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THE
NATIONAL REVIEW.
VOL. II.
JANUARY AND APRIL 1856.
LONDON:
ROBERT THEOBALD, 26 PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCLVI.
PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN,
Great New Street and Fetter Lane.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by
Edward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes by Dean Milman and M.
Guizot. Edited, with additional Notes, by William Smith,
LL.D. In Eight Volumes. London, 1855. Murray.
ART. II. THE SPANISH CONQUEST IN AMERICA
The Spanish Conquest in America, and its relation to the His-
tory of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies. By Arthur
Helps. With Maps. Vols. I. and II. London, J. W. Parker.
1855.
ART. III.-THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR. THOMAS
YOUNG
Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c. By George Peacock,
D.D., Dean of Ely, &c. 8vo. London, Murray. 1855.
The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. T. Young.
D.D., Dean of Ely, and John Leitch, Esq.
Murray. 1855.
ART. IV.-ATHEISM
Edited by G. Peacock,
3 vols. 8vo. London,
The First Cause; or, a Treatise upon the Being and Attributes of
God. By Rev. J. C. Whish, M.A. Seeley, Jackson, and Hal-
liday. 1855.
The Burnett Prize-Essays.
Principles of Psychology. By Herbert Spencer. Longmans. 1855.
George Jacob Holyoake and Modern Atheism. An Essay. By
S. D. Collet. Trübner. 1855.
The Reasoner for 1855. Edited by G. J. Holyoake. Holyoake,
Fleet Street.
ART. V.-THE PRESENT STATE OF FRANCE
Napoléon le Petit. Par Victor Hugo. London, 1852.
Phoenicia. By John Kenrick, M.A. London, B. Fellowes. 1855.
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Contents of No. III.
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ART. VII.-W. M. THACKERAY, ARTIST AND MORALIST . 177
The Newcomes. By the Author of " Vanity Fair," &c.
Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. By W. M. Thackeray. Vols. I.
and II. London, Bradbury and Evans. 1856.
ART. VIII.-FOREIGN POLICY AND THE NEXT CAMPAIGN
General Treaty of Congress, signed at Vienna, June 9, 1815; with
the three Annexes thereto, relating to the Kingdom of Poland
and the Republic of Cracow. Presented to the House of Com-
mons by her Majesty's command, in pursuance of their Address
of the 8th February 1847.
Correspondence between Viscount Castlereagh (late Marquis of
Londonderry) and the Emperor Alexander of Russia, respecting
the Kingdom of Poland. Vienna, October, November, 1814.
Presented to the House of Commons, February 1847.
Papers relative to the Suppression, by the Governments of Austria,
Prussia, and Russia, of the free State of Cracow, and to the
Annexation of that State to the Austrian Empire. Presented to
both Houses of Parliament, February 1847.
Correspondence respecting the Relations between Greece and
Turkey. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1854.
Eastern Papers. Part XIV. Negociation at Vienna. Presented
to both Houses of Parliament, 1855.
Geschichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts seit den Wiener Ver-
trägen. Von G. G. Gervinus. Erster Band. Leipzig, 1855.
The Polish Question, from the German Point of View. By a
German Statesman. Translated from the German. London,
Ridgway.
LIST OF RECENT WORKS SUITABLE FOR BOOK-SOCIETIES
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THE NATIONAL REVIEW.
CONTENTS OF NO. IV.-APRIL 1856.
ART. I.-CHARACTERISTICS OF GOETHE
The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of his Age and
Contemporaries, from published and unpublished sources. By
G. H. Lewes. 2 vols. Nutt, 1855.
Freundschaftliche Briefe von Goethe und seiner Frau an Nico-
laus Meyer, aus den Jahren 1800-1831. Leipzig, Hartung,
1856. [Friendly Letters from Goethe and his Wife to Nicolas
Meyer, between the years 1800 and 1831. Leipzic, 1856]
ART. II.-EARLY ENGLISH EXPLORERS
The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt., in his Voyage
into the South Sea in 1593. Reprinted from the Edition of
1622, and edited by Captain C. R. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.,
C.B.
Select Letters of Columbus; with Original Documents relating to
the Discovery of the New World. Translated and edited by
R. H. Major, Esq., of the British Museum.
The Discoverie of the Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh,
Knt. Edited, with copious Explanatory Notes, and a Biogra-
phical Memoir, by Sir Robert H. Schomburgh, Phil. D., &c.
Sir Francis Drake his Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde; toge-
ther with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto
Rico. Edited, from the original Ms., by W. D. Cooley, Esq.
Narratives of Early Voyages undertaken for the Discovery of a
Passage to Cathaia and India, by the North-west; with Selec-
tions from the Records of the Worshipful Fellowship of the
Merchants of London, trading into the East Indies; and from
Mss. in the Library of the British Museum. Now first pub-
lished, by Thomas Rundall, Esq.
The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, expressing the
Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country; together with
the Manners and Customs of the People, gathered and observed
as well by those who first went thither as collected by William
Strachey, Gent., the First Secretary of the Colony. Now first
edited, from the original Manuscript in the British Museum, by
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