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BLACKWOOD’S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCXXXVIII. DECEMBER, 1843. VOL. LIV.
CONTENTS.
| LECTURES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. | 691 |
| SOMETHING ABOUT MUSIC. | 709 |
| THE PURPLE CLOAK; OR, THE RETURN OF SYLOSON TO SAMOS. | 714 |
| LOVE AND DEATH. | 717 |
| THE BRIDGE OVER THE THUR. | 717 |
| THE BANKING-HOUSE. | 719 |
| COLLEGE THEATRICALS. | 737 |
| LINES WRITTEN IN THE ISLE OF BUTE. | 749 |
| TRAVELS OF KERIM KHAN. | 753 |
| NOTES ON A TOUR OF THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS IN WALES. | 766 |
| ADVENTURES IN TEXAS. | 777 |
| DEATH FROM THE STING OF A SERPENT. | 798 |
| GIFTS OF TÉREK. | 799 |
| MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. | 801 |
| INDEX TO VOL. LIV. | 815 |
LECTURES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
HENRY FUSELI.
At a time when the eye of the public is more remarkably, and we trust more kindly, directed to the Fine Arts, we may do some service to the good cause, by reverting to those lectures delivered in the Royal Academy, composed in a spirit of enthusiasm honourable to the professors, but which kindled little sympathy in an age strangely dead to the impulses of taste. The works, therefore, which set forth the principles of art, were not read extensively at the time, and had little influence beyond the walls within which they were delivered. Favourable circumstances, in conjunction with their real merit, have permanently added the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds to the standard literature of our country. They have been transferred from the artist to the scholar; and so it has happened, that while few of any pretension to scholarship have not read the "The Discourses," they have not, as they should have, been continually in the hands of artists themselves. To awaken a feeling for this kind of professional reading—yet not so professional as not to be beneficial—reflectingly upon classical learning; indeed, we might say, education in general, and therefore more comprehensive in its scope—we commenced our remarks on the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds, which have appeared in the