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THE

NORTH AMERICAN

Willam Plumer'

REVIEW.

VOL. LI.

BOSTON:

FERDINAND ANDREWS, 4 WATER STREET.

1840.

CAMBRIDGE:

FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CVIII.

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I. COTTON MATHER

Life of Cotton Mather, by WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY. (SPARKS'S American Biography, Vol. VI.) II. BACHE'S REPORT ON EDUCATION

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Report, on Education in Europe, to the Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans. By ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE, LL. D.

III. HARRISON'S HISTORICAL DISCOURSE

A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio; to which are prefixed some Remarks on the Study of History. Prepared at the Request of the Historical Society of Ohio. By WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, of North Bend.

IV. GUIZOT'S WASHINGTON

1. Vie, Correspondance et Ecrits de Washington, publiés d'après l'Edition Américaine et précédés d'une Introduction sur l'Influence et le Caractère de Washington dans la Révolution des Etats Unis de l'Amérique ; par M. GUIZOT, Membre de l'Institut.

2. An Essay on the Character of Washington and his Influence in the Revolution of the United States of America. By M. Guizot.

V. ILLINOIS

A Gazetteer of Illinois, in Three Parts; containing a General View of the State, a General View of each County, and a Particular Description of each Town, Settlement, Stream, Prairie, Bottom, Bluff, &c., alphabetically arranged. By J. М. РЕСК, А. М.

VI. WILLIS'S DRAMAS

Two Ways of Dying for a Husband. 1. Dying to keep him, or Tortesa the Usurer. 2. Dying to lose him, or Bianca Visconti. By N. P. WILLIS, Esq.

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VII. COAST DEFENCE

Report of the Secretary of War, November 30th, 1839, accompanying the President's Message to Congress, December 2d, 1839. 26th Congress, 1st Session. Senate Documents, No. I. VIII. MORTON'S CRANIA AMERICANA

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Crania Americana; or a Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; to which is prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species. Illustrated with Seventy-eight Plates and a colored Map. By SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, M. D. IX. IRELAND

1. L'Irlande Sociale, Politique, et Religieuse, par GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT.

2. Rambles in the South of Ireland, during the Year 1838. BY LADY CHATTERTON.

X. ANTHON'S GREEK READER

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The Greek Reader, by FREDERIC JACOBS. A New Edition, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a Metrical Index to Homer and Anacreon, and a copious Lexicon. By CHARLES AnTHON, LL. D.

XI. CRITICAL NOTICES.

1. Everett's Memoir of John Lowell, Jun.
2. The Great Descender.

3. Rosanna, or Scenes in Boston

4. Sophocles's Greek Grammar

5. Tyson's Discourse on the Legal Character
6. Barnard's Report on Common Schools
7. Eulogies on President Kirkland

8. Upham's Elements of Mental Philosophy
9. Brooks on the Utility of Classical Studies
10. Packard's Memorabilia of Socrates

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12. Discourse of the Procureur Général of Aix
13. Hayward's Translation of Faust

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14. Warren's Rhinoplastic Operations

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NOTE TO ARTICLE VI. OF No. 107.

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QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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11. Greenwood's Sermon on the Death of John
Lowell

CONTENTS

OF

No. CIX.

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I. THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN ENGLAND

1. The Laws of William the Conqueror.
2. The Statutes of the Realm. Vols. I. and II.
3. The Reports of Savile, Rolle, Levinz, and
Others.

II. EGYPTIAN JURISPRUDENCE

1. BOECKH; Erklärung einer Aegyptischen Urkunde in Griechischer Cursivschrift vom Jahre 104 vor den Christlichen Zeitrechnung. (Explanation of an Egyptian Document in Greek Cursive Writing, of the Year 104 before the Christian Chronology. By Professor BOECKн.)

2. BUTTMANN; Erklärung der Griechischen. Beischrift auf einem Aegyptischen Papyrus aus der Minutoli'schen Sammlung. (Explanation of the Greek Marginal Writing upon an Egyptian Papyrus in Minutoli's Collection. By Professor BUTTMANN.)

III. STATE DEBTS

Observations on the Financial Position and Credit of such of the States of the North American Union as have contracted Public Debts; comprising an Account of the Manner in which the Sums raised by each State have been applied, and a Consideration of the Probable Effects of such Application upon the General Wealth and Prosperity of the Country. By ALEXANDER TROTTER.

IV. MANZONI

1. I Promessi Sposi. Storia Milanese del XVII. Secolo, scoperta e rifatta da ALESSANDRO MANZONI. 2. Sulla Storia Lombarda del XVII. Secolo Ragionamenti di CESARE CANTRI.

V. MRS. ADAMS'S LETTERS

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Letters of MRS. ADAMS, the Wife of John Adams.
With an Introductory Memoir, by her Grandson,
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

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