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ECLECTIC MAGAZINE

OF

FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

MAY TO AUGUST, 1844.

EDITED BY JOHN HOLMES AGNEW. .

PUBLISHED BY LEAVITT, TROW, & CO.,

NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.

18 4 4.

J. F. TROW AND CO. PRINTERS, 33 Ann-street,

NEW-YORK.

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EMBELLISHMENTS.

Hood's Magazine,-Literary Gazette,

175

Hume and bis Influence upon History,

SIR WALTER Scott's MONUMENT, Kemp, Archi- Quarterly Review,

305

tect.

ANDROMACHE WEEPING OVER THE ASHES OF

I.

HECTOR, by Kauffman.

Ill-Humorist, or Recantation, New

JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES, by Vernet.

Monthly Mag.

531

TRIAL OF QUEEN CATAARINE, by Harlow. Illustrations of National Customs, No. 1,-

Fraser's Magazine,

489

A.

Irish State Trials, Metropolitan,

72

Admiral Lord St. Vincent,-Edinburgh Re-

J.
vier,

388
Animal Magnetism, -Spectator,

423

Juvenile Offenders, Treatment of, -Specta-
Aqueducts and Canals,— Quarterly Review, 190

tor,

350

Asiatic Society,-Literary Gazette,

16

L.

Atmospheric Railway,- British and Foreign

Reciev.

359 Library of Alexandria, Burning of,– Froser's

Mag.

214

B.

Living Political Poets of Germany,–Athene-

Banquet to the new Governor General of

64

India,-Spectator,

496 Lover's' Evenings, Literarij Gazette, 564
Bankruptcy extraordinary,–Charitari, 282 Lowe, Sir Hudson, Memory of— United Srr.
Barere's Memoirs,-Edinburgh Review, 238

vice May.

103

Bell's, Sir Charles, Essays,- British and Fo-

M.

reign Review,

289

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Notices : Great Britain, 143; Marvell, Andrew,—Edinburg Rericu,

107
France, 144; Great Britain, 287, 431 ; France, Memoirs,-Fraser's Magazine,

495
575.

Memoirs of William Taylor of Norwich,
Blackstone, Comic,- Charivari,
213 Quarterly Reviero,

17

Mexico, Scenes in, United Service Mag. 126

C.

A Mother's love,—Metropolitan,

561

Campanella, and his works,-Fraser's Mag. 278 MISCELLANY: Dost Mohammed, 63 ; Honesty the
Carlyle, Thomas, Works of,- British and Fo. best Policy, 102; Volcanoes in Sandwich Isl-
reign Rerieu,

1 ands, 106; Emeute in Chamber of Deputies,-

Cemeteries and 'Church Yards, — Quarterly Greece,– Will of the Marquess Wellesley-Re-

Review,

449 finement-Remarkable Memory-Lost Watch,

Central America, Discoveries in,-British

138; Fulfilment of a Dream,—Chateaubriand,

and Foreign Review,

522

Dr. I. Watts,-Sale of Autographs-American

Chemists of the Eighteenth Century,-Fra- NewspaperWit,—Boring for Water in Africa,

ser's Mag.

176

139.—British Guiana, 160; Curious Etymolo-

Chieftain's Daughter, -Asiatic Journal, 131 gy, 175; Visit to Gen. Tom Thumb, 182;

Chronicles of the Kings of Norway,—Athe- Grand Musical Festival 225; Author of Pelham,

neum,

185

235; Fanny Elssler, 281; Tribute to Worth,

Confessions of an Illegible Writer,- Metro-

The Hyacinth,- Present to the Prince of

politan,

382, 518

Wales,-Gallic Prophecies of the proximate

Destruction of Great Britain,-Singular Will,

D.

283; A Travelled Letter,-Dog Fête,–Traful-

Declaration of War between the Great Pow-

gar Square, 284;—The Royal Library at Co-

ers of Europe, -New Monthly Mag. 236

penhagen, 387; Origin of the Names of the

E.

American States---An Explosion of Subterrane.

Essays, by an Invalid, -Dublin University

ous Water,-J. Flaxman,-Ancient Money,

Magazine,

414

M. Guizot-British Guiana, 425; Royal Birth-

Egypt, recent Discoveries in, - Atheneum, 172

Days in April-Somnambulist-Steam Ascent

of the first Cataract of the Nile,-Raphaelle

English and French Rivalry in Eastern Afri.

ca,-Foreign Quarterly Review,

534

Tapestries, 426; British Museum.-English

Historical Documents,–Napoleon Relics, 471 ;

G.

Robor Carolinum, 488; Magnetic Dynamometer,
Geographical Discovery,- Colonial Gazette, 39 494 ; Application, 496; David Hume's Corres-
Gerald Griffin, Life of, --Dublin Review,

89

pondence, -Parish Prizes, 497; Lady Eliza-

Grant, Mrs., Memoirs and Correspondence of,

beth Levison Gower, 521 ; Diving Bell, 543 ;

- Tait's Mag.

161

Debts of the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, 530;

Morocco and France, 552; Expedition into the

H.

Interior of South America, 565 ; Mail Arrange-

Highlands of Ethiopia,- Court Journal, 183 ment for India and China-Dr. Wolff-Dock-
Histories and Mysteries,-Metropolitan,

85 Yards of France-Society for the Encourage-

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