PREFACE. a At the close of another period devoted to the publication and completion of a volume of the Atheneum, we are happy in having it in our power to offer its patrons the concluding number of a larger volume of the work than they have heretofore received. The same principles have governed us in the selection and arrangement of its contents, that have been our guide in conducting former volumes; and we will venture to hope that the new literary journals which have lately been received, and the improvement in some of the old ones, together with greater experience, have increased its value in regard to the entertainment and instruction of its pages, as well as their number. The enlargement of the Atheneum has been attended with expense and difficulty to the Proprietor. One circumstance only, however, has given us cause of regret in regard to this measure : the typography of the work, in consequence of it, has not been so neatly executed as we could have wished. 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Other improvements are contemplated in the next volume, and we respectfully solicit for it, from each of our subscribers, a continuance of former patronage. Boston, March 15, 1831, INDEX TO THE FIFTH VOLUME. of, 520 ABERNETHY, Mr. Anecdotes of, 429 Church, a night in a, 419 Colombia, the Eve of Saint Simon in, 60 Come in time, 440 Concatenation, 152 Constant, M. Benjamin, biographical sketch Consumption, pulmonary, 82 Costa Firmé, a scene on the, 510 Cruickshanks, Mr. Charles, agonizing death of, 33 Cruthers and Jonson; or, the outskirts of life, 544 Davy, Sir Humphry, 575, 576 Delta. A pass of the Abruzzi, 304 Demon ship, the, 374 Devil's progress, the, 221 Diary of a late physician, passages from, 187, 481, 489 Dramatic anecdote, 199 Drum ecclesiastic, 248 236 Ear, sensibility of the, 439 Ears, 248 Ettrick Shepherd, the, 513 Hydrophobia, 97 manners, 99 488 Mr. Moore's homily on husbands, 522 Physicians and poets, 99 Reason and imagination, 194 The uneartbly witness, 325 Europe, area of, 535 Evaporation, 417 Expiation, 203 Fables, 142 Fame, present and future, 296 Fashions, the latest, with colored prints, 101, 150, 246, 343, 438, 534 Fat living, 344 Female character, on the, with especial re- ference to the powers of the mind, 271 Ferdinand the beloved ; or, royal gratitude, 105 Fires, 416 III Fish, skeletons of, method of obtaining, 438 Lisbon, recollections of life in, 477 Literary beauties of the Scriptures, 137 Literay notices, 104, 152, 200, 344, 440 Literature of the day, on the, 118 London traveller, adventures of a, 300 Magnetism, animal, 199 Maiden of the Slitterick, the, 47 His first acquaintance with Byron, 318 Marvels, a tale of, 527 Mat Kavenagh, the Irish hedge schoolmas- ter, 172 Meal, a long, 236 102 Medicine, state of in Turkey, 535 Mind, independent existence of, 432 Miseries of having nothing to do, 348 Monkey, reminiscences of a, 91 ' Montesquieu and Chesterfield, 414 Moore, Mr. His homily on husbands, 522 Moral influence of the physical necessities of man, 500 Moray floods, account of the, 21 Medicine, new, Parr, Dr. 151 Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the Natural philosophy, 540 Nature, on the music of, 244 Night in a church, a, 419 Noctes Ambrosianæ, 97, 194, 339, 522 Notes from the Noctes, 339 Obstinacy, 344 Old and new world, the, 517 Opinion, asking an, 264 Opium-Eater, the English. Reason and imagination, 194 Orange tree, the, 152 199 Outline, an, 247 Owen, Mr.' On the system of, 396 Party titles, curious, 199 Patriotism, 294 Pearls, 102 Phenomenon, singular, 96 Philological puzzle, 439 Philosophy, natural, 540 Physical necessities of man, moral influ- ence of, 500 Physicians and poets, 99 Pirate of the Mediterranean, the, 374 Poetry, learning, and religion, 322 Polignac, Prince, 102 Potato cheese, 199 Potato on the mountain Orizaba, 102 Pottery, ornamental, 104 Profits, spicy, 248 Pulmonary consuniption, 82 431 Quin's Siamese soup, 198 439 Rat story, a, 434 Reason and imagination, 194 Sugar, 102 Superstition, 576 527 Talleyrand, Prince, 437 Why and Because. By John Timbs, Tastes, diversity in, 73 Time, 151 Tombstone repository in Paris, visit to Torch, quenching of the, 291 Truth, or a fact, 152 Turkey, state of medicine in, 535 Turkish ladies, 488 Unearthly witness, the, 325 Vandyke, Titian, and Reynolds, 198 Virtue and genius, 245 Visit to the tombstone repository in Paris, 561 Vitalis, 309 His conversational powers, 342 Wat Tylers, the two, 238 Weeks and his “ woe,” 238 Why and because, the, 416 Widows, the two, 563 Wild Garland, the, 55 Wilson, Professor, poetry of, 463 Windermere, a day at, 153 Wine, history and effects of, 260 Women, Greek, 536 Women of Albania, 440 Wrong leg, the, 237 + POETRY. > Air, the realms of, 430 The first and last voyage, 9 Sunset after rain, 166 Delta. Thomson's birthplace, 509 The palmer, 418 The shepherd poet of the Alps, 178 |