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ELEVENTH VOLUME OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.
ABSTRACT of the fate of the Mahommedan Chiefs, who ascended the throne of India, 365
Abraham, promise to, respecting Ishmael, its consequences, 486-489 Adonis, Venus' search after, described,
234---her lamentation for his loss, 236 Adventure of a Hindoo Heroine, 377 Age, (The) reviewed, 122---extract from, on the love of money, 123---the author's ideas on education, 123---a specimen of the Bathos' in, 124 Agricultural schools, 608.
Alhama, account of its capture, by the Marquis of Cadiz, 434
All for Love, by Southey, 415---extracts from, 421
America, Nevado de Soratà the highest mountain of, 211---Nevados de Illemani, the second highest mountain of, 212 America, state of language in, 453
Anecdotes of Dogs, 466
Anne of Geierstein, 288---the hero's peri- lous adventure described, 290---dialogue between Arthur and a Swiss Maiden, 292---dialogue between Sir Archibald de Hagenbach and Kilian, 294---character of Margaret of Anjou, 298 Apician Morsels, reviewed, 153 Arabia, Burckhardt's Travels in, 1---re- maining unchanged in language, man- ners and institutions, since the Pharaohs, 1---characteristics of the natives, 2--- boundaries of Hedjez, and description of Mekka, 3---account of the Beitullah, or House of God, 4---of the Kaaba, and the famous black stone brought from heaven by the angel Gabriel, 5---tattooing prac- tised by the Mekkawys, 7---dress of the Mekkawys, 8---character of the delyls, or guides, 10---account of the females at Mekka, 12
Arrow, (An) with a flint head, found in the grave of a Celtic Chieftain, 133
Arminius, Account of, by Luden, 579 Architectural Antiquities, interest connected with the study, 491
Ass, (The) domesticated by the Oriental Adamic race, 28
Astarte, represented by Milton as the moon, 239
Astronomy not so exact a science as is usually believed, 522---M. Chabrier's new system of, 521
Atheism, attempt to propagate it through- out France, 397
Antonina, wife of Belisarius, lasciviousness
of, 286---death of her son Photius, 287 Aversa, account of the Hospital of, 181 Azores, Two Bodies belonging to an un- known race of men thrown upon the,
BABADILEL CHICO, prophecy at his birth, 433---his death, 445
Bacon, (Lord) his character compared with that of Locke, 499---his humility and simplicity, ib.
Ball's Lectures on Shakespeare, 308 Barchochebas' Description of the Condition of the Hebrews, after the destruction of their City, 255
Battle of Trafalgar, Details of the, 224 Battle of Marignan described, 567 Bayard (Chevalier) anecdote of, 570 Beaver's, (Capt. P.) Life and Services, by Smyth, 189---his birth, 190---appointed President of the island of Bulama, 191--- punishment of a Manjack who attempted to stab him, 195---abandonment of Bu- lama, and return to England, 196---an account of one of his exploits, 196--- capture of La Prima, 197---his memo- rial to Lord Mulgrave, 198-his death, 199
Bedlam, Halliday's account of, 178---table of the regular diet of patients in, 188 Beitullah, or house of God at Mekka, de- scription of, 4
Belisarius, Life of, by Lord Mahon, 274--- description of his voyage to Africa, 276 ---his defeat and capture of Gelimer. 279---his expedition against the Goths in Italy, 281-account of his taking of Naples, 281---his stratagem to obtain possession of Ravenna, 286---lascivious- ness of his wife, Antonina, 287
Bellchores' Visit to the Colony of Bulama,
Belzoni, his conduct not approved of by M. Gau, 494---his discoveries at Yssambul, 494
Biographie Universelle, (vol. xxi.) re- viewed, 584
Biot's Life of Sir Isaac Newton, translated in the Library of Useful Knowledge, 585 Biographer, duties of, 498
Boat-racing among the Burmans, descrip- tion of, 330
Blumenbach, on the Acquirements and Capacity of Negroes, 20
Bory de St. Vincent's Classification of the Waters which cover three-fourths of the globe, 200---remarks on the depth of the sea, 204---reflections upon the colour of the sea, 207---remarks on the limit of eter- nal snows and glaciers, 208 Botany, Remarks on the Study of, 337 Bottom of the Sea, Conjecture of the form and appearance of the, 205
Bowles' Hermes Britannicus, 124---on the Celtic God Tanarus, 128---the Mercury of the Britons, 129---on the Celtic and Druidical worship of one Great God, 131---on the Celtic hagp, 132
Brasse's Edition of Sophocles Edipus re- viewed, 153
Brayley's Londiuiana reviewed, 138 Britton's Picture of London, 304 Brooke's (Lord) Account of Sir Philip Sidney, 72-his description of Sir Phi- lip's quarrel with Lord Oxford, 75. Brown's Biographical Sketches and Anec-, dotes of Dogs, 466
Brunswick, (The) a Poem, reviewed, 514---
subject of, the fall of the Brunswick Theatre, 515---written in imitation of the style of Don Juan, ib.---extracts from, 519---character of, ibid.
