The North American Medical and Physical Journal. No. 1. Vol. I. 1826. 8vo. Philadelphia.
Professional Reputation, an Oration delivered before the Philadelphia Medical Society, pursuant to appointment, February 8th, 1826. By John D. Godman, M. D. Philadelphia. B. & T. Kite.
Remarks on the Banks and Currency of the New England States; and the Public Benefits resulting from the System pursued by the Allied Banks in Boston. First published in the Daily Advertiser. 1825. 8vo. pp. 40. Boston.
This very sensible pamphlet contains an elaborate, and, as we think, a conclusive defence of the system "of the associated banks" in Boston. As the influence of that system upon our paper currency has been exceedingly important, and as the policy of the system has been much debated among the mercantile classes, we shall take occasion hereafter to give it more extended notice.
The Essays of Philanthropos on Peace and War, pointing out the Evils resulting from War, &c. 8vo. Boston.
The Art of Epistolary Composition, &c. To which are added, a Collection of Fables, intended as Exercises for Pupils learning the French Language. With some account of the A. L. S. and Military Academy at Middletown, Conn. By Francis Peyre-ferry, Professor of the French Language in the Academy. Middletown, Conn. E. & H. Clark.
The Ninth Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. With an Appendix. 8vo. pp. 67. Washington. Way & Gideon.
Notes on the Origin and Necessity of Slavery. 1826. 8vo. pp. 48. Charleston, S. C.
Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton. From the Christian Examiner. Vol. III. No. 1. 8vo. pp. 51. Boston.
A Letter to a Gentleman of Baltimore, in reference to the Case of the Rev. Mr Duncan. By Samuel Miller, D. D. 8vo. Price 50 cents. Defence of the Unitarians against the Wesleyan Journal; 1st Remarks on a late Article upon Unitarianism, which appeared in the Wesleyan Journal, published in this city; 2d. Answer to a new Attack upon the Unitarians, in the Wesleyan Journal; 3d. Reply to a third Article in the Wesleyan Journal of January 21, 1826. 8vo. Charleston, S. C.
Dissertations upon several Fundamental Articles of Christian Theology. By Samuel Austin, D. D. 8vo. pp. 260. Worcester, Mass.
Mutual Love between a Minister and People; a Sermon, delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Harley Goodwin, as Colleague Pastor of the Church of Christ in New Marlborough, January 4th, 1826. By Cyrus Yale. Svo. Hartford, Conn.
Report of the Commissioners of the State of Massachusetts, on the Routes of Canals from Boston Harbour to the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers. 8vo. Boston. True & Greene.
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Acid, pectic or coagulating, discovery of, Babylon the Great, noticed, 271.
Address, Mr Brainard's, noticed, 192;
object of, laudable, 193; President
Lindsley's, reviewed, 171; Mr Da-
vis's, noticed, 157; Mr Ray's, noticed,
356; Mr Crafts's, noticed, 32; Mr
Davies's, reviewed, 258; Mr Law
rence's, reviewed, 41; Dr Oliver's,
noticed, 234; leading ideas of, found
in Kant's Philosophy, 235; its merits
of a high order, 236.
Africa, Bacon's Plea for, noticed, 30.
Age, the character of the, 172; revolu-
tions in favour of free government not
an evil, 173.
Agriculture, in relation to the General
Interests of Society, 265; Touches on,
noticed, 118.
Alabama, the University of, 397.
Alaman, M., 470.
Alexander, a check to Napoleon, 1.
Algebra, Colburn's, reviewed, 241.
Alien Law of England, remarks
Alphabets, letters in the different, 153.
Angrisani, Sig., 421.
Bacon's Plea for Africa, noticed, 30;
objects of unattainable, 31.
Bank Currency, uses of, 66; necessity
of legislative checks against excessive
emissions of bills, 67.
Banks, Remarks on, noticed, 471.
Barbiere, Madame, musical performances
of, 421.
Beman, Mr, Oration of, noticed, 150.
Bible, different editions of the, 398.
Birman Empire, army of the, 317.
Bigelow, Mr, his Digest of Massachusetts
Reports, reviewed, 201.
Blunt, Mr, his Historical Sketch, re-
viewed, 372.
