THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XXI.

JANUARY & APRIL.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1819.

No. XLI.

ART. I. The Resources of the United States of America; or,

a View of the Agricultural, Commercial, Financial,

Political, Literary, Moral, and Religious Character

of the American People. By John Bristed, Counsel-

lor at Law, Author of 'The Resources of the British

Empire.'

II. The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius, containing those

Books of this Author relating to the Public and Pri-

vate Edifices of the Ancients. Translated by William

Wilkins, A. M. late fellow of Caius College, Cam-

bridge.

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III. The Testimony of Natural Theology to Christianity.

By Thomas Gisborne, A. M.

IV. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of

a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years

1816 and 1817; containing an Account of the most

interesting Transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy

to the Court of Pekin, and Observations on the Coun-

tries which it visited. By Clarke Abel, F. L. S.

V. Fairy Tales, or the Lilliputian Cabinet, containing

Twenty-four choice pieces of Fancy and Fiction, col-

lected by Benjamin Tabart.

VI. Select Pieces in Prose and Verse, by the late John

Bowdler, Junior, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at

Law.

VII. Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey

of Five Thousand Miles through the Eastern and

Western States of America; contained in Eight

Reports, addressed to the Thirty-nine Families by

whom the Author was deputed, in June 1817, to

ascertain whether any, and what part of the United

States would be suitable for their Residence: with

Remarks on Mr. Birkbeck's Notes,' and Letters.'

By Henry Bradshaw Fearon.

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VIII. Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism examined:

preceded by Strictures on the Exclusionary System,

as pursued in the National Society's Schools: inter-

spersed with parallel views of the English and Scottish

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