LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS TO.THE VOLUME. Those marked thus are Vignettes, printed with the letter-press. View of the Free Grammar School of St. Olave's, Southwark PAGE 15 15 ..... 33 * Representation of a Cross, cut in the chalk-down at Whiteleaf, Bucks. 61 • Cross on a Rocking-stone, in the Mountains of Auvergne...... • Cross erected on the Cholera Mount near Sheffield ............ ⚫ Cross on the graves at Carlsrhue and Baden ... Seal of St. Olave's School................ View of Theobalds Palace, Herts... 62 63 64 144 147 177 ⚫ Entrance to Littleton Sepulchre, Somerset View of the Gate-house, Westminster, and Wall remaining in 1836 ...... 237 489 .... 583 605 .. 611 Ancient Mansion in South Petherton, Somersetshire View of the Western Gate of the Roman Lindum, found under the Walls of Lincoln Castle..... • Monument at Britford, Wilts .. • Representations of the Ancient Lyre and Cithara.. PREFACE. WE have little to observe in our present address to our Readers, but to thank them for the patronage which they continue to our Work. As we have received no intimation to the contrary, we may justly presume that our plan continues to receive their approbation; and that the manner in which it is carried into execution, in its various departments, shows no want of activity in collecting materials, nor care in the disposition of them. In a Miscellaneous Work, like ours, the task of selection forms one main province of attention, -ubi vidit avenam, lolium, crescere Inter triticum, selegit, secernit, aufert sedulo. As regards particular books, we have had great pleasure in introducing Mr. Richardson's excellent Dictionary of the English Language to the attention of our readers; a work founded on principles philosophically just, and exhibiting a more correct and copious view of our language, in all its ages, than has ever been given by preceding lexicographers. It is also our intention to continue our selections from the learned and interesting "Diary of a Lover of Literature;" as well as to add our slender contributions to the illustration of Boswell's Life of Johnson, till we have accompanied that work to its close; for the original may be considered as a central point, round which, for the period of half a century, the literature of our country is collected. Our Retrospective Reviews will present much that is curious in old English Poetry; and it is indeed a department of our Magazine to which we wish to draw the attention of our readers. For the rest, we shall proceed in our course—undique nitendo -endeavouring to keep pace with the increasing knowledge of the age, and the exertions of our rivals and contemporaries. Ingens cura mi' cum concordibus æquiparare. July 1836. SYLVANUS URBAN. E PLURIBUS UNUM. |