Bonaparte, his retreat from Russia, 10;
instances of fidelity among his soldiers,
11; continental system of, opposed by
England, 1.
Bon homme Richard, anecdote relating
to the name, 55.
Botany Bay, prosperity of, 358.
Botta, M. Charles, his History of Italy, 36.
Books, elementary, bad construction of,
178.
Architecture, not sufficiently attended to Boundaries, original of Massachusetts,
in Boston, 302.
Armories, national, 469.
Army, of the Birman empire, 317.
Ashantees and British, war between the,77.
Astronomy, Grammar of, noticed, 78;
reviewed, 338.
Asylum, Literary, projected by Joel Bar-
low and Robert Fulton, 35; for the Deaf
and Dumb at Columbia, S. C., 140.
Athens, the public buildings of, much in-
jured by the Turks, 154.
Attempt, An, to demonstrate the Practi-
cability of Emancipating the Slaves of
the United States of North America,
reviewed, 450.
Ayliffe, Dr., quotation from, 132.
vagueness of, 373.
Braconnot, discovery of, 117.
Brainard, Mr, Address of, noticed, 192.
Brewster, Dr, recommends the use of
crystalline lenses of animals as micros-
copes, 37.
British and Ashantees, war between the,77.
Brooks, Mrs, notice of her poetry, 114.
Brougham, Mr, Lord Rector of the Uni-
versity of Glasgow, 34.
Brunelleschi, genius of in architecture, 84.
Buonaroti, Michel Agnolo, his eminence,
in all the Fine Arts, 84.
Burton, Rev. Asa, his Essays, reviewed,
18; his attempt to prove that the mind
has faculties, 20.
Callao, situation of, 470.
Campan, Madame, Recollections of, 78.
Campbell, notice of his connexion with
the New Monthly Magazine, 276.
Canoes of the Sandwich Islanders, 413.
Capital, defined, 23.
Carolina, South, Tour in, 105; hospi-
tality of the inhabitants of the low
country, 141; peculiar dialect, 142.
Caulincourt, interview of, with Napo-
leon, 4.
Channing, Rev. Dr, his Dudleian Lec-
ture republished in England, 34.
Charter of Harvard College in 1650, 92;
provisions of, 93; controversy in 1722
in regard to its construction, 206; re-
port of a committee upon it, 209.
Charters, vagueness of the ancient, in re-
gard to territorial boundaries, 373.
Chemistry, by Dr Webster, 116.
Children, how to be governed, 433.
China, military force of, 273.
Chitenengo, school at, 153.
Cimabue, merit and style of painting of, 83.
Claims of the Citizens of the United
States on Denmark, noticed, 391.
Class-Book, Literary and Scientific, no-
ticed, 277.
Clinton, Governor, message of, 316.
Clocks, wooden, in Carolina, 107.
Cobbett, William, description of his efforts
as a political reformer, 276.
College, Harvard, reform in, 161; form
of inducting fellows of, 168; see Har-
vard; of Glasgow, method of confer-
ring premiums in, 186; Middlebury,
reputation of, 150; at Columbia,
S. C., 140; Cumberland, Laws of,
noticed, 471.
Columbia, S. C., situation of, 140.
Comet, Encke's, 117; of 1825, elements
of, 317; remarks upon, ib.
Commerce, in relation to the general in-
terests of society, 344.
Composition, The Elements of English,
noticed, 120.
Confederacy, Historical Sketch of the
Formation of the, reviewed, 272.
Congress of Panama, remarks of the
London Courier upon, 439.
Conflicting interests, 264.
Contract, good faith essential to the
validity of a, 449.
Contracts, Essay upon the Law of, re-
viewed, 441; decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States upon a
case, 442; English law upon, 444; civil
law of, better than common law, 447.
Consumption defined, 145.
Cook, Captain, manner of his death, 409.
Coronation, spectacle of the French, 76.
Corporation of Harvard College, how
constituted, 12; evils of its organiza-
tion soonest felt by the immediate
government, 14; see Harvard.
Cotton, cost of raising, 106.
Cotton culture, 376.
Crafts, Mr, Address of, noticed, 32.
Cubi's Spanish Translator, noticed, 465.
Cunning Lover, The, an Italian opera,
noticed, 414.
Custom, singular Eastern, 118.
Danforth, Mr Samuel, 163.
