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THE WHEAT FROM ALL THESE PUBLICATIONS SHOULD, FROM TIME TO

TIME, BE WINNOWED, AND THE CHAFF THROWN AWAY."

EXTERNO ROBORE CRESCIT..................CLAUD.

VOL. V.

PHILADELPHIA:
FROM THE LORENZO PRESS OF E. BRONSON.

Sold by C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Patterson and Hopkins,

Pittsburgh; E. Sargeant, New York; Beers and Howe, New Haven; Mal-
lory and Co. Boston; Cushing and Appleton, and H. Whipple, Salem;
Thomas and Whipple, Newburyport; E. J. Coale, Boltimore; James Ken-
nedy, Alexandria; J. W. Campbell, Petersburgh; Maccoun, Telford and
Co. Lexington; and by the booksellers generally throughout the U. States.

1811.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

NUMBER XXV.

REVIEWS.

PAGE

A Treatise on the Law of War, translated from the original Latin of

Cornelius Van Bynkershoek. By Peter Stephen Duponceau, 1

Remarks on the System of Education in Publick Schools,

16

Ta Tsing Leu Lee; being the Fundamental Laws, and a Selection

from the supplementary Statutes of the Penal Code of China. By

Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart. F. R. S.

22

Old Ballads, Historical, &c. By Thomas Evans; Revised, &c. by his

son, R. H. Evans,

40

Essays on Song Writing, &c. By John Aikin, A new edition, with

Additions and Corrections, and a Supplement. By R. H. Evans, ibid.

Vocal Poetry, or a Selcct Collection of English Songs. With an Essay

on Song Writing. By John Aikin, M. D.

ibid.

SPIRIT OF THE MAGAZINES.

Memoirs of the Life of Prince Eugene, of Savoy. Written by himself.

Continued,

On the Character of Sir John Falstaff. Continued,

Observations on the newly discovered Art of Printing with Stone,

Presentiment of Danger and Death,

Extraordinary Instinct of the Cow,

On the utility of Coal Gas Light,

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MISCELLANY.

Composition of Ink Powder,

Preservative Plaster of Paris,

Composition for Varnishing Coloured Drawings and Paintings,

Suberraneous Passage discovered,

John D. Cassini,

Sir Isaac Newton,

Indian Coquetry,

An Expert Marksman,

Anecdotes.

67

ibid.

68

ibid.

ibid.

ibid.

69

ibid.

ibid.

POETRY

Lines on the Death of Hugh Meyler. Written on Good Friday, 1809.

By Joseph Blockett,

70

Domestick Farewell to Summer,

ibid.

Caroline. From Mr. Dallas's Novel of Percival,

71

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Recent and Proposed American Publications.

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