Selections from the Periodical Literature of all CONDUCTED BY ABSALOM PETERS, D. D., AND SELAH B. TREAT, AIDED BY A NUMBER OF LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN, VOLUME II. JULY, SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER, 1841, NEW-YORK: ARY FOR LIBR VE NEW-YORK PUBLISHED BY W. R. PETERS, BRICK-CHURCH CHAPEL, 36 PARK ROW, BOSTON: WHIPPLE & DAMRELL, No. 9 CORNHILL. LONDON: WILEY & PUTNAM, 35 PATERNOSTER ROW. 1841. Р PUBLICLIBRARY ABTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1897. STOR ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. UNIVERSITY PRESS: A Aerostation, experimental, 188. Ancient Greece, the literature of, 39. Appellate jurisdiction of British courts, no- Arts, science and the, recent discoveries Australia, S. noticed, 181. Colonies, 369. Bancroft's United States, noticed, 385. Bretons, the minstrelsy of the, noticed, 164. Budget, ministerial, noticed, 370, 378, 382. C Ceylon, books on, noticed, 594. Chemistry and mineralogy, papers on, 586. Chrysostom, St., French and English edi- Cold, its nature and phenomena, 113. Icelandic historical literature, its origin, India, administration of justice in, noticed, Ireland, union between England and, 25. Iron, spontaneous heating of cast, 190. Courts of Europe, the, by Swinburne, no- Italian narrative poetry, noticed, 171; dra- Drama, the lyric, noticed, 171. Dutch colonies, policy of the, noticed, 595. East India company, the, 505. England, books in, noticed, 192, 397, 597. England, recent publications in, 202, 406, England, union between, and Ireland, 25. Epistolæ Samaritanæ, 259, 481. Etruria, the Sepulchres of, noticed, 185. Flax, East Indian, 187. Foster's notes on the U. S., noticed, 357. ma, 173; painters, 184. Italy, books in, noticed, 201, 405. Educa- Legend. tales of the highlands, noticed,375. Literature of Europe, Hallam's Introduc- Literature of ancient Greece, history of, 39. M Magnetic power of solar rays, 390. Marsh, Geo. P.Esq. Icelandic literature, 131. |