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 VOL. LIX. JANUARY-JUNE, 1846. [Illustration] WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH; AND 37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. 1846. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCLXIII. JANUARY, 1846. VOL. LIX. CONTENTS. SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT, 1 LET NEVER CRUELTY DISHONOUR BEAUTY, 16 THE LAST HOURS OF A REIGN. CONCLUSION, 17 A CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS, 37 THE MOTHER AND HER DEAD CHILD, 53 THE GREEK AND ROMANTIC DRAMA, 54 MY COLLEGE FRIENDS. NO. III., 73 THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA. PART III., 85 SICILIAN SKETCHES. SYRACUSIANA, 103 AESTHETICS OF DRESS. MILITARY COSTUME, 114 FROM GOETHE, 120 CHRISTMAS CAROL. 1845, 122 THE CRISIS, 124 * * * * * 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. SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT.