Having noticed Mr. Irving's principal works, we have left but little occasion to speak of his general style. A contemporary has denominated him the "Goldsmith of the age;" and of Goldsmith we must remember that, in his epitaph, Dr. Johnson observes: "he left no species of writing untouched, and adorned all to which he applied himself"—a tribute which can scarcely be appropriately paid to any writer of our time. However, we know not any author that Mr. Irving so much resembles as Goldsmith: although no imitator, his style and language forcibly remind us of that easy flow so peculiar to the Citizen of the World. But, we have higher warrant for this parallel. "It seems probable," observes a critical writer of considerable acumen, "that Mr. Irving might prove no contemptible rival to Goldsmith, whose turn of mind he very much inherits, and of whose style he particularly reminds us. Like him, too, Mr. Irving possesses the art of setting ludicrous perplexities in the most irresistible point of view, and we think equals him in the variety of humour." 7

To conclude, we find the literary character of Mr. Irving illustrated in a contemporary journal, with unusual spirit. "There never was a writer," observes the editor, "whose popularity was more matter of feeling, or more intimate than Washington Irving, perhaps, because he appeared at once to our simplest and kindliest emotions. His affections were those of 'hearth and home;' the pictures he delighted to draw were those of natural loveliness, linked with human sympathies; and a too unusual thing with the writers of our time—he looked upon God's works, and 'saw that they were good.' * * * With him the wine of life is not always on the lees. An exquisite vein of poetry runs through every page,—and of poetry, his epithets who does not remember—'the shark, glancing like a spectre through the blue seas.'" 8

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

A.B.C. botanical, 336

Abernethian, a true one, 160

Absence, Lord Lyttleton's, 318

Accumulation of Power, 55

Acid, Oxalic, 207

Tartaric, 206

Action in forces, time of, 55

Adam, death of, 133

Adieu, the, by Lord Byron, 12

Adrian and Apollodoras, the architect, 384

Advice, by a Man of the World, 10

Ætna, visit to the summit of, 202

Agincourt, ballad of, 101

Alchemy and Printing, 160

Ale, bad Saxon, 261

Burton, 304

All on one side, 318

Almanacs, Saxon, 54

American Deer, mode of hunting them, 339

Improvements, 102

Navy, 102

Newspapers, 102

Papermaking, 103

Prison Discipline, 286

Wolves, 340

Ancients and Moderns, by Voltaire, 163

Angelica Kauffman, anecdote of, 291

Angler, an odd one, 317

Animal Instinct exemplified, 327

Annuals for 1833:

