Produced by Brendan OConnor, Patricia Bennett, Jonathan Ingram 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. CCCLXXXII. AUGUST, 1847. VOL. LXII. CONTENTS. GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE. 129 BEN NEVIS AND BEN MUICH DHUI. 149 LETTERS ON THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.--LETTER VII 166 HISTORY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON AT ST HELENA. 178 JUANCHO THE BULL-FIGHTER. 197 THE EMERALD STUDS. 214 CAESAR. 235 REID AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMON SENSE. 239 * * * * * GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE.[1] The appearance of a new history of Greece, of the pretensions, and the just pretensions, of this of Mr Grote, is an event in literature which must not pass by without some note or comment. Never were historical studies pursued with so much success, or in so philosophical a spirit, as in the present day, and that by the whole corps of European scholarship, whether German, or French, or English; and it is saying much, when we say of the work before us, that it is equal to the demands of the critical age in which it appears, and that in just estimate of historical testimony, and in true appreciation of the spirit of past times, it is as superior to its predecessors as, in these very points, the nineteenth century is in advance of all preceding centuries.