THE AMERICAN REVIEW: A WHIG JOURNAL POLITICS, LITERATURE, ART AND SCIENCE. TO STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION VOL. IV. Pulchrum est bene facere Reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum este NEW YORK: GEORGE H. COLTON, 118 NASSAU STREET. 1846. INDEX TO VOL. IV. - The A. 603, 604; contrast of sensuous and moral Achievements of the Knights of Malta, crit art, 605; form, the expression of character, ical notice, 104. 606; method of criticising pictures, prinAddison, Memoirs of the Life of, (by Miss ciples by which they should be judged, Aikin, critical notice, 649. 607; gross ideas of the German and other Adventures of a Night on the Banks of the schools as to the right method of study for Devron, (by R. Balmanno,) 569. an artist, 608, 609. Affectation, Melancholy, (from “ Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies,"") 448. B. American Journal of Science and Art, crit- Ballot-Box, Responsibility of the, 435; new ical notice of, 213. Andre, Major; Engraving of the Capture of, constitution of New York State referred critical notice, 540. to, 435, 437; judiciary provisions in, reAntiquities, Greek and Roman, School Dic marked upon, 138, 439, 440; importance of tionary of-noticed, 433. all citizens attending the polls, that good Arago, M., (Dr. Lardoer,) sketch of his life men and good measures may prevail, 413, and labors, 162. 444; country not to be governed without Army Attack and National Defence, (Ed. Bartlett and Welford's Catalogue of Ancient parties, 444, 445. ward Hunt,) 146; slang-whangers, 146; President Polk the maker of the war with Beaumont and Fletcher, (E. P. Whipple,) and Modern Books, critical notice of, 213. Mexico, 148; executive abuse of the army, ib. ; reliance on the militia for national de 68; their birth and first writings, iba; fence, 150; wretched inefficiency of the number of their plays, 69; their faults and militia system as now established, 151; impurities, 69, 70, 71; their striking charvolunteer companies, their use, 153; gar acteristics, 72, 73; extracts from their risons, 154; fortifications, their nature and dramas and comments, 74 to 78; their lyrics-quoted, 79, 80. effect, 155; probabilities of a war-means of defence and altack, 157, 158, 159. Beaumont and Fletcher, part second, 131 ; Army of Occupation, (J. T. 'Headley,) 171; heroic spirit of their writings, ib. ; the war with Mexico unjust-hurried upon Mad Lover”—“ Valentinian," 132; pas. us by the executive-first occupation of the sages from Valentinian, 132, 133 ; play of Mexican territory by our army precipitated Bonduca, 134; the “Humorous Lieuten. both nations into an unnecessary war ant”-the “ Elder Brother-the “False perilous position of Gen. Taylor, 172; One," 135, 136; “The Double Marriage," sketch of the defence of Fort Isabel, ib. with extracts, 137, 138, 139, 140; the “ Two heroic conduct of the garrison, 173; de Noble Kinsmen”_" Triumph of Honor”. scription of the battle of Palo Alto, ib.; a particular qualities of Fletcher, 142, 143; pure common fight won altogether by artil striking passages, 144, 145. lery, ib.; admirable management of field C. pieces by American officers in that battle great military, qualities of General Taylor, Chambers' Information for the People, notice 175; memorable words of General Taylor, of, 541. 176; battle of Resaca de la Palma, ib.; Chinese, the, (J. H. Lanman,), 392; their brave conduct of the infantry, 177; rout of territory, ib., ancient knowledge of them, the Mexicans, ib; May's charge of caval 393 ; political structure of the empire, 394; ry, 179; inferences to be drawn from these emperor's aristocracy, ib. ; costume, 395 ; two battles, in regard to our troops ; none machinery, of the government, 395, 396 ; would surpass them, 179. laws and jurisprudence, 397 ; social reguArt Union Critics, Hints to, 599; all subjects lations, 398; their agriculture, 399; manu not fit to be represented in picture, ib. ; factures, ib. ; their foreign commerce, 400; difference between description and repre excellence in the useful arts, ib.; diffusion sentation ; pictorial art cannot represent of education, 401; religion, ib. ; amusemotion, but prefers the fixed qualities of ments, 401, 402; public works, 402; cities, things; poetry, on the contrary, describes ib;, Chinese army, 403; our commerce motion, action, and change, ib. ; vices of with China. design, vice of the parlor, vice of the studio, Civilization, American and European, (Provice of the theatre, improper use of the lay fessor Goodwin,) second part of the artifigure, 600 ; choice of mean subjects, ib.; cle, 27; self-government the highest probsubjective and objective art contrasted, ib. ; lem of civilization, 28; some of our disexample of a picture by a skillful and un advantages and dangers, 28, 29; universal skillful artist, 601 , theory of the pleasure suffrage, 29; power of public opinion, 31; of painting in the choice of agreeable sub faith in the people, 33, 34; ancient civilizajects, color, &c.-nature to be imitated in tion, 35; comparison of ourselves with her best moods only, ib.; fault of ordinary Europeans, 37; our institutions, fears, colorists, ib. ; description of a picture in hopes, 40, 41, 42. the classic style of Nicholas Poussin, with Congress, the XXIXth, (Hon. J. P. Kena complete theory of transparent color, nedy,) 541 ; Congress, ihe twenty.ninth, 543; brief report of its leading measuręs, Cowper, Sotheby, and Munford compared, his epistle in verse to Charles Lamb, 24; State-article sixth, the judiciary, (J. M. J. by a resident at Paris,) 281 ; morning papers--the Post, the Herald, the Standard, Morning Chronicle, 282, 283; eveuing papers—the Globe, and Sun, 283; 288, 289; the Daily News, 291 ; corre- spondents, 292, 293, journalism in France, German of Lyser, (by Mrs. “Si. Simon,”) 119. Julia Jay, a poem, (Rev. Ralph Hoyt,) 610. K. career, 551, L. Lamb, Leigh Hunt's poetical epistle to, 24. Legal Profession, Ancient and Modern-the Bars of Greece, Rome, France, England, and the United States, 242; popular charg. es against the legal profession, ib.; nature of the legal profession-how taking its two divisions in the profession, jurispru- Greece, ib.; the Grecian bar-Themis- 247 ; the Roman bar under the Republic, lations of the Roman courts, 249; early stages of Gallic law, 250 ; origin of trial by ordeal, ib.; early legal usages in France, 251 ; parliament of Paris-order of advo- 253; abolition of the order of advocates, fession in England, 256 ; defects of the bar in this country, 257; inferiority of legal education, 258, report of the “ Inner Tem- Webber, 296; references to certain quali of the profession in this country, 260; Note-opinions of Savigny, 261, 262. 502, 503, 504 ; Norse poetry, 504, 505 ; Teg- Illiad, (C. A. Bristed,) 350 ; some remarks 581 ; Klopstock, Lessing, Wieland, Herder, |