THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

EDITED BY

EDWARD I. SEARS, LL.D.

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

VOL. XIX. Nos. FOR JUNE AND SEPTEMBER, 1869.

NEW YORK:

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,

1869.

Entered 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.

CONTENTS OF NO. XXXVII.

ART.

I.

VINDICATION OF EURIPIDES...

1. Die Tragischse Kunst der Griechen in ther Entwickelung, und in ihrem

Zusammenhange mit der Volkspoesie. Von O. F. GRUPPE. (The Tragic

Art of the Greeks. By O. F. GRUPPE.)

2. Bibliotheca Graeca.

3. Commentatio de Euripide,

HAUPTMAN.

4. Animadversiones in Euripidis tragedias. F. JACOBS.

5. Disputatio de Euripide Philosophi. SCHNEITTER.

II. ROUSSEAU AND HIS INFLUENCE..

1. Euvres Complètes de J. J. ROUSSEAU, mises dans un Nouvel Ordre avec des

Notes Historiques et des Eclaircissements; Par V. D. MUSSET-PATHAY.

25 vols.

III. THE PARSEES..

1. The Parsees: their history, manners, customs, and religion. By DOSABHOY

FRAMJEE.

2. The Parsi Religion: as contained in the Zend-Aresté, and propounded and

defended by the Zoroastrians of India and Persia, unfolded, refuted and

contrasted with Christianity. By JOHN WILSON, D. D., M. R. A. S.

3. Chips from a German Workshop. By MAX MULLER, M. A.

4. The Parsi Religion. By DADABHAI NAVROJI, Esq.

5. Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen

Litthauischen, Gothisohen, und Deutschen. VON FRANZ BOPP.

6. The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: con-

taining an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the

inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir JOHN MALCOLM, K. C. B.,

K. L. S. 2 vols.

IV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF POPULATION...

1. An Essay on the principle of Population, or a view of its past and present

effects on human happiness. By T. R. MALTHUS.

2. An Inquiry concerning the power of increase in the numbers of mankind.

By WILLIAM GODWIN.

3. The principles of Population and their connection with human happiness. By

ARCHIBALD ALISON.

V. THE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK...

1. The true History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask,

extracted from documents in the French Archives. By the Hon. GEORGE

AGAR ELLIS.

2. Historie de l'Homme au masque de fer; per J. DELORT.

VI. VASSAR COLLEGE AND ITS DEGREES...

1. Vassar College and its Founder. By BENSON J. LOSSING. 4to. pp. viii.-175.

2. Third Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Vassar College.

3. Communications to the Board of Trustees of Vassar College. By its Founder.

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