New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 32

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth

Henry Colburn, 1831

Contents

• The Irish Elections: 1
• d: 12
• Cholera Morbus What is its nature? In what manner ought it to: 13
• Ode to the Ourangoutangs at the Egyptian Hall: 20
• Sonnet By William Wordsworth To B R Haydon Composed: 26
• Monthly Commentary: 33
• My Pension: 49
• The Poets Old: 64
• The Months April: 75
• An Episode of Real Life: 211
• A new Batch of Uneducated Poets: 218
• Literature considered as a Profession: 227
• Where is the Mob?: 233
• Sketches of the Scottish Bar No III Mr Forsythe: 244
• The French Ministry and the New Chamber: 254
• Song for Music: 264
• The Irish Yeomanry the Irish Members and Lord Grey: 297
• Coronation Lays Picked up in the crowd: 327
• The Fall of Warsaw and its effects upon England: 336
• Black Work: 344
• Switzerland in 1831: 351
• The Vendeans Son By the Author of The English in Italy: 377
• Address to the Public: 393
• Why may we blame the Bishops?: 402
• Conversations with an Ambitious Student in Ill Health: 409
• The World as it Is A Tale: 428
• Aristocracy in Religion: 437
• The Annuals for 1832: 455
• Discussion on the French Peerage: 462
• Cholera Morbus Disarmed: 468
• A Week at Derby during the Festival: 481
• The Times: 487
• Lord Brougham The Man of the Time: 507
• The Knowledge of the World in Men and Books By the Author: 523
• Government and Administration: 551
• No Article this Month: 603

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Bibliographic information

• Title: New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 32
• Editors: Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth
• Publisher: Henry Colburn, 1831
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Mar 1, 2007