FIFTY-FOURTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Abdy, E. S. his 'Residence and Tour in the United States, with particular Ob- servations on the Conditions of the Blacks,' 392.-See America. Almanac issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, speci- men of the gross ignorance exhibited in, 303. America, state of society in, 54,-women of, described, 48--books of travels in, 392-Narrative of Doctors Reed and Matheson, 393-warfare against the principle of a religious establishment. ib. -social state of America, 394-visit to General Jackson, 395-the hall of Con- gress, 396-visit to a Negro Meeting- house, ib.-Forest scenery of the Grand Prairie, 397-Narrative of Mr. Abdy, ib. -condition and prospects of the co- loured people, 399-tyranny of white church-wardens, ib. interview with General Jackson, 401-Latrobe's Ram- bles in North America, 402-difficulty of bringing the Negro-population to the Anglo-American standard of civiliza-
tion, 403-condition of the remains of the red race, ib.-picture of the en- virons of Baltimore, 405-advice to fu- ture travellers in America, 408-doc- trine of social equality, 409, facility of attaining physical prosperity in Ame- rica, i-antiquities of America, 411 -Indian mounds, ib.-Washington Ir- ving's Tour to the Prairies, 412. Arkwright, Sir Richard, ought he for mul- tiplying the powers of production, to be considered a benefactor or not? 350. Ascham, Roger, anecdotes of, 345-his mode of teaching the Princess Elizabeth, VOL. LIV., NO. CVIII.
348-his 'Toxophilus,' ib.-his love of cock-fighting, ib.
Baalbec, ruins of, described, 174. Badcock, Lieutenant-Colonel, his 'Rough Leaves, from a Journal kept in Spain and Portugal'-See Spain and Portugal. Baltimore, picture of the environs of, 405 Barrow, John, jun., his Visit to Iceland in the summer of 1834, 355-early writers on Iceland ib.-its general scenery, 359 -excursion to Röraas, 357-Reikiavik, the capital of the island, 358- the country around described, ib.-eruption of the Great Geyser, 361-visit to Havneford, 363-Bessestad college, ib. -state of education in Iceland, 364- parish priests, 365-the northern bard, Thorlakson, ib.-visit to Stappen, ib.— population of Iceland, 367.
Bartram, William, his hotanical excursions into the Floridas, 331.
Beckford, William, Esq., his 'Recollec- tions of a Visit to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha'-See Spain and Portugal, 230.
Bentley's Horace, nierits and defects of,
Biographical composition, difficulties at- tending, 331.
Biography, the noblest use of, 383. Biography and history, distinction be- tween, 331
Bolingbroke, Lord, Memoirs of, by George W. Cooke, Esq., 368-former biogra- phies, ib.-the author's deficiency in ori- ginal information, 370-and ignorance of facts, 370-Whig and Tory of former days, 370-Bolingbroke's early politi-
cal tenets, 372-extraordinary misquo- tation, ib.-and blunders, 373-defence of the treaty of Utrecht, 375-Swift defended from the charge of deism, ib. -and of avarice, 377-Bolingbroke's 'Letter to Sir William Windham,' ib. his flight and secession to France, 384 -his final return to England, 390-his philosophical works, 391. Butler, Mrs. (Fanny Kemble), her Jour- nal,' 39-abilities and self-confidence of the author, ib. fundamental error of the work, ib.-the writer's personal po- sition considered, ib.-influence of her profession on her literary style, 41- her strong religious feeling, 43-her affectation, ib.-her excessive colouring, 44-a storm at New York described, 41-graphic sketches, ib.-American beauty, 48-her vituperation of the stage, ib.-her work clever and full of enter- tainment, 52 characteristic passages, 53-state of society in America, 54— aristocracy and democracy, ib.-Ameri- can Senate described 57-visit to Nia- gara, ib.
