CONTENTS OF VOL. V. NO. 1.

NEW SERIES.

ART. I.-Poems by James G. Percival.

ART. II.-Views of Society and Manners in America.

Views of Society and Manners in America; in a series of

letters from that country to a friend in England, during

the years 1818, 1819, and 1820. By an Englishwoman.

ART. III.-Encke's Comet.

1. Eine merkwürdige astronomische Entdeckung und Beo-

bachtungen des Kometen vom Jul. 1819, vom Herrn

Doct. Olbers in Bremen.

2. Ueber einen merkwürdigen Kometen, der wahrscheinlich

bei dreijähriger Umlaufzeit schon zum viertenmale bei

seiner Rückkehr zur Sonne beobachtet ist vom Herrn

Prof. J. H. Encke, Adjuncten der Sternwarte Seeberg,

bei Gotha.

3. Ueber die Bahn des Ponschen Kometen, nebst Berech-

nung seines Laufs bei seiner nächsten Wiederkehr im

Jahr 1822, vom Herrn Prof. Encke, Direktor der Her-

zogl. Sternwarte Seeberg, bei Gotha.

ART. IV.-Dr Webster on St Michael and the Azores.

A description of the island of St Michael, comprising an

account of its geological structure; with some remarks

on the other Azores or Western Islands. Originally

communicated to the Linnean Society of New England.

By John W. Webster, M. D. Cor. Sec. L. S. N. E.

ART. V. Stuart's Dissertations.

Dissertations on the importance and the best method of

studying the Original Languages of the Bible, by Jahn

and others. Translated from the originals and accom-

panied with notes, by M. Stuart, Associate Professor of

Sacred Literature in the Theological Seminary at An-

dover.

ART. VI.-Life of Algernon Sydney.

Memoirs of Algernon Sydney, by George Wilson Meadley.

With an appendix.

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15

26

34

51

59

ART. VII.-Fairfax's Tasso.

Godfrey of Bulloigne; or the recovery of Jerusalem. By

Edward Fairfax.

ART. VIII.-Posthumous works of Madame de Stael.

Oeuvres inedites de Madame la Baronne de Stael.

par son fils.

ART. IX.-Fr. Adelung's Survey of Language.

bliées

101

Uebersicht aller bekannten Sprachen und ihrer Dialekte. 128

ART. X.-The Life of Pitt.

Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable William Pitt.

By George Tomline D. D. F. R. S. Lord Bishop of Win-

chester, and prelate of the most noble order of the garter. 144

ART. XI.-Report upon Weights and Measures.

Report upon Weights and Measures. By John Quincy

Adams, Secretary of State of the United States. Pre-

pared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the

third of March 1817.

ART. XII.-The New York Canals.

1. Public documents relating to the New York canals,

which are to connect the western and northern lakes

with the Atlantic ocean; with an introduction. Printed

under the direction of the New York corresponding

association for the promotion of internal improvements.

2. History of the rise, progress, and existing condition of

the western canals in the state of New York, from Sep-

tember 1788 to the completion of the middle section of

the Grand Canal, in 1819; together with the rise, pro-

gress, and existing state of modern agricultural societies

on the Berkshire system, from 1807 to the establishment

of the Board of Agriculture in the state of New York,

Jauuary 10, 1820. By Elkanah Watson.

3. A vindication of the claim of Elkanah Watson Esq. to

the merit of projecting the lake canal policy, as created

by the canal act of March 1792. And also a vindication

of the claim of the late Gen. Schuyler to the merit of

drawing that act, and procuring its passage through the

legislature. By Robert Troup Esq.

ART. XIII.-Hale's Dissertations.

190

230

Boylston Medical Prize Dissertations for the years 1819

and 1821. Experiments and observations on the com-

munication between the stomach and the urinary organs,

and on the propriety of administering medicine by in-

jection into the veins. By E. Hale, jun. M. D. M. M.S. S. 251

List of New Publications.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. V. NO. II.

NEW SERIES.

ART. XIV.-Aristophanes and Socrates.

The Comedies of Aristophanes. By T. Mitchell, A. M.

late fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

ART. XV.-Herculanean Manuscripts.

273

Herculanensium Voluminum quæ supersunt. Tomus II. 296

ART. XVI.-Education in South Carolina.

1. A Review of the plan of Education in South Carolina.

2. Address to the Graduates of the South Carolina College;

De ember, 1821. By Thomas Cooper, M. D. President

of he College.

ART. XIII.-Essay Writing.

1. The Club Room.

2. The Idle Man.

ART. XIII.—Academy of Language and Belles Lettres.

Circuars addressed to the American members and patrons

of the American Academy of Language and Belles

Letres. By the Corresponding Secretary.

ART. XX.-Eighteen Hundred and Twenty, a poem.

ART. X.-Brande's Manual of Chemistry.

A Maual of Chemistry. By William Thomas Brande,

Secetary of the Royal Society of London. The first

American from the second London edition. Three vo-

To which are added, Notes and Emen-

lums in one.

datins. By William James Macneven, M. D. Profes-

sor of Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Sur-

geos of the University of the State of New-York.

310

319

350

$60

369

ART. XM.-Geological and Agricultural Survey.

A geobgical and agricultural survey of Rensselaer county

in te state of New-York. Taken under the direction

of the honorable Stephen Van Rensselaer.

$78

ART. XXI.-Colburn's Arithınethic.

An Arthmetic on the plan of Pestalozzi, with some im-

provenents. By Warren Colburn.

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