To conclude, we find the literary character of Mr. Irving illustrated in a contemporary journal, with unusual spirit.  “There never was a writer,” observes the editor, “whose popularity was more matter of feeling, or more intimate than Washington Irving, perhaps, because he appeared at once to our simplest and kindliest emotions.  His affections were those of ‘hearth and home;’ the pictures he delighted to draw were those of natural loveliness, linked with human sympathies; and a too unusual thing with the writers of our time—­he looked upon God’s works, and ‘saw that they were good.’ * * * With him the wine of life is not always on the lees.  An exquisite vein of poetry runs through every page,—­and of poetry, his epithets who does not remember—­’the shark, glancing like a spectre through the blue seas.’"[8]

[Footnote 8:  Literary Gazette.]

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

  A.B.C. botanical, 336
  Abernethian, a true one, 160
  Absence, Lord Lyttleton’s, 318
  Accumulation of Power, 55
  Acid, Oxalic, 207
    Tartaric, 206
  Action in forces, time of, 55
  Adam, death of, 133
  Adieu, the, by Lord Byron, 12
  Adrian and Apollodoras, the architect, 384
  Advice, by a Man of the World, 10
  AEtna, visit to the summit of, 202
  Agincourt, ballad of, 101
  Alchemy and Printing, 160
  Ale, bad Saxon, 261
    Burton, 304
  All on one side, 318
  Almanacs, Saxon, 54
  American Deer, mode of hunting them, 339
    Improvements, 102
    Navy, 102
    Newspapers, 102
    Papermaking, 103
    Prison Discipline, 286
    Wolves, 340
  Ancients and Moderns, by Voltaire, 163
  Angelica Kauffman, anecdote of, 291
  Angler, an odd one, 317
  Animal Instinct exemplified, 327
  Annuals for 1833: 
    Amulet, 392—­413
    Book of Beauty, 386
    Comic Offering, 389
    Forget-me-not, 282
    Friendship’s Offering, 399
    Hood’s Comic, 287
    Juvenile Forget-me-not, 334
    Literary Souvenir, 420
    Picturesque, 386
  Antiquities, Domestic, 337
  Antwerp, Citadel of, described, 405
    City of, described, 369
    Painters born at, 380
  Aphorisms, choice, 442
  Apologues, from the German, 403
  Ararat, Mount, described, 313—­379
  Araspes and Panthea, anecdote of, 258
  Architecture, ancient domestic, 274
  Archy Armstrong, grave of, 416
  Armada, the, by T.B.  Macauley, Esq. 399
  Armadillo, history of, 56
  Armour, old English, 437
  Arrogance, Feltham on, 271
  Arrow Root, preparation of, 264
  Arundel Castle, described, 157
  Asmodeus in London, 364
  Atmosphere, constitution of, 206
  Atmosphere, properties of, 134
  Auctions by the Drum, 330
  Bachelors, Laws respecting, 35—­339
  Bagdad, plague at, 75