THE

NATIONAL REVIEW.

VOL. V.

JULY AND OCTOBER 1857.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.

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THE NATIONAL REVIEW.

CONTENTS OF No. IX.- JULY 1857.

ART. I.-MR. LEVER'S NOVELS

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The Works of Charles Lever. Cheap Edition. London: Chap-

man and Hall.

1857.

The Fortunes of Glencore. By Charles Lever. London: Chapman

and Hall. 1857.

ART. II.—RECENT RESEARCHES IN CENTRAL AFRICA .

Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa, performed in the years

1850 and 1851. By the late James Richardson. 2 vols. 8vo.

London: Chapman and Hall. 1853.

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa; being a

Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the auspices of

H.B.M.'s Government in the years 1849-1855. By Henry Barth,

Ph. D., D.C.L. 5 vols. (Vols. I. to III. published) 8vo.

don: Longmans. 1857.

Lon-

An Account of the Progress of the Expedition to Central Africa,

performed by order of Her Majesty's Foreign Office, under

Messrs. Richardson, Barth, Overweg, and Vogel. in the years

1850, 1851, 1852, and 1853. By Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S.

Folio. London: Stanford. 1854.

Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes geographischer Anstalt über

wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der

Geographie. Von Dr. A. Petermann. 4to. Gotha (for 1855,

1856, and 1857).

Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries during Four Years'

Wanderings in the Wilds of South-Western Africa. By Ch. J.

Andersson. 8vo. London: Hurst and Blackett. 1856.

South Africa and its Explorer. By Th. Maclear, Astronomer Royal,

Capetown.

Inner Africa laid open. By W. Desborough Cooley, Esq. London:

Longmans. 1852.

ART. III.-LONDON STREET ARCHITECTURE

London in 1856. By Peter Cunningham.

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The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare unfolded. By Delia

Bacon. With a Preface by Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of the

"Scarlet Letter," &c. London: 1857. Groombridge and Sons.