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and frequent changes and modifications. It is probable that as politics chiefly engross the attention of the nation, the critical notices on new works inserted in the newspapers, which are notoriously dictated by unworthy motives, sordid, party, or personal, satisfy the mass of readers. The Revue Encyclopédique, established by M. Julien de Paris, succeeded during several years, but eventually fell when its creator passed it to other hands. M. Guizot and the Duke de Broglie tried a fair experiment in 1829: they established the Revue Française, in which their political, critical, and philosophical doctrines were developed and applied with remarkable ability; but it did not last long; it sunk for want of support, and a recent attempt to revive it received so little encouragement, that it has again ceased to appear. The Revue Trimestrielle was also well conducted, but soon ceased. We are justified in affirming that the only reviews which possess the recommendation of long standing and general popularity, are the Deux Mondes and the Revue de Paris, and they are published more in the form of the English magazines than of the great reviews. And yet scarcely a year passes but painful efforts to establish new critical periodicals are witnessed, which invariably prove abortive: the puny productions perish for lack of sustenance after the the most ephemeral of existences. One exception, however, must be noted in favour of the Revue de Progrès, which is edited with powerful energy by M. Louis Blanc; it has drawn the attention of the French public by the strong democratic principles it upholds, the bold tenets it has avowed in the face of the world, and the host of superior men who co-operate in its publication. The Revue de Paris is a weekly journal, containing critical notices, light tales, and worldly chitchat, always elegant and sprightly in tone and matter, and especially calculated to beguile the leisure hours of the boudoir. The Revue de Deux Mondes frequently gives masterly pieces of criticism; such are the articles of De Carné, Saint-Beuve, Mignet, Marmier, Lerminier, Chasles,Charles Magnin, and others.* With respect to reviews, we have specified the only two that have any standing and permanency of merit. As to the monthly review called Journal des Savants, it would be a gross error to rank it among the ordinary periodicals of any country. It is, in fact, a review of the highest order, but at once private and national; it only notices works of the finest merit and utility; it is printed by the royal press, and the committee of authors who prepare its articles, is composed of sixteen members belonging to the various sections of the Roval Institute. It is in the Journal des Savants that the admirable classical dissertations of Letronne and Burnouf, the valuable scientific investigations of Biot and Libri, the philosophical literary analyses of Cousin and Villemain, are to be found."

LONDON PRINTED BY G. LILLEY, QUEEN'S HEAD PASSAGE, PATERNOSTER BOW.

INDEX

TO THE

SECOND VOLUME OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, FOR 1842.

A,

Abuses of Marriage, remarks on the, 395
Acquiescence and Approbation Contrast-
ed, 3

Adam Clarke, Life and Labours of, 436
Eschines, sketch of, 484
Eschylus, sketch of, 485
Affinity of Nations, tests of, 143
African Lions, notices of, 349
African Travellers, hints for, 206
Ainsworth's Travels, 312
Airth, history of Earldom of, 31
Al Hadhr, notices of ruins of, 320
Alison's History of Europe, 420
Amighty, the Bible the Science of the, 10
Ambitus, meaning of the term, 511
American Antiquities, 141
Amphora, notices of the, 512
Ancient Art and Classic Mythology, 98
Anecdote of Lord Nelson, 384

Anglo-Indian, disposable force of the, 470
Anne-of-Cleves and Katherine Howard, 62
Antiquities, Bradford's American, 141
Arabian Language and Lexicography, 192
Asia Minor, &c., Travels in, 312

Augustus Viscount Keppel, Life of, 323
Autobiography of John Turnbull, 441 ·
B.

Balder, the Mythos of, 452

Banks and Bankers, Hardcastle's, 213
Belgians, King of, Wooings of, 426
Bentham, Memoirs of, 73

Bible, nature of the contents of the, 9
Biographical Dictionaries, 481
Birds of Passage, the, 442
Bishop Bonner, Life of, 357
Bishop's Daughter, the, a novel, 242
Bonner, life of Bishop, 357
Book of Thought, the, 435
Borderers, the, a tragedy, 279
Bowring's Memoirs of Bentham, 73

Bowyer on the English Constitution, 23
Boyer, Notices of General, 538
Bracelets, Notices of Ancient, 514
Bradford's American Antiquities, 141
Breton College, Rio's History of the, 541
Brevity of Scripture Narrative, 11
Brougham on Political Philosophy, 42
Brown and Black Eyes, remarks on, 308

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C.

