PRINTED FOR BELL & BRADFUTE, JAMES M'CLIESH, AND
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD;

GILBERT & HODGES, DUBLIN; AND S. CAMPBELL,

NEW YORK.

TILDEN LIBRARY

1895

G. CAW, Printer,

Edinburgh.

CONTENTS

OP THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

Page

7

14

No.

I

THE RAMBLER.

DIFFICULTY of the first address. Practice of

the epic poets. Convenience of periodical
performances

2 The necessity and danger of looking into futurity.

Writers naturally sanguine. Their hopes liable

to disappointment

3 An allegory on criticism

4 The modern form of romances preferable to the

ancient. The necessity of characters morally

good

5 A meditation on the Spring

6 Happiness not local

7 Retirement natural to a great mind. Its religious

use

thoughts to be brought under regulation; as

y respect the past, present, and future