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Abercrombie, Mr, 109.
Academy of Natural Sciences at Phila delphia, its usefulness, 196.
Adams, John Turvil, notice of his poems,
Address to the members of the Suffolk bar, by William Sullivan, reviewed, 252; history of the law in Massachu- setts, ib.; first lawyer, 253; judges in Rhode Island, ib.; groundless prejudice against chancery jurisdiction, 254; commissioners for a compilation from the Plymouth records, ib.; protest of Governors Endicott and Dudley, 255; refinement of our forefathers, 255. Address pronounced at the opening of the New York Atheneum, by Henry Wheaton,noticed,267; embarrassments of our colonial condition, ib.; want of a peculiar language, ib.; resemblance to Professor Everett's Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 268. Address delivered at Bunker Hill, by Daniel Webster, reviewed, 327; occa- sion of it, ib. ; circumstances and au- dience, 328; preparations, 329; ac- count of the proceedings, 330; analy- sis of the address, 332; Mr Webster's style, 336 reasons why no more strik- ing effects were produced, 338. Adsonville, or Marrying Out, notice of, 113; its indifferent character, 114. Africa, Western, British policy in, 147. Agency, supernatural opinions concern- ing, 100, 407 et seqq.
Album, The, reviewed, 58; contents of, 59; Lines to a Lady, the only remark- able original poetry in, ib.; reprints the poetry of the U. S. Literary Ga- zette, 60.
Alexander, Archibald, his Outlines of the Evidences of the Christian Religion, noticed, 395.
Allbright, Mr, his character, 141. American Entomology, 236; Medical Botany, Dr Bigelow's, 317; Minerals, a catalogue of, noticed and recommend- ed, 193; works, published during April, May, and June, 1825, 275. Ancient chronicles of the north, intend-
ed publication of, 197; well at Athens, discovery of, 198.
Apocalypse, Smyth's explanation of, notic- ed, 76; the solution of an enigma, ib. Arabian Nights' Entertainments, new volumes of, 396.
Athens, ancient well at, 198; A Few Days in, noticed, 34; its indifferent character, ib.
Autobiography, objections against, 83; exception in the case of kings and queens, 84,
Bachelor, his birth and education, 139; habits, ib.; associates, 141; character of Mr Allbright, ib.
Bacon, John, his Town Officer's Guide,
Baltic, gradual subsidence of, 235. Barlow, Mr, see Fluid and Magnetism. Barry, see Burke.
Barton, Bernard, his poems, 315. Bat, discovery of a Fossil, 77; very per- fect, ib.; an era in the history of or- ganic remains, ib.
Bentham, Mr, his offer of codifying the Greek law, 44. Bembo, Pietro, 258.
Bible, Harris' Natural History of, re- printed and favourably reviewed in London, 116.
Bigelow, Dr, his American Medical Bot any, 317.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 113. Boaden, James, his memoirs of Kemble, 195, 265.
Bonaparte, Lucien, his speech to the chamber of representatives after the defeat at Waterloo, 13.
Botany, the study of, 103; its rank among sciences, 104; advantages and pleas- ures of, 105 et seqq. Bouilly, J. N. see Mothers. Bradford, see Massachusetts. Brainard, John G. C., his occasional pieces of poetry, 167.
Brougham, Mr, 109; his pamphlet on the education of the people, 150. Bronsted, Dr P. O., his travels in Greece, 237.
Buchner, M. see Light. Bunker Hill. account of the battle of, noticed, 274; Mr Webster's address at, 327.
Burke, his life and character, by Prior, 47; remarkable features of his age, ib.; Goldsmith and Johnson his contempo raries, 48; obstacles to distinction encountered by, 50; his origin and character, ib.; his views of the Ameri- can and French resolutions, 52, 53; his rupture with Fox, 53; private his- tory of, 55; his friendship with Barry, 56 his affection for his son, 57; lite- rary execution of the work, ib. Byron, lord, anecdotes of, 45; his gene- rosity and influence in Greece, and importance in that country, ib; new work relating to, 274; his correspon- dence noticed, 192; an example of book-making, ib.; character of the let- ters, ib. et seqq.
Campbell, Mr, Edinburgh reviewer's opin- ion of his last poem, 145. Canal between the Delaware, Rariton,
and Barnstaple rivers, 277, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, practi- cability of, 356. Canning, Mr. 109.
Cartoons of Raffaelle, 307. Chalmers, Dr. 224.
Champollion, M., his researches in Na- ples, 316.
Chapel in Whitehall palace, description of, 66.
Chapin, Dr Stephen, his lecture on the Triumphs of Intellect, 152. Charles Augustus, see Gothe. Children, in Massachusetts, 35. Christian religion, outline of the eviden- ces of, noticed, 395; Indian, an Ameri- can novel, noticed, 394. Chronometer, Widenham's, prize obtain- ed by, 316.
Coal, Lehigh, where obtained, 36. Coke, Lord, his opinion of abridgments,
Coleridge, Mr J. editor of the Quarterly Review, 189.
