Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849

CHARLES LAMB.1

THE CAXTONS. – PART XV

JONATHAN IN AFRICA.6

THE GREEN HAND.7

FOR THE LAST PAGE OF "OUR ALBUM."

THE INSURRECTION IN BADEN

LAMARTINE'S REVOLUTION OF 1848

Dies Boreales

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"Please, sir, be this note for you?" asked the waiter.

"For me – yes; it is my name."

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No wonder, poor Roland! that those deep furrows contracted thy bold front, and thy hair grew gray before its time!

Fortunately, perhaps, for all parties, Roland's wife died while Blanche was still an infant. She was taken ill of a fever – she died delirious, clasping her boy to her breast, and praying the saints to protect him from his cruel father. How often that deathbed haunted the son, and justified his belief that there was no parent's love in the heart which was now his sole shelter from the world, and the "pelting of its pitiless rain." Again I say, poor Roland! – for I know that, in that harsh, unloving disrupture of such solemn ties, thy large generous heart forgot its wrongs; again didst thou see tender eyes bending over the wounded stranger – again hear low murmurs breathe the warm weakness which the women of the south deem it no shame to own. And now did it all end in those ravings of hate, and in that glazing gaze of terror!

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