Campaign in China, Narrative of the
Second, 183

Candler's Notices of Hayti, 531
Cappadocian Greeks, Notices of, 315
Cattle and Corn, connexion between, 107
Causes of Wealth of Individuals, 213
Celestial Sisters, Tale of the, 149
Chandler's American Criminal Trials, 294
Characteristics of Wordsworth's Poetry.
270

Charles the Wise, Character of, 519
Children's Employment Commission, Re-
port of, 178

China, Narrative of the Second Campaign
in, 183

Chouannerie, Rio's La Petite, 541
Chinese as Warriors, Character of, 185
Christian Africaner, Notices of, 345
Christianity and Civilisation, 119
Christian Pilgrim, Peel's, 476
Chronicle of the Rhine, Knox's, 491
Chronicles of England, Raymond's, 57
Church of Rome, the, and Painting, 506
City of the Dead in China, Notices of,
189

Claessen, Dr., his Account of the Cold
Water Cure, 239

Classic Mythology, remarks on, 91
Classical Poets, Garston's Vindication of
the, 221

Coal Mines, Report on Labour in the, 171
Coena, Notices of the Roman, 513
Cold Water Cure, the, 226
Colonel Scott's Travels, 202
Constantia Philips and Bentham, 75
Constantinople, Lord Londonderry's
Voyage to, 566

Constitutional Law, what meant by the
terms, 28

Continental Notions about England, 39
Convents the Schools in Olden France,
527

Copenhagen, Nelson at, 382

Copyright, Raumer on, 41

Corbet on Wealth of Individuals, 213

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Girls in coal-mines, employment of, 177
Godiva's story, new version of, 371
Good breeding, character of, 43
Greece Revisited by Mr. Garston, 219
Green on the Grammar of the Greek
New Testament, 137

Griffin's Tales of the Jury Room, 249
H.

Hahnemann's Disciples, account of Ho-
moeopathy by one of, 228

Hardcastle's Banks and Bankers, 213
Hayti, Candler's Notices of, 531
Haytian church, notices of the, 536
Health of the eyes, how to be preserved,
306

Henry VIII. in his youth, 61

Heraldic bearings, history of, 332
Heraldry of Fish, the, 332
Herberts, the, a novel, 85

Hindley's Inferno of Dante, 574

Hints to Students on the Use of the
Eyes, 297

History of Arabic literature, 197; of
Europe, Alison's, 420

Homœopathy, by a Disciple of the sys-
tem, 226

How was America peopled? 153
Hine on Bees, 435
Hunt's Palfrey, 472

Hurrying in coal-mines, nature of the
employment, 176

Hydropathy, notices of the system, 239
I.

Ibrahim Pacha as an agriculturist, 222
Icelandic poety, notices of, 445
Indecent employment in coal-mines, no-
tices of, 176

Indus, notices of the commerce on the,
476

Inspiration, Gaussen on, 1

International Law, remarks on, 115
Intolerance towards the Jews, notices of,
524

Irish informers, character of, 454
Iscardo, Vigne's account of, 461, 466
Italian painting, notices of, 504

I Watched the Heavens; a poem, by V.

49

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Lady Londonderry's visit to the Sultan,
571

Language a key to history, 146
Last Tour, Lady Vavasour's, 486
Lectures on Paley, 389

Leigh, Lord, his Poems, 436

Legend of Frithiof, the, 437

Leper, superstitious abjuration of a, 522
Lexicons, Arabic, notices of, 197
Life of Dr. Scott, 379

Light and the eyes, how to be regulated,
302

Lions in Africa, notices of, 203
Literary Property, remarks on, 66
Literature of the cavaliers of the desert,
193

Lives of the Queens of England, 57
Lockhart's Spanish Ballads, 427
Locksley Hall, a poem, 370
Londonderry's Tours, Lord, 466
Longman's Catalogue of Books, 296
Lord Burleigh, a ballad, 373
Nelson's habits, 383

Love story of old times, the, 472
Lower on English Surnames, 439
Luther; a poem, by R. Montgomery, 50
M.