Colonies, British West India, slavery in,
Crystallization, see Light. Constitution of the United States of A- merica, view of by Rawle, reviewed and recommended, 321; principles of constitutions, 322; constructive pow- ers, 323; inconsistency of their oppo- sers, 325; Mr Rawle's book preferred to the Federalist, as a text-book, 325; Massachusetts militia question, 326.
Economy, Political, Outlines of, repub- lished from the Supplement to the En- cyclopedia Britannica, 449: its impor- tance, ib. value of Professsor M'Vick. ar's Notes, 450: low state of the sci ence in the United States, ib.: doc- trines of rent and wages not so import- ant in this country as those relating to free trade 451 objectionable style of printing, 452.
Elephant, discovery of a fossil, 436. English Life, or Manners at Home, notic- ed, 314; contents, and dullness, ib. Engraving, Mr Williamson's minute,
Entomology, American, by Say, 236. Everett, Edward, his cration at Concord, 293.
Fauna Americana, by Dr Richard Har- lan, noticed and commended, 464. Faux, William, his Memorable Days, 16. Fellenberg school, 276; described by Griscom, 132. Filicaja, Vincenzo da, 381. Flood, N. American tradition of the, 435. Fluid, electric, diminution of its intensi- ty by distance, 77.
Fox, his address to Burke, 54; his char- acter, 53.
Frederick de Algeroy, an American nov- el, noticed, 395.
Frescoes, discovery of in Pompeii, 316. Funeral, the Soldier's, 466.
Garnett, James M., his Lectures on Fe- male Education, 269. Geology, Lectures on, by Jer. Van Rens- selaer, reviewed, 287; advantages of popular lectures, ib; objects of geolo- gy, 288; analysis of the lectures, 289. Genlis, Madame de, her memoirs review. ed, 367; their character, ib.; extracts
from, ib. et seqq.; her New Moral Tales, noticed, 374. Glasgow, a residence in, 222; arrival in Scotland, ib.; appearance of Glasgow, 223; account of Dr Chalmers' preach- ing, 224; character of his eloquence, 225; Mr Irvine's discourse, 256; cha- racter of Dr Chalmers, 257; of Mr Ir- vine ib.
Goldsmith, see Burke.
Goslington Shadow, a romance of the nineteenth century, reviewed and com- mended, 161; probably written by a Scotchman, ib.; analysis of the story, 162; its desultory character, ib. et seqq. Gothe, memoirs of, 81; translated from the German, ib.; effect of the severity of the Edinburgh Review, 82; his birth and early life, 84; account of his own productions, 85; his Sorrows of Werter taken from real life, 86; Char- lotte living at Hanover a few years since, 88; his fine appearance, 89; visited by Charles Augustus, ib.; vis- its Italy, ib.; receives the cross of the legion of honour, and of St Alexander Newsky, ib.; extent and variety of his talents, 90.
Gow, Niel, his Treatise on the Law of Partnership, 194.
Grammar, Spanish, by Mariano Cubi y Soler, noticed, 35.
Grammar of the New Testament, Wi- ner's, translated by Professor Stuart, noticed, 72.
Grattan, Mr, supposed author of High- ways and By-ways, 121.
Grecian Wreath of Victory, noticed,
270; occasion and contents of the work, 271.
Greece, temporary popularity of her cause in America, 2; its importance, ib.; circumstances favourable to the establishment of a republican govern- ment, 3. 4; probable commercial ad- vantages to America, 6, 7; other rea- sons why we should take an interest in her cause, 8; its connexion with the interests of christianity, 41; needs re- ligious aid, 43; Stanhope's Letters on, 43; loan to, 44.
Greenleaf, Simon, his reports of cases in Maine, 463.
Griscom, John, his Year in Europe, 130. Guidiccioni, Giovanni, 260.
Hadad, by James A. Hillhouse, 96; beau- ty of the poem, ib.; analysis of the story, 97 et seqq.; opinions concerning supernatural agency, 100.
Hamlet, various readings of, 153 et seqq. Hampton churchyard and court, 307.
Harris, Dr William, his account of a new quadruped, 277.
Harvard University, reform in, 209; ori- gin of the proceedings, 210; organiza- tion of the government, 211; applica- tion to the board of overseers, 212; ap- pointment of a committee, 213; singu- lar report, 215; objections to it, 216 et seqq.; consideration of it by the overseers, 217; appointment of a sec- ond committee, ib.; their satisfactory report, 247; expense of board in the college compared with that at other colleges, 249; of instruction, compared with the same in others, 250; income and expenditure, ib. et seqq.; insuffi- ciency of foundations, 281; high rate of salaries, 282; objections against re- duction, 284; proposed retrenchments, ' 286; non-residents, 339; Smith pro- fessor, ib.; medical professors, 340; tutors, 341; other necessary expenses, 342; speech of Mr Pickering, 343; the speech considered, 375; his opin- ion respecting the tutors commended, ib.; objections to it, ib.; inconveni- ence of government meetings, 377; dubious character of the proposed amendment, ib. ; amount of labour per- formed by officers at present not suffi- cient, 378; system of departments ob- jectionable, ib.; expedience of short- ening the vacations, 379; inspection of rooms objectionable, ib.: general re- marks on discipline, 380; objections against the military company, 381: ob- jections to music, 412: examinations, 413 practice at the English colleges, ib. punishments by fines and tasks, 414: seclusion of the college, 415: practice of living out objectionable, ib. : Mr Pickering's opinion of the advanta- ges of classical learning, 441: Profes- sor Frisbie's opinion, 442: the study of Latin synonymous with the study of universal grammar, 443: a taste for the classics a luxury, not a necessary, 445: Mr Pickering's reasons for sup- posing that the classics are not suffi- ciently studied at Cambridge not con- vincing, 446 et seqq. Savilian profes- sorship at Oxford, 448: anecdote of Mr Pinkney, ib. : result of the proceed- ings, ib.
