Produced by Brendan OConnor, Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCLVI. JUNE, 1845. VOL. LVII. Transcriber's note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article. The index for Volume 57 is included at the end of this issue. CONTENTS. PUSHKIN, THE RUSSIAN POET. No. I., 657 THE NOVEL AND THE DRAMA, 679 MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART XVII., 688 LEBRUN'S LAWSUIT, 705 CENNINO CENNINI ON PAINTING, 717 AESTHETICS OF DRESS. NO. IV., 731 SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, 739 HANNIBAL, 752 STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR DAVID MILNE, C.G.B., 766 STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS HOOD, 768 NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS. NO. V.--DRYDEN ON CHAUCER--CONCLUDED, 771 INDEX, 794 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, 45, GEORGE STREET; AND 22, PALL-MALL, 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. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCLVI. JUNE, 1845. VOL. LVII. PUSHKIN, THE RUSSIAN POET. NO. I. SKETCH OF PUSHKIN'S LIFE AND WORKS, BY THOMAS B. SHAW, B.A. OF CAMBRIDGE, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE IMPERIAL ALEXANDER LYCEUM, TRANSLATOR OF "THE HERETIC," &C. &C.