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Great Britain.

1. Attica and Athens; an Inquiry into the Civil, Moral, and Religious Institutions of the Inhabitants, the Rise and Decline of the Athenian power, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the German of K. O. Müller, Grotefend, Gruber, and others. By John Ingram Lockhart, F. R. A. S. London: Groombridge.

Frederick, may be partly judged of by the fact, that, during the comparatively brief period of its continuance, it cost the belligerent powers no less than lated that he himself lost 180,000 soldiers and 1500 853,000 men, dead. Among these, Frederick calcuofficers, killed in battle, or who died of their wounds, though the number of officers lost altogether, by the sword, by casualties, and by disease, amounted to

4000.

The Russians lost, in four great battles, 120,000 men; the Austrians lost, in ten battles, 140,000 men; the allied English and Germans, 160,000; the Swedes, 25,000; the petty Princes of the Empire, 28.000. The details of this extraordinary contest we earnestly commend to the attention of our readers. They are related, in this work, with laudable succinciness, and form a mass of military facts and incidents that every soldier should have at his fingers' end.

3.

The Cold Water System; an Essay exhibiting the real merits and most safe and effectual employment of this excellent System in Indigestion, Costiveness, Asthma, Cough, Consumption, Rheumatism, Gout, etc., with Cautionary Remarks addressed to people of extreme opinions, and some New Cases. By Thomas J. Graham, M. D., Graduate of the University of Glasgow, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London.

Notwithstanding the many volumes which have been written by Englishmen upon Athens and Greece, we cannot doubt that the researches of those erudite and patient German scholars, who have more recently turned their attention to investigations connected with this the most interesting spot of earth to scholars of every nation, will be appreciated by classical readers in England. The work is illustrated by The fourth volume will be more full of attraction Müller's Map of Attica, and Plan of Ancient to the general reader than perhaps any other in the Athens.-Tait's Magazine. work; and no part of it will be read with more in2. On the Perspirator; an Effectual Domestic Re-tense interest and curiosity than that which relates medy for immediately checking Inflammatory Dis-to the intercourse of Frederick with the Literati of orders by equalizing Circulation and restoring is nothing in comedy or in satire so piquant and Europe, and especially with those of France. There Perspiration, by a single Application; and curing entertaining as many of the anecdotes relating to Chills, Colds, Coughs, Fevers, &c., invented by the Frederick's intercourse with Voltaire, showing that Author, with a Few Observations on Perspiration the greatest men have their littlenesses and weakand the Means of preventing its Suppression. By nesses, the wisest their follies.-United Service M. La Beaume, Medical Galvinist to the Queen, Magazine. &c. Second Edition, 12mo. Highley, Fleet St. M. La Beaume's celebrity as a Medical Galvinist entitles him to every confidence. He tells us in this little work that he has invented a simple apparatus by which that most necessary operation commonly called Perspiration may be immediately occasioned. The testimonies he gives as to the applicability and utility of his invention are such as must carry conviction to every mind, being from some of the first rate men in his own profession. If it were not known how slow men are to take a new remedy Dr. Graham, who is well known to the public by when first offered to them, it would be difficult to his previous valuable works on Medical Science, account for its not being as regularly adopted in here enters on the consideration of the Water Cure, any house as a tea-kettle or poker. Its application a subject which has recently excited much attention on the first symptoms of cold or fever would save both in England and on the continent. With the the lives of many individuals, and prevent numercaution which becomes the scientific investigator, ous diseases that by neglect terminate, if not fatal- Dr. Graham institutes the inquiry how far the system is entitled to consideration, and having, as he ly, most expensively and ruinously. Were it more fully known, the old cumbrous and inefficient mode considers, ascertained its real value, he proves, in of endeavoring to obtain sudorific relief by hot the work before us, its applicability, showing in water would be for ever banished. We say, there- what cases it may be available, and endeavoring, in fore, first buy the work, and then do as you like the several diseases named in the title-page, to point about purchasing the apparatus.-Monthly Maga-out its proper limits. To those who are really desirous of information on the subject, we have no doubt Dr. Graham's book will prove a valuable assistant; for whilst, as we have said, he endeavors to assign to this powerful remedy its proper limits, his conclusions appear in many cases to be decidedly favorable to it. The auxiliaries to its employment are in these pages ably pointed out, and we think all who are really interested in the subject would do well attentively to peruse this valuable essay.— Metropolitan Magazine.

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3. Frederick the Great and His Times. Edited by
Thomas Campbell, Esq. Vols. 3 and 4.
These two portly volumes complete one of the
most valuable as well as one of the most entertain-
ing works that have been issued from the press for a
considerable period,-a work, too, that will increase
in value and interest the more it is studied, and will
unquestionably take a permanent rank among the
historical labors of the age.

