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TO THE

FIRST VOLUME OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, FOR 1839.

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to, 581

Abolition of slave trade, only means for,
532

Academy of divinity, Bunyan's, 117
Actress, dilemma of a great, 111

Address to the People, by One of Them-
selves, 303

Adolphus, John, his Memoirs of Bannister,
309

African field sports, specimens of, 594
African Slave Trade, Buxton on, 525
Agriculture and Washington, 97
Aid to Memory, The New, 610
Allegories in Dante, predominance of, 171
Alexandria, case of the merchant of, 48
Alexandrian Museum, notices of, 115
Alexander the Great, his Policy in Egypt,
114

Alpine scenery in Highlands of Scotland,
sketch of, 265

Ancestors of Washington, 90
Anglo-Saxons, dress of the, 384
Animal instinct, Brougham on, 373

Anson, Lord, Barrow's Life of, 292; cha-
racter of, 296

Antiquity, Duncan's Religions of Profane,
547

Apelles, anecdote of, 107

Apothecaries' Company, notices of the,

350

Aristocratical and Political Morality, 337
Arkwright, Mr., anecdote of, 86
Artigas, the Protector, notices of, 258
Artizan journeymen and the elective fran-
chise, 135

Ashurst on Post Office Reform, 54
Astronomical fables of Antiquity, instances
of, 555

Australia, South, the aborigines and colo-
nists of, 225

Australasia, Mathew's views of, 217
Autocrat of the North, health and activity
of the, 462

Avignon, Lady Blessington at, 490

B.

BAGPIPE, Dauney on the, 289
Bajada, J. P. Robertson at, 257
VOL. I. (1839.) NO. IV.

Baltimore, Lord, Bancroft's estimate of,
390

Bancroft's history of the United States,
387

Bannister, John, Memoirs of, 309

Bantry Bay, St. Patrick's arrival in, 561
Bards in Cutch, notice of, 7
Barré, Colonel, notices of, 197
Barrow's Life of Lord Anson, 292
Beethoven's music, character of, 81

Beginnings of a New School of Meta-
physics, 541

Bell-tuning, Gardiner on, 82
Ben Bluff's ballad, 365
Ben Jonson, Works of, 145

Bernadotte and Vasa dynasties, questions
concerning, 500

Bishop's Burial, The, 607
Bishop, Swedish, anecdote of, 508
Blessings of Freedom, 53

Blessington, Lady, her Idler in Italy, 485
Blucher, letter from Wellington to, 582
Blue Laws of Connecticut, 591
Board of Admiralty, Anson at, 293
Bocaccio and Machiavelli's styles, 237
Bohemia, Mr. Gleig in, 207
Boy's Country Book, The, 448
Boz's Parish Boy's Progress, 29
Braddock's defeat, sketch of, 94

Bray, Mrs., her Trials of the Heart, 601
Bremner's Excursions in Interior of Rus-
sia, 457

Brissot, Jean Pierre, Memoir of, 416
Brougham, Lord, on Subjects of Science,
369

Brute creation, language and conventional
signs among the, 378
Bubbles of Canada, The, 300
Bulwer's Richelieu, 611

Bunker Hill and General Gage, 97
Bunyan, Life and Times of, 183
Burr's Elements of Practical Geology, 152
Burr, A., Davis's Memoirs of, 570
Business character of the Americans, 45
Buxton on African Slave Trade, 525
Byng, notices of the fate of Admiral, 294

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Camping out, nature and manner of, 275
Canada and Mrs. Jameson, 65
Canadian Church, notices of, 71
Canning and the informer Reynolds, 285
Cardross, letter of Lord, to Chatham, 201
Carlstadt, Mr. Laing at, 499

Carolina, North, first settlers in, character
of, 400

Castlereagh, letter from Wellington to
Lord, 585

Cataracts of Niagara, Mrs. Jameson at, 72
Cathedral Bell, The, a Tragedy, 307
Celibacy, a crime in Cutch, 4
Celtic origin of legends, 25

Censorship of the Press in Russia, effects
of, 412

Chamber of Truth, Francia's, 25]
Channing, Dr., on Self-Culture, 344
Charities, medical, imperfect condition of
English, 356

