BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCCVI. AUGUST, 1849. VOL. LXVI. CONTENTS. CHARLES LAMB, 133 THE CAXTONS.--PART XV. 151 JONATHAN IN AFRICA, 172 THE GREEN HAND.--A "SHORT" YARN.--PART III. 183 FOR THE LAST PAGE OF "OUR ALBUM," 205 THE INSURRECTION IN BADEN, 206 LAMARTINE'S REVOLUTION OF 1848, 219 DIES BOREALES. NO. III. CHRISTOPHER UNDER CANVASS, 235 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & 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 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCCVI. AUGUST, 1849. VOL. LXVI. CHARLES LAMB.[1] To Charles Lamb shall be allotted--general assent has already assigned it to him, and we have no wish to dispute his claim--a quiet, quaint niche, apart to himself, in some odd nook or corner in the great temple of English literature. It shall be carved from the solid oak, and decorated with Gothic tracery; but where Madonnas and angels ordinarily appear, there shall be all manner of laughing cherubs--one amongst them disguised as a chimney-_sweep_--with abundance of sly and humorous devices. Some such niches or stalls may occasionally be seen in old cathedrals, sharing the eternity of the structure, and drawing the peculiar regard of the curious and loitering visitor. You are startled to find a merry device, and a wit by no means too reverential, side by side with the ideal forms of Catholic piety. You approach to examine the solemn-looking carving, and find, perhaps, a fox clothed in priestly raiment--teaching, in his own way, divers lessons of morality to the bears and geese. Such venerable and Gothic drollery suspends for a moment, but hardly mars, the serious and sedate feelings which the rest of the structure, and the other sculptured figures of the place, are designed to excite. [1] _The Works of Charles Lamb._ _Final Memorials of Charles Lamb._ By THOMAS NOON TALFOURD.