THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

JANUARY, 1847 ..... APRIL, 1847.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVitur.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. LXXXV,

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES,

FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON;
AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1847.

CONTENTS OF No. CLXXI.

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ART. 1 Life and Correspondence of David Hume. From the

Papers bequeathed by his Nephew to the Royal

Society of Edinburgh, and other Original Sources.

By John Hill Burton, Advocate,

II. Les Rues de Paris: Paris Ancien et Moderne. Ouv-

rage rédigé par l'élite de la Littérature Contem-

poraine, sous la direction de Louis Lurine,

III.-1. The Local Taxes of the United Kingdom; contain-

ing a Digest of the Law, with a Summary of Sta-

tistical Information, concerning the several Local

Taxes in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Pub-

lished under the direction of the Poor-Law Com-

mission.

2. Report from the Select Committee of the House

of Lords on the Burdens affecting Real Property,

together with the Minutes of Evidence taken before

that Committee,-Session 1846,

IV. History of the United States, from the Discovery of

the American Continent. By George Bancroft.

Ninth Edition.

History of the Colonization of the United States. By

George Bancroft. Ninth Edition,

V.-1. Beschreibung der Stadt Rom. Von E. Platner, C.

Bunsen, &c., mit Beyträger, von B. G. Niebuhr.-

(Description of the City of Rome. By E. Platner,

C. Bunsen, &c. With Contributions, by B. G.

Niebuhr.)

1

72

100

115

2. Die Basiliken des Christlichen Roms. Von Chris-

tian Karl Josias Bunsen (The Basilicas of Chris-

tian Rome. By Christian Charles Josiah Bunsen,) 143