BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. * * * * * NO. CCCCXXII. DECEMBER, 1850. VOL. LXVIII. * * * * * CONTENTS. MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE. PART IV., 627 ANCIENT AND MODERN ELOQUENCE, 645 LAING'S OBSERVATIONS ON EUROPE, 671 WHO ROLLED THE POWDER IN? 689 A LECTURE ON JOURNALISM, 691 THE GREAT UNKNOWN, 698 MODERN STATE TRIALS. PART III., 712 THE DEFENCES OF BRITAIN, 736 THE POPISH PARTITION OF ENGLAND, 745 INDEX, 755 * * * * * 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. CCCCXXII. DECEMBER, 1850. VOL. LXVIII. MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE. BY PISISTRATUS CAXTON. BOOK II.--CHAPTER VII. In spite of all his Machiavellian wisdom, Dr Riccabocca had been foiled in his attempt to seduce Leonard Fairfield into his service, even though he succeeded in partially winning over the widow to his views. For to her he represented the worldly advantages of the thing. Lenny would learn to be fit for more than a day-labourer; he would learn gardening, in all its branches--rise some day to be a head gardener. "And," said Riccabocca, "I will take care of his book learning, and teach him whatever he has a head for." "He has a head for everything," said the widow. "Then," said the wise man, "everything shall go into it."