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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXIX.
March, 1843, Vol. LIII.

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE

NO. CCCXXIX. MARCH, 1843. VOL. LIII.

CONTENTS.

AMMALAT BEK. A TRUE TALE OF THE CAUCASUS FROM THE RUSSIAN OF MARLINSKI
POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER.--NO. VI.
CALEB STUKELY. PART XII.
IMAGINARY CONVERSATION. BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. SANDT AND KOTZEBUE
THE JEWELLER'S WIFE. A PASSAGE IN THE CAREER OF EL EMPECINADO
THE TALE OF A TUB:
AN ADDITIONAL CHAPTER--HOW JACK RAN MAD A SECOND TIME
PAUL DE KOCKNEYISMS, BY A COCKNEY
THE WORLD OF LONDON. SECOND SERIES. PART III.
THE LOST LAMB. BY DELTA
COMTE

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AMMALAT BEK.

A TRUE TALE OF THE CAUCASUS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF MARLINSKI. BY THOMAS B. SHAW, B.A. OF
CAMBRIDGE, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE IMPERIAL
LYCEUM OF TSARSKOE SELO.

THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The English mania for travelling, which supplies our continental
neighbours with such abundant matter for wonderment and witticism, is of
no very recent date. Now more than ever, perhaps, does this passion seem
to possess us:

"----tenet insanabile multos
_Terrarum_ [Greek: kakoithes], et aegro in corde senescit:"

when the press groans with "Tours," "Trips," "Hand-books," "Journeys,"
"Visits."

In spite of this, it is as notorious as unaccountable, that England
knows very little, or at least very little correctly, of the social
condition, manners, and literature of one of the most powerful among her
continental sisters.

The friendly relations between Great Britain and Russia, established in
the reign of Edward V., have subsisted without interruption since