THE

NORTH AMERICAN
Wm Pleuner's

REVIEW.

VOL. XIX.

New Series.

VOL. X.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY O. EVERETT, NO. IS CORNER.

1924.

CONTENTS

OF

No. XLIV.

NEW SERIES, No. XIX.

ART.

PAGE.

I. BROWN'S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

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Sketch of a System of the Philosophy of the Human

Mind. Part I. Comprehending the Physiology of the

Mind. By Thomas Brown, M. D. Professor of Moral

Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.

II. RUINS OF PESTUM, AND OTHer Poems

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1. The Ruins of Pæstum; and other Compositions in

Verse.

2. Athens, and other Poems. By the Author of the Ruins

of Pæstum.

III. SOMERVILLE'S LETTERS ON FRANCE

Letters from Paris, on the Causes and Consequences

of the French Revolution. By William C. Somerville.

IV. BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON

68

Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, corretto

ed illustrato con Note tratte da Vari, dal Dott. Giulio

Ferrario.

V. NATURAL HISTORY OF The Bible

86

The Natural History of the Bible; or a Description

of all the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and

Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious

Stones, mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures. Collected

from the best Authorities, and alphabetically arranged.

By Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D.

VI. FAUX'S MEMORABLE DAYS IN AMERICA

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Memorable Days in America, being a Journal of a

Tour to the United States, principally undertaken to

ascertain by positive Evidence the Condition and proba-

ble Prospects of British Emigrants; including Accounts

of Mr Birkbeck's Settlement in the Illinois; and intend-

ed to show Men and Things as they are in America.

By W. Faux, an English Farmer.

VII VALUE OF CLASSICAL LEARNING

125

A Course of Study preparatory to the Bar and the

Senate; to which is annexed a Memoir on the Private

and Domestic Lives of the Romans. By George Wat-

terston.

VIII. NOVA SCOTIA

137

A General Description of Nova Scotia, Illustrated by

a New and Correct Map.

IX. WHEATON'S EDITION OF SELWYN'S NISI PRIUS

155

An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius, by William

Selwyn, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. Se-

cond American, from the Fifth London Edition; with

Notes and References to the Decisions of the Courts of

this Country. By Henry Wheaton, Counsellor at Law.

X. SOUTH AMERICA
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Observaciones sobre las Leyes de Indias, i sobre la

Independencia de América. Por Luis Lopez Mendez.

XI. THE WILDERNESS

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1. The Wilderness, or Braddock's Times. A Tale of

the West.

2. The Spectre of the Forest, or Annals of the Housa-

tonic. A New England Romance.

XII. THE TARIFF QUESTION

223

Debate in Congress on the Bill to amend the several

Acts for imposing Duties on Imports.

XIII. MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES

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1. Mr Sprague's Prize Poems.

2. Tax on Banks.

3. Worcester's Geography and Sketches.

4. Prose by a Poet.

5. New General Atlas.

6. Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times.

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