Buddhists, The, Believers in Materialism, 46
Bulama, Colonization of, set on foot, 191--- situation described, 191---dreadful state of the colony, 194---abandonment of, by the colony, 196
Burckhardt, Travels of, in Arabia, 1 Burman Empire, Extent and Boundaries of the, 317---account of the nations by which it is inhabited, 321---population, 324.
Burmans, Tribes of the, 318---antiquity of their historical records, 319---Alompra, founder of their present dynasty, 320.-- their knowledge of the arts, ignorance of .. geography, ideas of immortality upon earth, 322--extent and manner of educa-
tion, 323---their language and literature, 323---specimen of their superstition and credulity, 325
Byron, (Lord) probably repented of his having written Don Juan, 519
CADIZ, Character of the Marquis of, 434 Cabanis misrepresents the principles of Locke, 505
Caius Marius, character of, by Luden, 578 Calcutta, Satirical Verses on, 117
Camden, on Sir Philip Sidney's works, 71 Canada, Three Years in, 446 Carolina, Locke's scheme for the govern- ment of, abortive, 500
Cartar, coroner for Kent, singular instruc. tions to a jury, 601. Caspians, Table of, 201
Celtic and Druidical worship of one Great God, 131
Celtic Warrior's Grave, The, 136
Chaldeans, observations on the religion of the, 125
Charybdis, description of its raging, 455 Cherry-laurel Water, powerful poisonous quality of, 348
Christian Souvenir, The, 467
Clearing a Country of Wood, singular sug- gestion for the, 450
Clergy, State of, in Russia, during the era of Peter the Great, 67
Coptic, identified with the ancient lan- guage of Egypt, by Kircher, 554 Copy-right, sums received by Locke for, 511-12
Colour of the Sea, Remarks on the, 205 Columbian Species, The, Account of, 27 Constantinople, by Charles Mac Farlane, reviewed, 529
Constable de Bourbon, account of, 572 Corbies, The Twa', Ballad of, 270 Cornet, Peace Campaigns of a, 214---his Parentage, 218----Examination at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, 220
Coroners, instances of their management, 600
Coste's French Translation of Locke's Essay, 505
Courtship, Turkish mode of, 547
Cousin's, (Victor) History of Philosophy,
Charlemagne, Account of, by Luden, 585 Chabrier's New System of Astronomy, 521
---his notions of a sidereal fluid, 523--- supposes it connected with Atmospheric Electricity, 524---Planetary movements explained by, ib.---his liquide sideral anticipated by Lord Byron, 426---his ac- count of the moon, 527---his system similar to Des Cartes's, 528 Champollion, his inadequacy to the task of explaining Hieroglyphics, 556 Christianity, Infidel "argument against, refuted, 477---compared with ismalism, 484
Chronology of the Egyptians, 557
Crawfurd's Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Ava, 3:7
Creech's Translation of Lucretius' Invoca- tion to Venus, 246
Creuzer, his account of the funeral rites in ancient Egypt, 561
Currents of the Ocean, 201
Cutting out of a Vessel described, 226 Cuvier's, (Baron) Varieties of the Human Race, 18
Cyprus, Worship of Venus at, 238---de- scription of her temple there, 241
DANCING GIRLS, their performances at Ava described, 335
Day in Switzerland and Florence, 425 Deformity, effect of on the Mind, 149 Deity, Spherical Form of the, as supposed by Aristophanes, 48
Delort's History of Philosophers, and Lite-
rary Persons confined in the Bastille and at Vincennes, 351
Depth of the Sea, Remarks on the, 204 Desmoulins' Table of Eleven Species of Mankind, 19
Dogs, Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of, 466
Domitian's Couvocation of the Senate to know in what fisn-kettle the turbot pre- sented to him should be cooked, 152 Dress, Mode of, among the Mekkawys, 8 Dromedary, The, Domestication of, by the Oriental Adamic Race, 3
Druids, Origin of their do ctrine referred of Thebes, 133
Duffin, on Deformity of the Spine in Fe-
males, 147---on the Conductors of Board- ing Schools, 148---on the subject of Stooping, 148---c --on the effect which De- formity has upon the mind and disposi- tion, 149
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