'Arblay, gen. Alexander, his death 194 Death on the pale horse 351 Deshoulieres, madame, her intrepidity Berkely, sir George Cranfield, his death 488 Domesticated seal Bellamy's bible 358 Don Manuel Godoi Bellamira, by Shiel 29 81, 379 413 Dog, anecdotes of the 294 Dog days begin 487 Dore, madame, her intrepidity 293 Discovery of America before Columbus 404 354 488 236 431 445 190 275 326 101 270 197 1-5 189 297 147 209 395 40 488 488 300 236 60 39 Dobree, capt. N. his death 74 Dr. Dwight's tract on infidelity 994 Dress of the beaux io James I's time 56 64 70 282 409 257 31 355 316 361, 380 17 191 997 250 487 957 272 58 47 156 73 486 29 188 221 255 275 288 487 72 12 |