Cockfighting, remarks on, 350. Coleridge, Hartley, his Worthies of York- shire and Lancashire; being Lives of the most distinguished Persons that have been born in, and connected with those Provinces,' 340-the work one of un- usual merit, ib.-advantages of local biography, 331-Life of Dr. Fothergill, ib. Bartram's Botanical Expedition into the Floridas noticed, ib.-difficul- ties attending biographical composi- tions, ib. distinction between biogra- phy and history, 332-Life of Bentley, 334-merits and defects of his 'Ho- race,' ib.-Life of Fairfax, 335-effect of the peaceful policy of James the First, ib.-picture of the armies met on Mars- ton-moor, 337-battle of Naseby, 339 -publication of the King's Cabinet Opened, ib.-Life of the Earl of Derby, 341-loyalty described, 342-and love of liberty, b.-Life of Anne Clifford, ib. the Shepherd Lord,' ib.-the family
picture, 344-Life of Roger Aschan 345-his mode of educating the Pri cess Elizabeth, 348-his Toxophilus 349-his love of cock-fighting, ib.- Life of Sir Richard Arkwright, 350- -Life of Mason, 352--difficulties dramatic composition, ib.- - Congreve's 'Way of the World,' 353—his Charu- ter, 354.
Congreve William, his 'Way of the World" 354-rapid survey of his Life and Co racter, ib.
Cooke, George, Esq., his Memoirs Lord Bolingbroke,' 368-See Bu broke.
Cookery, See Gastronomy. Corinna of Madame de Staël, charac ized, 270.
Danube, Steam-voyage down the- Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Sen and Turkey, by Michael J. Quin, 469. Dido of Virgil, 162.
Dodd, the comedian, his picture by Cha Lamb, 75.
Dramatic composition, peculiar difficu of, 352.
Edwards, Jonathan, his books on F Will, 258.
Egerton, Lord Francis, his translation Raumer's History of the Sixteenth Seventeenth Centuries, 80.-See R
Elia, last Essays of, 58.-See Lamb. Elliston, the comedian, his picture
Emigration, 413-causes which have to the necessity of, ib.-case of hand-loom weavers, 414-efforts ma in England for the reduction of pa ism, 415-consequences of the house system of relief, ib.-necess encouraging spontaneous emigra 416-benefits to be derived there 417-the cost, 419-progress of: gration to Canada, 420-appointe of emigration agents, 424-intere letters from emigrants to Canada, England and the English in 1551, by truccio Ubaldini, 106.
English Lexicography, 295 - no te superior to the English in the European circle, ib.-terms of S and Northern origin the sinews c speech, 296-utility of the sta philology, ib. character of the
language, i-Dugald Stewart on ety- mological investigations, 297-his ex- traordinary theory of the origin of San- scrit, 299 - present state of English lexicography, ib.-merit of Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, ib.-neglect of Ety- mology and Philology in England, ib:- causes of the little progress hitherto made in the study of, 300-recent lexi- cographers and glossarists unacquainted with modern German, 302 - Todd's edition of Johnson's Dictionary, ib.-his knowledge of English more scholastic than vernacular, 303-the department of British Botany slovenly and incom- plete. ib.specinens of gross ignorance exhibited in the almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, 304- Dr. Noah Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, ib.-the general exe- cution very poor, ib.-and conducted throughout on erroneous principles, ib. -its crudities aud errors, 305-Rich- ardson's New Dictionary of the English Language, 310-likely to become the foundation of a better Dictionary than we have hitherto possessed, ib.—his selection of words judicious, ib. chronological table of authors recom- mended, ib. . Tooke's ، Diversions of Purley,' 311-its merits and defects, ib. -his analysis of particles, 312-his ety- mology of "truth" examined, 319- specimen of a new Etymologicon Angli- canum, 320.
Equality, social, the doctrine of described, 409.
Etrurian Antiquities, 429-German re-
searches into the ancient history of Italy, ib.-Micali's History of the An- cient Peoples of Italy, 430-Egyptian origin of the Etrurian civilization, ib.- Etruria one of the unsolved problems of ancient history, 432-the Etruscan lan- guage, 433-earliest European settle. ment to which the Ra-sena can be traced, 434-relation of the Pelasgian settlers in Italy to the Ra-sena, 437- Pelasgic manner of building in Greece and Italy, 438-tombs at Tarquinii, 441 -analogy between the buildings of the Etruscans and Egyptians, 442-rela- tionship of the different races of man- kind, 444-Hellenic period of Etruscan art, 452.
Etymologicon Anglicanum, specimen of a new, 320.
Farewell to Tobacco, Charles Lamb's, 69
Galilee, Sea of, described, 169. Garzoni, his Grammatica della Lingua Kurda quoted, 309.
