NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW .

EDITED BY

EDWARD I. SEARS, LL.D.

Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est.

Vol. XX. Nos. FOR DECEMBER, 1869, AND MARCH, 1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870. by

EDWARD I. SEARS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of

New York.