PREFACE. 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. It was necessary that new paper and a new press should be made, and in the qualities of both we have been disappointed. But these defects will be remedied in future; and we shall endeavor to have the Atheneum deserve the credit of being elegantly, as we believe it does now that of being correctly, printed. It has been suggested to us in various ways, that it would be agreeable to our readers to know from which of the English Magazines each article in the Atheneum is taken. Several editors of newspapers have indeed gone so far as to accuse us of a want of candor and justice in neglecting to give this information. We are always willing to listen to any suggestions or complaints from these sources,we duly appreciate any encomiums upon our labors from them, and we also like to see the principle of fair and upright dealing in all things maintained and defended : but when some of these same editors, who are so watchful over this principle in us, entertain no scruples in copying liberally from our pages, without giving credit either to the Atheneum or the source which its very title acknowledges, we must say they show at least a slight degree of inconsistency. In announcing, therefore, that in future each article in the Atheneum will have the name of the Magazine from which it is taken prefixed to it, our readers will understand that the plan is adopted for their gratification, and not because we feel any guilt or penitence in regard to the course heretofore pursued. 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. ABERNETHY, Mr. Anecdotes of, 429 Abruzzi, a pass of the, 304 Absentee, the, 43 Adventure at Rotterdam, an, 275 Adventure of a London traveller, 300 Affectation, 201 Age, the, 488 Church, a night in a, 419 Colombia, the Eve of Saint Simon in, 60 Concatenation, 152 Condemned, the, 124 Constant, M. Benjamin, biographical sketch Aide-de-camp's duties, description of an, Constantinople, a week at in 1829, 472 576 Consumption, pulmonary, 82 Cruthers and Jonson; or, the outskirts of 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 Dog, the spectral, 481 Bernard's Retrospections of the Stage, 138, Dueling, 187 6 Fish, skeletons of, method of obtaining, 488 Florida, first attempts to colonise, 333 France, the late revolution in, 103 Lisbon, recollections of life in, 477 Literay notices, 104, 152, 200, 344, 440 French artizan, a, history of during the last Literature, royal patronage of, 202 revolution, 404 French honesty, 102 French press, the, 102 Hazlitt, William. Health, 440 Heat, effects of, 416 Highland quarter, 152 History, present state of, 198 London traveller, adventures of a, 300 Obstinacy, 344 An adventure at Rotter- Ojeda's adventures in South America, 541 Hofland, Mrs. dam, 275 Home, 535 Homer, 487 Howitt, William. The disasters of Jan Nadeltreiber, 143 Husbands, Mr. Moore's homily on, 522 Hydrophobia, 97 Hypochondraism, 439 Inconveniences of a convenient distance, 76 Phosphorus, 104 Irish hedge schoolmaster, the, 172 Iron shroud, the, 11 Delta. Thomson's birthplace, 509 Earth, to the, 123 Elegy from the Spanish, 131 Ettrick Shepherd, the. The skylark, 514 First and last voyage, the, 9 Happiness, the bank of, 526 Hemans, Mrs. A spirit's return, 40 The penitent's return, 498 How and the why, the, 239 Howitt, R. To a group of children, 197 |