BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCXLI. MARCH, 1844. VOL. LV. CONTENTS. ETHIOPIA, A WORD OR TWO OF THE OPERA-TIVE CLASSES. BY LORGNON, THE PIRATES OF SEGNA. A TALE OF VENICE AND THE ADRIATIC. PART I., COLONEL DAVIDSON'S TRAVELS IN INDIA, BELFRONT CASTLE. A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW, DUMAS IN HIS CURRICLE, MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART IX., THE OLYMPIC JUPITER, A ROMAN IDYL, GOETHE, HYMN OF A HERMIT, THE LUCKLESS LOVER, FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION--THE CORN LAWS, * * * * * ETHIOPIA[1] [1] _The Highlands of Ethiopa._ by Major W. CORNWALLIS HARRIS, H.E. I.C. Engineers. 3 vols. From the various circumstances of our day, the impression is powerfully made upon intelligent men in Europe, that some extraordinary change is about to take place in the general condition of mankind. A new ardour of human intercourse seems to be spreading through all nations. Europe has laid aside her perpetual wars, and seems to be assuming a _habit_ of peace. Even France, hitherto the most belligerent of European nations, is evidently abandoning the passion for conqest, and begining to exert her fine powers in the cultivation of commerce. All the nations of Europe are either following her example, or sending out colonies of greater or less magnitude, to fill the wild portions of the world. Regions hitherto utterly neglected, and even scarcely known, are becoming objects of enlightened regard; and mankind, in every quarter, is approaching, with greater or less speed, to that combined interest and mutual intercourse, which are the first steps to the true possession of the globe.