Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS :
CHAPTER XL
REV. DR CROLY — CHAPLAIN-
GENERAL GLEIG—THOS. DOUBLEDAY—MRS HEMANS.
A PUBLISHER WITH OPEN ARMS — 'MAGA's' CRIMPS — REV. DR CROLY
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UNINTERESTINa LETTERS— ' SALATHIEL '— REV. DR GLEIG, CHAPLAIN-
GENERAL—THE PERSONALITY OF ' MAGA '—THE ' SUBALTERN '— ' LIFE OP
THE DUKE OP WELLINGTON '—THOMAS DOUBLEDAY, RADICAL POLITICIAN
—THE QUESTION OP LIBELS—MRS HEMANS—MISS CAROLINE BOWLES
ALARIC ATTILA WATTS—A CHRONICLER OF SMALL BEER—A CRITICISM
OP LAMB — ADVERTISING SCHEMES — A LITERARY CELEBRITY'S COSTLY
DINNER — THE CORONATION NUMBER OF ' MAGA ' — MURRAY AND
BENJAMIN DISRAELI—THE ABBEY OF FONTHILL—FOUNDATION OF THE
' SPECTATOR ' — CROPTON CROKER — COMPLIMENTS PROM THE ELDER
D'ISRAELI—NEWSPAPER NOTES—AN EPITOME OF THE COURSE OF LIFE.
Besides the contributors already referred to, Mr
Blackwood had a surrounding of zealous friends and
correspondents, who appear behind him, a crowd of
eager faces like the background of an old picture, busy
as a throng of bees, productive, filling up every corner.
One of the numerous jokes against him in the laughing
circle that was nearest to him was, that he asked every
man whom he met to contribute to the Magazine
and certainly this was true enough of all men of
genius or remarkable gifts who came in his way. We
have seen that he received with open arms the young
man who wrote to him from Cork, giving only initials,