THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. LXXXIII.

PUBLISHED IN

JUNE & SEPTEMBER, 1848.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

100351

LONDON:
Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS,
Stamford Street.

ART.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXV.

Page

I.-1. A Handbook of the History of the Spanish and French

Schools of Painting. By Sir Edmund Head, Bart.

2. Annals of Spanish Painters. By Wm. Stirling, Esq. -

II.-1. Elements of Chemistry.

By the late Edward Turner,

M.D., F.R.S. Eighth Edition.

Liebig and Professor Gregory.

Edited by Baron

2. Elements of Chemistry. By Thomas Graham, F.R.S.L.

and E. Second Edition. Part I.

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III.-Clément XIV. et les Jésuites. Par J. Crétineau Joly - 70

IV.-Letters addressed to the Countess of Ossory from the year

1769 to 1797 by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford; now

first printed from the original MSS. Edited, with

Notes, by the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, M.P.

V.- Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., with Se-

lections from his Correspondence. Edited by his Son,

Charles Buxton, Esq.

VI.-1. Voyage en Icarie. Par M. Cabet.

2. Organisation du Travail. Par M. Louis Blanc.

3. Organisation du Crédit et de la Circulation, et Solution

du Problème Social. Par P. J. Proudhon.

4. Letters to the Mob

VII.-A Treatise on the Succession to Property vacant by Death,

including Inquiries into the influence of Primogeniture,

Entails, Compulsory Partition, Foundations, &c., over

the Public Interests. By J. R. M'Culloch, Esq.

VIII-1. Letters on the Church of Rome. By C. Wordsworth,

D.D.

2. Diary of Travels in France and Spain, chiefly in the

year 1844. By the Rev. Francis Trench.

3. Notes of a Tour in Switzerland in the Summer of 1847.

By the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel -

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IX.-1. Il Contemporaneo di Roma.

2. L'Alba di Firenze.

3. Il 22 Marzo dell' Independenza Italiana di Milano.

4. Il Risorgimento di Turino

X.-1. Revue Rétrospective, ou Archives Secrètes du dernier

Gouvernement. No. 1-13.

2. De la Dictature de Paris sur la France. Par le Baron

Gustave de Romand.

3. Libertas Gallica, or Thoughts on the French Republic.

by Manlius.

4. Correspondence relating to the Marriages of the Queen

and Infanta of Spain.

5. The Navigation Laws: Three Letters to Lord John

Russell, showing the Justice, Necessity, and Economy

of Protection to British Shipping.

6. Germany unmasked: or Facts and Circumstances ex-

planatory of her real Views in seeking to wrest Schleswig

from Denmark

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CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXVI.

ART.

I.-1. Physical Geography. By Mary Somerville, Author of

'The Connexion of the Physical Sciences,' and 'Me-

chanism of the Heavens.' 2 vols. post 8vo.

2. Physikalische Geographie. Vorlesungen gehalten an

der Universität zu Berlin in den Jahren 1834 und

1835. Von Friedrich Hoffmann.

Page

3. The Physical Atlas: a Series of Maps and Illustrations

of the Geographical Distribution of Natural Pheno-

mena; embracing Geology, Hydrography, Meteorology,

and Natural History. By A. Keith Johnston, F.R.G.S. 305

II.-1. Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the

Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James

Brooke, Esq., Rajah of Sarawak and Governor of La-

buan; together with a Narrative of the Operations of

H.M.S. Iris. By Captain Rodney Mundy, R.N.

2. Sarawak, its Inhabitants and Productions: being Notes

during a Residence in that Country with H. H. the

Rajah Brooke. By Hugh Low, Colonial Secretary at

Labuan

III.-1. A short Account of the London Magdalene Hospital.

2. De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris. Par A. J. B.

Parent-Duchâtelet

IV.-1. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, with Notes and

a Biographical Memoir, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce.

2. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Intro-

duction by George Darley

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V.-1. Manuel Réglementaire à l'usage des Elèves de l'Ecole

d'Application du Corps Royal d'Etat-Major.

2. Krijgskundige Leercursus ten Gebruike der Koninklijke

Militaire Akademie. Handleiding tot de Krijgskunst

voor de Kadetten van alle Wapenen. Door J. J. Van

Mulken, Major der Infanterie.