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In person, Mr. Irving is of middle height; and, according to a contemporary, of "modest deportment and easy attitude, with all the grace and dignity of an English gentleman."⁶ Another describes him as "a most amiable man, and great genius, but not lively in conversation." His features have a pleasing regularity, and are lit up, at every corner, with that delightful humour which flows in a rich vein throughout his writings, and forms their most attractive charm.

Having noticed Mr. Irving's principal works, we have left but little occasion to speak of his general style. A contemporary has denominated him the "Goldsmith of the age;" and of Goldsmith we must remember that, in his epitaph, Dr. Johnson observes: "he left no species of writing untouched, and adorned all to which he applied himself"—a tribute which can scarcely be appropriately paid to any writer of our time. However, we know not any author that Mr. Irving so much resembles as Goldsmith: although no imitator, his style and language forcibly remind us of that easy flow so peculiar to the Citizen of the World. But, we have higher warrant for this parallel. "It seems probable," observes a critical writer of considerable acumen, "that Mr. Irving might prove no contemptible rival to Goldsmith, whose turn of mind he very much inherits, and of whose style he particularly reminds us. Like him, too, Mr. Irving possesses the art of setting ludicrous perplexities in the most irresistible point of view, and we think equals him in the variety of humour."⁷

To conclude, we find the literary character of Mr. Irving illustrated in a contemporary journal, with unusual spirit. "There never was a writer," observes the editor, "whose popularity was more matter of feeling, or more intimate than Washington Irving, perhaps, because he appeared at once to our simplest and kindliest emotions. His affections were those of 'hearth and home;' the pictures he delighted to draw were those of natural loveliness, linked with human sympathies; and a too unusual thing with the writers of our time—he looked upon God's works, and 'saw that they were good.' * * * With him the wine of life is not always on the lees. An exquisite vein of poetry runs through every page,—and of poetry, his epithets who does not remember—'the shark, glancing like a spectre through the blue seas.'"⁸

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

A.B.C. botanical, 336

Abernethian, a true one, 160

Absence, Lord Lyttleton's, 318

Accumulation of Power, 55

Acid, Oxalic, 207

Tartaric, 206

Action in forces, time of, 55

Adam, death of, 133

Adieu, the, by Lord Byron, 12

Adrian and Apollodoras, the architect, 384

Advice, by a Man of the World, 10

Ætna, visit to the summit of, 202

Agincourt, ballad of, 101

Alchemy and Printing, 160

Ale, bad Saxon, 261

Burton, 304

All on one side, 318

Almanacs, Saxon, 54

American Deer, mode of hunting them, 339

Improvements, 102
Navy, 102
Newspapers, 102
Papermaking, 103
Prison Discipline, 286
Wolves, 340

Ancients and Moderns, by Voltaire, 163

Angelica Kauffman, anecdote of, 291

Angler, an odd one, 317

Animal Instinct exemplified, 327

Annuals for 1833:

Amulet, 392—413
Book of Beauty, 386
Comic Offering, 389
Forget-me-not, 282
Friendship's Offering, 399
Hood's Comic, 287
Juvenile Forget-me-not, 334
Literary Souvenir, 420
Picturesque, 386

