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A Discourse delivered on the Occasion of the Death of John Vaughan, in the First Congregational Unitarian Church, Sunday, January 16, 1842. By William H. Furness, Pastor of the Church. With the Services at the Funeral. Philadelphia: J. Crissy. 8vo. pp. 32.

The End of the World not Yet. A Discourse, delivered in the North Church, Newburyport, on the Last Evening of the Year 1841. By L. F. Dimmick, Pastor of the Church. Newburyport: Charles Whipple. 12mo. pp. 48.

The Religion of Politics. A Sermon delivered before his Excellency John Davis, Governor, his Honor George Hull, LieutenantGovernor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, January 5, 1842. By Ezra S. Gannett, Junior Pastor of the Federal St. Church in Boston. Boston: Dutton & Wentworth. 8vo. pp. 46.

Letters to Rev. B. Stow, R. H. Neale, and R. W. Cushman, on Modern Revivals. By Otis A. Skinner. Boston: Abel Tompkins. 12mo. pp. 144.

The Chapel Hymn Book. 4th Edition, with Additional Hymns. Boston: S. G. Simpkins. 16mo. pp. 288.

Think Soberly; a Sermon on Temperance, delivered in the Unitarian Church, Newport, Rhode Island, Sunday Evening, Feb. 6, 1842. By Charles T. Brooks, Pastor. Newport: James Atkinson. 8vo. pp. 18.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

The Amazonian Republic, recently discovered in the Interior of Peru. By Ex-Midshipman Timothy Savage, B. C., Member of the Philosophical Society of Williamsburgh, and of the Antiquarian Academy of Staten Island. New York: Samuel Colman. 12mo. pp. 177.

Travels in Europe and the East, embracing Observations made during a Tour through Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, Lombardy, Tuscany, the Papal States, the Neapolitan Dominions, Malta, the Islands of the Archipelago, Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Hungary, in the years 1834, 35, 36, 37, '38, 39, 40, 41. By Valentine Mott, M. D., President of the Medical Faculty of the University of New York, and Professor of Surgery, &c., &c. New York: Harper & Brothers. 8vo. pp. 452.

INDEX

TO THE

FIFTY-FOURTH VOLUME

OF THE

North American Review.

A.

Adams, John Quincy, the Jubilee of
the Constitution, a Discourse on
the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
Inauguration of George Washing-
ton as President of the United
States, reviewed, 211 - point
urged by him, 213-cited, 214.
Egeria exitiosa, 90.

Eschines, facts respecting, 182 -

184.

Albany, Congress at, in 1754, 302

gold mine near, 315- treaty
there, with Indians, in 1645, 316
De Vries's voyage to, 322.
Algebra, works on, 240.
Allston, Washington, Monaldi, a Tale,

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See

by, reviewed, 397-his pictures,
ib.his coloring, 398-basis of
his Monaldi, 399 — remarks on it,
400 its artist-character, 401–
quotations from, 403.
Ambition, on literary, 402.
America, early claims of the French
in, 302-early map of, 307-
change of climate in, 315.
American Colonies.
American blight, 88.
American Colonies, project of Jen-
kins for preventing the indepen-
dence of the, 303-trade there
before the Revolution, 304.
Ames, John F., the Mnemosynum
by, noticed, 229.
Anthon, Charles, Classical Dictiona-
ry by, reviewed, 175-editor of

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Lempriere's Classical Dictionary,
178 bandies compliments with
E. H. Barker, ib. character of,
as a scholar, 179- his style in his
Classical Dictionary, ib., 181-its
worth, 179, 198-its defects, 180-
marked by haste, ib., 198― quotes
the words of authors, 181, 187
neglects verification, 182, 192-
inconsistencies in it, 182 - re-
specting Demosthenes and Es-
chines, ib., 184 - Demosthenes
and Nicias, 184 - Isocrates, ib. —
omission of orators by, 185- on
his avoiding Lampriere's grossness
of allusion, ib.but few articles
by, 187-on Homer, 188- his
omission of Greek poets, ib.·
cites the "Theatre of the Greeks,"
190-on Aristophanes, 191 - his
account of the theatre, ib. bor-
rows from Ritter's History of
Philosophy, 193-philosophers
omitted by, 194 - his geograph-
ical articles, 195-borrows from
Cramer, ib. his omission of ge-
ographers, 196-on the tower of
Pharos, 197-aided by Mr. Dris-
ler, 198.

