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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLXVII. MAY, 1846. VOL. LIX

CONTENTS.

THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA. PART THE LAST, 513

SHAKESPEARE AND THE DRAMA, 534

BIRBONIANA; OR, ITALIAN ANTIQUARIES AND ANTICHITA, 543

THE AMERICANS AND THE ABORIGINES. PART I., 554

STATE OF IRELAND--ITS CONDITION--THE LIFE AND PROPERTY BILL--THE
DEBATE, AND THE FAMINE, 572

THE MODERN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, 604

THE ILIAD OF HOMER--BOOK THE FIRST. (IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS,) 610

PROSPECTUS, 621

TRUTH AND BEAUTY, 624

THE CAMPAIGN OF THE SUTLEJ, 625

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EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLXVII. MAY, 1846. Vol. LIX.

THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA.

PART THE LAST.

There was a crowd and a clamour in the principal coffee-house of
Pampeluna at nine o'clock on a July evening, that of the first day after
Don Baltasar's escape from the town. The numerous tables were surrounded
by officers of Cordova's army, still flushed with their recent victory,
and eager to en