THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XCV.

PUBLISHED IN

JUNE & SEPTEMBER, 1854.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1854.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXXXIX.

ART.

L.-The House of Commons. By Charles R. Dod, Esq.

1832-53

By Henry Hart

Vols. I., II., III.

II.-History of Latin Christianity; including that of the Popes

to the Pontificate of Nicolas V.

Milman, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's.

III.-Dramatic Register for 1853. 12mo.

IV.-1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and My-

thology. Edited by W. Smith, LL.D. 3 vols. 8vo.

London. 1844-1851.

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. By

the same. 2nd edit. 1 vol. 8vo. London. 1851.

3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. By

the same. Vol. I. 8vo. London. 1854.

4. A Sinaller Dictionary of Antiquities, Selected and

Abridged from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman

Antiquities. 2nd edit. By the same. London.

5. A new Classical Dictionary of Ancient Biography,

Mythology, and Geography. By the same. 2nd edit.

1 vol. 8vo. London.

6. A smaller Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman

Biography, Mythology, and Geography; abridged from

the larger work. By the same. 2nd edit. 1 vol.

post 8vo. London. 1854.

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7. Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Alterthumswissen-

schaft; herausgegeben von August Pauly. 7 vols. 8vo.

Stuttgardt, 1839-1852

V.-1. Télégraphe Electrique: Documents relatifs à l'Eta-

blissement de Lignes Télégraphiques en Belgique.

Bruxelles. 1850.

2. Electric Science: its History, Phenomena, and Appli-

cation. By F. C. Bakewell. London. 1853.

3. The Electric Telegraph: its History and Progress.

By Edward Highton, C.E. London. 1852.

4. Guide to the Electric Telegraph. By Charles May-

bury. 1850.

5. Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, including

its Rise and Progress in the United States.

Alexander Jones.

New York. 1852.

By

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ART.

6. The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph; with an Historical

Account of its Rise, Progress, and present Condition.

By Lawrence Turnbull, M.D. Philadelphia. 1853.

7. Traité de Télégraphie Electrique. Par M. l'Abbé

Moigno. 2nd edit. Paris. 1852.

8. New York Industrial Exhibition. Special Report of

Mr. Joseph Whitworth. Presented to Parliament by

command of Her Majesty. London. 1854

VI.-1. Life in Fejee, or Five Years among the Cannibals. By

a Lady. 1851.

2. Journals of the Bishop of New Zealand's Visitation

Printed for the Society for the Propagation of

Tours.

the Gospel.

3. A Letter to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle on

Behalf of the Melanesian Mission of the Bishop of New

Zealand. By Lewis M. Hogg, Rector of Cranford,

Northamptonshire. London. 1853.

4. Remarkable Incidents in the Life of the Rev. Samuel

Leigh, Missionary to the Settlers and Savages of Austra-

lia and New Zealand. By the Rev. Alexander Strachan.

London.

1853.

5. Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the

Australasian Colonies. By Lieut.-Col. Godfrey Charles

Mundy. 3 vols. London. 1852.

6. Auckland, the Capital of New Zealand, and the Country

adjacent; including some Account of the Gold Dis-

covery in New Zealand. London. 1853.

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VII.-1. The Lives of the Queens of England, &c. By Agnes

Strickland. Vols. VI. VII. London. 1843.

2. Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher

Hatton, K.G., &c. By Sir Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G.

London. 1847.

3. The Romance of the Peerage, or Curiosities of Family

History. By George Lillie Craik. Vols. I. II. Lon-

don. 1848.

4. Lives and Letters of the Devereux Earls of Essex, &c.

By the Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux. 2 Vols.

London. 1853

VIII.-1. The Speech of Lord Lyndhurst, delivered in the House

of Lords on Monday, the 19th June, 1854. London.

1854.

2. The Russians in Bulgaria and Rumelia in 1828 and

1829; during the Campaigns of the Danube, the Sieges

of Brailow, Varna, Silistria, Shumla, and the Passage

of the Balkan, by Marshal Diebitch. From the Ger-

man of Baron von Moltke, Major in the Prussian

service. 1854.

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CONTENTS

OF

No. CXC.

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1.-1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to make In-

quiries relating to Smithfield Market, and the Markets

in the City of London for the Sale of Meat. London.

1850.

2. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into

the existing State of the Corporation of the City of

London, &c.; together with the Minutes of Evidence,

and Appendix. London. 1854.

3. London in 1850-51, from the Geographical Dictionary

of J. R. M'Culloch. London. 1851.

4. Market Gardening round London; giving in detail the

various Methods adopted by Gardeners in growing for

the London Markets. By James Cuthill. London.

1851.

5. Report of the Supply of Water to the Metropolis.

General Board of Health. London. 1850.

6. London Labour and the London Poor. By Henry

Mayhew. London. 1851.

7. The Census of Great Britain, 1851. Report and Sum-

mary Tables. London. 1852

II.-1. The Bell: its Origin, History, and Uses. By the Rev.

Alfred Gatty. London. 1848.

2. Paper on Bells, with Illustrations. By the Rev. H. T.

Ellacombe, in Report of Bristol Architectural Society,

1850

III. 1. Encyclopædia Britannica. Eighth Edition.

burgh. 1853. 4to. Art. Architecture.'

Edin-

2. Proceedings of the Liverpool Architectural and Archæ-

ological Society. 4to. Vol. I. Liverpool.

3. The Builder, No. 609. London. 1854.

1852.

4. The Building Chronicle: a Journal of Architecture

and the Arts.

Edinburgh. 1854

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