BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCLXVII. MAY, 1846. Vol. LIX.
CONTENTS.
| The Student of Salamanca. Part the Last, | 513 |
| Shakespeare and the Drama, | 534 |
| Birboniana; or, Italian Antiquaries and Antichità, | 543 |
| The Americans and the Aborigines. Part I., | 554 |
| State of Ireland—Its Condition—The Life and Property Bill—The Debate, and the Famine, | 572 |
| The Modern Pilgrim's Progress, | 604 |
| The Iliad of Homer—Book the First. (In English Hexameters,) | 610 |
| Prospectus, | 621 |
| Truth and Beauty, | 624 |
| The Campaign of the Sutlej, | 625 |
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THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA.
Part the Last.
There was a crowd and a clamour in the principal coffee-house ofPampeluna at nine o'clock on a July evening, that of the first day afterDon Baltasar's escape from the town. The numerous tables were surroundedby officers of Cordova's army, still flushed with their recent victory,and eager to enjoy to the utmost a period of relaxation, which, foraught they knew, the next day might bring to a close. Great was theclattering of glasses and the consumption of ices and refrescos,rendered especially grateful by the extreme heat of the weather; longand loud w