This same first number contains seven pages of discourse on “The Sculpture of the Greeks”[25], and the relation of Greek art to the environment in which it grew up,--all very learned and interesting, to be sure. There is a brief article on the “Present State of the City of Venice”[26], condensed and unromantic enough to grace a Travellers’ Guide. If Messrs. Pringle and Cleghorn had been anyone else but Messrs. Pringle and Cleghorn, they might have indulged the public with a thrill or two on such a subject as the city of Venice; but never a thrill do we get from cover to cover! The article which follows is “on the Constitution and Moral Effects of Banks for the Savings of Industry”[27]; and there are others of similar tone: “Observations on the Culture of the Sugar Cane in the United States”[28], “The Craniological Controversy”[29], “The Proposed Establishment of a Foundling Hospital in Edinburgh”[30], and the like. One short article, “An Account of the American Steam Frigate”[31], is still of genuine interest, attributing the conception of the invention to a “most ingenious and enterprising citizen”, Robert Fulton, Esq. It describes with naive emphasis the successful trip “to the ocean, eastward of Sandy Hook, and back again, a distance of fifty-three miles, in eight hours and twenty minutes. A part of this time she had the tide against her, and had no assistance whatever from the sails.”[32] It is known that the signature Zeta was used in the early numbers, by more than one person; but “Remarks on Greek Tragedy”[33], a criticism of Aeschylus’ _Prometheus_, signed Zeta, Mr. Lang attributes without hesitation to Lockhart. “Tales and Anecdotes of Pastoral Life”[34] and “Notices Concerning the Scottish Gypsies”[35] were also among the “Original Communications”, as the first division of the magazine was called. The former is perhaps the one attempt in the whole number at that sprightly nimble manner which was Blackwood’s aim. The second is a long article of some sixteen pages, delving back into the early history of the Egyptian pilgrims, quoting copiously from “Guy Mannering”, and referring familiarly to Walter Scott, and Mr. Fairburn and James Hogg. Both of these articles were continued in several subsequent numbers. [25] Ibid., V. i, p. 9 [26] Ibid., V. i, p. 16 [27] Ibid., V. i, p. 17 [28] Ibid., V. i, p. 25 [29] Ibid., V. i, p. 35 [30] Ibid., V. i, p. 38 [31] Ibid., V. i, p. 30 [32] Ibid., V. i, p. 32 [33] Ibid., V. i, p. 39 [34] Ibid., V. i, p. 22 [35] Ibid., V. i, p. 43