EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES AND REVIEWS OF OUR TWO LAST NUMBERS, BY LEADING JOURNALS. **«Vassar College and its Degrees is a merciless unmasking of an educational sham, deserving the gratitude of all friends of true education."**—Christian Standard, Cincinnati, O. **No one can take up the two American quarterlies without feeling that while the one is the organ of a clique, and bound down and restrained by the narrowest Puritan sentiment, the other is broad, generous, and catholic in tone, and world wide in its sympathy. The North American and its little sister, the Atlantic Monthly, think of the world from what Lord Bacon would have called the Cave, and treat the world as if Boston were really the hub of the universe. National Quarterly takes a nobler standpoint, and, from its grander elevation, makes juster observations, and arrives at more correct conclusions." -New York Herald. The **We have to draw particular attention to some fearless and authentic revelations in a paper entitled "The Ethics and Esthetics of our Summer Resorts." The Reviewer here places before the public a series of facts, which the personal experience of a large class throughout the country [Extracts of several will endorse. Here is a sketch of Living at a Summer Resort:"" pages follow.] **-Philadelphia Press. ** "Those who have passed the summer in the covert out-of-town trysting places of fashion will, of course, read with avidity, "The Ethics and Esthetics of our Summer Resorts." Philadelphia Inquirer. * "The entire number, hackneyed as many of the subjects are, is so carefully worked up and so thoroughly studied that all is fresh and readable." * *—Newark Advertiser. "In the new number of the National Quarterly Review there is an article in which liter ary brigandage of a humbler kind is exposed. The writer is dwelling upon the scandalous treatment to which guests are subjected in many hotels ('Summer Resorts') and the high prices they are compelled to pay for abominable food and accommodation. How is it that such hotels get custom at all?" **-New York Times. **"The Ethics and Esthetics of our Summer Resorts" tells some startling truths about the hotels and hotel keepers of our watering places. It is a vigorous exposition of the gross outrages and swindles which are perpetrated upon helpless pleasure seekers. The writer very justly charges certain newspapers with being responsible for false accounts of the comforts to be enjoyed at these places, and with seldom giving the facts as they occur." * * —N. Y. Herald. first or second number of the National Quarterly Review. To Contributors. All articles should be received at least a month before the day of publication. Contributions from til parts are equally welcome; they will be accepted or rejected solely according to their merits or demerits, their suitableness or unsuitableness. CONTENTS OF NO. XXXIX. DECEMBER, 1869. I. HINDOO MYTHOLOGY AND ITS INFLUENCE. II. HUGO AND SAINT-BEUVE. III. THE GREEK CHURCH. IV. WOMAN'S RIGHTS VIEWED PHYSIOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY. V. ROBIN HOOD AND HIS TIMES. VI. OUR MILLIONAIRES AND THEIR INFLUENCE. VII. MR. GLADSTONE ON THE HEROIC AGES. VIII. ECLIPSES AND THEIR PHENOMENA. IX. NOTICES AND CRITICISMS. AGENTS FOR THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW. The Review may be had of the following Agents: NEW YORK.-New York, Sinclair Tousey, General Agent, 121 Nassau Street. Rochester, D. M. Dewey. Buffalo, J. S. Hawks. Troy, S. T. Hoyt. CONNECTICUT.-New Haven, J. H. Pease. Hartford, F. A. Brown. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-Washington, Taylor & Maury. ILLINOIS.-Chicago, John E. Walsh. KENTUCKY.-Louisville, J. W. Clark and F. A. Crimp. MAINE.-Portland, George R. Dennis & Brother. 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PHILADELPHIA: JAMES K. 60 PATERNOSTER ROW. PARIS: VICTOR ALEXI, 19 RUE DU MAIL. 1870. ed according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by EDWARD I. SEARS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. FIRST GRAND GOLD MEDAL For American Pianos in all three Styles Exhibited, viz, Grand, Square and Upright; this Meda OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE of the President and Members of the International Jury of Musical Instruments (Class X.) is subjoined: "I certify that the FIRST GOLD MEDAL for American Pianos has been unanimously awarded "MILINET, President of International Jury. GEORGES KASTNER, AMBROISE THOMAS, Members of the This unanimous decision of the International Class Jury, indorsed by the Supreme Group Jury, and affirmed by the Imperial Commission, being the final verdict of the only tribunal determining the rank of awards at the exposition, places The Steinway Pianos at the head of all others, in competition with over FOUR HUNDRED PIANOS entered by the most celebrated European and American manufacturers. |