THE

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MONTHLY REVIEW,

OR

LITERARY JOURNAL,

ENLARGED:

From MAY to AUGUST, inclusive,

M, DCCC, XXV.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

VOLUME CVII.

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The Spirit of the Age or Contemporary Portraits......... Page 1

Lawless's Compendium of the History of Ireland...............

Halkett's Historical Notes on the North-American Indians...

A Summary View of America, by an Englishman........

Hayward on Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry........... 38

Captain Lyon's Narrative of an Attempt to reach Repulse

Bay, in Ship Griper................

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Rothelan; a Romance of English Histories..........

Smith's Practical Guide to Grammar, Criticism, and Logic... 61

Brougham's Inaugural Discourse on being installed Lord

Rector of the University of Glasgow......

Revelations of the Dead Alive.............

Curr's Account of Van Diemen's Land........................................................................

The Foresters; by the Author of "Lights and Shadows of

Scottish Life"...........

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Richardson's Sonnets and other Poems........
Gower's Poems and Poetical Translations......................

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History of Huntingdon from the earliest to the present Time 98

Booker's Descriptive and Historical Account of Dudley

Castle, and its surrounding Scenery................

... 101

103

Memoirs and Original Papers of the late Charles Alfred Stothard ib.

Povah's Vocabulary of Greek Roots.........

Gilchrist's Etymologic Interpreter.......

Benecke's Treatise of Indemnity on Marine Insurance, Bot-

tomry, and Respondentia..........................

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The Village Pastor; by one of the Authors of " Body and Soul," 108

Jouy's Hermit in Italy; or, Observations on the Manners and

Customs of Italy............................................................................................................ 111

The Hermit Abroad, by the Author of "The Hermit in Lon-

don," and "Hermit in the Country"..

112

Perceval's History of Italy during the Middle Ages............. 113

Proctor's Journey across the Cordillera of the Andes.......... 128

Haidinger's Translation of Moh's Mineralogy...

Shaw's General Zoology, continued by J. F. Stephens, Vol. XII. 148

Tales of the Crusaders, by the Author of " Waverley"...... 160

Salt's Essay on Dr. Young's and M. Champollion's Phonetic

System of Hieroglyphics.........

..... 175

Lochandhu; a Tale of the Eighteenth Century............ 189

Pitman on joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by means
of a Canal across the American Isthmus........

Davis's Translations of Chinese Moral Maxims......

The Story of a Life, by the Author of "Scenes and Impres-

sions".

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... 197

Braybrooke's Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq........

The Troubadour, and other Poems.......

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Dupin on the Commercial Power of Great Britain....

Tremaine; or, the Man of Refinement...........

Buckingham's Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the

Countries East of Syria and Palestine.....