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Allen, Paul, edition of Lewis and Clark's expedition by, 96, 97. Allin, John, of Dedham, 168.
"Animadversions" by, 169, note. Allston, exhibition of pictures by, 358-rank of, among artists, ib. 380 first pictures by, 361 in England, ib., 364-reception of, by West, 363. comic pieces, 364 faults avoided by, 366 Paris, 367-in Rome, 368 -- in- timacy of, with Coleridge, ib. paints The Dead Man revived by touching Elisha's Bones, 369, 370, 373 The Angel liberating St. Peter from Prison, 371-Jacob's Dream, 372 Elijah in the Des- ert, ib. Uriel in the Sun, 373 — - Jeremiah dictating his Prophe- cy to Baruch, ib. remarks on his historical pictures, 374 — Bel- shazzar's Feast, ib. his Miriam, 375 Witch of Endor, 376 Donna Mencia in the Robber's Cavern, ib. - Beatrice and other heads, 377 his landscapes, 379. America, want of national music in,
rospects for the growth of it in, ib.-Italian opera in, 15-17- Academy of Music in Boston, 17.
American Fur Company, 115. American Revolution, Botta's, 315- sold for wastepaper, 317.
Amherst College, Barnard's Address at, noticed, 533, 534. Analyst, The, noticed, 531. Andros, Sir Edmund, tyranny of, over the Plymouth colony, 354. Anglo-Saxon, remains of, in the English language, 148, 268- In- troduction to the, 530.
Anne, Queen, literary taste in the time of, 201. Annualette, 537.
Antisthenes, on beauty, 478. Arabian literature and poetry, 67, 68, 74 Nights' Entertainments,
Arctic Sea, voyages to the, 86, 90. Ariosto, last of the trouvères, 72. Aristotle, on Greek poetry, 472. Armada, defeat of the, 185. Arnold's Thucydides, 466. Art, Greek philosophy of, 473. Ashley, General, revives the expe- ditions beyond the Rocky Moun- tains, 114. Assistants in Plymouth Colony, 344, 345, 348-fine for their not ac- cepting the office, 352.
Astor, John Jacob, project by, on Co- lumbia River, 106, 113, 136. See Astoria.
Astoria, 106- the fate of, 108, 136. See Oregon.
Athelstan, anecdote as to, 489. Athens, Bulwer's History of, 465. Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, on com- munications between the, 88, 91. Attila, invaded Italy, 45, 46, note. Audubon, John James, Ornithologi- cal Biography, Vol. V., by, review- ed, 381, 392 his agreement with Macgillivray, 384- his episodes, ib.—his publication of his Illus- trations, 385 his third volume, 386 on the sun-perch, ib. — his fourth volume, ib. - his excur- sion to Texas, ib. publishes Townsend's collection, 387-on the ruff-necked humming-bird, ib. -on swallows, 388 — the closing volume of his Biography, ib. advice by, 390-in the Highlands of Scotland, ib. — at the Trosachs, 392 his portrait of Bewick, ib. -troopials described by, 393 - finches, ib. - on hawks, 394, 400 -on the flight of birds, 394 -on blue-birds, 396-on warblers, ib. - birds named from, 397, 398- on woodpeckers, 398 on fly- catchers, 400- -on owls, ib. -on the migration of birds, 401 -on the plumage in birds of different ages, 402 on terns, ib. re- marks respecting him, 403. Austin, James Trecothick, Address by, before the Mechanic Associa- tion, 223-its character, 230.
Beaumont, Sir George, on West, 363.
Beauty, according to the Cynics,
Beaver, The, at Astoria, 108. Beccaria, Madama, 315. Behaviour. See Chesterfield. Benevolence, Chesterfield's, 429, 430. Bentley, remarks on, 465. Bewick, Audubon's portrait of, 392. Bird, William, musical canon by, 12. Birds, American, undescribed, 389
flight of, 394 migration of, 388, 401-plumage of, at differ- ent ages, 402. See Audubon and Macgillivray.
Black, Captain, at Astoria, 109. Blind, Eighth Annual Report of the
Trustees of the Perkins Institu- tion and Massachusetts Asylum for the, 520-education there,
Botta, Carlo, Storia d' Italia di, re- viewed, 301 birth and birth- place of, 309 at Turin, 310 - a medical student and botanist, ib. 311 his study of the Italian classics, 310 his reading, ib. - imprisoned, ib. origin of his passion for history, 312-released, ib.. - his accuser, ib., 314 — re- tires to France, 312- - a physician in the army, ib., 314 revisits Piedmont, 313-his plan for the government of Lombardy, ib. - goes to the Venetian Islands, ib.
- his History of Corfu, ib. · iled, 314 - meets Monti, ib. in power in Piedmont, ib. dote respecting, ib. sent to France, ib.-his Précis Historique de la Maison de Savoie et du Pied- mont, 315- honors of, ib. - his History of the American Revo- lution, ib, 317 of Italy, 316, 317 poverty and affliction of,
sells his American Revolu- tion for waste paper, ib. - writes for subsistence, ib., 318 second History of Italy, ib.-in- terviews with, in Paris, ib. sonal appearance of, ib. visit to Piedmont, 319- last days of, ib. - buried in Père la Chaise, ib.-style of, 320. Botta, Ignatius, 309. Bradford, Governor, 356. Bradford, T. G., his Translation of
Chevalier's Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States, 299. Brewer, Thomas, 389, 397, 403 Brewster, Elder, services of, 356. Bridgman, Laura, deaf, dumb, and blind, 522.
British Birds. See Macgillivray. British possessions in North Ameri- ca, prior to 1763, 76. Brougham, Lord, on Fossil Osteolo- gy, 513.
