QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.
History of the French Revolution, by M. A. Thiers, late Prime
Minister of France, Translated, with notes and illustrations from most
authentic sources, by Frederick Shoberl. Complete in 4 vols. For sale
by Norman Steel & Co., New Orleans.
History of Michigan, from the earliest settlement to the present
time. By James H. Lanman. For sale by Norman Steel & Co., New
Orleans.
History of the Italian Republics. By J. L. de Sismondi.
Historical and descriptive account of British India, from the most re-
mote period to the present time. By Hugh Murray, Esq., James Wil-
son, Esq., R. K. Greville, L.L.D., Whitelaw Ainslie, M.D., William
Rhind, Esq., Professor Jameson, Professor Wallace and Capt. Clarence
Dalrimple. 3 vols. Engravings.
Texas and the Texans: or Advance of the Anglo Americans to the
South West, including a history of leading events in Mexico, from the
conquest of Fernando Cortez, to the termination of the Texan Re-
volution. By Henry Stuart Foote. 2 vols. New Orleans: Norman
Steel & Co.
Memoirs of Madame Lafarge, written by herself. Translated from
the French, complete in 1 vol.
Life and Times of Major Moses Van Campen, a surviving Soldier of
the Revolution. Published by B. D. Underhill & Co., Bath, N. Y.
Major Van Campen was a native of New-Jersey, but the early years
of his life were spent in Northampton County, Penn. At the age of
seventeen he engaged in the celebrated contest for the possession of
the Wyoming Valley, between the companies from Connecticut and
Pennsylvania. In 1776 he entered the Revolutionary Army, and was
engaged in inany severe contests and hazardous adventures with the
Indians, in the neighborhood of Northumberland, Wilkesbarre, Wyo-
ming, and in Sullivan's Campaign, at Elmira, Seneca Castle, the Gene-
see Valley, &c. &c.
Page 377, line 7, for 'Leida,' read leido: line 8, for aprobada,' read apro-
bado; line 18, for Junto,' read Junta; line 23, for institute,' read instituto;
line 24, for establimiento,' read establecimiento.
Page 379, line 4 from the bottom, for Araguay,' read Uraguay.
Page 381, line 9, for estupendo,' read estupendos.
Page 493, last line, for a,' read or.
THE INDEX for the 1st vslume will be given at the commencement of next No.
SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Abuses of the Press, 22.
Address delivered at Jefferson College,
Louisiana; by A. H. Everett, 279;
improvements in physical science, ib.
A Discourse delivered before the Geor-
gian Historical Society, Savanah,
by W. B. Stephens, 280.
African Race unfit for freedom, 56.
America, Historical, Statistic and De-
scriptive, by J. S. Buckingham, 220;
origin of the term Loco-foco, 225;
American Whigs, 226; misery and
crime amongst the lower classes, 228,
229; the Copyright question, 230, 231;
anecdotes of the blacks, 232; mixed
marriages, 233; temperance festival,
ib; Mr. Buckingham's eloquence,
234, 235; his liberalism, 237; his
poetry, 238; his expedition of Dis-
covery, &c., round the world, 240-
42; general estimate of the work,
244, 245.
American Poetry, Voices of the Night,
by H. W. Longfellow; Ballads and
other Poems, by H. W. Longfellow,
493; Hymn to the Night, 499; an
April Day, 500; The Brook, 501;
The Bird and the ship, from the
discovery and description of the city
of Copan, 246, 250.
Constitution of the United States,
"Brief Exposition of the Constitu-
tion of the United States, by James
Bayard;" "Speeches in the Senate
of the United States, on Mr. Cal-
houn's Resolutions," 184; by whom
was the Constitution formed? 185;
important queries on the supject,
188; meaning of the word State,
189; nature of the Federal Govern-
ment, 191-93; the United States
a peculiar Confederacy, 194, 195;
the General Government can ex-
ercise only a qualified discretion,
196-7; the two great parties on
the construction of the Federal
Charter, 199, 200; remarks on the
Constitution, 206, 7, 8; compass of
the Judicial Department, 209; when
the Federal Government have vio-
lated their Charter, where lies the
remedy? 209-12; General Con-
vention, ib; dissolution of the
Union, 213-14; imperfection of
the Constitution, 216; the Consti-
tution formed by the people, acting
as States, 217; how compacts are
rendered binding, 218.
Copyright, International, 252.
Critical Notices, 252-92; 554–61.
