THE

AMERICAN

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. VI.

SEPTEMBER & DECEMBER, 1829.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY & LEA-CHESNUT STREET.

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CONTENTS OF No. XI.

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ART.

I. MILLER'S MEMOIRS,

Memoirs of General Miller, in the service of the Republic of

Peru. By John Miller.

II. MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE,

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Memorials of Shakspeare; now first collected. By Nathan

Drake.

III. SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES,

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Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects

of Society. By Robert Southey, LL. D. Poet Laureate, &c.

IV. GEOLOGY,

An Introduction to Geology: comprising the Elements of the

Science, in its present advanced state, and all the recent Discove-

ries; with an Outline of the Geology of England and Wales. By

Robert Bakewell :-Third Edition, entirely recomposed, and

greatly enlarged. With new Plates. First American Edition, edit-

ed by Professor Silliman, of Yale College, with an Appendix, con-

taining an Outline of his Course of Lectures on Geology.

V. CODIFICATION,

A contre-projet to the Humphreysian Code, and to the Projects

of Redaction of Messrs. Hammond, Uniacke, and Twiss. By John

James Park, Esq. Barrister at Law.

VI. SPAIN,

A Year in Spain. By a Young American.

VII. EDUCATION,

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Chapter XV. of the first part of the proposed revision of the

Statute Laws of the State of New-York.

A General View of the present System of public Education in

France, and of the Laws, Regulations, and Courses of Studies in

the different Faculties, Colleges, and inferior Schools which now

compose the Royal University of that Kingdom; preceded by a

short History of the University of Paris, before the Revolution.

By David Johnson, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Sur-

geons of Edinburgh.

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ART.

VIII. DIPLOMACY OF THE UNITED STATES,

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The Diplomacy of the United States. Being an Account of the

Foreign Relations of the Country, from the First Treaty with

France, in 1778, to the present time. Second Edition, with Addi-
tions. By Theodore Lyman, Jr.

Travels in the North of Germany, in the years 1825 and 1826.

By Henry E. Dwight, A. M.

X. SKETCHES OF NAVAL LIFE,

Sketches of Naval Life, with notices of men, manners, and

scenery, on the shores of the Mediterranean, in a series of letters

from the Brandywine and Constitution Frigates. By a Civilian.

XI. AMERICAN POETRY,

Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical

Notices; in three volumes. By Samuel Kettell.

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CONTENTS OF No. XII.

ART.

I. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF THE UNITED STATES,

Report of a Select Committee, of the House of Representa-
tives, at the Second Session of the Twentieth Congress, on a
Motion to distribute the Proceeds of the Sales of Public Lands
among the several States, in proportion to their population.

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Reports of the several Land Officers, pursuant to a Resolu-
tion of the Senate of the United States, passed the 25th day of
April, 1828.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, carefully revised, and
occasionally corrected from the Arabic. To which is added a
Selection of New Tales, now first translated from the Arabic
Originals. Also, an Introduction and Notes, illustrative of the
Religion, Manners, and Customs of the Mohammedans. By
Jonathan Scott, LL. D., late Oriental Professor of the Royal
Military and East India Colleges, &c. &c.

III. LATIN STUDIES,

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A Grammar of the Latin Language, for the use of Colleges
and Seminaries. From the German of C. G. Lumpt.

IV. ENCYCLOPÆDIAS,

Encyclopædia Americana : a Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sci-
ences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, brought
down to the present times, including a copious Collection of
Original Articles in American Biography, on the basis of the
Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon. Edit-
ed by Francis Lieber, assisted by E. Wigglesworth.

V. STEWART'S PHILOSOPHY,

The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man: by
Dugald Stewart, Esq. F. R. S. S.

VI. PITKIN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,

A Political and Civil History of the United States of America,
from the year 1763 to the close of the Administration of Presi-
dent Washington, in March, 1797: including a Summary View
of the Political and Civil State of the North American Colonies,
prior to that period. By Timothy Pitkin.

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