Mabinogion, the, Part IV., 284
Mackay of Scowry, Life of, 292
Mackintosh and Sadler, 21
Mackenzie's Narrative of Campaign in
China, 183

Madame D'Arblay's Diary and Letters,
126

Madden's United Irishmen, 453
Menteith, character of Earl, 33
Mexicans and Etruscans, 154
Military equipment of the Chinese, 187
Miller on Pictorial Painting, 502
Mishap in the Life of Lord Keppel, 226
Missionary Labours, Moffat's, 343
Monteil's France in Olden Times, 517
Montgomery, R., his Luther, 50
Morley Ernstein, a novel, 246
Moselekatse; an African Napoleon, no-
tices of, 355

Mother, the Manoeuvring, a novel, 494
Moule's Heraldry of Fish, 332
Mythology of Greece and Rome, remarks
on, 91

N.

Napoleon, shameful desertion by his
servants, 423

Naturalist's Library, the, 293
Nelson's Chaplain, Life of Lord, 379
New Copyright Bill, remarks on, 66
Newmans, the elder and younger com-
pared, 359

New Zealand, Ritter's Colonization of,
264

Ney, remarks on the execution of, 425
Nicoll's Poems, 251

Nizib, notices of the battle of, 315
Noor Mahomed, notices of, 158
Normans and feudal laws, 26
Northern Mythology, notices of, 446
North, the old poetry of the, 439
Norton, Mrs., her Breton Mother, 545

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Palestine, Peel's Poem of, 476
Paley, Lectures on, 389

Palfrey, the, by Leigh Hunt, 472
Panopticon and Bentham, 77

Paris, notices of prostitution in, 392
Partiality and English Judges, 44
Peel, Ed., his Christian Pilgrim, 467
Periods of Spanish Poetry, 427
Personal Narrative, Sir A, Burnes's, 156
Peter, St., and the fish of heraldry, 340
Phrenology and the Affghans, 166
Pickering, Miss, and the Expectant, 88
Pictorial Painting, Miller on, 502
Plenary Inspiration, Gaussen on, 1
Poems, by Robert Nicoll, 251; from
Eastern Sources, 47

Poems, written chiefly Abroad, by M. 140
Poets and Poetry of America, the, 477
Political Philosophy, Brougham on, 42
Precedence of the Royal Family, 29
Prince Albert's accomplishments, list of,

225

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Researches in Asia Minor, &c., 312
Reynolds on the Use of the Eyes, 297
Rhine, the, 486

Rio's History of the Breton College, 541
Rise and Progress of English Laws, 23
Ritter's Colonization of New Zealand,
264

Robert Nicoll, biographical sketch of, 251
Romish Church, the, and international
law, 122; Pries hood, Bonner and
the Authority of the, 398
Rose of Arragon, the, 398
Royal Family, Precedence of, 29
Russia and China, 463
Russian Eastern policy, 468

S.

Sadler, Memoirs of M. T., 18
Salic Law, remarks on the, 58
Scandinavian Literature, 437
Schoolcraft on the Red Indians, 142
Scott, Life of Dr. 379

Scottish coal-mines, horrors of, 179
Scott's travels, 202

Shameful desertion, instances of, 423
Sheareses, notices of the, 455
Sight, causes of weakness of, 300
Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
509

Softness, a novel, 245

Spanish Poetry, progress of, 427
Stagnelius as a poet, character of, 439
Stanford's Rambles in Thuringia, 219
Statute-law and Charles the Second's
reign, 27

Strickland's Lives of the Queens of
England, 57

Symbols of names, piscatory, 338

T.

Tales of the Red Indians, characteristics
of, 148; of the Jury-room, 249

Taylor's Edwin the Fair, 410
Taxation, principles of, 391
Tegner's Legend of Frithiof, 137
Tennyson's Poems, 369

Tertulian, remarks on a passage in, 397
Testimony, Laws relating to, 396

Teutonic Nations, Notices of, 444
Theatricals in Olden Times, French, 528;
Raumer on English, 40

Theodore Körner's Lyre and Sword, 47
Theologians of England, and the question
of Inspiration, 7

Tory Notions, Raumer on, 38
Trafalgar, Dr. Scott's Account of the
Battle of, 386

Théopneustia, meaning of the word,5, 133
Torches, Notices of Ancient, 515
Tragedy, Ancient and Modern, difference
between, 100

Trappers in Coal Mines, their Employ-
ment, 175

Treasonable Attempts, remarks on, 549
Trench's Poems, 47

Trevor Hastings, a novel, 81

Trial by Ordeal, Notices of, 25
Trollope's Belgium in 1830. 437
Turkish Retreat, sketch of, 318

Turnbull, John, his Autobiography, 441
Two Admirals, the, 82

Tytler's History of Scotland, 291

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