BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY OTIS, BROADERS, AND CO.,

No. 154 WASHINGTON STREET.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CXXXIV.

ART.

I. CHARLES EDWARD, THE Pretender

Histoire de Charles-Edouard, dernier Prince de

la Maison de Stuart, précédée d'une Histoire de la

Rivalité de l'Angleterre et de l'Écosse. Par AMÉ-
DÉE PICHOT, D. M.

II. BROUGHAM'S LIVES OF MEN OF LETTERS

Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who flour-

ished in the Time of George the Third. By HENRY,

LORD BROUGHAM, F. R. S. Second Series.

'III. THE SOURCES OF THE DIVINA COMMEDIA

1. La Divine Comédie avant Dante. Par M.

CHARLES LABITTE.

2. Études sur les Sources Poétiques de la Divine

Comédie. Par A. J. OZANAM.

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IV. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THOMAS À BECKET. . 118

The Life and Letters of Thomas à Becket, now

first gathered from the Contemporary Historians.

By the Rev. J. A. GILES, D. C. L., late Fellow of

Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

V. MEMOIRS OF THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIONS . . 161

Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington

and John Adams, edited from the Papers of Oliver

Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury. By GEORGE

GIBBS.

A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the Eng-

lish Language; to which are added Walker's Key

to the Pronunciation of Classical and Scripture Prop-

er Names, much enlarged and improved; and a

Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Geographical

Names. By JOSEPH E. WORCESter.

VII. HOLMES'S URANIA.

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Urania, a Rhymed Lesson, pronounced before the

Mercantile Library Association, October 14, 1846.

By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

VIII. MACKENZIE'S LIFE OF DECATUR .

The Library of American Biography. Conduct-

ed by JARED SPARKS. Vol. XXI. The Life of Ste-

phen Decatur, a Commodore in the Navy of the

United States. By ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKEN-

ZIE, U. S. N.

IX. HOCHELAGA

Hochelaga; or England in the New World. Ed-

ited by ELIOT WARBURTON, Esq., Author of the

Crescent and the Cross.

X. CRITICAL NOTICES.

1. Sumner's Phi Beta Kappa Address

2. Howe on Prison Discipline

3. Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon

4. Smith's Memoir of Fichte.

5. Report on Tenements for the Poor

6. Livermore's Lectures to Young Men

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