BLACKWOOD'S
Edinburgh
MAGAZINE
VOL. LIX.
JANUARY-JUNE, 1846.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH;
AND
37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.
1846.
BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCLXIII. JANUARY, 1846. Vol. LIX.
Transcriber's note: Minor typos corrected. There are two pages 15 and 16 in this issue,the second ones are designated *15 and *16 in the original magazine. They are designated in the same manner inthis version.
CONTENTS.
Sir William Follett, 1
Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty, *16
The Last Hours of a Reign. Conclusion, 17
A Campaign in Texas, 37
The Mother and Her Dead Child, 53
The Greek and Romantic Drama, 54
My College Friends. No. III., 73
The Student of Salamanca. Part III., 85
Sicilian Sketches. Syracusiana, 103
Æsthetics of Dress. Military Costume, 114
From Goethe, 120
Christmas Carol. 1845, 122
The Crisis, 124
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SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT.
The disappearance from the legal hemisphere of so bright a star as thelate Sir William Follett, cast a gloom, not yet dissipated, over thelegal profession, and all classes of society capable of appreciatinggreat intellectual eminence. He died in his forty-seventh year; fillingthe great office of her Majesty's Attorney-general; the head and prideof the British Bar; a bright ornament of the senate; in the prime ofmanhood, and the plenitude of his extraordinary intellectual vigour; inthe full noontide of success, just as he had reached the dazzlingpinnacle of professional and official distinction. The tones of his lowmellow voice were echoing sadly in the ears, his dignified and grac