BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCC. FEBRUARY, 1849. Vol. LXV.
CONTENTS.
| Caucasus and the Cossacks, | 129 |
| The Caxtons. Part X., | 147 |
| Statistical Accounts of Scotland, | 162 |
| The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art, | 175 |
| American Thoughts on European Revolutions, | 190 |
| Dalmatia and Montenegro, | 202 |
| Modern Biography.—Beattie's Life of Campbell, | 219 |
| The English Universities and their Reforms, | 235 |
| The Covenanters' Night-Hymn. By Delta, | 244 |
| The Carlists in Catalonia, | 248 |
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CAUCASUS AND THE COSSACKS.
Der Kaukasus und das Land der Kosaken in den Jahren 1843 bis 1846. VonMoritz Wagner. 2 vols. Dresden und Leipzig, 1848.
A handful of men, frugal, hardy,and valiant, successfully defendingtheir barren mountains and dearly-wonindependence against the reiteratedassaults of a mighty neighbour,offer, apart from political considerations,a deeply interesting spectacle.When, upon a map of the world'seastern hemisphere, we behold, notfar from its centre, on the confines ofbarbarism and civilisation, a spot,black with mountains, and marked"Circassia;" when we contrast thispetty nook with the vast territorystretching from the Black Sea to theNorthern Ocean, from the Baltic toBehring's Straits, we admire and wonderat the inflexible resolution anddeter