Gastronomy and Gastronomers, 107- importance of the discovery of a new dish, ib. literature of cookery, ib. -didactic poem by Archestratus, 118 -cookery of the Greeks, ib.--Roman banquets, ib. nvention of forks, 109- Apicius, ib-the dark ages of cookery, ib.-its revival in Italy, ib.-rapid pro- gress of culinary science, 120-closing scene of Vatel, maître d'hôtel of Condé, 121-state of cookery under Charles the Second, 123-under Queen Anne, ib- and after the accession of the Bruns- wicks, ib.-petits soupers of the Duke of Orleans, 124-tables volantes in- vented, ib.-cookery under Louis XVI. and XVIII., ib.-influence of the Revo- lution upon cookery, 125-establish- ment at Paris of restaurants, 126 hôtels and restaurateurs of Germany and Italy, 139-a first-rate dinner in England, 140-hotels and club-houses of London, 141- a dinner for an em- peror,' 143-selection of cooks, ib.- physiology of taste, 144-Ude's French Cook, 151.
Gifford, William, his editions of Jonson, Ford, Massinger, &c., 46.
Gleig, Mr., his Chronicles of Waltham' recommended, 415.
Goethe and Wordsworth, resemblance be- tween, 181.
Hoffman, Mr., his Winter in the Far West,' 413.
Holy Land, Lamartine's Pilgrimage to, 155.-See Lamartine.
Huish, Robert, his 'Late Voyage of Captain Sir John Ross, for the Discovery of a North-west passage,' 19.
Indian mounds described, 411. Insanity, reflections on Robert Hall's re- covery from a first access of, 273. Ion, a Tragedy, by Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, 61 n, 505.
Irish Language, character of the, 296. Irving, John T. jun., his ، Indian Sketches, taken during an expedition among the Pawnee Tribes,' 412.
Kean, Edmund, the Life of, by Barry Cornwall, 109-Kean's general cha- racter as an actor, ib.-his birth and parentage, 110-his education, 111- his early career, 112-patronized by Dr. Drury, 113, is engaged at Drury-Lane, ib. — his first appearance in Shylock, 113-his success and absurd extrava- gances, 115-his death, 116. Kemble, Fanny, see Butler.
Kemble, John Philip, his picture by Charles Lamb, 76.
Lamb, Charles, his Last Essays of Elia,' 58-character of him, and of his wri- tings, 59-London, 60-New Year's Eve, ib.—his imitation of antique phrase- ology, 62-folio Beaumont and Fletcher, 63 his essays text-books of sound principles, 64-his 'Dramatic Sketches,' ib.-his merits as a critic and restorer of old literature, ib.-his essay on the genius of Hogarth, 68-his poetic vein, 69-his Farewell to Tobacco,' ib.-his Sonnet on the Family Name, 71-the Sabbath Bells, ib.-his sonnets on Work, and Leisure, 72-his account of himself, ib.-his picture of Elliston, 74-of Dodd, 75-and of John Kemble, 76-his cha- racter by Coleridge, 77.
Lamartine, Alphonso de, his' Pilgrimage to the Holy Land,' 155-modern French school of poetry, ib.-characteristics of Lamartine's poetry, 157-demerits of his translator, ib.-the voyage, 161- Carthage, ib.-Malta, 162-arrival in Syria, 164-Mount Lebanon, 165- Lady Hester Stanhope, 166-Tyre, 167
the Sea of Galilee, 169-environs of Jerusalem, 171-palace of King David on Mount Bion, ib,banka of the Jore dan, 178 ruins of Baalbec, 174--Pos
Machinery, utility of the modern impro ments in, considered, 350. Mackintosh, Right Honourable Sir Jame Life of, edited by his son, 251-ch racteristics of modern biography autobiography, 250-the present highly interesting in its matter andis spectable in its style and spirit, 253- Sir James's Journals, 254 — leadin events of his life, 255-parentage, - early education, 256-college of Ater deen, 257-Dr. Dunbar, 258—Robe Hall, ib.-Jonathan Edwards's book Free Will, ib.— early passion, 259- studies physic at Edinburgh, 260- takes a Doctor's degree, arrives in Lo don, and marries, 261-makes a t through the Low Countries, 262-be comes a contributor to the Oracle ne paper, ib. makes several ineffectu attempts to establish himself as a phy sician, 263-publishes Vindicia G licæ,' 264-his explanatory letter Mr. Richard Sharp, 265-is called the bar, 267-his defence of Peltier,
-is appointed Recorder of Bombay, -his life at Bombay, 269-extract from his letters and journals, ib.—ct racter of Corinne,' 270-genius of Gospel, 273-character of Windham ib.-letter to Hall on his recovery fro a first access of insanity, ib.-defence his change of opinion on the French re volution, 275-returns to England, 276 obtains a seat in parliament, 278-sty of his eloquence, 279-obtains a pro- fessorship of law in the East India Ce lege, 281-admitted a member of the Privy Council, 282-obtains a seat at the India Board, 284-his conduct of the Reform Bill, ib.his death and ch racter, 287.
