THE

AMERICAN

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. VII.

MARCH & JUNE, 1830.

PHILADELPHIA:
CAREY & LEA-CHESNUT STREET.

ART.

CONTENTS OF No. XIV.

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I. ASTRONOMY OF LAPLACE,

Mécanique Celeste, by the Marquis de Laplace, Peer of

France, &c. &c. Translated, with a Commentary, by Nathaniel

Bowditch, LL. D. Fellow of the Royal Societies of London,

Edinburgh, and Dublin, &c. &c.

Eloge Historique de M. le Marquis de Laplace. Par M.

le Baron Fourier, Secretaire perpetuel de l'Academie des

Sciences.

Traité de Mécanique Celeste. Par M. le Marquis de La-

place.

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Œuvres de Corneille, avec les notes de tous les Commen-

tateurs.

Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de P. Corneille. Par M.

Jules Taschereau.

Teatro Comico Originale di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti. Comic

Dramas of Victor Alfieri.

IV. WHEATON'S TRAVELS IN ENGLAND,

A Journal of a residence during several months in London;

including excursions through various parts of England, and a

short tour in France and Scotland, in the years 1823 and 1824.

By Nathaniel S. Wheaton, A. M. Rector of Christ Church,

Hartford.

V. GEOLOGY,

A new System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions

of the Earth and Animated Nature are reconciled at once to

Modern Science and Sacred History. By Andrew Ure, M. D.,

F. R. S., &c. &c. &c. &c.

Outlines of Geology. By William Thomas Brande, F. R. S.

Professor of Chemistry; R. I., &c. &c.

VI. JOHN PAUL JONES,

Memoirs of Rear Admiral Paul Jones, Chevalier of the Mi-

litary Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne,

&c. &c. Now first compiled from his Original Journals and

Correspondence; including an account of his services under

Prince Potemkin: prepared for publication by himself.

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