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CRAIGHEID AND ALLEN, RINTERS,

No. 112 FULTOX-STREET.

Art.

Page.

I. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

1

The Complete Poetical Works of William Words-

worth. Edited by HENRY REED.

II. GEOLOGICAL Survey Of New YORK.

71

Reports on the Geological Survey of the State of

New York, made by the Governor to the Assembly,

February, 1836 and 1837.

III. RITUALS.

109

Origines Liturgicæ, or Antiquities of the English

Ritual, with a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies.

By the Rev. WILLIAM PALMER.

IV. STEAM NAVIGATION. New York LEGISLATION. 147

Origin, Progress, and Prospects of Steam Navi-

gation across the Atlantic Ocean, etc.

V. ACOUSTICS.

164

An Elementary Treatise on Sound, being the se-

cond volume of a Course of Natural Philosophy, etc.

By BENJAMIN PEIRCE.

VI. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS CARLYLE.

179

1. The Life of Friedrich Schiller, etc.

2. Sartor Resartus.

3. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. By Tho-

MAS CARLYLE.

VII. Cooper's LAST WORKS.

209

1. Homeward Bound, or the Chase. A Tale of

the Sea, etc.

2. Home as Found, etc.

VIII. CRITICAL Notices.

1. Holbrook's North American Herpetology.

222

2. Wyatt's Conchology,

223

3. Ehrenberg's Infusoria.

224

4. Brewster on the Microscope.

228

5. Melvill's Sermons.

229

6. Bush's Notes on Genesis.

231

7. Carver's Travels in Wisconsin.

233

8. Turpin on Fermentation.

234

9. Taylor's Home Education.

235

10. Peer's American Education.

11. Stanley.

12. Everest's Babylon.

13. Nordheimer's Analysis.

14. The Stranger in China.

15. Peter Pilgrim.

16. Velasco.

17. Fireside Education.

18. Lieber's Political Ethics.

19. Cellerier's Authenticity of the New Testament. .

20. Scott and the Ballantynes.

21. Picciola, or Captivity Captive.

22. Pastoral Letter of the Bishops.

23. Bishop H. U. Onderdonk's Third Charge.

24. Miss Martineau's How to Observe.

25. Eastburn's Sermon.

26. Bishop Meade's Sermon.

27. A Christmas Ģift from Fairy Land.

28. La Fontaine's Fables,

29. Dillaway's School Classics.

30. Fosdick's German Grammar.

31. Ware on the Personality of the Deity.

32. Mantell’s Wonders of Geology.

33. President Hale's Baccalaureate Address.

34. Tracy's Lectures.

35. The Far West. .

36. Hook's Sermon.

| 37. Cleveland's Sallust.

38. Holcomb on Music.

39. Bishop Doane's Sermon.

40. Shepard's Address.

41. Shimeall's Gems from the Mount.

42. Stephens's Address.

43. Gill's Mathematical Miscellany.

14. Lyon on the State of Learning.

45. My Son's Book.

46. Campbell

47. The National Portrait Gallery.

48. Carl Werner.

49. Fondey's Oration.

50. The Christian Keepsake.

51. Drake's Life of Black Hawk.

52. Everett's Address.

Appendix to Critical Notices.

I. LITERARY PROPERTY.

273

1. Remarks on Literary Reports, by Purlir H.

NickLIN.

2. Plea for Authors and the Rights of Literary

Property.

II. NATHANIEL BOWDITCH.

308

1. Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., etc.

By John PICKERING

2. An Eulogy on the Life and Character of Nathan-

iel Bowditch, etc. By DANIEL APPLETON Wute.

3. The Varieties of Human Greatness : a Dis-

course on the Life and Character of Nathaniel Bow-

ditch, etc. By ALEXANDER YOUNG.

III. Tue CONGRESS OF 1774.

324

Historical Address delivered before the Philoma-

thean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, etc.

By WILLIAM B. REED.

IV. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

352

The National Portrait Gallery of distinguished

Americans. Conducted by JAMES HERRING, and

JAMES B. LONGACRE, etc.

V. POEMS FROM THE GERMAN.

393

Select Minor Poems, translated from the German

of Goethe and Schiller. By John S. Dwight.

VI. SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS.

401

1. Report of the Meetings of the British Associa-

tion for the advancement of Science, etc.

2. Proceedings of several Gentlemen belonging

to Boston, Salem, and the University of Cambridge,

met November 1, 1838, to consult on the expediency
of forming an institution to be called “The Ameri-

can Institution, for the Cultivation of Science," etc.

VII. THE ABORIGINES OF Ohio.

418

A Discourse on the Aborigines of Ohio, etc. By

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.

VIII. EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

428

Demonstration of the Truth of the Christian Reli-

gion. By ALEXANDER KEITI.

IX. MODERN FRENCI ROMANCE.

Histoire de la Grandeur et de la Decadence de

César Birotteau, etc. Par M. DE BALZAC.

X. New TransLATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB.

1. A New Translation of the Book of Job, etc. By

GEORGE R. Noyes.

2. The Book of the Patriarch Job, translated from

the Original Hebrew, etc. By SAMUEL LEE.

XI. STEAM BOAT EXPLOSIONS.

1. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, trans-

mitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of

Representatives of the 29th of June last, information

in relation to Steam Engines, etc.

2. Report of the Committee appointed by the Citi-

zens of Cincinnati, April 26th, 1838, to inquire into

the causes of the explosion of the Moselle.

XII. CriticAL NOTICES.

1. Dr. Hosack's Lectures.

2. Report of the Massachusetts Lunatic Hospital.

3. Vermilye’s Discourse on the death of Mr. Van

Rensselaer.

4. Dawes's Athenia of Damascus.

6. Mrs. Follen's Sketches of Married Life.

7. Lyon on Classical Studies.

8. Bartlett's Optics.

9. Norton's Astronomy.

10. Bishop M'Ilvaine's Consecration Sermon.

11. Johnson on Missionary Fanaticism.

12. Hannah; a Dramatic Poem.

13. Russell's Principles of Statistical Inquiry.

14. Behemoth.

15. Skinner's Religion of the Bible.

16. Life of Cardinal Cheverus.

17. Sparks's Life of Washingtor

18. Staunton's Dictionary of the Church.

19. My Niece, or the Stranger's Grave.

20. Reese's Introductory Lecture.

XIII. QUARTERLY CHRONICLE.

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