Davies's, Mr, Address of, reviewed, 258.
Denmark, Claims on, 391.
Deserters, the execution of, in a regular
army, described, 336.
Descents, Law of, noticed, 112.
Dialects, in the interior of S. C., 143.
Dialogue of the Dead, 339.
Dialogues, Joyce's Scientific, noticed, 74.
Dictionary, Pronouncing, 378.
Digest, Bigelow's, of the Massachusetts
Reports, 201; Metcalf's, ib.
Digests, convenience and utility of, 202.
Discourse, Dr Miller's, noticed, 193;
Mr Jones's, extract from, 399.
Discovery, French voyage of, 470.
Discussion, public, useful tendency of, 33.
Disorders of Literary Men, reviewed, 60.
Drake, capture of the, 52.
Drama, the New England, noticed, 155.
Drawing, a useful study, 287.
Duke d'Enghien, 290; of York, his
views of the Catholic question, 34.
Duties, the practical, of a week, 80.
Earthquake at Lisbon, description of, 233.
Economy, Principles of Political, see
Political Economy.
Education, a science not yet developed,
175; to be studied by peculiar means,
171; capable of being reduced to gen-
eral principles, 177; state of secondary,
in France, 281; American Journal of,
noticed, 394; state of, in the Philip
pine Islands, 395; of the Caffres, how
conducted, 398; Hints for improve-
ment of, noticed, 433; natural division
of the science of, 221.
Egypt, manufactures in, 275.
Elections, Freedom of in France, 37.
Ellis, Rev. William, 407; author of the
account of the Tour around Hawaii, 407.
Emancipation of the Slaves of the United
States impracticable, 453.
Fouché, Memoirs of, reviewed, 288.
Fracastoro, Girolomo, life and writings
of, 461; Sonnet of, to a Lady, ib.
France, state of education in, 281; num-
ber of protestants in, 469.
Franklin, Dr, and Napoleon, Dialogue
between, 339.
Gallaudet, Mr, his experience as a teacher,
179; his plan of a seminary for the
education of instructers of youth, 171.
Emmett, Mr, his observations on the Games, the public, influence of, on the
solar spots, 77.
Encke's Comet, 117.
Enfield's Natural Philosophy, 75.
England, opposition of, to France, 1;
growth of, for the last fifty years, 194.
Engravings, new method of colouring,
invented at Vienna, 276.
Essay on the Doctrine of Contracts, 441;
on Planetary Motion, noticed, 196;
upon Poetic Simplicity, 456.
Fine Arts in Greece, 46.
Garcia, Signor, his character as a writer
and performer of music, 420; Signo-
rina, her musical talents, 420; how
rewarded in England, 421; Junior,
notice of, 421.
Genlis, Madame de, second volume of
her Memoirs, reviewed, 251; her visits
to England, 254; her comparison of
the French and English nations, 256.
Gil Blas, authorship of, 468.
Etiquette, singular points of, in Morocco, Glasgow, a residence in, 183,
318.
Everett's New Ideas on Population, 196.
Exchange on England, 375.
Expedition, History of Bonaparte's to
Russia in 1812, reviewed, 1; the im-
mediate cause of his overthrow, 5.
Experiment in instructing the poor, 76.
Expiation, The, a novel, announced, 397.
Fashions of the Siamese, 470.
Feijoo, Father, 467.
Fellow, signification of the term in the
charter of Harvard College, 134;
meaning of the term in the English
colleges, 94.
Göthe, a new edition of his Werter, 438;
value of his works, 154.
Gould, Judge, his oration before the Phi
Beta Kappa Society at New Haven,
reviewed, 258.
Gourgand, General, his book noticed, 432,
Government of Children, how to be con-
Græca Majora, see Majora.
Greece, seat of the Fine Arts, 43, Modern
Literature of, 36.
Greek Artists, 83.
Greenwood, Mr, extract from his sermon
before the Female Asylum, 119.
Hamilton, Mrs Elizabeth, works of, on
education, noticed, 159.
Fine Arts, essay upon, 302; Mr Ray's Hadduck, Professor, Oration of, noticed,
Address before a society of, 356; suc-
cessfully cultivated in the Moorish
kingdoms of Spain, 81; Rome derived
from Greece, 47; cultivation of, in a
political point of view, 85, 86.
