Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. AGE OF LEO X.-State of the Arts under the Goths-Revival in Italy-Cimabue Academy for Painting instituted at Florence, 1350-Michael Angelo, Raphael, and Leonardo SURVEY of the State of the principal Kingdoms of Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:-Selim reduces Egypt-Solyman takes Rhodes, subdues Hungary, Molda- via, and Wallachi-Selim II. takes Cyprus-Battle of Le- panto-Persians under Shah-Abbas-Government and Re- CHINA AND JAPAN:-Tartar Revolutions-Posterity of Gen- |