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CONTENTS to No. XXXVIII

Art. 1. Iceland: or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during

the Years 1814 and 1815, containing Observations on the Natural

Phenomena, History, Literature, and Antiquities of the Island; and

the Religion, Character, Manners, and Customs of its Inhabitants.

By Ebenezer Henderson, Doctor in Philosophy, Member of the

Royal Society of Gottenburgh, &c.

291

II. Women; or, Pour et Contre. A Tale. By the Author of Ber-

tram'

321

III. Samor, Lord of the Bright City. An Heroic Poem. By the

Rey. H. H. Milman, M. A.

328

IV. The Life of Robert Fulton. By his friend Cadwallader D. Col-

den. Comprising some Account of the Invention, Progress, and

Establishment of Steam-Boats; of Improvements in the Construction

and Navigation of Canals, &c.

347

V. 1. The History of Small-pox. By James Moore, Member of the

Royal College of Surgeons, &c.

2. The History and Practice of Vaccination. By James Moore 357

VI. Essays on the Proximate Mechanical Causes of the General Phe.

nomena of the Universe. By Sir Richard Phillips

...375

VII. The Northern Courts ; containing Original Memoirs of the So-

vereigns of Sweden and Denmark, since 1766 By Mr. John

Brown

379

VIII. Obserrations relating to some of the Antiquities of Egypt, from

the Papers of the late Mr. Davison. Published in Walpole's Me-

moirs

391

IX.

Lectures on the English Poets. Delivered at the Surrey Institu-

tion. By William Hazlitt

424

X. 1. Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly rela-

ting to its Botanical Professorship. By Sir James Edward Smith,

M. D. F. R. S. &c. President of the Linnæan Society.

2. A Vindication of the University of Cambridge from the Reflections

of Sir James Edward Smith, President of the Linnæan Society, &c.

By the Rev. James Henry Monk, B. D. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity

College, and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cam-

434

XI. A Reply to the Quarterly Review on the New Translation of the

Bible from the original Hebrew. By John Bellamy, Author of the

· History of all Religions'

446

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XII. 1. Abrégé des Mémoires ou Journal du Marquis de Dangeau,

avec des Notes Historiques et Critiques, et un Abrégé de l'Histoire

de la Régence. Par Mad. de Genlis.

2. Essai sur l'Etablissement Monarchique de Louis XIV. précédé de

Nouveaux Mémoires de Dangeau, avec des Notes Autographes curi,

euses et enecdotiques ajoutées à ces Mémoires par un Courtisan de

la même Epoque." Par Edouard Pierre Lémontey

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XIII, Letter from Sir Robert Wilson to his Constituents in Refutation

of a Charge for despatching a false Report of a Victory to the Com-

mander in Chief of the British Army in the Peninsula in the Year

1809 ; and which Charge is advanced in the Quarterly Review pub-

lished in September, 1818

478

XIV. 1. First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth REPORTS of the Select

Committee appointed to Inquire into the ÉDUCATION OF THE Lower

ORDERS IN THE METROPOLIS, and to report their Observations

thereupon, together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before

them from time to time, to the House : and who were instructed to

consider WHAT

FIT TO BE DONE WITH RESPECT TO THE

CHILDREN OF PauperS WHO SHALL BE

IN THE

Streets in and near the Metropolis, &c, 1816-1818.

2, A Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly, M. P. from Henry Brougham,

Esq. M. P. F. R. S. upon the Abuse of Charities.

3. The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. M. P. in the House of Com-

mons. May 8th, 1818, on the Education of the Poor, and Charitable

Abuses.

:... A Letter to the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, &c, M. P. for the

: University of Oxford, in Answer to Mr. Brougham's Letter to Sir

Samuel. Romilly, upon the Abuse of Charities, and Ministerial

Patronage in the Appointments under the late Act.

5. Vindiciæ Wykehamicæ ; or, a Vindication of Winchester College :

ina Eettbe bo pleary Brougham, Esq. occasioned by his Letter to Sir

Samuel Romilly, on Charitable Abuses. By the Rev. W. L, Bowles,

6. A Letter to Henry Brougham, Esq. M. P. F. R. S. in Reply to the

Strictures on Winchester College, contained in his Letterko Sir Sa,

muel Romilly, M. P. From the Rev, Liscombe Clarke, A. M,

Fellow of Winchester College.

7. A Letter to Henry Brougham, Esq. M, P, from John Ireland, D.D.

formerly Vicar of Croydon, now Dean of Westminster, with an Ap-

pendix, containing the Letter from Mr. Drummond

492

New Publications

570

Index

578

NOTICE.

Our Subscribers are requested to observe that Nos. XXXIX. and XL, will

consist of an index to the first NINETEEN Volumes. It has been some
time in preparation, and will be ready for publication in the course of
the present year. The number next published will therefore be XLI.

S.

CONTENTS OF No. XXXVIL

Art. I. Memoirs, illustrative of the Life and Writings of John

Evelyn, Esq. F. R. S. Author of the Sylva,' &c. &c.

Comprising his Diary, from the Year 1641 to 1705-6,

and a Selection of his familiar Letters. to which is

subjoined, the private Correspondence between King

Charles I. and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicho-

las, whilst his Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at

other Times during the Civil War; also between Sir

Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir

Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France,

in the Time of Charles I. and the Usurpation. The

whole now first published, from the original MSS, in

two vols. Edited by William Bray, Esq. Fellow and

Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

11. Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia

to the Territory of Illinois. By Morris Birkbeck, Au-

thor of · Notes on a Tour in France.'

54

III. 1. A Treatise upon the Poor Laws. By T. P. Courtenay,

Esq.

2. Remarks on a Course of Education designed to pre-

pare the Youthful Mind for a Career of Honour, Pa-

triotism, and Philanthropy. By Thomas Myers, A. M.

of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, &c.

3. A Summary View of the Report and Evidence relative

to the Poor Laws, published by Order of the House of

Commons, with Observations and Suggestions. By S.

W. Nicoll.

4. A Letter to the Common Council and Livery of the

City of London on the Abuses existing in Newgate, &c.

By the Hon. H. G. Bennet, M. P. -

79

IV. Letters from the Hon. Horace Walpole to George Monta-

gu, Esq. from the Year 1736 to 1770.

113

V. A Sketch of the Military and Political Power of Russia, in

the Year 1817. Fourth Edition.

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YI. Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and

Cyprus, in the Year 1314. By Henry Light, Captain in

the Royal Artillery

178

А

Addenduni to · Light's Travels."

280

VII. Endymion : A Poetic Romance. By John Keats. . 204

VIII. Greenland, the adjacent Seas, and the North-West Pas-

sage to the Pacitic Ocean ; illustrated in a Voyage to

Davis's Strait during the Summer of 1817. By Bernard

O'Reilly, Esq.

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IX. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto IV. By Lord Byron. 215

X. Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey.

Edited from Manuscript Journals, by Robert Walpole,

M. A.

233

XI. Women : a Poem. By the Author of The Heroine.' 246

XII. The Holy Bible, newly translated from the original He-

brew : with Notes critical and explanatory. By John

Bellamy, Autbor of The History of all Religions - 250

Quarterly List of New Publications.

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