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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCXXXVIII. DECEMBER, 1843. VOL. LIV.

Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved
to the end of each article.

CONTENTS.

LECTURES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. 691
SOMETHING ABOUT MUSIC. 709
THE PURPLE CLOAK; OR, THE RETURN OF SYLOSON TO SAMOS. 714
LOVE AND DEATH. 717
THE BRIDGE OVER THE THUR. 717
THE BANKING-HOUSE. A HISTORY IN THREE PARTS. PART II. 719
COLLEGE THEATRICALS. 737
LINES WRITTEN IN THE ISLE OF BUTE. 749
TRAVELS OF KERIM KHAN. CONCLUSION. 753
NOTES ON A TOUR OF THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS IN WALES. 766
ADVENTURES IN TEXAS. NO. II. 777
DEATH FROM THE STING OF A SERPENT. 798
GIFTS OF TEREK. 799
MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART VI. 801

INDEX TO VOL. LIV. 815

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LECTURES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

HENRY FUSELI.

At a time when the eye of the public is more remarkably, and we trust
more kindly, directed to the Fine Arts, we may do some service to the
good cause, by reverting to those lectures delivered in the Royal
Academy, composed in a sp