The third volume is exclusively devoted to that great feature in the life of Frederick which proved him to be the greatest military genius of the age, and which, the more it is considered and dwelt on, the more it will be felt to have fixed him on a pinnacle of military glory that no other great Captain had at that period reached, and which only one other among crowned heads has since soared above. We allude to the Seven Years' War,-a war in which, after conducting it single handed against almost the whole of Europe for that period, he closed with even more glory to himself than he had achieved during the whole of its progress,-a war, the astonishing results, no less than the astonishing difficulties of which to

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Germany.

German Poets of the present Time. By Augustus Nodnagel. Darmstadt.

M. Nodnagel's book, if continued in the manner in which it is begun (for it is published in numbers) will be found even more useful in England than in his own country. He gives a biography of the German poets of the day, with specimens of their works: illustrated with copious notes, and a resumé of all the critiques upon them, pro and con, which have appeared in the various periodicals. Thus, with a very little trouble, is the reader put into the possession of a quantity of information, which, without such assistance, it would be impossible to obtain.

The first number treats of Freiligrath and Eidendorff, | SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. and a notice of the most celebrated living poets is promised.-Foreign Quarterly Review.

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1. Lessons on the Philosophy of Nature, delivered
before the Faculty of Letters and Sciences, by M.
le docteur H. Holland. Lausane, Geneva and
This course contains only general views on a
subject which, in order to a complete exhibition.
would require much more extended developments.
Obliged to limit himself, and not enter into details,
he has chosen the highest point of view. That is
the ensemble of nature, which he contemplates in a
spiritualistic philosophy that seeks in the harmony
of organic beings, to discover some notions of the
first cause from which they derived their existence,
and of the end to which they are destined. Boldly
embracing the thousand different aspects they pre-
sent, he attempts to reduce them to an idea of unity
governing them all, clearly marks the features in
which they differ, the relations in which they agree,
and proudly restores the superiority of man, whom
most naturalists have involuntarily debased, in not
assigning him any higher place than that of the first
in the class of animals. But in doing this, he does
not pretend to such a theory independent of experi-
ence, nor to make facts bend to the principles laid |
down. First passing in review the different schools
of ancient and modern philosophers, he unfolds in a
succinct and interesting manner, their efforts after a
conception of the system of the universe. He ex-
amines critically the results of science on this point,
and gives his own views, which consist in consider-
ing the end of the universe as being destined to
realize, in this world, the personality and free moral
activity of its author. That being is man, who, by
his intelligence, governs all animals, and is not
himself part of the animal kingdom. The plant
vegetates, the animal lives, man thinks. M. Hol.
land repudiates the materialism too often apparent
in the savans devoted to natural philosophy. He
goes n to determine the distinction between animal-
ity a humanity, and after having presented a
tableau of the scale of beings in all their degrees,
he describes the psychological characteristics of man
and shows the harmony of his organization with
these characteristics. As to the question of races
he concludes that all are but varieties of one single

species modified by climate, food. etc.-Revue Crit.
2. Napoleon et l'Angleterre, par le Vicounte de
Marquessac.

Under this title M. de Marquessac takes a rapid but well executed review of the conflict between Napoleon and the English. It is a brilliant tableau, in which he attempts to set forth clearly the march of English policy, and gives some curious details both of the events of that period and of men of high standing who distinguished themselves by the acceptance of their views and by their talents. With an impartiality which does him honor, he does justice to all, and no more withholds praise from the great qualities of Pitt and Fox, than blame from the faults of Napoleon. The book - is, in its spirit, essentially French, for its end is to prove, that it belongs to France to exercise a kind of dom. inion, at least intellectual, over all other nations.

GREAT BRITAIN.

The Scottish Peasant's Fireside: a series of Tales and Sketches, illustrating the character of Scotland. By Alexander Bethune. On the "Tracts for the Times." By Rev. J. Buchanan.

Campaign of 1812 in Russia. Translated from the German of General Carl von Clausewitz.

Observations on the principal Medical Institutions and Practice of France, Italy, and Germany; with notices of the Universities and Climates, and illustrative cases. By E. Lee, M. R. C. S. 2d edition.

Life in Mexico, during a Residence of Two Years in that Country. By Madame C de la B—. With a Preface, by

W. H. Prescott.

Philosophical Works of John Locke; with a Preliminary Discourse and Notes. By J. A. St. John, Esq.

Poetical Works of John Milton; with a Memoir of Critical Remarks on his Genius and Writings. By James Montgomery.

GERMANY.

Kirchliche Statistik oder Darstellung der gesammten christlichen kirche nachihrem gegenwartigen aussern und innern zustande von Julius Wiggers, Prof. in Rostock. Hamburg.

Die Lehre des Pelagius, ein Beitrag zur
J. L. Jacobi.
Dogmengeschichte, von

Leipzig.
Geschichte Europas seit der ersten fran-
von A. Alison,
zosischen Revolution,
Deutsch von Dr. Ludwig Meyer. Leipzig.
Passow's (Fr.) Vermischte Schriften.
Herausgegeben von W. A. Passow. Leipzig.

FRANCE.

