THE

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC

REPOSITORY,

AND

CRITICAL REVIEW.

VOL. III.

(Nos. 5 & 6.)

PUBLISHED QUARTERLY.

NEW-YORK:

WILEY AND HALSTED, AND C. S. VAN WINKLE.

1821.

OF

No. 5.

ORIGINAL.

ART. I. [The Whale Fisheries.] Account of the Arctic

Regions, with a history and description of the

Northern Whale Fishery. By W. Scoresby,

Jun. F. R. S. E.

Page.

ART. II. Specimens of Irish Eloquence, now first arrranged

and collected ; &c. By Charles Phillips, Esq. 23

ART. III. [Old Plays.] 1. The Playe called the Foure

P. P., a newe and a very merie interlude, of

a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Poticary, and a Ped-

lar.

2. A right pithy, pleasant, and merie Comedy,

entytuled Gammer Gurton's Nedle; &c. 1575.

3. A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse ; &c.

4. Andromana, or the Merchant's wife ; &c.

5. The Duchesse of Malfy, a Tragedy; &c.

by John Webster.

ART. IV. Remains of Sir Walter Ralegh.

42

58

ART. V. Biographical Sketch of the late Robert R. Liv-

ingston.

69

sioners, to the

ART. VI. [Ship Timber.] Report of the Navy Commis-

Dec. 1820.

Secretary of the Navy-9th

ART. VII. [Lord Byron.] 1. Marino Faliero, Doge of

Venice.

2. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem.

3. Letter to

on the Rev. W. L. Bowles'

strictures on the life and writings of Pope.

ART. VIII. Answer to the Queries of D. F. in our third

Number, addressed to the Reviewer of Wil-

kinson's Memoirs.

ART. IX. [Trade and Currency.]

1. Remarks on the

present state of Currency, Trade, Commerce

and National Industry; &c. By Oliver Wol-

cott, Governor of Connecticut.

74

91

106

2. Review of the Trade and Commerce of

New-York; &c.

3. Thoughts on Political Economy; &c. By

Daniel Raymond.

ART. 10. Hydro-Pneumatic Apparatus.

SELECT.

ART. I. King Coal's Levee, or Geological Etiquette ; &c.

with the Council of Metals; and Baron Ba-

salt's Tour.

2. Geological Primer in Verse; &c.

3. Court News, or the Peers of King Coal, &c.

(From the Monthly Review.)

ART. II. Anastasius; or Memoirs of a Greek, written in

the 18th century. (From the Edinb. Rev.)

ART. III. On Dancing. (From the New Monthly Mag.)

2. "Le Cavalier Seul." (From the same.)

ART. IV. The Poetry of the Troubadours. (From the

same.)

ART. V. Sunday. (From the same.)

ART. VI. [National Education.] 1. Foster on Popular

Ignorance. (From the Edinburgh Review.)

2. Observations on Mr. Brougham's Educa-

tion bills.

3. Letter to H. Brougham, M. P. &c. by S.

Butler, D. D.

4. Defence of the British and Foreign School

Society, against the remarks (in the preceding

article) of the Edinburgh Review.

5. Plain Thoughts on Mr. B.'s Education Bill.

6. An Appeal to the Legislature and the pub-

lic, more especially to Dissenters, against Mr.

B.'s Education Bill.

7. Christian Remembrancer, &c.

(From the Eclectic Review.)

138

157

158

159*

161

166

170

183

190

200

The same subject. (From the Monthly Rev.) 209

8. Inquiry into the Operation of Mr. B.'s Edu-

cation Bill, by a Non-conformist, &c. &c.

(From the Edinburgh Review.)

ART. VII. Foster on the Evils of Popular Ignorance.

214

(Extracts.)

221

ART. VIII. Messrs. Perkins and Fairman's inventions.

(From the Journal of Science, &c. London.)

238

List of Late Publications.

250

OF

No. 6.

ORIGINAL.

ART. I. [Botta's History.] Storia della guerra dell'Inde-

pendenza degli Stati Uniti D'America, scritta

da Carlo Botta.

ART. II. 1. Memoirs of the Board of Agriculture of the

State of New-York. (Published by authority.)

2. A Treatise on Agriculture; comprising a

concise History, &c. and the Theory and

Practice of Husbandry, which have arisen out

of the present state of philosophical attain-

ments in Europe. By a Practical Farmer.

ART. III. [The Stage.] Damon and Pythias, a Tragedy

in five acts. By Richard Shiel, Esq.

ART. IV. The Art of Cookery: in imitation of Horace's

Art of Poetry. With some Letters to Dr.

Lister and others, &c.

the Hon. Beef Steak Club. 1708.

Page.

255

292

332

Humbly inscribed to

345

ART. V. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British

Army at Washington, Baltimore and New-

Orleans, under Generals Ross, Pakenham,

and Lambert, &c. By an Officer who served

in the Expedition.

358

ART. VI. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. By

Lucy Aikin.

381

ART. VII. Dissertation on the Gipsies: representing their

manner of life, language, &c. &c. From the

German of Grellmann.

ART. VIIL [Schiller's Poems.] 1. Gedichte von Fre-

derick von Schiller. Zweyte Etui Ausgabe.

2. Poems and Translations from Schiller.

ART. IX. [Moral Poetry.] 1. The Pleasures of Religion,

a Poem.

2. The Pastor, a Poem.

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411

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