Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. *** depicts an asterism. * * * * * BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCLXXIV. DECEMBER, 1846. VOL. LX. CONTENTS. KOHL IN DENMARK AND IN THE MARSHES, 645 LORD METCALFE'S GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA, 662 ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF LONDON, 673 MARLBOROUGH'S DISPATCHES. 1711-1712, 690 MILDRED. A TALE. PART I., 709 THE LAW AND ITS PUNISHMENTS, 721 LEGENDS OF THE THAMES, 729 RECENT ROYAL MARRIAGES, 740 ST MAGNUS', KIRKWALL, 753 THE GAME LAWS, 754 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, 45, GEORGE STREET; AND 37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. _To whom all Communications (post paid) must be addressed._ SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES, EDINBURGH. _In the Press, a Seventh Edition of_ THE HISTORY OF EUROPE, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. BY ARCHIBALD ALISON, F. R. S. *** This Edition will be handsomely printed in Crown Octavo; the First Volume to be Published on the 24th of December, and the remaining Volumes Monthly. PRICE SIX SHILLINGS EACH. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCLXXIV. DECEMBER, 1846. VOL. LX. KOHL IN DENMARK AND IN THE MARSHES. _Die Marschen und Inseln der Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein. Reisen in Dänemark und den Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein._ Mr. Kohl, the most prolific of modern German writers, the most indefatigable of travellers, is already well known to the English public by his "Sketches of the English," "Travels in Ireland," and many other publications too numerous to remember. He is a gentleman of marvellous facility in travelling over foreign ground--of extraordinary capabilities in the manufacturing of books. Within five years he has given to the world, hostages for fame, some thirty or forty volumes; and explored, socially, politically, scientifically, and æsthetically, North and South Russia, Poland, Moravia, Hungary, Bavaria, Great Britain, France, Denmark, and we know not how many other countries besides. It is as difficult to stop his pen as his feet. He is always trotting, and writing whilst he trots, and evidently without the smallest fatigue from either occupation. He plays on earth the part assigned to the lark above it by the poet: he, "Singing, still doth soar; and soaring, ever singeth."