iv It will be our chief object to make every essay—however brief, and however light and familiar its treatment-breathe with A PURPOSE. Experience assures us that, especially at the present day, it is by a defined purpose alone, whether significant in twenty pages or in twenty lines, that the sympathies of the world are to be engaged, and its support ensured. Whilst dealing with the highest social claims of our countrymen, we shall not exclude from our pages either Sketch of Character-TaleHistory-or Romance. Far otherwise. It will be our earnest desire to avail ourselves of all and every variety of literature, if illustrating and working out some wholesome principle. Mere stories, made like Twelfth-night heroes, of mere sugar, we shall certainly eschew. Neither would we have the “light-reader” take alarm at our graver subjects. They, too, it is hoped, may be discussed with no very violent call upon his wakefulness. It is not necessary that such themes—like bullets-should be cast in lead to do the surest service. Such was the pith of the prospectus that-six months ago—announced the publication of the present work. We then spoke, certainly, in the fulness of hope. We have now to acknowledge the success that has firmly established the “SHILLING MAGAZINE” as a public organ. It has made a sphere for itself. We nevertheless hope, with each succeeding volume to develope more strength, more various powers ; so that the book may be rendered more worthy of the sympathy and encouragement that, from the first Number, so cordially welcomed it. June, 1845. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGR A Few Words on Early Shop-Shutting. Address to the Fountains in Trafalgar-square April Fools. 356 Bishop's Knock, the. A Legend of the South-West Cat-and-Fiddle Moralities. (By the Editor) Cathedral Pennies 419 251 139 38 243 72, 167, 261, 347, 446, 539 129 79, 357, 452, 543 381, 477 Impressions of a late Trial for Murder Luxury of Light, the; the Window Tax . Novel Blowers, the, or Hot-pressed Heroes . Novelist and the Milliner, the Paul Bell in Account Current with William Wordsworth, Esq., Laureate 124 Personal Recollections of the late William Hazlitt. (By P. G. Patmore). 44, Poet before and after Death, the 268 437 187 87 Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, the first Earl of Malmes- Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces History of France. (By M. Michelet) How's Illustrated Book of British Song Imagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the English Poets, Literary Extracts from English and other Works Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who flourished in the time of George III. (By Henry Lord Brougham). Maxims and Opinions of the Duke of Wellington 380 180 270 Reviews of New Books (continued): 274 372 91 557 476 468 178 572 “ Shadows” of “ Coming Events” Slavery the only Remedy for the Miseries of the English Poor |