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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847

Author: Various

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Language: English

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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

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No. CCCLXXXIV. OCTOBER, 1847. VOL. LXII.

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CONTENTS

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
The Emperors New Clothes
THE VISION OF CAGLIOSTRO
Tiberius
Agrippa
Milton
Mirabeau
Beethoven
MAGA IN AMERICA
THE TIMES OF GEORGE II
ART IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN AGES
THE PORTRAIT
Chapter I
Chapter II
HOUNDS AND HORSES AT ROME
English Kennel
The Steeple-chase
Roman Dogs
SONG
MY FRIEND THE DUTCHMAN

WORKS OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.[1]

If our readers have perchance stumbled upon a novel called "The
Improvisatore" by one HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, a Dane by birth, they
have probably regarded it in the light merely of a foreign importation
to assist in supplying the enormous annual consumption of our
circulating libraries, which devour books as fast as our mills do raw
cotton;--with some difference, perhaps, in the result, for the material
can rarely be said to be worked up into any thing like substantial
raiment for body or mind, but seems to disappear altogether in the
process. As the demand, here, exceeds all ordinary means of supply, they
may have been glad to see that our trade with the North is likely to be
beneficial to us, in this our intellectual need. Its books may n