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Memoir of Robert Swain. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1847. 16mo. pp. 259.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. By Alexander H. Everett. Second Series. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1846. 12mo. pp. 475.

A System of Intellectual Philosophy. By Rev. Asa Mahan, President, and Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, in the Oberlin Collegiate Institute. Second Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1847. 12mo. pp. 330.

First Lessons in Geometry, upon the Model of Colburn's First Lessons in Arithmetic. By Alpheus Crosby. With an Introduction, by Stephen Chase, Professor of Mathematics in Dartmouth College. Boston: J. Munroe & Co. 1847. 16mo. pp. 164.

A Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts. Published agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Boston. 1846. 8vo. pp. 547.

Eulogy on John Pickering, LL. D., President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; delivered before the Academy, October 28, 1846. By Daniel Appleton White, Fellow of the Academy. Cambridge: Metcalf & Co. 1847. 8vo. pp. 106.

Sparks's American Biography. Vol. XXII. Life of Commodore Edward Preble, by Lorenzo Sabine; Life of William Penn, by George E. Ellis. Boston: Little & Brown. 1847. 12mo. pp. 408.

The Practical French Teacher; or a New Method of Learning to read, write, and speak the French Language. By Norman Pinney, A. M. Hartford: Robins & Smith. 1847. 12mo. pp. 377.

Exercises and Illustrations on the Blackboard, furnishing an Easy and Expeditious Method of giving Instruction, designed for the Use of Common Schools. By John Goldsbury. Keene, N. H.: George Tilden. 1847. 12mo. pp. 144.

The North American Spelling-Book, conformed to Worcester's Dictionary, with a Progressive Series of Easy Reading Lessons. By L. W. Leonard. Keene, N. H.: George Tilden. 1847. 16mo. pp. 178.

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Present Time, connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Nos. 2-6. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln. 1847. 8vo.

A Discourse delivered before the Maine Historical Society at its Annual Meeting, September 6th, 1846. By George Folsom. Portland: Published for the Society. 1847. 8vo. pp. 80.

On Three Several Hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their Relations to the Northers of Mexico and Central America, with Notices of other Storms. By W. C. Redfield. New Haven: B. L. Hamlen. 1846. 8vo. pp. 118.

Report of the Case in the Matter of George Kirk, a Fugitive Slave, heard before the Hon. J. W. Edmonds, Circuit Judge; also, the Argument of John Jay, Counsel for the Slave. New York: Legal Observer Office. 1847. 8vo. pp. 20.

A Discourse on the Evangelical Alliance. By William P. Tilden, Minister of the Second Congregational Church in Concord, N. H. Concord. 1846. 8vo. pp. 16.

A Discourse delivered before the Rhode Island Historical Society, January 13th, 1847. By Hon. Job Durfee, Chief Justice of the State. And a Poem recited on the same Occasion, by Sarah Helen Whitman. Providence: Charles Burnett, Jr. 1847. 8vo. pp. 42 and 6.

The One Progressive Principle, delivered before the Literary Societies of the University of Vermont, August, 1846. By J. T. Headley. New York: John S. Taylor. 8vo. pp. 32.

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Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society. By George Jaques. Boston. 1847. 8vo. pp. 84.

Progress: an Address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dartmouth College, July 29th, 1846. By Joel Parker, Chief Justice of New Hampshire. Hanover. 1846. 8vo. pp. 26.

An Exposition of a Book published by D. Appleton & Co., called Hazlitt's Translation of Guizot's History of Civilization. By R. W. Haskins, A. M. Buffalo. 1846. 8vo. pp. 55.

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Adams, John, Gibbs's Memoirs of
the Administration of, reviewed,
161 quarrels with the Federal-
ists, 170
opposes Hamilton,
171.

Addison, Joseph, Miss Aikin's Life
of, reviewed, 314 - grace and hu-
mor of, 315- purity and gentle-
ness of, 316-his style character-
ized, 317-an advocate of pure
morals and religion, 318-slan-
dered by Pope and Spence, 319-
early life of, 320-bashfulness of,
321- becomes the friend of Steele,
322-his habits at Oxford, 323-
literary projects of, 324 -his Eng-
lish and Latin verses, 325-trav-
els in France, 326 - visits Male-
branche, 327-and Boileau, 328-
travels in Italy by, 329-Dialogues
on Medals by, 330 offers to act
as travelling tutor, 331-his poem
on Blenheim, 332 goes abroad as
- his op-
secretary to Halifax, 334-
era of Rosamond, 335 - made sec-
retary to Wharton, 336-liberal,
but just, 337- his conduct towards
Steele, 338-loved and trusted by
Swift, 341-writes the Whig Ex-
aminer, 342-assists Steele in The
Tatler, 344-
-a reformer of man-
ners and morals, 345 — writes for
The Spectator, 347- great merits
of, as an essayist, 348 - writes for
The Guardian, 349- his Cato, 351
refuses to dedicate it to the

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queen, 353-merits of his trag-
edy, ib. — objects to Pope's lam-
poon on Dennis, 355- inquiry in-
to his relations with Pope, 356-
his remark on the Rape of the
Lock, 357-on the translation of
the Iliad, 359-not the author of
Tickell's version, 361 - openly in-
sulted by Pope, 362- his last in-
terview with him, 363-sacred

poems of, 364. not intemperate
in wine, 365-other slanders on,
refuted, 366-marriage of, 367-
his will cited, 368- alienated from
Steele, 369- dying scene of, 370
religious faith of, 371 not
faultless, but deserves high praise,
372. See Pope.
Agamemnon of Eschylus, by C. C.
Felton, noticed, 522.

Age, the present intellectual aspect
of, 273 - mechanical inventions
in, 274- tendency of philosophy
in, ib. imagination supplanted
in, 275 boastfulness of, 276 —
utilitarian aspect of, 277-false
estimate of art in, 278 - lack of
independent thought in, 279
worthless publications in, 280
profound and philosophical works
neglected in, 281-poetry in, 283

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Sadducism of, 284 - advantages
for mental progress in, 286-work
for philosophy and imagination in,
287.

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Aikin, Lucy, Life of Addison by, re-
viewed, 314. See Addison.
Alberic, vision of, 113.