THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. LXXXIX.

PUBLISHED IN

JUNE & SEPTEMBER, 1851.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1851.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS,

Stamford-street.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXXVII,

ART.

I.-1. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London.

2. The Cottager's Calendar of Garden Operations. By

Joseph Paxton.

3. The Gardener's Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette.

4. The Cottage Gardener.

5. The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, Esq.

6. Phytologia; or the Philosophy of Agriculture and

Gardening. By Erasmus Darwin, M.Ď.

7. An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical

Botany. By Sir James Edward Smith.

8. An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany.

By John Lindley

II.—1. The History of the Reformation in Scotland by John

Knox. Edited by David Laing.

2. Origines Parochiales Scotiæ; the Antiquities, Eccle-

siastical and Territorial, of the Parishes of Scotland.

Edited by Cosmo Innes, Esq.

3. Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peer-

ages; with an Exposition of our Genuine Original

Consistorial Law. By John Riddell, Esq.

III.-1. Notes on North America. By James F. W. Johnston,

M.A.

2. Lettres sur l'Amérique. Par X. Marmier.

3. Travels in America. A Lecture delivered by the Farl

of Carlisle before the Leeds Mechanics' Institution.

4. A Glimpse of the Great Western Republic. By

Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Cunynghame

IV.-Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino; illustrating the Arms,

Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630. By

James Dennistoun, of Dennistoun

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V. The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford,

and the Rev. William Mason. Edited by the Rev.

J. Mitford

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