CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. PART III.-His Wedding Disappointment-Death of Catherine Accession of Paul-Stedingk negotiates the Armed Neutrality of 1800-Dinner at the Swed- ish Embassy-Private Treaty between Paul and Stedingk-Project of Russian and French Con- quest of India-Character of Paul-Anecdotes of Stedingk and Paul-Murder of Paul-Grief of the Emperor Alexander as privately shown to Ste- dingk-M. Thiers-Russian Invasion of Finland- Stedingk in the Swedish Regency-Misfortunes of Gustavus IV.-Loss of Finland-Stedingk's Remon- strances-The King draws his Sword upon Ste- dingk-His Deposition and Banishment-Charles XIII.-Stedingk negotiates the Peace of Fred- erickshamn-Cession of Finland and Aland- Stedingk returns to the Embassy in Russia-His Honors and Dignities-He is made a Count and Field-Marsha Dispatches-Napoleon disappoint- ed in a Russian-cess-Marriage Gossip-Elec- tion of Bernadotte to the Swedish Throne-Ste- dingk's Surprise-Baron Mörner first Projector of this Event Sketch of Mörner's Narrative-First Interview with Bernadotte-Intrigues at Paris- Mörner threatened and driven from Stockholm- Arrest His Fearlessness and Activity-Portrait of Prince Oscar-Vote of the Diet-Triumph. 471 CUPID AND THE WASP.. 517 DAY ON THE Danube. EDITOR AT LARGE.. COSAS DE ESPANA... COSAS DE ESPANA... COUNT STEDINGK. PART L-Early Legend of the Family of Stedingk— Parentage and Birth-Ensign at Stralsund-Arri- val at Stockholm-Education at Upsula-State of Sweden-Enters French Army-Baron Trenck- Stedingk at Versailles-Marie Antoinette-Person- al Appearance of Stedingk-Letter to Gustavus III., describing Birth and Baptism of the Dauphin -Character of Gustavus-Voltaire and Charles XII-American Campaign-Newport-Granada- Stedingk's Letter to Gustavus III., describing Assault upon Savannah-Reflections-Return to France-Efforts to be re-employed in America- Disappointment-Honors conferred upon Stedingk -Forbidden to wear the Cincinnati-Consequent Correspondence with Gustavus-Reflections upon the Conduct of Gustavus-His Disingenuousness- The Cincinnati worn in Stockholm at the present PART II.-Stedingk returns to Sweden-Parting with 470 397 331 434 205 FAMOUS QUARRIES OF THE WORLD.... 404 SCHOOL OF MUSIC..... 258 Avalanche of Female Authors-Cookery Books Journey to Central Africa-Miles's Rambles in . 838 451 Na-Motu, or Reef-Roving in the South Seas Dove's Theory of Human Progression-Elements of Social Science-Talfourd's Literary Re- mains Supplement to Vacation Rambles- Dr. Lee's Last Days of the Emperor Alexan- der and the First Days of Nicholas-Ivan Golovin's Nations of Russia and Turkey-In- stitutions of St. Petersburg-Talfourd's Cas- tillan-Dr. Waagen's Treasures of Art in Great Britain-New Works in the English Press-The Working Women of the last Half Century-Bulwer's New Novel-History of 111 The Plurality of Worlds-Sir David Brewster- Whewell-Memorials of Amelia Opie-Alison's History of Europe-Constantinople-Russian Campaigns in Turkey-Barker's New Transla- tion of the Iliad-Õenschlager's Correggio- Cousin-Claude the Colporteur-Aubrey Counterparts, or the Cross of Love-Nanette Lord Mahon's History of England-Major An- Bohn's Publications-Professor Maurice's Eccle- The author of the "POTIPHAR PAPERS." (GEO. WM. CURTIS.) PUTNAM'S MONTHLY. A Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art. VOL. IV.-JULY, 1854.-NO. XIX. IS MAN ONE OR MANY! extended criticism of its merits and defects, both of which are obvious enough, nor to undertake to settle the controversy to which it relates, but simply to allude to its contents, with such incidental remarks as may occur to us in the course of the review. It is an original, elaborate, and, we may say, quite revolutionary presentation of its principal subject, and we owe it to the authors, as well as to our readers, whom we try to keep informed of all the leading movements in the world of letters, to make some statement of the nature and bearing of its arguments. Its general purport, and that of its several parts, are both best described in the complete title, which runs in this wise: Types of Mankind, or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and biblical history; illustrated by selections from the unedited papers of SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON. M. D. (late President of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia), and by additional contributions from Prof. LOUIS AGASSIZ, LL. D., W. USHER, M. D., and Prof. H. S. PATTERSON, M. D. By J. C. NOTT, M. D. and GEORGE R. GLIDDON, formerly U. S. Consul at Cairo." It will be seen that we are offered rather a formidable array of subjects as well as of names and titles. The theory, in respect to the origin and distribution of the human races, generally accepted both by theologians and men of VOL. IV.-1 science, is that which derives the immense variety of nations now on the globe from the Adam and Eve of Genesis, or rather from Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, who were saved from the deluge, in which all the rest of mankind perished, and which, as the common chronology estimates it, occurred in the 1656th year of the world, or 2348 years before the birth of Christ. It assumes that the statements of Moses are simple historical facts, and that all the distinctive differences which we at this day observe among the different families of men, are the results not of an original diversity established by the Creator, at the time of the respective appearances of those families upon the globe, but of climate, food, habits of life. civilization, intermarriage, and other external agencies, which have since been, and for centuries, at work. The Caucasian, the Malay, the American, the Negro, the Mongol, in short, all the tribes of the earth are held to be the lineal descendants of Noah, or at furthest of Adam; and it is inferred, consequently, that they all belong to the same species as well as to the same genus of animals. Those who maintain this theory rest their arguments mainly upon the words of Scripture, though they endeavor to confirm it by many impressive considerations drawn from the analogies of natural science, from the affinities of language, from the remarkable traditions of various people, and from the authentic records of history. Nearly all the Christian sects, how manifold and conflicting soever their interpretations of Scripture in other respects, are singularly unanimous in considering that the first book of Moses teaches the identical origin of the human race nearly all the most eminent sci |