Voyage pittoresque en Espagne, en Portugal, et sur la cote d'Afrique, de Tanger a Tetoutan. Par M. J. Taylor.

Etudes sur le Timee de Platon, avec le texte et la traduction du Dialogue, par M. Henri Martin, Professeur littérature ancienne à la Faculté de Rennes.

Le Mariage au point de vue chretien: ouvrage specialement addressé aux jeunes femmes du monde.

Histoire de la Peinture au Moyen Age. Par Emrie David.

Mirabeau et l'Assemblée constituante, appendice formant le t 'ème de l'Histoire du règne de Louis XVI. pendant la révolution française. Par J. Droz.

ITALY.

According to our author, the mission of Napoleon was to establish, by war, that preponderance, which is more and more recognized by other peoples. He sees Germany and Russia already French. England alone resists, and seems to wish to enwrap herself still more in her egoistical isolation. With Fabbiche le, e i Disegni di Andrea Pallahim there are but two rival powers-France, which he thinks destined to regenerate the world, and dio e le terme. Nuova edizione sulla vicen England, to which he allots the position of a re-tinese di Bertotti Scamozzi formita di note volted vassal.-Revue Critique. del Caval. Celest. Froppiani.

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INDEX TO VOLUME I., UNITED SERIES,

A.

Alison's History of Europe,

Borrowing, Philosophy of,.

FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1843.

China-Opium War, Progress of,

1

125

512

202

354

252, 338

34

474

35

176

227

of Sciences; Paris, Population of 136-A
Parallel 138-Pekin 430-Queen's College,
Glasgow 284-Royal Society of Literature
136-Rome, Population of Ancient 139-
Roman remains 400-Sillometer 136-Sov-
ereigns, the Three 138-Slave trade Treaty
285-Syria and Turkey 286-Shooting
Stars 429-Victoria and Albert 286-Vil-
lainy 393-Vellum illuminated 400-
Wordsworth, Pension to 138-West India
Mails 426-Southey; Avalanche; Copy-
right; Mount Etna; Antarctic Circle 570
Philanthropy and Fiddling 571.

O.

Obituary: Allen, Dr. Alexander 142-Bou-
101 langer, M. Clement 574-Callcott, Lady
573-Channing, Dr. 139-Cunningham,
Allan; Darling, Grace 141-Daniel, Rev.
E. J. 142-Drummond, Mr. 573-Hamilton,
Thomas, Esq. 574-Hone, William 140-
Herschel, Dr. Solomon 142-Jovet, M. 574
-Paris Solitary 142-Sergeant Spankie

Alexander Csoma de Koros,

Author's Omnibus,

209

Areopagus, Scene at,

481

American Treaty,

B.

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China and Christianity,

Criminal Trials, American,

Chatterton and his Works, .

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38

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139.

Dickens's Notes,

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Daguerreotyping, Natural,.

419 Paris, Letters from

D'Arblay, Madame

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Edgeworth, Miss,

162

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327
484

407

229

345

403

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Poetry: Amor Patriæ 402-Birth-days 125
-Dymond's Grave 383-David's Napoleon
426-Fidolin 111-Forget me not 226-Hat,
History of 448-Laius, Tomb of 349-Min-
strel's Curse 569-Molly and Richard's Di-
alogue 159-No! 135-Noreen 229-Rob-
ber's Death Bed 201-Wintry Skies 245-
World of ours 418.

R.
Religious Houses, "foundations of,
Reminiscences of Men and Things,

Sévigné, Madame de,

179

S.

289

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397 Switzerland, Residence in,

Siberia, Conquest of,

Switzerland, Tour in,

Strutt's Calabria and Sicily,

Secret Communication in Ancient Armies
267 Science and Art: Animal Electricity 427-
Cameo; Comet 428-Composition of Blood;
Curiosities 572-Electrical Machine 429-

501

M.

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Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome,
Miscellany: Ancient MSS. 137-Bricks, Ma-
chine 138-Crops, state of 136-Cornwall
Superstitions 138-China, intercourse with;
Chinese Guns 430-Document, Important,
285-Darling, Grace 287-Electrical Ma-
chine; Greek Manuscripts 429-Holman,
Mr. 137-Joinville, Prince de 287-Lunar
Rings 396-Meteoric Phenomena 136-
Matthew, Rev. Father; Marine Thermom-
eter; Meat and Water for Sea Voyages 137
Musical Stones 287-Nile, Source of, 137
-Norbury, Murder of 285-Paris Academy

Eclipse; French Scientific Congress; Fatty
Animal Matter 427-Greek MSS.; Mc-
Dowell 429; Microscope; Napoleon's
Tomb 428-Optic 426-Pearly Nautilus 427
-Smoke consumed 428-Scientific Mis-
sion; Shooting Stars 429-Solar Eclipse;
Splendid Meteor; Tartar on Teeth; Ther-
mography 572.

U.

United States, Prospect of,
Unbelief, Credulity of,

W.

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415

537

72

160

245

343

393

497

349

396

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