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VOL. LXXIX.

Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

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CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXIV.

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ART.

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I. A NATURAL THEOLOGY OF ART

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The Moral Significance of the Crystal Palace: A Ser-

mon, preached first to his own Congregation, and repeated

in the Church of the Messiah, on Sunday Evening, Octo-

ber 30, 1853. By Rev. H. W. BELLOWS.

II. John G. WHITTIER AND HIS WRITINGS

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1. Poems.

2. Margaret Smith's Journal.

3. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches.

4. Songs of Labor.

5. Chapel of the Hermit, and other Poems.

III. EARLY RECORDS OF MASSACHUSETTS .

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1. Records of the Governor and Company of the Mas-

sachusetts Bay in New England. Edited by NATHANIEL

B. SUURTLEFF.

2. Archæologia Americana. Transactions and Collec-

tions of the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. III.

Part I.

IV. AMERICAN HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE

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1. Reports of the Trustees, Steward, and Superintendent

of the Insane Hospital. [Maine.] Etc., etc.

V. JOSEPH ADDISON

1. The Works of JOSEPH ADDISON. Edited, with Crit-

ical and Explanatory Notes, by GEORGE WASHINGTON

GREENE.

2. The Spectator ; a New Edition, carefully revised,

with Prefaces Historical and Biographical, by ALEXAN-

DER CHALMERS, A.M.

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VI. CUBA AND THE CUBANS

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1. Cuba and the Cubans. Comprising a History of the

a

Island of Cuba, its present Social, Political, and Domestic

Condition; also its Relation to England and the United

States.

2. Letter of Mr. Everett to the Comte de Sartiges.

VII. THE USE AND MISUSE OF WORDS

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Thesaurus of English Words, so classified and arranged

as to facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Lit-

erary Composition. By PETER MARK ROGET. Revised

and edited, with a List of Foreign Words, defined in Eng-

lish, and other Additions. By BARNAS SEARS, D.D.

VIII. THE CHINESE REBELLION

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1. Voyage en Chine et dans les Mers et Archipels de

cet Empire pendant les Années 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850.

Par M. JURIEN DE LA GRAVIÈRE.

2. History of the Insurrection in China ; with Notices

of the Christianity, Creed, and Proclamations of the Insur-

gents. By MM. CALLERY and Yvan. Translated from

the French by John OXENFORD.

IX. MARTINEAU'S TRANSLATION OF COMTE'S PHILOSOPHY 200

The Positive Philosophy of AugUSTE COMTE, freely

translated and condensed by HARRIET MARTINEAU.

X. ART AND MATHEMATICS

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Annual of Scientific Discovery: or, Year-Book of Facts

in Science and Art, for 1854. Edited by DAVID A.

WELLS, A.M.

XI. THE LITERATURE OF YOUTH

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Memoir of ROBERT WHEATON, with Selections from his

Writings.

XII. CRITICAL NOTICES

250

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New PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

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NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

No. CLXIV.

JULY, 1854.

Art. I. — The Moral Significance of the Crystal Palace : A

Sermon, preached first to his own Congregation, and repeated in the Church of the Messiah, on Sunday Evening, October 30, 1853. By Rev. H. W. Bellows, Pastor of the First Congregational Society in the City of New York. New York. (Published by Request of the Government of the Crystal Palace.) G. P. Putnam & Co. 1853.

The great continents of truth have been for the most part mapped out and explored. There remains the vast ocean of speculation, sweeping around the firm continents, and challenging adventure. Shifting as are the waves and currents of this sea, it has calm depths of meditation, from which innumerable islands of coral grow up, as solid as the old territories of human thought, and lift their luxuriant crests into clear sunshine. A hundred mariners may have caught a glimpse of these, or may have run close alongside and recorded some description of them; but no one of them may have landed, and taken the pains to explore mount and cape, stream and cave and shaded recess.

Such an island has been distinctly touched upon, in the discourse which introduces and illustrates the train of thought now proposed. The whole sermon - broadly and beautifully evolving the “union of man with man, of man with

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