Hayti, present state of, 149; statistic's of, 198.
Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, a tale, reviewed, 416: object and conduct of the work, ib.: valuable as presenting a view of Judaism, 417: account of the story, and extracts, ib. et seqq. de- fects, 422.
High-Ways and By-Ways, or Tales of the Road-side, reviewed, 121; Mr Grattan, the supposed author, ib.; imi- tates Mr Irving, 122; contents, 123; Caribert the Bear-Hunter, 124; The Priest and the Gard-du-Corps, 125; The Vouée au Blanc, 128. Hillhouse, see Hadad. Hofland, Mrs, 271.
House of Commons, English, account of, 109; Mr Peel, Mr Abercrombie, Mr Brougham, Mr Canning, descriptions of, 109; importance of the art of re- porting, 110.
Hunt, William Gibbs, his oration at Nash- ville, noticed, 352.
Lafayette, memoirs of by Mr Ticknor, 9 ; its interesting nature, ib.; sensation produced by his arrival in America, 10; his motives and conduct in the French revolution, ib.; anecdote of his behaviour at Versailles, 11; attempt to rescue him from the castle of Ol- mutz, 12: offers resolutions on the oc- casion of Bonaparte's defeat at Water- loo, ib; his reception on his late visit to America, 13, 14.
Landon, Miss, notice of her poems, 465. Lectures on Female Education, by James
M. Garnett, noticed, 269; importance of the subject, ib.; indifferent execu- tion of the work, ib.; instances of its coarseness, 270;-Van Rensselaer's, on Geology, 287.
Lehigh river and coal mine, 36; curious construction of locks, 36, 37.
Lessing, new edition of his works, 355.
Hydrostatics, application of a principle Light, M. Buchner's experiment con-
in, to canal locks, 157.
Hyrst, Molsey, 303.
cerning its production by crystalliza- tion, 76.
Lincoln, Lionel, opinion of it in Black- wood's Edinburgh Magazine, 467.
Improvisatrice, and other poems by L. Lines, to a Lady, see Album, Washing-
E. L. noticed, 465.
Inginac, General, his letter, 149. Institution, the Royal, 316.
Ireland, her state and prospects, 147. Irvine, Mr, 256.
Irving, Washington, complimentary no- tice of, in the Quarterly Review, 191.
John Bull in America, reviewed, 15: the author's arrival at Washington, ib.; supposed to be one of the writers in the Quarterly Review, 16; opinions con- cerning America, 17; his account of slavery in Boston, ib.; his travels in New England, 19; attempt to rob him, 21; his account of the Indian summer, 22; advice to the author, 23, 24; reprinted in London, 276. Johnson, see Burke. Journal of a traveller in England, leaves from, 66, 179; Hyde-Park, ib.; statue in honour of Wellington, 179; Ken- sington Gardens, 180; Chelsea Hospi- tal, 181; account of Molsey Hyrst, of a female cricket match, of a boxing match, ib.; cause of the English fond- ness for these exhibitions, 305; Hamp- ton church-yard and court, 307; car- toons of Raffaelle, ib.
Kemble, Philip, his memoirs by Boaden, noticed and condemned, 195.
ton Allston's, 60; Brainard's, to the Dead, 169.
Lives of the Novelists, reviewed, 406; proofs that Scott is the author of Wa- verley, 407 doctrines concerning su- pernatural agency, ib. et seqq.: effects of novels, 411: mechanical execution of the work, 412.
Livingston, Edward, his penal code of Louisiana, 196.
Loans, English, their importance and in- fluence in the world, 45. Locks, canal, explanation of the pressure upon in certain circumstances, 157. Louisiana, penal code of, commended in the Westminster Review, 196. Love-quarrels. the pleasure of, 317. Lyceum, see Utica, see Gardiner; ac- count of the Gardiner, 361; its origin, ib.; progress, 362; advantages, 363; and usefulness, 367.
M'Adam, Mr, his improved system of road-making, 300.
M' Vickar, John, his republication of Mr
M'Culloch's article on political econo- my, reviewed and commended, 449. Madrid, description of. 424; palace roy- al, palace of the Retiro, equestrian statue of Philip IV, museum of the Pra- do, 425; public hospitals, 426; chapel of the convent of Las Salesas, 427: royal academies, 452: public libraries, school for the deaf and dumb, theatres,
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