Charles the Second, George the Fourth,
and the singers, 313

Chatham, Earl of, his Correspondence, 191
Checks of conscience, Bunyan's, 186
Cheney, John, the American hunter,
sketch of, 274

Chesterfield, Lord, his views of the nation
in 1766, 196

Chieftainess, The White, 75
Childhood and music, 80
Childishness, Russian, 409

Chioff, Church of the Catacombs at,
described, 166

Chippewas, Mrs. Jameson among the, 74
Churches of London, The, 144
Cicero, nice question put by, 48
Civil Engineers and Post Office, 59
Civil war, horrors of, 281
Clarence, Duke of, and Bannister, 315
Clarkson, Biographical sketch of, 450
Class morality, Fox on, 336
Clerical morality, Fox on, 338
Clubs, in times past and at present, 313
Colborne, character of Sir John, 77
Cold in Canada, degree of, 73
College of Surgeons, constitution of, 350
Colonial Office and Upper Canada, 69
Colony and country, distinction between,

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Cookery, French and English, 488
Coronation, The, by C. G. Sharpley, 149
Corporations, anomalous condition of Eng-
lish Medical, 352

Cossacks, manners of the, 473
Costumes of the Ancients, 381
Cotterell, Madame, Mathews at her school,
105

Courrier de l'Europe, establishment of, 419
Court of Cahirass, a song, 567
Courtship, manner of Chippewa, 75
Courting season of the deer, notices of, 263
Covenanting clergy and Mr. Stephens, 127
Cracow, Mr. Stephens at, 169
Croatia, Mr. Gleig at, 204

Croker's Collection of Popular Songs of
Ireland, 560

Crotch, anecdote of Young, 80
Cultivation, agricultural, extent of, in
Russia, 468

Cutchees, feudalism of the, 2
Cutch, by Mrs. Postans, 1

D.

DANTE, Carey's excellence of, 170
Dauney's edition of Ancient Scottish
Melodies, 287, 290

David Garrick, punctuality of, 314
Davis's Memoirs of Aaron Burr, 570
Deer-stalker, attributes of a, 265
Deer-stalking, the Art of, 259
Degeneracy, instances and causes of, 482
Deluge, The, by J. E. Reade, 453
Delvin on the Boot and Shoe Trade, 380
Democracy, birth of American, 400
Demoralization of Sweden, The, 507
Denon, notices of, 489
Despotism, steps to, 248

Detention of Slaves, effects of, 531
Detroit, Mrs. Jameson at, 71

Dewey's Moral Views of Commerce, 41
Dialogue between Lords Brougham and
Althorp, 372

Dickens, Mr., as a novelist, 39
Dillettante, Recollection of a, 79
Dissertations on Subjects of Science,
Brougham's, 369

Discipline, singular system of military, 250
Discovery of the Vital Principle, 301
Dispatches of Wellington, Gurwood's, 579
Divina Commedia of Dante, Commentary
on, 170

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Diversion, instance of extraordinary, 244
Domestic Correspondence and Post Office,
61

Doneraile, O'Kelly's curses of, 568

Dost Mohammud, and British India, 12
Dr. Arnold and W. Gardiner, 80
Draper's Petition, The, 363
Dress, affected by the Arts, 381

Driver, anecdote of an American Stage, 78
Druggists and Chemists in England, 355
Dublin, Mathews when first in, 107
Duel, account of a ferocious, 286
Duellist, story of the, 431

Duncan's Religions of Profane Antiquity,
547

Durham's Return, Hood's account of Lord,
362

E.

EDUCATION in Russia, state of, 411
Eisenhammer, scene at, 211
El Peledo, story of, 252
Elliston and Mathews, 105

Elder's Tales and Legends of the Isle of
Wight, 437

Emigrants and the Post Office, 62
Emigration Fields, notices of, 213

Emperor Nicholas, the slave of a vicious
system, 459

End of business, the moral, 48

England, dress at various periods in, 384
Enrolment of Russian conscripts, manner
of, 406

Ephesus, desolation of, 161

Espionage, a dictator's system of, 249
Essays and
Correspondence, &c. of

Machiavelli, 231, 234
Eugenius on the Foundation of Morals, 142
Executioner of Moscow, notice of, 472
Expediency and Commerce, 47

F.

