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Selections from the Periodical Literature of all
Foreign Countries.

CONDUCTED

BY ABSALOM PETERS, D. D., AND SELAH B. TREAT,
Editors of the American Biblical Repository,

AIDED BY A NUMBER OF LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN,

VOLUME II.

JULY, SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER, 1841,

NEW-YORK:

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FOR LIBR VE

NEW-YORK

PUBLISHED BY W. R. PETERS, BRICK-CHURCH CHAPEL, 36 PARK ROW,
FRONTING THE CITY HALL.

BOSTON:

WHIPPLE & DAMRELL, No. 9 CORNHILL.

LONDON: WILEY & PUTNAM, 35 PATERNOSTER ROW.

1841.

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PUBLICLIBRARY

ABTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1897.

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ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by
WILLIAM R. PETERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER, 114 NASSAU STREET.

A

Aerostation, experimental, 188.
Ancient Egyptians, their manners, customs,
aris, etc., 291.

Ancient Greece, the literature of, 39.
Anglo-Saxon laws and institutes, noticed,
165.

Appellate jurisdiction of British courts, no-
ticed, 171.

Arts, science and the, recent discoveries
in, 186, 389.

Australia, S. noticed, 181. Colonies, 369.
B

Bancroft's United States, noticed, 385.
Belgium, by Tennent, noticed, 356.
Bibliographical notics, 192, 397, 597.
Biographical sketeu of M. Guizot, 231.
Bohemian literature, 569.

Bretons, the minstrelsy of the, noticed, 164.
Brittany, antiquities and language of, 175.
British Association, 11th meeting of, 582.
British Critic, the, reviewed, 179.
British power in India, 505.

Budget, ministerial, noticed, 370, 378, 382.
Burritt, Elihu, on the literature of the Sa-
maritans, 249. Epist. Samar., 259, 481.

C

Ceylon, books on, noticed, 594.
Chalk, animalcular construction of, 389.
Chemical geology, 395.

Chemistry and mineralogy, papers on, 586.
Chinese literature, 318. A Chinese tale,
319.

Chrysostom, St., French and English edi-
tions of, noticed, 181.
Church architecture, noticed, 183.
Clock, ubiquitous, 190.

Cold, its nature and phenomena, 113.
Coleman family, the, memoirs of, 380.
Columbus and Cook, parallel between, 536.
Combe's Constitution of Man, 169.
Corn laws, the, noticed, 596.

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Icelandic historical literature, its origin,
etc., 131.

India, administration of justice in, noticed,
381; books in, noticed, 405; origin and
growth of British power in, 505.

Ireland, union between England and, 25.
Iron pillars, strength of, 190.

Iron, spontaneous heating of cast, 190.

Courts of Europe, the, by Swinburne, no- Italian narrative poetry, noticed, 171; dra-
ticed, 369, 381.

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Drama, the lyric, noticed, 171.

Dutch colonies, policy of the, noticed, 595.
E.

East India company, the, 505.
Egypt, Clot Bey on, noticed, 387.
Egyptians, the ancient, their manners, cus-
toms, trades, etc., 291.

England, books in, noticed, 192, 397, 597.
England, the church of, homilies and doc-
trines of, 454.

England, recent publications in, 202, 406,
606.

England, union between, and Ireland, 25.
Engraving, ancient and modern, noticed,
174.

Epistolæ Samaritanæ, 259, 481.

Etruria, the Sepulchres of, noticed, 185.
F

Flax, East Indian, 187.

Foster's notes on the U. S., noticed, 357.
France, books in, noticed, 199, 403, 603.

ma, 173; painters, 184.

Italy, books in, noticed, 201, 405. Educa-
tion in, 384.

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Legend. tales of the highlands, noticed,375.
Lieber's political ethics, noticed, 185.
Life-hat, the aquatic, 190.
Literature of Bohemia, 569.

Literature of Europe, Hallam's Introduc-
tion to the, 1, 205.

Literature of ancient Greece, history of, 39.
Literature of the Slavi, 561.
Lock, identifying detector, 189.

M

Magnetic power of solar rays, 390.
Malthusian, the, theory of population re-
futed, 469.

Marsh, Geo. P.Esq. Icelandic literature, 131.

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