THE

SOUTHERN REVIEW,

VOL. VIII.-No. 15.

A. T. BLEDSOE, LL.D., EDITOR.

JULY, 1870.

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1870.

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CONTENTS OF No. XV.

ART.

I. HUMAN NATURE.

1. Sermons upon Human Nature, or Man Con-

sidered as a Moral Agent. By the Right Reverend

Joseph Butler, D. C. L., late Lord Bishop of Dur-

ham.

2. The Active and Moral Powers of Man. By

Dugald Stewart.

II. THE BIBLE AND EGYPT.

1. Explorations Modernes en Egypte. Huit Sèan-

ces, par M. A. Matthey.

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2. Im Lande der Pharaonen. Von Arthur Stahl.

III. DERBY'S AND BRYANT'S ILIAD.

1. The Iliad of Homer. Rendered into English

Blank Verse. By Edward, Earl of Derby.

2. The Iliad of Homer. Translated into English

Blank Verse. By William Cullen Bryant.

IV. THE ESTHETICS OF FRIENDSHIP.

The Friendships of Women. By William Rounse-

ville Alger.

V. BIRDS AND FLYING MACHINES.

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The Reign of Law. By the Duke of Argyll.

VI. HAMLET.

1. Shakespeare's Plays and Poems, by the Rev.

Alexander Dyce.

2. Hamlet. Reprint from Folio.

3. Hamlet 1602 and Hamlet 1604.

VII. PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY IN THE NINETEENTH CEN-

TURY.

1. Cosmos. By Alex. Von Humboldt.

2. Recent Progress of Astronomy. By Elias

Loomis, LL. D.

3. Meteoric Astronomy. By Daniel Kirkwood,

LL. D.

VIII. IRELAND IN 1870.

1. The Public General Acts of the United King-

dom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the

thirty-second and thirty-third years of the Reign of

her Majesty, Queen Victoria.

2. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.

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