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THE
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
NEW YORK REVIEW.
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VOL. VII.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDER V. BLAKE,
54 GOLD STREET, CORNER OF FULTON.
1840. +?
ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, by
ALEXANDER V. BLAKE,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
235945
ROBERT CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER,
No. 112 FULTON-STREET.
ART.
I. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF Greece, and the De-
MOCRACY OF ATHENS
1. The Historical Antiquities of the Greeks, with
reference to their Political Institutions. By WIL-
LIAM WACHSMUTH. Translated from the German,
by EDMUND WOOLRYCH.
2. A Manual of the Political Antiquities of Greece,
historically considered; from the German of CHAS.
FREDERICK HERMANN.
II. THE COUNTRY AROUND ROME, ITS CLIMAte, Cul-
TURE, AND CONDITION.
1. Analisi-storico-Topografico-Antiquaria della car-
ta de' dintorni di Roma. Da ANTONIO NIBBI.
2. Tentamen Geographicum exhibens Latium ve-
tus et regiones conterminas Etruriæ, Sabinæ, Æquo-
rum, Volscorumque juxta faciem hodiernam, etc., etc.
A WILHELMO GELL et ANTONIO NIBBY.
III. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
1. On the Principles of English University Educa-
tion. By the Rev. WILLIAM WHEWELL, M. A.
2. Die Englischen Universitäten. Von V. A.
HUBER.
3. Die Preussischen Universitäten. Von JOHANN
FRIEDRICH WILHELM KOCH.
4. Wissenschaft und Universität, in ihrer Stellung
zu den praktischen Interessen der Gegenwart, von
Dr. CARL BIEDERMANN.
PAGE
1
86
109
IV. SIR WALTER SCOTT
137
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
By J. G. LOCKHART, Esq.
186
V. AMERICAN FINANCES AND CREDIT.
1. Observations on the Financial Position and
Credit of such of the States of the North American
Union, as have contracted Public Debts. By ALEX-
Ander Trotter, Esq.
2. Remarks on the Currency of the United States,
and present and future Prospects of the Country.
By PUBLIUS.
VI. THE SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST
Report of Mr. John Quincy Adams, from the se-
lect Committee appointed by the House of Repre-
sentatives on the subject.
209
DE TOCQUEVille.
VII. DE TOCQUEVILLE'S DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
Democracy in America. Part Second. By ALEXIS
Translated by HENRY REEVE,
233
Esq.
VIII. CRITICAL NOTICES.
1. Macaulay's Miscellaneous Essays
249
2. Love's Progress
250
3. Lossing's History of the Fine Arts
251
4. France; its King, Court, and Government
252
I. MILITIA OF THE UNITED STATES.
. . 277
1. Report of Mr. Keim, from the Committee on the
Militia.
2. Report of Mr. Triplett, from the minority of the
Committee on the Militia.
3. Letter of J. R. Poinsett, to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives
4. Senate Document, No. 531.
II. CAREY ON THE POPULATION AND CONDITION OF MAN-
KIND
Principles of Political Economy. Part the Third. Of
the causes which retard the Increase in the numbers
of Mankind. Part the Fourth. Of the causes which
retard Improvement in the Political Condition of
Mankind. By Henry Carey
306
III. CORRESPONdence of the EARL OF CHATHAM
330
Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham,
edited by the executors of his son, John, Earl of Chat-
ham, from the original MSS. in their possession.
IV. EARLY ENGLISH POETRY
1. Relics of Ancient English Poetry, consisting of
old Heroic Ballads, and other pieces of our earlier
Poets. By THOMAS PERCY, D. D.
2 Versuch einer geschichtlichen Charakteristik der
Volkslieder Germanischer Nationen. Von TALVJ.
V. THE INFANCY OF THE AMERICAN UNION
The Infancy of the Union, a Discourse delivered be-
fore the New York Historical Society, Thursday, De-
cember 19, 1839. By WILLIAM B. REED.
VI. COLERIDGE'S LITERARY REMAINS
1. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Cole-
ridge. Collected and Edited by HENRY NELSON
COLERIDGE, Esq.
2. The Scriptural Character of the English Church,
considered in a series of Sermons, with notes and il-
lustrations. By the Rev. Derwent Coleridge.
VII. CORNELIUS MATHEWS'S WRITINGS
1. The Motley Book, a series of Tales and Sketches
of American Life. By the Author of Behemoth.
2. The Politicians, a Comedy, in five Acts. By
CORNELIUS MATHEWS, Esq.
366
378
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430