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CONTENTS

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No. CII.

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I. MICALI ON THE ANCIENT ITALIANS

1. Storia degli Antichi Popoli Italiani. Di GIU-

SEPPE MICALI.

2. Monumenti per servire alla Storia degli Anti-

chi Popoli Italiani, raccolti, esposti e publicati da

GIUSEPPE MICALI.

II. EARLY FRENCH TRAVELLERS IN THE WEST

The Life of Father Marquette. By JARED

SPARKS.

III. NAUTICAL DISCOVERY IN THE NORTHWEST

Coleccion de los Viages y Descubrimientos, que

hicieron por Mar los Españoles desde fines de Siglo

XV., con varios Documentos inéditos concernientes

á la Historia de la Marina Castellana y de los Es-

tablecimientos Españoles en Indias, coordinada é

ilustrada por Don MARTIN FERNANDEZ DE NAVAR-

RETE.

IV. BOWDITCH'S TRANSLATION OF THE MÉCANIQUE CÉ-

LESTE

1-4. Traité de Mécanique Céleste. Par P. S.

LA PLACE, Membre de l'Institut National de France

et du Bureau des Longitudes.

5. Mécanique Céleste. By the MARQUIS DE

LA PLACE. Translated, with a Commentary, by.

NATHANIEL BOWDITCH.

6. A Discourse on the Life and Character of the

Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., F. R. S., de-

livered in the Church on Church Green, March

25th, 1838. By ALEXANDER YOUNG.

7. An Eulogy on the Life and Character of

Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., F. R. S., delivered at

the Request of the Corporation of the City of

Salem, May 24th, 1838. By DANIEL APPLETON

WHITE.

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63

109

143

8. Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D.,

President of the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences; including an Analysis of his Scientific

Publications. Delivered before the Academy, May

29th, 1838. By JOHN PICKERING.

V. STEPHENS'S TRAVELS IN THE EAST.

Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa,

and the Holy Land. By GEORGE Stephens.

VI. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT

Remarks on Literary Property. By PHILIP H.

NICKLIN.

181

257

VII. DU PONCEAU ON THE CHINESE SYSTEM OF WRiting 271

A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of

the Chinese System of Writing; in a Letter to

John Vaughan, Esq. By PETER S. DU PONCEAU,

LL. D. To which are subjoined a Vocabulary of

the Cochinchinese Language, by Father JOSEPH

MORRONE, R. C. Missionary at Saigon; with Re-

ferences to Plates containing the Characters belong-

ing to each Word, and with Notes showing the

Degree of Affinity existing between the Chinese and

Cochinchinese Languages, and the Use they re-

spectively make of their Common System of Writ-

ing, by M. DE LA PALUN ; and a Cochinchinese

and Latin Dictionary, in Use among the R. C.

Missions in Cochinchina.

1. Storia di Napoli del 1734 al 1825, del Gen.

COLLETTA.

2. Storia di Genova, di GIROLAMO SERRA.

3. Storia della Repubblica di Genova, di CARLO

VARESE.

4. Storia d'Italia, di G. SFORZOSI.

II. SOUTHEY'S POETICAL WORKS

The Poetical Works of ROBERT SOUTHEY, col-

lected by Himself.

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351

III. GOODRICH AND TAYLOR ON DOMESTIC EDUCATION. 380

1. Fireside Education. By the Author of Peter

Parley's Tales.

2. Home Education. By ISAAC TAYLOR.

IV. KENYON'S POEMS

1. Rhymed Plea for Tolerance. In Two Dia-

logues. With a Prefatory Dialogue.

2. Poems; for the most part Occasional. By

JOHN KENYON.

V. BEET-SUGAR MANUFACTURE

.

1-9. (French Treatises on the Manufacture of

Beet Sugar, &c., by MM. ACHARD, CHAPTAL, DU-

BRUNFAUT, DOMBASLE, PAYEN, CLÉMONDAT, BLAN-

CHETTE, ZOEGA, and DUMON.)

10. Manual of the Art of Making and Refining

Sugar from Beets. Translated from Portions of the

Treatise of MM. BLANCHETTE and ZOEGA.

11. Notice of the Beet Sugar, translated from the

Works of DUBRUNFAUT, DE DOMBASLE, and Отн-

ERS.

12. Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar; EDINBURGH

REVIEW.

13. Mulberry and Beet Sugar; Report of the

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE of the HOUSE OF REP-

RESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.

14. Report and Bill to Encourage the Manufac-

ture of Indigenous Sugar. By a COMMITTEE of the

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MASSACHUSETTS.

401

415

VI. LAMARTINE'S CHUTE D'UN ANGE

447

La Chute d'un Ange; Episode. Par ALPHONSE

DE LAMARTINE.

461

VII. FREYTAG'S ARABIC LEXICON

GEORGII WILHELMI FREYTAGII Lexicon Arabico-

Latinum, præsertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique

et Aliorum Arabum Operibus, adhibitis Golii quoque

et aliorum Libris, confectum.

VIII. PHILIP'S LIFE AND TIMES OF Whitefield

The Life and Times of the Rev. GEORge White-

FIELD, M. A. By ROBERT PHILIP.

IX. BLUE LAWS OF THE OLD STATES

The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony, usually

called Blue Laws of Connecticut ; Quaker Laws of

Plymouth and Massachusetts, &c. Compiled by

an Antiquarian.

478

501

X. DWIGHT'S VERSIONS FROM GOETHE AND SCHILLER 505

Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature. Ed-

ited by GEORGE RIPLEY. Volume III.

Gazetteer of the State of Missouri, by ALPHONSO

WETMORE.

XII. CRITICAL NOTICES.

514

1. Bowring on the Plague and Quarantines.

2. Lamson's Centennial Discourses

527

531

3. Fontaine's Tale of the Huguenots

534

4. Richardson's English Dictionary

5. Sophocles' Greek Grammar.

537

8. Mudie on Physical Man

10. Sparks's American Biography

6. Norton's Elementary Treatise on Astronomy. 539

7. Bartlett's Elementary Treatise on Optics

9. Southey's Life of Cowper

11. Everett's Address to the Library Association.

540

541

543

544

545

12. D'Avezac on African Geography

13. Delafield's American Antiquities

546

549

NOTE TO ARTICLE III. OF No. CII.

NOTE TO ARTICLE VII. OF No. CII.

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

558

564

565

INDEX.

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