BLACKWOOD'S
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VOL. LXVIII.
JULY-DECEMBER, 1850.
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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCCXVII. JULY, 1850. Vol. LXVIII.
CONTENTS.
| The House of Guise, | 1 |
| My Peninsular Medal. By an Old Peninsular. Conclusion, | 20 |
| Chateaubriand's Memoirs, | 33 |
| The Green Hand—A "Short" Yarn. Part XI., | 48 |
| The Jew Bill, | 73 |
| The Pictures of the Season, | 77 |
| The Year of Sorrow.—Ireland—1849, | 93 |
| London and Edinburgh Chess Match, | 97 |
| The Industry of the People, | 106 |
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THE HOUSE OF GUISE.[1]
Upon the page of history are inscribedthe names of many greatmen, uncrowned, but more illustriousthan most kings, whose biographyessentially involves the records oftheir country and times. The casesare very rare in which this occurs ofan entire lineage; when throughseveral successive generations thesame extraordinary qualities aretransmitted, and the hero or statesmanwho perished yesterday, to-dayand to-morrow seems to start againto life in the persons of descendantswho rival and even eclipse his fame.These remarkable and most unfrequentinstances are exemplified inthe house of Guise, those puissa