LIFE AND LETTERS

OF

THOMAS CAMPBELL.

EDITED BY

WILLIAM BEATTIE, M.D.,

ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

82 CLIFF STREET.

1850. S

YORK

CONTENTS TO VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

Visit to Brighton-Letters and Diary-Letters from Brighton-Siddons

-Herschel-Conversation with Herschel-Return Home-Letter to

a Friend-Public Affairs-Alison-Richard Heber-De Staël-Mo-

reau-British Loom-Lawrence's Portrait..

CHAPTER II.

Page 9-20

Visit to France-Halt at Dieppe-Anecdotes-Visit to Rouen-Journey

to Paris-Paris and the Louvre-The Apollo-Schlegel-Humboldt

-Denon-Catacombs-Siddons-Kemble-Versailles-Nôtre Dame

-Jardin des Plantes-Adventure-Public Feeling-Old Emigrés-

Louvre - Pantheon - Versailles - Paintings — French and Dutch

Schools Recollections of Paris

CHAPTER III.

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21-41

Return Home-Dangerous Passage-Unknown Correspondent-God-

win-Epitaphs-The Gravestone-Letter to Mr. Alison-Improved

Fortune-Death of Macarthur Stewart-Legacy-Visit to Edinburgh

-Old Friends-Dugald Stewart-Kinniel-Glasgow-Major Hodge

-British Grenadiers-Letter from Matthias-Old Poets-Original

Irish-bull Story-Mrs. Allsop-Rehearsal at Covent Garden-How

to pay the National Debt-Campbell-Stewart-Lord Holland-

Letter to Lord Byron-Letter to Mrs. Fletcher-Convict Poet-

Richard Heber-Troubadour Song....
42-67

CHAPTER IV.

Lectures and Specimens-Visit from Mrs. Siddons-His Son-Visit to
Hampstead-The Hills-Rabaut-Story of the Rabauts-Pastor and
Historian-French Protestants-Scottish Covenanters-Letter from
Sir Walter Scott-Letter to his Sister-Original Lines-Selections
-Lectures - Letter to Mr. Murray-Letter-Calumet of Peace-
"Gertrude❞—Norton - Fastidious Taste - Reminiscences Scott,
Irving, Horner-Monody on Horner-The Poet Crabbe-Letter to
Crabbe-Kemble Festival-Convivium Poeticum-Monody on the
Princess Charlotte-Correspondence with Roscoe-Lectures in the