Fish, fattening of, in fresh water, 117.
Flora of Brazil, 438.
Florence, public buildings of, ornamented
by Greek artists in the thirteenth cen-
tury, 89.
Foreign Scenes, by Mr Howison, 295.
Foresters, The, reviewed, 95.
Harvard College, reform in, 129; corpo-
ration of, how composed, 12; see
Memorial.
Havana, boarding-houses in, 296; man-
ners in, 297.
Hawaii, inhabitants upon, 407.
Hearts of Steel, noticed, 468.
Heights, Groton, monument to be erected
on, 192.
Henry, Professor, the translator of Nie- Johnson, Mr, Observations of, on the Im-
buhr's Roman History, 75.
Hints to Parents, noticed, 279.
History of the United States, noticed;
272; of Boston, noticed, 319.
Historicul, see Sketch.
Hopkins, Mr, observations of, on elec-
tricity, &c., noticed, 357.
Howe, Judge, charge of, to the Grand
Jury of Hampshire county, noticed, 70.
Howison, Mr, his Foreign Scenes and
Travelling Recreations, reviewed, 295;
his opinions of the piracies in the West
Indies, 301.
Husband Hunting, noticed, 152.
Hutchinson, his opinion of the importance
of Harvard College in its early history,
162.
Imports, duties on, 423.
Improvement, internal, 377.
Indigo, manufacture of, 398.
Industry, productive, defined, 145.
Interest, rate of, should not be regulated
by law, 144; moral effects of a law for
that purpose, ib.
Internal, see Improvement.
Instructers, number of, in New England,
174; require direct preparation, 179;
their duty upon the inductive method
of instruction, 249.
Instruction, mutual, 285.
Insurance, law of, founded upon civil
law, 446.
Islands in the Pacific Ocean, Malte-Brun's
classification of, 402; different theories
to account for the dispersion of the
Malay race, 403; Philippine, natives of
the, 437; Society, English missionaries
upon the, 405; improvements in the
condition of, 406; Sandwich, Ameri-
can missionaries upon, 405.
Italy, Fine Arts in, 47.
Jardine, Professor, character of, as a
teacher, 183; mode of conducting his
recitations, 184; his opinion of the
utility of lectures, 243; his views have
peculiar force when applied to mathe-
matics, 244.
Jefferson, Notes of, on Virginia, 196.
Jenner, Dr, statue to the memory of, 397.
provements of Seminaries of Learning,
171; plan for that purpose, 218; his
observations entitled to respect, 220.
Jones, John Paul, his Life and Character,
by Mr Sherburne, reviewed, 51, English
opinion of him, 52; his account of the
capture of the Drake, 52; of the
Serapis, 55; his acquaintance with
Lord Selkirk, 57; once a midshipman
in the British navy, ib.
Journal of a Tour around Hawaii, 401;
of Education, noticed, 394; of a Tour
in the interior of South Carolina, 104;
The Franklin, notice of, 471.
Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, noticed, 74.
Kairua, number of inhabitants of, 408.
Keating, Mr, his narrative of Major
Long's Expedition, 35.
King Caucus, noticed, 157.
Kirauea, a volcano on Hawaii, 410.
Klopstock's Messiah, 237.
Kremlin, the, occupied by Napoleon, 8.
Labour, productive and unproductive, dis-
tinction between, 145.
Lafayette, Memoirs of, by Professor
Ticknor, 237, itinerary of his journey
in this country, 275.
Landais, Captain, infamous conduct of,
54; letter to, by Dr Franklin, ib.
Language of the Polynesian islands, 405;
grammars of the, 406; of the Philip-
pine Islands, 395.
Languages of Africa, 396; diversities of,
how to be accounted for, 437.
Latitude of the Capitol at Washington,
438.
Law, language of the, in Spain, 237.
Law Tracts, 438.
Lawrence, Mr, address of, before the
American Academy of Fine Arts, 41.
Laws of Cumberland College, noticed,471.
Leisure Hours at Sea, by a Midshipman,
noticed, 355.
Legendre, M., project of, for a Literary
Asylum, 35.
Lenses, crystalline, of animals, employed
Letter, from a friend of Paul Jones, 58.
Letters on Early Rising, noticed, 39.
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