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Anthracite. See Johnson.
Antiquities, Dictionary of Greek and

Roman, publishing in London,
177. See Anthon.

Ants, alliance of, with plant lice, 87.
Antwerp, proposed steamships be-
tween the United States and, 141
action at, in 1830, 166.

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Belgium, proposed steamships be-
tween the United States and, 141-
separation of, from Holland, 142,
168- Nothomb's Essai Historique
et Politique sur la Revolution Bel-
ge, ib. — on a projected union be-
tween Holland and, 143, 154 -
remarks on its independence, 144
-on the connexion of its revolu-
tion with that of France, of 1830,
145, 156- the long servitude of,
145-causes retarding her suc-
cess, 146-early political strug-
gles of, ib. in the Middle Ages,
ib. in the eighteenth century,
149-union of Holland and, in

1815, 150-four great historical
facts as to, 151-grievances of,
152-unjust political representa-
tion of, ib. character of, 155-
three revolutions in, ib. — account
of the last, 156-progress of the
revolt, 157-Committee of Safety,
161, 163- Provisional Govern-
ment there, 165 session of the
National Congress in, 167 - elec-
tion of King Leopold, 169-bat-
tle of Louvain, 170 the Dutch
and Belgic question, 171-on
the growing connexion between
America and, 172-on the free-
dom and patriotism of, ib. See
Antwerp, Brussels, Holland, and
Netherlands.

Bell, Sir Charles, his Supplementary
Dissertations to Paley's Natural
Theology, reviewed, 102, 111 —
worth of his Illustrations, ib.
Bermuda Isles, early superstitions
as to the, 318.

Bernard, Sir Francis, presides at a
trial, 210.

Bernardo del Carpio, remarks on,

432.

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Brainard, John G. C., Poems by,
noticed, 258.
Bridgewater Treatises, Paley's Nat-
ural Theology and the, 110.
Brougham, Henry, Lord, works by,
on Natural Theology, reviewed,
102, 111, 112-character of his
Dissertations, 112 - the
great
merit of his Preliminary Treatise,
127 cited on the argument from
design, 132. See Paley.
Brussels, connexion of, with the
Belgian Revolution, in 1830, 157
reception of the Prince of Or-
ange at, 160-defence of, against
Holland, 163- Provisional Gov-
ernment there, 165 effect of the
defence of, 165. See Belgium.
Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise,
110.

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Charlemagne, partition of Belgian
provinces by, 146- ballads relat-
ing to, and his Twelve Peers,
431, 435.

Chemistry, on the importance of,
477 - vegetable analysis, 479. See
Liebig.

Cahokia, Illinois, old French church Cherokee Indians, emigration of the,

and bell at, 303.
Camanche Indians, notice of, 289.
Cambridge, England, Arundines Ca-
mi, sive Musarum Cantabrigien.
sium Lusus Canori, reviewed, 269
quotations from it, 276.
Canada, on the consolidation of, by
Sir Charles Bagot, 171.
Canker worms, 91, 97.
Cantharides, 82.

Carpio, Bernardo del, remarks on,
432.
Carver's Shining Mountains, 285.
Caterpillars, 89 in orchards, 90, 91

silk from, 91.
Catholicism, Mariotti on Protestant-
ism and, 343.

25 remarks on the, 27.
Chivalry, ballads of, 435.
Cholera, Parkin on the, 510.
Christianity, in France, 394.
Chronometers, implicit reliance on,
447, 453.

Cid, ballads on the, 430, 433.
Civilization, evidence of an advance
in, 299.

Clark, Mr., on the superiority of
instructed operatives, 471.
Clarke, defect in his argument re-
specting the Deity, 115-remarks
on it, 118, 125, 362-compared
with Descartes', 124.

Classical dictionaries, difficulty of

writing, 175-on separating from

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