EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES,

FOR LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, green, & LONGMANS, LONDON;

AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1841.

CONTENTS OF No. CXLVII.

ART. I. The Silurian System, founded on Geological Researches

in the Counties of Salop, Hereford, &c.; with Descrip-

tions of the Coal-Fields and Overlying Formations.

By Roderick Impey Murchison, F. R.S.

II. Patchwork.. By Captain Basil Hall,

III. Manual of Political Ethics. By Francis Lieber,

IV. Travels in North America during the years 1834, 1835,

and 1836; including a Summer Residence with the

Pawnee Tribe of Indians in the remote provinces of the

Missouri; and a visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands.

By the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray,

V. 1. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France;

contenant la Première Livraison des Monuments des

Règnes de Saint Louis, de Philippe le Hardi, de Phi-

lippe le Bel, de Louis X., de Philippe V., et de

Charles IV., depuis 1226 jusqu'en 1328. Par MM.

Daunou et Naudet, Membres de l'Institut.

2. Récits des Temps Merovingiens: Précédés de Con-

sidérations sur l'Histoire de France. Par Augustin

Thierry, Membre de l'Institut.

3. Les grandes Chroniques de France, selon que elles

sont Conservées en l'Eglise de Saint Denis en France:

Publiées par M. Paulin Paris, de l'Académie Royale

des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,

VI. Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839. By Mrs

Hamilton Gray,

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41

55

77

84

121

VII. Schiller's Leben, Geistesentwickelung, und Werke in

zusammenhang. (Schiller's Life, Mental Development,

and Works in connexion.) By Dr Karl Hoffmeister, 151

ART. VIII. 1. Woman and her Master. By Lady Morgan.

2. Woman in her Social and Domestic Character.

By Mrs John Sandford.

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3. Female Improvement. By Mrs John Sandford.

4. The Women of England, their Social Duties and

Domestic Habits. By Mrs Ellis.

5. Woman's Mission.

6. Woman's Rights and Duties, considered with rela-

tion to their Influence on Society, and on her own

Condition. By a Woman,

189.

IX. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. With an In-

troduction. By George Darley,

20

X. The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of

Texas. By William Kennedy, Esq.

241

XI. Tracts for the Times-Number Ninety,

List of New Publications,

271

298

CONTENTS OF No. CXLVIII.

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ART. I. Reuchlin, Geschichte von Port-Royal. Der Kampf des

Reformirten und des Jesuistischen Katholicismus. lter

Band: bis zum tode Angelica Arnauld.-(Reuchlin, His-

tory of Port-Royal. The Struggle of the Reformed and

the Jesuitical Catholicism. 1st vol. to the death of

Angelique Arnauld,).

II. 1. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb.

2. De Clifford; or, The Constant Man. By the Author

of Tremaine,' and 'De Vere,'

III. Memoirs of the Colman Family, including their Corre-

spondence with the most distinguished Personages of

their Time. By Richard Brinsley Peake,

389

. 366

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IV. Report of a Police Committee, dated Calcutta, August

10th, 1838; with Papers and Evidence,

V. The Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Century.

By the late Henry Swinburne, Esq., Author of Travels

in Spain and Italy. Edited by Charles White, Esq.,

VI. 1. First, Second, Third, and Fourth Annual Reports of

the Board of Education of the State of Massachusetts,

with the Reports of the Secretary of the Board for

1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840.

2. Abstracts of the Massachusetts School Returns, 1837,

1838, 1839, and 1840.

3. The Common School Journal of Massachusetts, 1837

to 1840.

4. Report of the Committee of the House of Represen-

tatives of Massachusetts on Education, presented on

the 7th March 1840,

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