Buel, Judge, The Farmer's Com- panion by, noticed, 534. Bulwer, on Chesterfield, 429 - his History of Athens, 465- school of, 493- Thoughts on the writ- ings of, 532.
Burns, Robert, Cotter's Saturday Night of, 205 freedom of, from the influences of his age, 488. Bursting of boilers, 26.
Byron, Lord, and Scott, compared, 494-
his poetry, 495 - his wan- derings, ib.—on Campbell, 496.
Caffè, principles of the authors of the, 304, 307.
Cambreleng, Churchill C., on the Hudson's Bay Company, 133. Campbell, Thomas, The Poetical Works of, reviewed, 488, 496. Canada, ceded to Great Britain, 77. Capital crimes in the New Plymouth Colony, 343, 350.
Carver grant, explained, 81. Catalonia. See Frovence. Centennial anniversaries, 162. Cesari, Antonio, 305.
Chamberry, Botta and Monti at, 306, 314.
Charlemagne's conquest of Italy, 48. Charles I, as a protector of liberty, 443, 446.
Charter for New Plymouth, 342, 355. Chaucer, cited, 506.
Cheever, Ezekiel, notice of, 172. Chemistry, Turner's, noticed, 516. Chesterfield, Lord, Works of, re- viewed, 404. the distinctions of, ib. - as a literary man, 405, 406, 415- his last years, 406, 412, 416
his Correspondence, 406- his Letters to his Son, ib., 414, 417, 424, 428-his authority in man- ners, 407-his public life, ib. — in the House of Commons, ib., 409 — his embarrassment on first going into company, 408- in the House of Peers, 409 — -a Whig, ib. cause of his popularity and suc- cess, 410 his resignation, 411 – his private life, 412-Johnson of- fended with, ib. literature of his time, 414- his mind in re- tirement, and his estimate of him- self, 415-corresponds with the Bishop of Waterford, 416- his fondness for his son, 417 his plan of education, 417, 420 — the motive for it, 426 - Cowper cited respecting, 428- Bulwer on, 429 - citations from, ib. Chevalier, Michael, Society, Man- ners, and Politics in the United States by, 299.
Chitty, Joseph, Jun., Precedents in Pleading by, 528.
Christ healing the Sick, 366. Christianity in Italy in the Middle Ages, 58.
Church of Rome, influence of, on music, 7-on Italy, 59. Cicero's Tusculan Questions, 283.
Clergy, on the support of the, in the Plymouth Colony, 352. Climate, influence of, on music, 3, 14. Coleridge, intimacy of Allston with, 368.
Colletta, Pietro, History of Naples by, 323.
Columbia or Oregon River, 79
Mackenzie in error as to the, 87, 90-expedition to, by Lewis and Clark, 98. See Oregon. Columbus, Irving's, reviewed, 505, Biography of, noticed, 535.
Colville, Fort, 118, 140. Common Law of England, adoption of the, in New Plymouth, 348, 349. Company, Chesterfield's embarrass- ment on first going into, 408. Conant, T. J., his translation of Ge- senius's Hebrew Grammar, 263. Condillac, efforts to overthrow the school of, 326.
Connecticut Colony, union of the New Haven with the, 168. Corfu, Botta's History of, 313. Cortez, Life of, noticed, 536. County Courts in Plymouth, 348. Coureurs des bois, 85.
Cowper, on Chesterfield, 428-un- influenced by his times, 488, 489. Cox, Ross, adventures by, 109. Credits, remarks on, 527.
Criminal law of Plymouth Colony,
Critics, two classes of, on paintings, 359 American, 360. Crito, writings by, 479. Cromwell, Oliver, proposition of, to the New Haven Colony, 167. Crooks, Ramsay, 115.
Crusades, effects of the, on social life, 60.
Currency, Felt's Massachusetts, 526. Cushman, Elder, cited, 449.
Cynic philosophers, on beauty, 478. D.
Dante Alighieri, 75. Davenant, Sir John, 8.
Davenport, John, at New Haven, 164 facts respecting, 166-be- friends the regicides, 167 — value of, to New Haven Colony, ib. — part taken by, in the religious con- troversy, 168-his removal to Boston, 169 death of, 170-his efforts to found a college, ib. Davidson College, Address at, 533. Day, author of Sanford and Merton, facts respecting, 425.
Dayrolles, Chesterfield's letters to, 405, 411, 416.
Deception, anecdotes respecting, 427,
Democratic government of Plymouth, 341.
Democritus, musical works by, 474. Deputies, in the Plymouth Colony, 345, 346.
Developement, national, 302. Doctor, origin of the title, 67. Donna Mencia, 376.
Doria, Andrea, dissertation on, 308. Douglas, David, expeditions by, 127. Drama, origin of spiritual, 6. Dryden, on Spenser, 201. Duellists, first in New England, 348. Duncan, Henry, Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons by, 505, 14. Dynamometer, Batchelder's, 227.
Eaton, Theophilus, settler of New Haven, 164, 165-facts respect- ing, 171.
Eclectics, positive and negative, 326. Edgecombe, Earl of Mount, on glees, 12.
Edgeworth, Mr., cited respecting Day, 425.
Education, Hillhouse on, for men of leisure, 259 Chesterfield's plan of, 417, 420-present systems of, 506 Massachusetts Board of, 511 Addresses on, noticed, 533. Eells, Samuel, Oration by, 533. Eleusinian mysteries, 482. Elizabeth, Queen, remarks on, and on the age of, 175- her idea of prerogative, ib. - her fondness for admiration as a woman, 176 - her her tyranny considered, 177 identification with the nation, 178 - loyalty to, 179-wits of her age, ib.tyranny of the time of, 180
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