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Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various
page 82 of 95 (86%)
THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW.

The Numbers of this Magazine for February and March have exhibited
several alterations in the arrangement and character of its contents.
They have been adopted in order to make it, more than ever, a worthy
organ and representative of Historical and Antiquarian Literature.

These Numbers contain, among others, articles by J. Payne Collier, Esq.,
Peter Cunningham, Esq., John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., John George Nichols,
Esq., Charles Roach Smith, Esq., W.J. Thoms, Esq., J.G. Waller, Esq.,
and Thomas Wright, Esq.; Articles on the present state of Architectural
Literature, on Christian Iconography and Legendary Art, and on the
intended Exhibition of Ancient and Mediæval Art; Letters of Dr. Johnson
and Alexander Pope, and original Log of the Battle of Trafalgar; Reviews
of Campbell's Lives of the Judges, Hanna's Life of Dr. Chalmers,
Worsaae*'s Primeval Antiquities, Merimée's Pedro the Cruel, Ticknor's
Spanish Literature, Washington Irving's Mahomet, Milman's Tasso,
Craick's Romance of the Peerage, Jones's Life of Chantrey, Boutell's
Christian Monuments (with four plates), &c. &c. With Notes of the Month,
Antiquarian Researches, and Historical Chronicle. The Obituary includes
Memoirs of the Earl of Carnarvon, Bishop Coleridge, Admiral Lord
Colville, Admiral Sir F. Collier, Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., Sir M.I.
Brunel, Edw. Doubleday, Esq., Denis C. Moylan, Esq., Lieutenant Waghorn,
John Barker, Esq., Ebenezer Elliott, John Duncan, Lord Jeffrey, Sir
Felix Booth, Mr. Serjeant Lawes, Thomas Stapleton, Esq., Rev. Dr. Byrth,
Edward Du Bois, Esq., Mrs. Bartley, &c. &c.

Published by J.B. NICHOLS and SON, Parliament Street; and sold by all
Booksellers. Price 2s. 6d.

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