THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. LXXIX.

Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

111 WASHINGTON STREET.

1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXIV.

ART.

I. A NATURAL THEOLOGY OF ART

The Moral Significance of the Crystal Palace: A Ser-

mon, preached first to his own Congregation, and repeated

in the Church of the Messiah, on Sunday Evening, Octo-

ber 30, 1853. By REV. H. W. BELLOWS.

II. JOHN G. WHITTIER AND HIS WRITINGS

1. Poems.

2. Margaret Smith's Journal.

3. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches.

4. Songs of Labor.

5. Chapel of the Hermit, and other Poems.

III. EARLY RECORDS OF MASSACHUSETTS.

1. Records of the Governor and Company of the Mas-

sachusetts Bay in New England. Edited by NATHANIEL

B. SHURTLEff.

2. Archæologia Americana. Transactions and Collec-

tions of the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. III.

Part I.

IV. AMERICAN HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE .

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. 1

31

53

66

1. Reports of the Trustees, Steward, and Superintendent

of the Insane Hospital. [Maine.] Etc., etc.

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V. JOSEPH ADDISON

1. The Works of JOSEPH ADDISON. Edited, with Crit-

ical and Explanatory Notes, by GEORGE WASHINGTON

GREENE.

2. The Spectator; a New Edition, carefully revised,

with Prefaces Historical and Biographical, by ALEXAN-

DER CHALMERS, A.M.