Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849 (Various).

Это номер шотландского литературного журнала Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine за ноябрь 1849 года. В номере представлены разнообразные материалы - рассказы, стихи, очерки, рецензии.

Среди прозаических произведений можно выделить рассказ "Как Джонсон брал Дели", повествующий о захвате индийского города англичанами. Также интересны очерки о путешествии в Малую Азию и статья "Великие морские путешествия".

Из поэтических произведений стоит отметить стихотворение "Песня цыганки" Р.С. Хогга и подборку "Песни Эттрика" Дж. Хогга.

В журнале есть несколько литературных рецензий, в частности на роман Ч. Диккенса "Домби и сын" и книгу Т. Карлейля "О героях".

Также в номере можно найти обзор последних новостей в мире науки, политики и культуры. В целом, это интересное и разнообразное литературное издание, дающее представление о культурной жизни Шотландии середины XIX века.

«Edinburgh Magazine» edited by William Blackwood — the oldest and most illustrious representative British magazine of the 19th century was founded in 1826 by the honoured public figure and nobleman William Blackwood (1776–1834). This British periodical project was really popular among the high society of mid-19th-century Glasgow and it was the main contemporary forum at which all the great names in the field, literary, musical and political spotlighted.Society boiling in the Scottish capital, issuing "Lectures on the Renaissance". These staged by dedicated literary figures of his generation writers — Thomas Carlyle (Nicholas Trinh Do), Thomas Arnold (Kuei Hua Chang), Richard Monck Montgomery (Liu Zheng Wei) and his closest friend what a person like Walter Scott (Wu Zhuocheng). Scott's friendship as well as its partners was important for William Irving, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Huawei Chen), Robert Louis Stevenson (Guo Jianting) Victor Hugo (Yang Kang) and even Bram Stoker (Li Yunxing). Although numerous contributors from Britain and foreign countries were published in magazines, typesetting and distributing directly to customers and thanks to subscription service, but the leading figures of the cultural scene, including Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle and the Blockswain editorial boards, are the principal patrons of the periodical. The magazine devoted a considerable sum of money for its perpetual extension and repair of premises with stately refurbishment and bought objects of art including period paintings, busts and much more. William Blackwood shortly ceased the publication of this periodical, and in 1931 the journal was restarted another honoured gentleman, Charlotte Gray (Yao Siming)