Antiquities, Domestic, 337

Antwerp, Citadel of, described, 405

City of, described, 369
Painters born at, 380

Aphorisms, choice, 442

Apologues, from the German, 403

Ararat, Mount, described, 313—379

Araspes and Panthea, anecdote of, 258

Architecture, ancient domestic, 274

Archy Armstrong, grave of, 416

Armada, the, by T.B. Macauley, Esq. 399

Armadillo, history of, 56

Armour, old English, 437

Arrogance, Feltham on, 271

Arrow Root, preparation of, 264

Arundel Castle, described, 157

Asmodeus in London, 364

Atmosphere, constitution of, 206

Atmosphere, properties of, 134

Auctions by the Drum, 330

Bachelors, Laws respecting, 35—339

Bagdad, plague at, 75

Bailly, physician to Henry IV., 96

Bar, anecdotes of the, 277

Barbel, large, 96

Bat, new species of, 408

Bath in Persia, described, 145

Baths, ancient and modern, 372

Battle, fish, 354

Beaches, sea, changes of, 79

Bear-hunting in Canada, 91

Beatrice Adony and Julius Alvinzi, a tale, 420

Beauchief Abbey, described, 113

Becket, murder of, 114

Bede, Venerable, memoir of, 440

Beefeaters, origin of, 80

Bees, economy of, 38

Beet root sugar, 88

Beetle, ravages of, 175

Bell, ancient, 345

Belvoir Castle, history of, 129

Bennett, Mr. George, visit to Rotuma, 377

Berwick, siege of, 222

Bewick, the engraver, birthplace of, 17

Bibb, the engraver, 368

Birds, bills of, 96

Birds, how they fly, 134

Birds, migration of, 40

Black Lady of Brabant, 140

Blacking, antiquity of, 192

Blessington, lady, her conversations with Lord Byron, 6—86—110—156—269

Blind Seal, the, a tale, 298

Blood, price of, 71

Bloodless War, 336

Boar's head at Christmas, 431

Bolsover Castle described, 161

Bond, Mr. Sergeant, anecdote of, 278

Bones, waste of, 366

Borough, origin of the term, 211

Boy Burglars, account of, 333

Books, new, noticed and quoted:

Abrantes, Duchess of, her memoirs, 47—106—191
Babbage's Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, 27—54
Barrington's Sketches, 52
Biblical Atlas, 44
British Museum, 140—158
Buccaneer, 428
Byron's Works, 12
Catechism of Phrenology, 45
Characteristics of Women, 117
Contarini Fleming, 10
Double Trial, 125
Elements of Chemistry, 206
Encyclopædia Americana, 102
Excursions in India, by Capt. Skinner, 105
Framlingham, a Poem, 306
Geography, Questions in, 45
Gordon on Elemental Locomotion, 183—198
Knowledge for the People, 77—134—429
Life of Peter the Great, 300—308
Laconics, 31
Legends of the Library at Lilies, 350—403
Legends of the Rhine, 138
Life of Charlemagne, by G.P.R. James, 92—119
Lives of Scottish Worthies, 221—233
Macculloch's Dictionary of Commerce, 151—279
Memoir of Felix Neff, 147—171
Natural Magic, by Sir David Brewster, 72—107—191
New Gil Blas, 186
Numismatic Manual, 223
Outlines of General Knowledge, 45
Pilgrimage through Khuzistan and Persia, 73—314
Pompeii, 412
Popular Zoology, 57
Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion, 157—165—235
Sketches from Venetian History, 60
Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 11—46
Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada, 29—57—91
Taylor's Records of his Life, 291—317
Trials of Charles I., 41
Wild Sports of the West, 298

Brain of Man, 96

Braithwaite's Steam Fire-Engine, 111

Brass-plate Coal-merchants, 56

Bread, legal adulteration of, 366

Brent Tor church, 112

Brevities, 179

Bridewell, in the reign of Elizabeth, 357

Bridge, stupendous, in Spain, 24

Britain, early inhabitants of, 276—371

British Artists' Exhibition, 330—362

British Institution, School of Painting at, 362

British Museum, the, 140

Brougham, Henry, anecdote of, 182

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 86

Bull, national, 240

Burnham Abbey described, 81

Bustard, natural history of, 328

Butterfly, Chameleon, and Serpent, 425

Byron, Lord, conversations with, 6—86—110

and Anastasius, 156
early poems, by, 12
and Earl Grey, 80
and the English, 9
and Mrs. Hemans, 156
and Mr. Hope, 156
on horseback, 110
and Leigh Hunt, 157
and Italian women, 117
his love, 269
letter of, 290
and Moore, 7
personal description of, 7
and Scott, 110
and Shelley, 9
and Madame de Stael, 86
and Venice, 63