Marston Moor, picture of the armies which met on, 337,
Mary Queen of Scots, Inquiry into the sp tivity and death of, 93.
Massinger, Gifford's edition of, 64. Micali, Guiseppe, his 'Storia degli anti- chi Popoli Italiani, 429-See Etrurian Antiquities.
Municipal Reform, 231-Commission ap- pointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, 232 -extraordinary selection of the Commis- sioners, ib.-Report of the Commission- ers, 236-Sir Francis Palgrave's protest against the Report, 239-examination of the Bill introduced by Ministers, 243.
Naseby, battle of, 339. New year's eve, 60. Niagara, Falls of, 57.
Oporto, details of the siege of, 191.
Palgrave, Sir Francis, his protest against the First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, 231 -his observations on the principles to be adopted in the establishment of new Municipalities, the reform of ancient Corporations, and the cheap administra- tion of justice, 231.
Patriotism described, 342. Pencillings by the Way; first Impressions of Foreign Scenes, Customs, and Man- ners, by N. P. Willis, 453-impudence and vulgarity of this author, 463-his shameful reports of private conversa- tions, &c., 468.
Philip II., personal characteristics of, 80. Philology, utility of the study of, 296. Physiologie du Goût; ou Méditations
de Gastronomie Transcendante, par M. Brillat Savarin, 117.-See Gastronomy. Philologists, described by Dugald Stew- art, 298.
Poetry, modern French school of, 155. Price, Mr., on the merits and defects of Tooke's Diversions of Purley, 311.
Quin, Michael J., his Steam Voyage down the Danube, with Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, and Turkey, 499,
Raumer, Frederick Von, his History of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, illustrated by original documents; trans- lated from the German by Lord Francis Egerton," 78-the author's professional tour to Paris, ib.--his 'Letters from Paris' ib-his 'Polen's Untergang' 79- his 'Letters from the Royal Library, ib. -general description of the work, ib.- personal characteristics of Philip the Second, 80-mysterious history of the Infante Don Carlos, 83-captivity of Mary Queen of Scots, 93-interference of James the First on behalf of his mother, 95-Gray's mission to intercede for the Queen, 96-Account of England and the English by Petruccio Ubaldini,
Recollections of a few days spent with the Queen's army in Spain, in Septem- ber 1834, 186-194.
Reed and Matheson, Drs., their Nar- rative of a Visit to the American Churches, 392.-See America. Richardson, Charles, his New Dictionary of the English Language, 295.-See English Lexicography.
Robespierre, Maximilian, Mémoires Au- thentiques de, 517.
Robespierre, Charlotte, Mémoires sur ses deux Frères, 517.
Ross, Captain Sir John, his 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North- west Passage,' 1-'Late Voyage of Cap- tain Sir John Ross, by Robert Huish, characterized, 2-Sir John's subscrip tion-shop, trampers, and Vauxhall pa- noramic exhibitions, 3 Commander James Clarke Ross's memorandums, ib. -Captain Beaufort, 4-Dr. M'Culloch, ib.-origin of the expedition, ib.-Mr. Felix Booth, ib.-departure of the expe- dition, 5-wreck of the Fury, ib.-'New Discoveries' along the coast of Boothia Felix, 6-the Victory shut up during the winter in Felix Harbour, 7-schools for the men, 8- improvement for the better' among them, ib.-visited by a tribe of Esquimaux, 9-their snow huts described, ib. salmon fishery, 10- Commander Ross sets out on a land ex- pedition, ib.-reaches the shores of the western sea, 11-Cape Felix, 12-Vic- tory Point, ib,--Sir John's fishing ex- cursion, 13-the ship relieved from the ice, 14-but again shut up, ib, second winter, expedition to ascertain the exuet pealtion of the north maguetie
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