THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XCVI.

PUBLISHED IN

DECEMBER, 1854, MARCH, 1855.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1855.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CXCI.

ART.

I.-1. Annual Reports of Mr. Braidwood to the Committee

of the Fire Brigade.

2. Healthy Homes. A Guide to the proper Regulation of

Buildings in Towns as a Means of Promoting and Se-

curing the Health, Comfort, and Safety of the Inhabit-

ants. By William Hosking, Archt. & C.E. London.

1849.

3. On Fire-proof Buildings. By James Braidwood, Asso-

ciate of the Institute of Civil Engineers; with an

Abstract of the Discussion upon the Paper. London.

1850.

4. Preservation of Life from Fire. Eighteenth Annual

Report of the Society. 1854.

5. On the Means of rendering large Supplies of Water

available in Cases of Fire, and on the Application of

Manual Power to the working of Fire-Engines. By

James Braidwood. Abstract of the Paper and Discus-

sion upon it. Second Edition.

6. Mr. Baddeley's Reports on London Fires. In the

Mechanic's Magazine.

7. Paper in the Statistical Journal (vol. i., 1851) on the

Fires of London. By R. W. Rawson, Esq.

II.-1. Memoirs of the Life and Scientific Researches of John

Dalton, Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, LL.D. Edinburgh,

F.R.S., Foreign As-ociate of the Academy of Sciences,

Paris, &c. By William Charles Henry, M.D., F.R.S.

8vo. London, 1854.

2. An Introduction to the Atomic Theory. By Charles

Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Professor of Chemistry

and of Botany in the University of Oxford. Secoud

Edition. Oxford. 1851

III.-Pictures of Life and Character. By John Leech. Lon-

don. 1854

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IV.-Psychological Inquiries: in a Series of Essays intended

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V.-1. Clerical Economics. By a Clergyman of the Old
School. Edinburgh. 1842.

2. The Manse-Garden. Glasgow, n. d.

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VI.-1. On Warming and Ventilating; with Directions for

making and using the Thermometer Stove, or Self-

Regulating Fire, and other New Apparatus. By Neil

Arnott, M.D., F.R.S., &c. London, 1838.

2 Journal of the Society of Arts, Vol. II., No. 77. On

a New Smoke-Consuming and Fuel-Saving Fireplace,

with Accessaries insuring the Healthful Warming and

Ventilation of Houses. By Neil Arnott, M.D.,

F.R.S., &c. 10th May, 1854.

3. A Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation,

being a concise Exposition of the General Principles of

the Art of Warming and Ventilating Domestic and

Public Buildings, Mines, Lighthouses, Ships, &c. By

Charles Tomlinson. Published in Weale's Rudimen-

tary Series.' London. 1850.

4. Practical Remarks on the Warming, Ventilation, and

Humidity of Rooms. By Francis Lloyd. London.

1854

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VII.-1. Report from the Select Committee on the Friendly

Societies' Bill; together with the Minutes of Evidence,

&c. House of Commons, July, 1854.

2. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws, and to

grant additional Facilities in relation to the Purchase

of Government Annuities, &c.; to which is added

Tables of the Rates of Government Annuities. Printed

by Authority of the National Debt Commissioners, 1853.

3. Copies of further Report and Tables prepared under

the direction of the Lords of the Treasury, by the

Actuary of the National Debt Office, on the subject of

Sickness and Mortality among the Members of

Friendly Societies, as shown by the Quinquennial Re-

turns to the 31st day of December, 1850. Presented

to the House of Commons, August 11, 1854

VIII. A Month in the Camp before Sebastopol. By a Non-

Combatant. London.

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IX. Corsica. By Ferdinand Gregorovius. Stuttgart and

Tübingen, 1854

X.-1. The Conduct of the War. A Speech delivered in the

House of Commons on Tuesday, 12th December, 1854.

By the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P. London.

1854.

2. The Prospects and Conduct of the War. Speech deli-

vered in the House of Commons on December 12, 1854.

By Austen Henry Layard, Esq., M.P. for Aylesbury.

London. 1854

Plan of Sebastopol to face page 225:

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2. The Greek Court. 3. The Roman Court. 4. The

Pompeiian Court. Described by George Scharf, Esq.,

Junr.

5. A Handbook to the Byzantine Court. 6. A Hand-

book for the Mediæval Court. 7. A Handbook to the

Renaissance Court. 8. A Handbook to the Italian

Court. By M. Digby Wyatt and J. B. Waring.

9. The Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace.

and described by Owen Jones.

Erected

10. A Handbook to the Court of Modern Sculpture. By

Mrs. Jameson.

11. The Portrait Gallery of the Crystal Palace. By Samuel

Phillips.

12. A Handbook to the Court of Natural History. De-

scribed by Dr. C. R. Latham and Professor E. Forbes.

13. A Guide to the Palace and Park. By Samuel Phillips.

Illustrated by P. H. Delamotte.

14. Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World. De-

scribed by Professor R. Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S.

15. A Few Words, by way of a Letter, addressed to the

Directors of the Crystal Palace Company. From

Samuel Leigh Sotheby.

16. The Crystal Palace, considered as a Mercantile Specu-

lation, in a Letter addressed to Samuel Laing, Esq.,

M.P., &c. &c., Chairman of the Company. By Samuel

Wilson, Alderman

II.1. Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII.: Selection

of Despatches written by the Venetian Ambassador,

Sebastian Giustinian, and addressed to the Signory of

Venice, January 12th, 1515, to July 26th, 1519.

Translated by Rawdon Brown. 2 vols.

1854.

2. A Relation, or rather a True Account, of the Island of

England about the Year 1500. Printed for the Camden

Society, 1847.

3. Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti al Senato. Rac-

colte, annotate, ed edite da Eugenio Alberi. Firenze,

1839-1844.

4. Relations des Ambassadeurs Vénétiens sur les Affaires

de France au 16me Siècle. Recueillies et traduites par

M. N. Tommaseo. 2 tomes. Paris, 1838

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