Cuba, State of Education and Learn-
ing in, 377; number of schools in
Havanah, 379; want of them in the
rural districts, 380-1; how super-
intended, 381-84; barbers' and
shoemakers, schools, 385; Report
from Villa Clara, 386-8; statisti-
cal statements, 388; suggested im-
provements, 389-92; state of pri-
mary education, 392-95; Cuba,
Spain, America, and England, 395
-97.
Currency and Exchanges,-Message
of the President of the United States,
returning to the Senate with his ob-
jections the bill entitled "An Act to
incorporate the Subscribers to the
Fiscal Bank of the United States ;"
"Message of the President, return-
ing to the House of Representatives
with his objections, the bill entitled
"An Act to provide for the better
collection, safe-keeping and disbur!e-
ment of the Public Revenue by
means of a Corporation to be styled
the Fiscal Corporation of the United
States," 66; mercantile calamities,
67; all commerce the exchange of
equivalent values, 72; Rothschild's
opinion on the power of the Bank of
England to control the rates of
Foreign Exchanges, 74; late Bank
of the United States, 75-99; re-
flections on its effects, 99; Act to
incorporate the Subscribers to the
Fiscal Bank, 100-105; reasons
upon which the framers of the Con-
stitution refused to Congress the
power of indirectly depreciating the
standard of value by creating private
Corporations, 106-118; conveni-
ences of a paper medium, 119; its
proper office, 120; great commer-
cial transactions carried on in Eng-
land almost without the use of
money, 122.
Discourse on the objects and impor-
tance of the National Institution for
the promotion of science, by J. R.
Poinsett, 277.
East India Cotton: "Letters to Wil-
berforce, recommending the encour-
agement of the cultivation of sugar
in our dominions in the East Indies,
as the natural and certain means of
effecting the general and total abo-
lition of the Slave Trade." "Letters
to the Liverpool Society for Pro-
moting the abolition of Slavery, on
the injurious effects of high prices
of produce, and the beneficial pros-
pects of low prices on the condition
of Slaves." "East and West India
Sugar." "Treatise on the principal
products of Bengal,-Indigo, Sugar,
Cotton, Hemp, Silk and Opium,'
446; Cornwallis in India, 447-8;
lucrative commerce of the East, 449;
British West Indies and the Eman-
cipation Act, 450-52; Report of
evidence taken on the Emancipation
question, 453-4; Acts passed in
England, 455-57: causes which led
to the Vest In Fmapeiration,
461-65; Gregoire's speech in the
French National Assembly, 468; the
difference of color not the matter at
issue, 468-9; Wellington's murder
of five thousand people in India,
471; Prohibitory duties on Southern
Cotton, 473; Ryotts in Eastern
India, 477; efforts to effect eman-
cipation in the West Indies, 481-
89; the East India Company, and
slavery in the South, 489-93.
Edinburgh Review, 283.
England, not to be trusted, 56; her
policy and her influence in America,
59-62.
Education, 317; Nursery Education,
319; the Latin language, 321;
modern languages, 323; defects of
the present system, 325-57; Dr.
Anthon, 327; the influence of mo-
thers, 329.
Education, the Austrian system of
elementary schools for, 182.
Federal Government, a Brief Enquiry
into the True Nature and Character
of the Federal Government, being a
Review of Judge Story's Commen-
taries on the Constitution of the
United States, by a Virginian, 275.
Geology of Louisiana, Report of the
State Geologists, 268-70.
Hadad, and other poems, by James
Hillhouse, 125.
Hastings, Warren, preparations for
his trial, 285.
Hazard's Lectures, 557.
History of Napoleon, from the French
of M. Laurent de L'Ardeche, mem-
ber of the French Institute, 277.
Histoire des Republiques Italiennes
du moyen age, par J. C. L. Sismonde
de Sismondi, 157; Character of
Charlemagne, 158; siege of Crema,
161; and of Milan, 162; aspect of
Italy during her commotions, 164-
5; republic of Vennice, 166; plot
to murder three hundred Florentines,
169; family of the Medici, 170;
Francesco Sforza, 171; the history
of the Italian Republics a lesson to
all others, 172.
Hunt's Library of Commerce, 557.
Incidents of Travel in Central Amer-
ica, Chiapas, and Yucatan, by J. L.
Stephens, 246; City of Copan dis-
covered and described, 246-50;
ruins of Palenque and Uxmal, 250.
International Copyright, a letter to
the Hon. W. C. Preston, by Francis
Lieber, 252.
La Deesse, an Elssler-atic Romance,
by the author of "Straws," 273.
Letters from abroad, to Kindred at
Home, by Miss Sedgwick, 173-84.
