The North American Review

THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. LVIII.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY OTIS, BROADERS, AND CO.,

No. 120 WASHINGTON STREET.

1844.

.N87 v.58

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

CONTENTS

No. CXXII.

ART.

I. GRISWOLD'S POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA

The Poets and Poetry of America; with a His-

torical Introduction. By RUFUS W. GRISWOLD.

II. PALFREY'S LOWELL LECTURES ON THE EVIDENCES
OF CHRISTIANITY.

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Lowell Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity.

By JOHN GORHAM PALFREY. With a Discourse on

the Life and Character of John Lowell, Jr. By

EDWARD EVERETT.

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III. TRADE WITH THE HANSE TOWNS: THE GERMAN

TARIFF-LEAGUE

Ueber die Moeglichkeit eines zwischen dem

deutschen Zoll-Verein und den Vereinigten Staaten

von America abzuschliessenden Handels und Schiff-

fahrts-Vertrags. (On the Possibility of a direct

Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the

States of the German Tariff-League and the United

States of America.)

2. Neuere Geschichte der Poetischen National-

Literatur der Deutschen, von G. G. Gervinus. (A

History of the Modern Poetical Literature of the

Germans. By G. G. GERVINUS.)

IV. GERVINUS'S HISTORY OF GERMAN POETRY . . . 79

1. Geschichte der Poetischen National-Literatur

der Deutschen, von G. G. GERVINUS. (A History

of the (Early) Poetical Literature of the Germans.

By G. G. GERVINUS.)

V. DEBTS OF THE STATES.

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1. State Stocks and Revenues, comprising Statis-

tical Tables of the Stocks, Debts, Expenditures, and

Revenues of each of the United States.

2. Report of the Joint Committee of the Senate

and House of Representatives of the State of Michi-

gan, on the Subject of the Five Million Loan Bonds.

February, 1843.

3. Message of Governor McNutt to the Legisla-

ture of the State of Mississippi. January, 1841.

4. Message of Governor Porter to the Legislature

of the State of Pennsylvania. January, 1843.

VI. PRESCOTT'S HISTORY OF The Conquest oF MEXICO 157

History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Pre-

liminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization,

and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés.

By WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT.

VII. SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND: CHANGE FOR AMERICAN

NOTES.

1. The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England. By

the Author of "The Clockmaker, or the Sayings

and doings of Sam Slick," &c.

2. Change for the American Notes: in Letters

from London to New York. By an American Lady.

IX. CRITICAL NOTICES.

VIII. CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY 227

A Catalogue of the Library of Brown Univer-

sity, in Providence, Rhode Island. With an Index

of Subjects.

1. Duer's Lectures on the Constitutional Juris-

prudence of the United States.

2. Champlin's Edition of Demosthenes on the

Crown.

5. Krebs's Guide for Writing Latin

NOTE TO ARTICLE IX. OF No. 121.

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

240

3. Cushing's Report of Proceedings and Debates 243

4. An Introduction to Geometry

The False Heir. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq.

II. LOWELL'S POEMS

Poems, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWEll.

III. THE FOREST LANDS OF MAINE .

Report of the Land Agent of the Commonwealth

of Massachusetts, laid before the Legislature, Janu-

ary 10th, 1844. By GEORGE W. COFFIN.

IV. REDFIELD, Reid, Espy, anD LOOMIS ON THE THEO-

RY OF STORMS

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1. Various Papers on Meteorology, and the Laws

of Storms, by W. C. REDFIEld.

2. An Attempt to develope the Law of Storms by

Means of Facts, arranged according to Place and

Time. By LIEUT. COLONEL W. REID, C. B., F. R. S.

3. The Philosophy of Storms. By JAMES P. Es-

PY, A. M.

4. On the Storm which was experienced through-

out the United States about the 20th of December,

1836. By ELIAS, LOOMIS.

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V. THE RECENT CONTEST IN RHODE ISLAND

1. An Address to the People of Rhode Island, de-

livered in Newport, May 3d, 1843, in Presence of

the General Assembly. By WILLIAM G. GODDARD.

2. A Concise History of the Efforts to obtain an

Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island, from the

Year 1811 to 1842. By JACOB Frieze.

3. The Affairs of Rhode Island: a Discourse de-

livered in Providence, May 22, 1842. By FRANCIS

WAYLAND.

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