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AMERICAN ECLECTIC:

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Selections from the Periodical Literature of all

Foreign Countries.

CONDUCTED

BY ABSALOM PETERS, D.D., AND J. HOLMES AGNEW,

Editors of the American Biblical Repository,

AIDED BY A NUMBER OF LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN.

PUBLISHED BY PLATT & PETERS. BRICK-CHURCH CHAPEL. 36 PARK ROW

FRONTING THE CITY HALL.

BOSTON:
WHIPPLE & DAMRELL, No. 9 CORNHILL.
LONDON: WILEY & PUTNAM, 35 PATERNOSTER ROW.

THENEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ACTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1897.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by

PLATT & PETERS, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

PIERCY & REED, PRINTERS, 9 SPRUCE-STREET.

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English Grammar, noticed, 602.
Aboriginal Inhabitants of America, 242. Epidemic diseases, noticed, 401.
Adams, John, Letters of, noticed, 380. Exotic insects, noticed, 400.
Adams, Mrs. John, Letters of, 177.
Æsthetics, or Philos. of Art, noticed, 581. Field Sports in England, noticed, 173.
Ages of Faith, the, noticed, 161.

Fish markets and ponds, noticed, 380.
Agriculture in France, noticed, 404. Fishes, structure of, 183.
Animal Magnetism, bistory, noticed, 198. Fortlage's proof of the being of God, 198.
Antiquarian works on Eng. dialects, 566. France, women of, noticed, 201.
Antique Gems, noticed, 582.

" in the 17th century, noticed, 588.
Anti-Strauss, noticed, 605.

“ books in, noticed, 198. 404. 606.
Archæological Discoveries, 393.

" recent publications in, 204.407.612.
Arnold's Sermons, noticed, 163.

French historians, modern, noticed, 178.

French Grammars, a compendium of, no.
Baillie, the Covenanter, review of, 282. ticed, 199.
Ballads, National, 195.

Fuller, Thomas, writings, of, noticed, 590.
Baltic, letters from the noticed, 177.

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Belgian Literature, 146.

Geology, Hitchcock's elements of, 576.
Bible, right of all to read, 609.

Germany, prosecution of witches in, 573.
Bibliographical Notices, 192. 397. 601.

recent publications in 203. 407.
Bird of Paradise, habits of the, 181.

611.
Blind Soldier's Daughter, noticed, 404. “ books in, noticed, 196. 402. 605.
Books of Sonnets, noticed, 601.

Gieseler's eccles. history, noticed, 197.
British Ministry, intentions of, 591. Gothic architecture, noticed, 369.
British Empire, history of, noticed, 196. Great Britain and the U. S. 381, 387.
British Critic, reviewed, 161.

o books in, noticed, 192. 397. 601.
Buckingham's Travels, noticed, 175. “ recent publications in', 202.406.610.
Burgundy, the Dukes of, noticed, 385. Grinders, diseases of, noticed, 401.

Gypsies, the, of Spain, 102.
Carlyle on Chartism, reviewed, 206.

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Carnac, a legend of, 396.

Hall, Basil, Patchwork, noticed, 175.
Catholic tone of recent poems, 1.

Handloom-Weavers' report, 586.
Catlin on N. Am. Indians, noticed, 391. Hastings, Warren, Life of, reviewed, 409.
Chili and Peru, sixteen years in, noticed, Herculaneum, Papyrus, Mss. in, 592.
195.

Hours with the Muses, 601.
China, Illustrations of men and things, 49. Hügels Travels in Cashmere, 168.
“ books in noticed, 609.

Humboldt, W. Von, Works of, 385.
“ popular notions in, 49.

Humming-bird, food of the, 182.
Chinese literature, 271. 595.
" Mythology, 279.

Ice Period, the, 307. concluded, 521.
Chronicon Mirabile, noticed, 397.

I. H. S. origin of, 395.
Church and State, noticed, 179.

India, history of, noticed, 176.
Church in Desert, noticed, 607.

India, mounds of ashes ir., 593.
Combe, George, works of, noticed, 175. Indians, N. American, noticed, 591.
Combustion of Coal, etc., noticed, 604. Ireland, state of, noticed, 591.
Convention of July, 1841, noticed, 172. Irish peasantry, sketches of, noticed, 176.
Copyright Question, noticed, 376.

Irving's remains of Miss Davidson, 367.
Cosmopolitism and Nationality, 78. Italy and the Italian Islands, noticed, 194.
Crusade, the first, Sibel's history of, 340. " letters from, noticed, 194,
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" the Aristocracy of, noticed, 386.
Daughters of England, 602.

" the women of, 57.
Deisın, English, history of, noticed, 197. " recent publications in, 204. 409.
De Dionysü Halicar, vita et ingen. 605. 612.
D'Israli's Amenities of lit. reviewed, 127.
Dialects, English, works on, 566.

Kalussowski, H. D. on Polish literature,
Dramatic literature, noticed, 391.

545.

Knighthood, orders of, noticed, 176.
Education, a system of, noticed, 199. Kohl's Sketches of St. Petersburgh, 387.
Egyptian hieroglyphics, noticed, 385. " Travels in Russia, noticed, 170.
Electricity, atmospheric, 190.

" Influence of, on vegetation, 191. La Chronique de Rains, noticed, 587.
Electro-Metalurgy, elements of, 398. Library of Science and Arts, noticed, 405.
England, considerations on, noticed, 387. Lightning Conductors, 190.

Pictorial history, noticed, 591. London life, lights and shadows of, 194.