Amulet, 392—413

Book of Beauty, 386

Comic Offering, 389

Forget-me-not, 282

Friendship's Offering, 399

Hood's Comic, 287

Juvenile Forget-me-not, 334

Literary Souvenir, 420

Picturesque, 386

Antiquities, Domestic, 337

Antwerp, Citadel of, described, 405

City of, described, 369

Painters born at, 380

Aphorisms, choice, 442

Apologues, from the German, 403

Ararat, Mount, described, 313—379

Araspes and Panthea, anecdote of, 258

Architecture, ancient domestic, 274

Archy Armstrong, grave of, 416

Armada, the, by T.B. Macauley, Esq. 399

Armadillo, history of, 56

Armour, old English, 437

Arrogance, Feltham on, 271

Arrow Root, preparation of, 264

Arundel Castle, described, 157

Asmodeus in London, 364

Atmosphere, constitution of, 206

Atmosphere, properties of, 134

Auctions by the Drum, 330

Bachelors, Laws respecting, 35—339

Bagdad, plague at, 75

Bailly, physician to Henry IV., 96

Bar, anecdotes of the, 277

Barbel, large, 96

Bat, new species of, 408

Bath in Persia, described, 145

Baths, ancient and modern, 372

Battle, fish, 354

Beaches, sea, changes of, 79

Bear-hunting in Canada, 91

Beatrice Adony and Julius Alvinzi, a tale, 420

Beauchief Abbey, described, 113

Becket, murder of, 114

Bede, Venerable, memoir of, 440

Beefeaters, origin of, 80

Bees, economy of, 38

Beet root sugar, 88

Beetle, ravages of, 175

Bell, ancient, 345

Belvoir Castle, history of, 129

Bennett, Mr. George, visit to Rotuma, 377

Berwick, siege of, 222

Bewick, the engraver, birthplace of, 17

Bibb, the engraver, 368

Birds, bills of, 96

Birds, how they fly, 134

Birds, migration of, 40

Black Lady of Brabant, 140

Blacking, antiquity of, 192

Blessington, lady, her conversations with Lord Byron, 6—86—110—156—269

Blind Seal, the, a tale, 298

Blood, price of, 71

Bloodless War, 336

Boar's head at Christmas, 431

Bolsover Castle described, 161

Bond, Mr. Sergeant, anecdote of, 278

Bones, waste of, 366

Borough, origin of the term, 211

Boy Burglars, account of, 333

Books, new, noticed and quoted:

Abrantes, Duchess of, her memoirs, 47—106—191

Babbage's Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, 27—54

Barrington's Sketches, 52

Biblical Atlas, 44

British Museum, 140—158

Buccaneer, 428

Byron's Works, 12

Catechism of Phrenology, 45

Characteristics of Women, 117

Contarini Fleming, 10

Double Trial, 125

Elements of Chemistry, 206

Encyclopædia Americana, 102

Excursions in India, by Capt. Skinner, 105

Framlingham, a Poem, 306

Geography, Questions in, 45

Gordon on Elemental Locomotion, 183—198

Knowledge for the People, 77—134—429

Life of Peter the Great, 300—308

Laconics, 31

Legends of the Library at Lilies, 350—403

Legends of the Rhine, 138

Life of Charlemagne, by G.P.R. James, 92—119

Lives of Scottish Worthies, 221—233

Macculloch's Dictionary of Commerce, 151—279

Memoir of Felix Neff, 147—171

Natural Magic, by Sir David Brewster, 72—107—191

New Gil Blas, 186

Numismatic Manual, 223

Outlines of General Knowledge, 45

Pilgrimage through Khuzistan and Persia, 73—314

Pompeii, 412

Popular Zoology, 57

Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion, 157—165—235

Sketches from Venetian History, 60

Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 11—46

Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada, 29—57—91

Taylor's Records of his Life, 291—317

Trials of Charles I., 41

Wild Sports of the West, 298

Brain of Man, 96

Braithwaite's Steam Fire-Engine, 111

Brass-plate Coal-merchants, 56

Bread, legal adulteration of, 366

Brent Tor church, 112

Brevities, 179

Bridewell, in the reign of Elizabeth, 357

Bridge, stupendous, in Spain, 24

Britain, early inhabitants of, 276—371

British Artists' Exhibition, 330—362

British Institution, School of Painting at, 362

British Museum, the, 140

Brougham, Henry, anecdote of, 182

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 86

Bull, national, 240

Burnham Abbey described, 81

Bustard, natural history of, 328

Butterfly, Chameleon, and Serpent, 425

Byron, Lord, conversations with, 6—86—110

and Anastasius, 156

early poems, by, 12

and Earl Grey, 80

and the English, 9

and Mrs. Hemans, 156

and Mr. Hope, 156

on horseback, 110

and Leigh Hunt, 157

and Italian women, 117

his love, 269

letter of, 290

and Moore, 7

personal description of, 7

and Scott, 110

and Shelley, 9

and Madame de Stael, 86

and Venice, 63

Cæsar, Julius, his superstition, 238

Cairngorm, origin of, 77

Caliga, origin of, 112

Caloric, or the matter of heat, 206

Canada, climate of, 57

notes on, 29

Canary Birds, breeding, 111

Candelabra and Lamps of Pompeii, 412

Canning, Mr., statue of, 25

Cannon Clock, 144

Cannon, names of, 160

Canova, vase, containing the heart of, 169

Caprices, national, 439

Caps, laws relating to, 319

Cara, lines to, 272

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