AMERICAN REVIEW:

A WHIG JOURNAL

OF

POLITICS, LITERATURE, ART AND SCIENCE.

"TO STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION."

VOL. V.

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

NEW-YORK:

GEORGE H. COLTON, 118 NASSAU STREET.

1847.

AMERICAN REVIEW.

Contents for January.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: THE WAR. BY HON. D. D. BAR-

NOTES BY THE ROAD.-No. V., THE ILLYRIAN CAVERN,

ADOLPHE THIERS,

THE LOOM OF Life,

FESTUS. Part I. (To be Continued.) By H. N. HUDSON,

SHORT CHAPTERS ON EXOTIC AND NOVEL METRES.-CHAPTER II.

CLASSICAL DRAMATIC METRES,

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF PHILIP YORICK, ESQ.,

THE BRITISH HISTORY OF GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.

M. KIRKLAND,

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SKETCH OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND INFLUENCE OF THE USEFUL

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