Liberty of the Press, 20.
Lives of Literary and Scientific men
of Italy, by Mrs. Shelley, Sir. D.
Brewster, James Montgomery, and
others, 527; Dante, 528-35; Pe-
trarch, 536-41; Boccaccio, 541-
43; The Medici, 543; The Pulci,
545; Bojardo, 547; Ariosto, 548;
Tasso, 549-53.
Lives of the Queens of England, from
the Norman Conquest, with anec-
dotes of their courts, now first pub-
lished, from Official Records, and
other authentic documents, private
as well as public, by Agnes Strick-
land, 330; the Provençal Poets,
333; origin of the Common Law,
335; Matilda of Flanders, 337-
43; William the Conqueor, 343;
Matilda of Scotland, 345-49; con-
stitution of Parliament, 349; Ma-
tilda of Germany, 351-52; con-
duct of King Stephen, 353; Ma-
tilda of Boulogne, 355; Eleanora of
Aquitaine, 357-64; Thomas
Becket, 361; Isabella of Angou-
leme, 365; Elenora of Provence,
367-70; Eleanora of Castile, 371-
2; Philippa of Hainault, 372-76;
Queen Anne, 376.
Literary Announcements, 293-562.
Lombardy described, 180; revolution
to be deprecated there, 183.
Louisiana, Geology of, 268.
More, Sir Thomas, his Life and Times,
258-62.
Mormonism, History of, 398; Father
Matthias, Joe Smith, 399; origin of
the doctrine, 400; the brazen bible,
402-3; Smith's banking specula-
tion, 403-4; Mount Zion, 404;
appearance of an angel, 404-5;
walking on the water, 406; Smith
in Illinois, ib; government of his
church, 407; requisition from Mis-
souri for his surrender, 409; his re-
putation, ib; Mormonism in Eng-
land, 411; Mormon newspapers, ib.
Natural History of Society, in the
barbarous and civilized state; an
Essay towards discovering the origin
and course of Human Improvement,
by W. C. Taylor, L.L.D., of Trinity
College, Dublin, 303; barbarism
not a state of nature, 306; the
state of Society takes away no na-
tural right, 307; civilization of the
nations of antiquity, 310-14.
Newspapers, their agency in promoting
civilization, 6; what they would
have been considered by the ancients,
9; importance of a name, 11; the
first published in England, 12; num-
ber published in London, and their
circulation, ib; and in the United
States, 13; character of the latter,
17; reforms effected by them, 16;
reporters for, 19; Letter writers,
character of, 19, 20; newspaper
press like the Tree of Knowledge,
24; general estimate of its power,
24-28.
Palmer's Treatise on the Church of
Christ, 264.
Pantology, or a Systematic Survey of
Human Knowledge, by Roswell
Park, A.M., Professor of Natural
Philosophy and Chemistry in the
University of Pennsylvania, 263.
Periodical Press of the United States;
Augusta Mirror, 34; American
Quarterly Review, 38; Boston Re-
view, 40; Boston Christian Ex-
aminer, the only periodical for which
Dr. Channing ever wrote, 41; Bib-
lical Repertory, ib; Graham's Mag-
azine, 33; Hunt's Merchants' Mag-
azine and Commercial Review, 32;
Knickerboker, its origin and pro-
gress, 28-9; Lady's Book, 34;
the Magnolia, ib; New England
Magazine, 31-2; North American
Review, 35-38; New York Re-
view, 38; Southern Literary Mes-
senger, 29-31; Southern Review,
39; United States Magazine and
Democratic Review, 32; Western
Monthly Magazine, 34.
Public opinion, what it is, 15.
Quarterly Reviews, the embodiment of
the national mind on all great
questions, 41; their influence in
elicting talent and awakening am-
bition, 42.
Red Jacket, his Life and Times, 270.
Refrigeration and Ventilation of
Cities; "Introductory Lecture on
the climate and salubrity of New
Orleans, and its suitability for a
Medical School, by Edward H. Bar-
ton, M.D." "Introductory Lecture
on acclimation; delivered at the
opening of the Third Session of the
Medical College of Louisiana, by E.
H. Barton, M.D., 413; malarial
diseases, 415-16; means of pre-
venting them, 417-435; a con-
stant renewal of air necessary to its
purity, 436; estimate of the expense
of refrigeration, 437; course of
winds in Southern cities, 438; an-
nual absenteeism of portions of the
community, 444.
Revolutionary matrons, 282.
Sedgwick, Miss, notice of her works,
173.
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