TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________ Page My Aunt Margaret's Mirror . AUTHOR OF WAVERLY. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . LORD F. L. GOWER . . . . . . . . . . . 45 On Love . . . . . . . . . . PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . . . . . . . 47 The Country Girl . . . . . W. WORDSWORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 On Two Sisters . . . . . . F. M. REYNOLDS . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The Half-Brothers . . . . .AUTHORS OF THE O'HARA TALES. . . . . . 52 Scraps of Italy . . . . . . LORD MORPETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 The Triad . . . . . . . . . W. WORDSWORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 The Sisters of Albano . . . AUTHOR OF FRANKENSTEIN . . . . . . . . 80 Invitation . . . . . . . . .F. M. REYNOLDS . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Illustrations of the Characters of Anne Page and Slender . . . J. BOADEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 The Wishing-Gate . . . . . .W. WORDSWORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Apropos of Bread . . . . . .LORD NUGENT . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Anticipation for a Coquette . . . . . F. M. REYNOLDS . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Extempore . . . . . . . . . THOMAS MOORE . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Verses . . . . . . . . . . L.E.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Epigrams . . . . . . . . . .S. T. COLERIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The Tapestried Chamber . . AUTHOR OF WAVERLY . . . . . . . . . . 123 An Attempt at a Tour . . . AUTHOR OF THE ROUÉ . . . . . . . . . 143 Sonnet . . . . . . . . . . W. WORDSWORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Lucy and Her Bird . . . . . R. SOUTHEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Fragments . . . . . . . . . PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . . . . . . 160 The Lady and Her Lovers . . AUTHOR OF GILBERT EARLE . . . . . . . 163 Sonnet . . . . . . . . . . W. WORDSWORTH . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Distich . . . . . . . . . . LORD HOLLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Lines . . . . . . . . . . H. LUTTRELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . ib. The Thief detected . . . . F. M. REYNOLDS . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Death of the Laird's Jock . AUTHOR OF WAVERLY . . . . . . . . . . 186 Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . R. BERNAL, M.P. . . . . . . . . . . 193 Reasons for Absence . . . F. M. REYNOLDS . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Ferdinando Eboli . . . . . AUTHOR OF FRANKENSTEIN . . . . . . . 195 The Test of Love . . . . . F. M. REYNOLDS . . . . . . . . . . . 219 vii TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page The Boy and the Butterfly . T. Crofton Croker . . . . . . . . 220 An Incident . . . . . . . . F. M. REYNOLDS . . . . . . . . . 221 What Is Love? . . . . . . . M.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Stanzas . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT SOUTHEY . . . . . . . . . .238 Sketch of a Fragment of the History of the Nineteenth Century . J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Life's Day . . . . . . . . W. JERDAN. . . . . . . . . . . . 257 A Scene at Abbotsford . . . AUTHOR OF WAVERLY . . . . . . . . 258 The Broken Chain . . . . . MRS. HEMANS . . . . . . . . . . 262 To a Pearl . . . . . . . LORD PORCHESTER . . . . . . . . 265 A Legend of Killarney . . T. H. BAYLY . . . . . . . . . . 267 Epigrams . . . . . . . . . S. T. COLERIDGE . . . . . . . . 277 Burnham Beeches . . . . . H. LUTTRELL . . . . . . . . . . 278 The Garden of Boccacio . . S. T. COLERIDGE . . . . . . . . . 282 The Old Gentleman . . . . THEODORE HOOK . . . . . . . . . . 286 The Altered River . . . . . L. E. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Epigram . . . . . . . . . . S. T. COLERIDGE . . . . . . . . . 311 Lines Written in an Album . WILLIAM ROSCOE . .. . . . . . . . 312 The Victim Bride . . . . . W. H. HARRISON . . . . . . . . . 313 Clorinda, or the Necklace of Pearl . . . . . . . LORD NORMANBY . . . . . . . . . 315 The King and the Minstrel of Ely . . . . . . . . J. G. LOCKHART . . . . . . . . . 354 Epigram . . . . . . . . . . S. T. COLERIDGE . . . . . . . . .360 ______________ LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. SIR WALTER SCOTT, SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, THOMAS MOORE, LORD NORMANBY, LORD MORPETH, LORD PORCHESTER, LORD HOLLAND, LORD F. L. GOWER, LORD NUGENT, W. WORDSWORTH, R. SOUTHEY, S.T. COLERIDGE, WILLIAM ROSCOE, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, HENRY LUTTRELL, THEODORE HOOK, J. G. LOCKHART, T. CROFTON CROKER, R. BERNAL, M.P., THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, W. JERDAN, MRS. HEMANS, MISS LANDON, M.L., BARRY ST. LEGER, JAMES BOADEN, W.H. HARRISON, F. MANSEL REYNOLDS, AND THE AUTHORS OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE ROUE, AND THE O'HARA TALES.