THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW EDITED BY EDWARD I. SEARS, A. M., LL. D. "Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est.” NEW YORK: EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 1865. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by E. I. SEARS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York. This volume has been rebound with funds provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities CONTENTS OF NO. XXI. 2. Histoire des Gaulois. Par AMEDEE THIERRY. 3. The Celtic Druids. By GODFREY HIGGINS, Esq., F. S. A. 4. La Religion des Gaulois. Par D. MARTIN. 1. History of the Thirty Years' War. Translated from the German of FREDERICK SCHILLER. By the Rev. A. J. W. 2. The Life of Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland. By Lieut.-Col. 3. The Piccolomini: A Drama in two parts. III. UNITED STATES BANKING SYSTEM, PAST AND PRESENT....... State Bank System of the United States, 1865. IV. THE NEW YORK BAR-CHARLES O'CONOR... 5. Howard's Reports. Vol. xix. 6. Debates, New York State Convention. 7. Forrest Divorce Case. 2 vols. V. PHASES OF ENGLISH STATESMANSHIP. Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain, from 1782 to 1830. Contributed to the Edinburgh Review. By the Right Hon. Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, Bart. VI. MODERN CORRECTORS OF THE BIBLE.... The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: the Common English Version corrected. By the Final Com- mittee of the American Bible Union. VII. ANCIENT AND MODERN DISCOVERIES IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.. 1. Principles of Human Physiology, with their chief application to Psychology, Pathology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and 2. Clinical Lectures on the principles and practice of Medicine. By JOHN HUGHES BENNETT, M. D., F. R. S.. Professor of In- stitutes of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. 3. Histoire de la Medecine. Par DANIEL LECLERC. 4. Histoire de la Medecine depuis son origine jusqu'au dix-neuvieme 5. Institutions Historia Medicina. THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. XXI. JUNE, 1865. ART I.-1.Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions, and Language of the Ancient Britons, with some Introductory Sketches of Primitive Society. By EDWARD DAVIES, Curate of Olveston, Gloucestershire. London, 1804. 2. Histoire des Gaulois. Par AMEDEE THIERRY. Paris, 1845. 3. The Celtic Druids. By GODFREY HIGGINS, Esq., F. S. A, of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster, Yorkshire. London, 1827. 4. La Religion des Gaulois. Par D. MARTIN. Paris, 1727. 5. Commentatio de Druidis. J. G. FRIKIUS. Ulm, 1744. 6. Ueber die Druiden der Kelten. VON KARL BARTH. Irlangen, 1826. 7. The Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry. By J. WILLIAMS. London, 1844. 8. Les Fees du Moyen Age. Par ALFRED MAURY. Paris, 1842. Ir is impossible to estimate the amount of valuable knowledge the world has lost by the unwillingness of certain sects of philosophers to commit the results of their researches to writing. And if this fact be admitted, it must follow that no argument can justify such a course. Few, if any, will dispute that those who avoid recording their discoveries, lest the public at large might have the benefit of them in common with themselves, are guilty of a most reprehensible selfishness; and yet it is to be feared that this has been the prevailing motive. That some have been influenced only by VOL. XI. NO. XXI. L |