FACETIE, specimens of theatrical, 111
Family Sanctuary, The, 596

Farmer, South Australian, letter of, 223
Fashions in Dress, 380

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Goats, reasoning of, 376-

Godfathership, sudden acceptance of, 244
Godwin's Churches of London, 604
Good and Evil, ancient notions of, 557
Gougane Barra, a song, 566
Graham's History of Ireland, 609
Grammar of Law, The, 450

Granville, Dr., on Medical reform, 349
Greek cosmography, sketch of ancient, 22
Greeks, and Byron, 155

Gretton's Introduction, 144

Guest, Lady, her translation of the Mabi.
nogion, 24

Guides to Trade and Guides to Service, 151
Gurwood's Dispatches of Wellington, 579

H.

HALL'S Notes on the Western States, 605
Hall's Scenes at Home and Abroad, 455
Hall, Robert, anecdotes of, 82

Father of Italian Poetry, notices of the, Hamburgh, Mr. Laing at, 497

182

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Hannah More and Mathews, 102
Hardwicke, letter of the Earl of, to Lord
Royston, 194

Harem, notices of a travelling, 159
Hare on Curvatures of the Spine, 143
Harris's Expedition into Southern Africa,

592

Hart's New Army List, 648

Harvest, occurrence of an unexpected, 538
Haut ton in Assumption, 243
Hazlitt's Sketches and Essays, 454
Head, Sir F. B., his Narrative, 596
Henry Washington at Worcester, 90

Heroism in Mythology, nature of, 549
Heyne on the Homeric Poems, 320
Hickie's Select Idyls of Theocritus, 451
Hill, B. E., his Home Service, 534
Historical Tales of the Southern Counties,
140

Hoffman's Wild Scenes in the Forest and
Prairie, 273

Home Service, Hill's, 534

Johns, Lieut., his Legend and Romance,
435

Jouffroy's Philosophical Essays, 455

K.

KEIGHTLEY'S Ancient Mythology, 20
Killing of timber in Canada, manner of,
74

King Frost and Mrs. Jameson, 68

Homeric Poems, genuineness of the, 317, Kings, Brissot's hatred of, 420

329

Hood's Comic Annual, 359

Horace Vernon, a novel, 429

Horse-racing and Mathews, 104

Hostess, distresses of a, 364

Hotel of Petrarch, notice of, 492

House of Burgesses, Washington elected to
the, 95

Huanuco, notices of, 479

Huguenot, The, by Mr. James, 443

Kingdon's translation of M. De Candolle's
Vegetable Organography, 452

Koordistan, notices of, 474

Krummacher's Life of St. John, the Evan-
gelist, 455

L.

LABOUR, effects of privileged, 505
Labourers in South Australia, respectability
of, 221

Humanity, strength of, exemplified by the Lady and the Saints, The, 451

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IDEAS and language, supposed connection,
377

Idler in Italy, The, 485

Idols, nature of ancient worship of, 558
Ignatia and other Poems, by Mary A.
Brown, 451

Ignorance as connected with Poverty, 339
Incertitude of a murderer, 33
Indeldta, Swedish, notices of, 502
Indus to British India, importance of, 15
Infelicity of conjugal relations, 66
Inferiority of the poor, influence of the
⚫ feeling of, 341

Intelligence, animal, Brougham on, 375
Intemperance in Canada, 72

Intolerance of the early New Englanders,

392

Intercourse with superior minds, use of,
347

Imitative talent of the Cutchees, 6

Imperial rule, blessings of, 209

Irvine's London Flora, 302

J.

