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CONTENTS OF NO. III.-JAN. 1856.

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Art. I.-EDWARD GIBBON . . . . . . .

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by

· Edward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes by Dean Milman and M.

Guizot. Edited, with additional Notes, by William Smith,

LL.D. In Eight Volumes. London, 1855. Murray.

ART. II.-The SPANISH CONQUEST IN AMERICA . . 42

The Spanish Conquest in America, and its relation to the His-

tory of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies. By Arthur

Helps. With Maps. Vols. I. and II. London, J. W. Parker.

1855.

ART. III.-THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR. THOMAS

YOUNG . . . . . . . . . 69

Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c. By George Peacock,

D.D., Dean of Ely, &c. 8vo. London, Murray. 1855.

The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. T. Young. Edited by G. Peacock,

D.D., Dean of Ely, and John Leitch, Esq. 3 vols. 8vo. London,

Murray. 1855.

ART. IV.-ATHEISM . . . . . . . . 97

The First Cause ; or, a Treatise upon the Being and Attributes of

God. By Rev, J. C. Whish, M.A. Seeley, Jackson, and Hal-

liday. 1855.

The Burnett Prize-Essays.

Principles of Psychology. By Herbert Spencer. Longmans. 1855.

George Jacob Holyoake and Modern Atheism. An Essay. By

S. D. Collet. Trübner. 1855.

The Reasoner for 1855, Edited by G. J. Holyoake. Holyoake,

Fleet Street.

Art. V.—THE PRESENT STATE OF FRANCE . . . 123

Napoléon le Petit. Par Victor Hugo. London, 1852.

Art. VI.—PHENICIA . . . . . . . . 156

· Phoenicia. By John Kenrick, M.A. London, B. Fellowes. 1855.

3."Jacobichology.

ART. VII.-W. M. THACKERAY, ARTIST AND MORALIST . 177

The Newcomes. By the Author of “ Vanity Fair,” &c.

Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. By W. M. Thackeray. Vols. I.

and II. London, Bradbury and Evans. 1856.

ART. VIII.-FOREIGN POLICY AND THE NEXT CAMPAIGN . 213

General Treaty of Congress, signed at Vienna, June 9, 1815 ; with

the three Annexes thereto, relating to the Kingdom of Poland

and the Republic of Cracow. Presented to the House of Com-

mons by her Majesty's command, in pursuance of their Address

of the 8th February 1847.

Correspondence between Viscount Castlereagh (late Marquis of

Londonderry) and the Emperor Alexander of Russia, respecting

the Kingdom of Poland. Vienna, October, November, 1814.

Presented to the House of Commons, February 1847.

Papers relative to the Suppression, by the Governments of Austria,

Prussia, and Russia, of the free State of Cracow, and to the

Annexation of that State to the Austrian Empire. Presented to

both Houses of Parliament, February 1847.

Correspondence respecting the Relations between Greece and

Turkey. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1854.

Eastern Papers. Part XIV. Negociation at Vienna. Presented

to both Houses of Parliament, 1855.

Geschichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts seit den Wiener Ver-

trägen. Von G. G. Gervinus. Erster Band. Leipzig, 1855.

The Polish Question, from the German Point of View. By a

German Statesman. Translated from the German, London,

Ridgway.

The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of his Age and

Contemporaries, from published and unpublished sources. By

G. H. Lewes. 2 vols. Nutt, 1855.

Freundschaftliche Briefe von Goethe und seiner Frau an Nico-

laus Meyer, aus den Jahren 1800-1831. Leipzig, Hartung,

1856. [Friendly Letters from Goethe and his Wife to Nicolas

Meyer, between the years 1800 and 1831. Leipzic, 1856]

Translated ents relating to

3089., of the British

. ART. II.-EARLY ENGLISH EXPLORERS

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The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in bis Voyage

into the South Sea in 1593. Reprinted from the Edition of

1622, and edited by Captain C. R. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.,

C.B.

Select Letters of Columbus; with Original Documents relating to

the Discovery of the New World. Translated and edited by

R. H. Major, Esq., of the British Museum.

The Discoverie of the Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh,

Knt. Edited, with oopious Explanatory Notes, and a Biogra-

phical Memoir, by Sir Robert L. Schomburgh, Phil. D., &c.

Sir Francis Drake bis Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde ; toge-

ther with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto

Rico. Edited, from the original Ms, by W. D. Cooley, Esq.

Narratives of Early Voyages undertaken for the Discovery of a

Passage to Cathaia and India, by the North-west; with Seleo

tions from the Records of the Worshipful Fellowship of the

Merchants of London, trading into the East Indies; and from

Mss. in the Library of the British Museum. Now first pub

lished, by Thomas Rurdall, Esq.

The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, expressing the

Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country; together with

the Manners and Customs of the People, gathered and observed

as well by those who first went thither as collected by William

Strachey, Gent., the First Secretary of the Colony. Now first

edited, from the original Manuscript in the British Museum, by

R. H. Major, Esq., of the British Museum,