LONDON:

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CONTENTS OF THE THIRD PART,

OF 1833.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

PAGE

A few Words from the Proprietor

On the Anonymous in Periodicals

My Acquaintance with the late Edmund Kean, by T, C, Grattan, Esq.

Factory

Dick Doleful

Chess

The Divorcée Dévote, by the Author of the O'Hara Tales

Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, by Lady Blessington,

Nos. X., XI.

Hidden Literary Treasure

1

2

7, 143

17

18

22

25

The First of September

Seasonable Ditties-No. I. Don't Talk of September-No. II. The
Month of October is bad!-No. III. The last Summer Bonnet
-No. IV. All hail to thee, hoary December!

No. II.

64, 142, 300, 423

The Post-Mortem Cogitations of the late popular Mr. Smith

Men and Books

Monthly Commentary

The Lion's Mouth

91, 252, 496

My Travelling Acquaintance, by the Author of "High-Ways and
By-Ways," No. I. The Hero of Waterloo-No. II. The
Philosopher of the Odenwald

Translations from the Greek Anthology

129, 266

Inhabitants of a Country Town, by Miss Mitford.-No. I. A Great

Man in Retirement-No. II. Peter Jenkins

65

73

74

79

86, 212, 340, 489

On the Progress of Music from the Commencement of the present

The Metropolitan Theatres-a Chronological History of their Origin

Critical Notices of the most important and valuable Works,

THE

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

A FEW WORDS FROM THE PROPRIETOR.

THE Farewell Address of Mr. Bulwer is still fresh in the recollection of our readers; and now that the editorial duties of that gentleman have ceased, and the New Monthly Magazine begins to pursue its career under a new direction, the Proprietor feels that he also has a duty to perform. To the late Editor his acknowledgments are first due; and could he have devoted to the work his undivided energies-had not the pressure of public business, and a multitude of other pursuits interfered with the increasing demands which it made upon his time and talents-Mr. Colburn could not but have regretted his retirement.

The readers of the New Monthly Magazine, previously to Mr. Bulwer's undertaking the task of Editor, are aware that its chief claim upon public patronage was founded, not on its political, but on its literary character; that politics were by no means prominent in its pages; that when occasionally introduced they were in no sense of the term ultra, yet always adhering to liberal and constitutional principles, while studiously avoiding the heats and animosities of party. During the late political fermentation, it was both natural and excusable that its Editor, a Member of Parliament, and strongly imbued with a political bias, should have stamped much of the character of his own views upon the Periodical under his control; and his Political Essays form, in the opinion of many, an exceedingly valuable portion of the work. But, with a change of management, it is the intention of the Proprietor to effect a change of plan, and to deviate less in future from the quiet and pleasant paths of literature into the "fumum, strepitumque," the smoke and turmoil, of politics. He feels, moreover, that the undisturbed energies of more than one master-mind may be advantageously directed to the Sept.-VOL. XXXIX. NO. CLIII.

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