JAINS, notice of the, 4

James's Six Months in South Australia,

219

James's Huguenot, 443

Jameson, Mrs., in Canada, 65

Jamaica Plantership, M'Mahon's, 524
Janet; or Glances of Human Nature, 305
Janissary, story of The Last, 434
Jews of Smyrna, picture of, 160
Jharrejahs, notice of the, 4

John More, the Poacher, story of, 672

Lady Guest and the Lady of the Fountain,

24

Laing's Tour in Sweden, 495

Laird, Highland, companion to a, 212
Lake Huron, Mrs. Jameson at, 74
Land of Promise, Stephens's, 222
Landscape in Canada, winter, 73
Lap-dog's monument, account of, 493
La Plata, J. P. Robertson's adventures on
the, 255

Last of the Plantagenets, The, 451
Latin and Greek Languages, Foster's rudi-
ments of, 148

Legends, the mirrors of truth, 25
Legends of Cutch, specimen of, 8
Leighton's Theological Lectures, 454
Leo the Tenth and Machiavelli, 229
Levée days of a despot, 248
Librarian at Detroit, politeness of, 77
Life's Lessons, a Tale, 152

Lima, citizens of, condition of, 482
Lithuania, sketch of, 168

Liveries of Servants in Paraguay, 243

Lord Chancellor on Law of Lunacy, Letter
to, 144

Lottery anecdote, 494

Love and Washington, 93

Love's Exchange, a Tale, 305

Lunar influences, instances of, 484

M.

MABINOGION, Lady Ch. Guest's transla-
tion of, 24.

Macauley, Mrs., and W. Gardiner, 80
Machiavelli, works of, 225; character of,
232

Mahon, Lord, his History of England,

136

Major Denham and the slave trade, 529

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Man's native dignity, Channing's views of,

344

Manufactures and agriculture in Russia,
state of, 413

Manual labour and self-culture, 348
March of Slaves, effects of, 530
Marriage and dreams, 109

Marvell Redivivus, his Letter to Lord
Durham, 449

Maryland, notices of early settlement of,
390

Massachusetts, Sir J. Child's account of the
early condition of, 402

Mathews' Emigration Fields, 213
Mathews, Memoirs of Charles, 100
Maypole, The, notices of, 82

M'Mahon, B., his Jamaica Plantership,

524

Medical Reform, Granville on, 349, 357
Melodies, ancient Scottish, discovery of,
287

Memoirs of Ch. Mathews, 100

Merchant of Alexandria, Cicero's case of,
48

Mérimée on Oil and Fresco Painting, 511
Merry Man, Song of The, 563
Metaphysics, Smart's New School of, 541
Mexican Government, advice to English
creditors of, 478

Middle Passage of Slaves, effects of, 531
Middle Classes, morality of the, 337
Midnight scene in Assumption, 244
Mignan, Capt., his Journey through Rus-
sia, &c., 474

Milton and ancient mythology, 21
Militia, and a field-day, 77

Military system of Prussia, Gleig on the,

208

Mines of Peru, notice of, 483

Minor Fables of Antiquity, exposition of,

553

Minstrel Melodies, 451

Miscellaneous Intelligence, 308

Missionaries in Greece, American, 155
Missilonghi, Stephens at, 154

Moile's New Edition of State Trials, 452
Monastic order in Cutch, 4

Monarchy, Letter to the Queen on the
State of the, 129

Monboddo's strange theory, observations
on, 379

Moral views of Commerce, 41

Morality and Self-culture of the Poor, 334
Moseley's illustrations of Mechanics, 597
Montgomery Martin's Colonies of the Bri-
tish Empire, 452

Murchison's Silurian System, 456
Murderous Scene, 31

Muscovites, condition of the, 405
Music and Friends, Gardiner's, 79

Mudie's Mental Philosophy, 303
Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, 20

N.

NAVIGATION, Grand Picture of Steam, 17
Navy, British, Barrow's account of present
state of, 297

Nero, what must be the misery of a ? 253
New School of Metaphysics, 541
Newspapers, the literature of multitudes,
347

New England, early history of, 391
Newcastle, Chatham's opinion of the Duke
of, 197

Newton, John, and the Slave Trade, 529
Nick of the Woods, Dr. Bird's, 430
Nicholas, the Emperor, estimate of his
talents and attainments, 460
Nishnei-Novogorod, fair at, 472

Nobles, manners and undertakings of Rus-
sian, 412

North American Colonies, Mathews' views
of the British, 215

Norway, Mr. Laing in, 498

Norwegians and Swedes compared, 500,
509

Nuthall, letter of Lady Chatham to, 193

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