FIRST VOLUME OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, FOR 1839.
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,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
FACETIE, specimens of theatrical, 111 Family Sanctuary, The, 596
Farmer, South Australian, letter of, 223 Fashions in Dress, 380
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
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
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,
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
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
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
LABOUR, effects of privileged, 505 Labourers in South Australia, respectability of, 221
Humanity, strength of, exemplified by the Lady and the Saints, The, 451
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,
Intercourse with superior minds, use of, 347
Imitative talent of the Cutchees, 6
Imperial rule, blessings of, 209
Irvine's London Flora, 302
JAINS, notice of the, 4
James's Six Months in South Australia,
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,
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
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,
Major Denham and the slave trade, 529
Man's native dignity, Channing's views of,
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,
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,
Mines of Peru, notice of, 483
Minor Fables of Antiquity, exposition of,
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
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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