Addington, Henry, 420. See Sid- mouth.
Aiguesmortes, description of the pris- on of, 455.
Algeria, expensiveness of the French war in, 206.
Allotment of land, effects of, 157. America, security of property in, 411 on the aspect of society in, 412 - wealth not the only object of pursuit in, 413- munificence of rich men in, ib. — scale of person- al expenditure in, 414 - prosperi- ty of, not due to abundance of territory, 416-immense domestic manufactures of, 418. American History, rich materials for, 291.
Anderson, C., Annals of the Eng- lish Bible by, reviewed, 322. original letters published by, 341. Aristocracy, the imaginary hero of an, 31.
Athens, the book-trade in, 162. Austria, fall of despotism in, 199 - probable diminution of the power of, 200.
Bachelor of the Albany reviewed, 354, 362.
Bacon, Nathaniel, leader of the in- surgents in Virginia, 305-suc- cesses and death of, 306.
Barnes, Dr., abjuration of, 329. Barrington, Dr., on qualifications for the ministry, 432.
Bayfield, Richard, martyrdom of, 342. Bell, Currer and Acton, novels by, reviewed, 354
coarseness and brutality of, 357-vile characters introduced by, 358. Belsham, Mr., on ignorant religious preachers, 434.
Bequest, Mill on the right of, 390. Berkeley, Sir William, governor of
Virginia, 297-re-appointed after the Restoration in 1660, 301-de- fects in the character of, 302 — in- surrection against, 304-severity shown by, 306-recall and death of, 307.
Bethune, John and Alexander, life and writings of, reviewed, 486– early history of, 487 feelings and studies of, 488- attempt of, to gain a living as weavers, 489 misfortunes and sufferings of, 490-literary attempts of John, 491 circumstances under which he wrote, 492-frugality of, 493
- befriended by the Messrs. Chambers, ib.- publish their Tales and Sketches, 494- and their Practical Economy, 495-build- ing of a house by, 496- illness
and death of John, 498-subse- quent labors of Alexander, 499 – death of, 500.
Bible, The English, C. Anderson's Annals of, 322-Tyndale's scheme of translating, 325-first copies of, brought to England, 327-at- tempts to suppress the printing of, 328-Tyndale on the prohibi- tion of, 331 -one edition of, bought up and destroyed, 336. Bilney, Thomas, martyrdom of, 342. Birkbeck, Mr., on the improved con- dition of the laboring classes in France, 149.
Blanc, Louis, History of Ten Years by, reviewed, 194- ferocity and unfairness of, 204-reveals the weakness of the French republi- cans, 210-on the policy of the radicals, 212-describes the re- volt of 1839, 214— his distinction between the people and the bour- geoisie, 231 his foolish schemes,
Blasphemy, impolitic to prosecute men for, 434.
Botany of the Northern United States, by Asa Gray, reviewed, 174-importance of the study of, in school, 175 on selecting prop- er manuals of, 176 - the traveller should have a knowledge of, 177
cultivated by officers in the army, 178-interesting to Western emigrants, 179- relations of, to other sciences, 180-how it should be studied, 181- Gray's Manual of, 182-terminology of, 183- synonymes in, 185. Bourgeoisie of France, 230
Blanc's definition of the, 231. British Colonial Politics, 1. Brougham, Lord, on the character of Pitt, 428-on that of George III., 430.
Bulwer as a novelist, 363- lacks historical imagination, ib. not conceive character, 364- affects philosophy and sentiment, rhetorical and superficial,
Campbell, Charles, History of Vir- ginia by, reviewed, 291- merits of, 293 cited, 296, 299, 304. Canada, politics of, 3 - triumph of the Liberals in, 4.
Carey, John, on the botany of the Sedges, 186.
Carlyle, Thomas, on Chartism, re- viewed, 119-quoted, on poverty in England, 144.
Chalmers, George, loyalist senti ments of, 2.
Child, F. J., edition of Four Old English Plays by, noticed, 503. China, Account of, by S. Wells Wil- liams, reviewed, 265- missiona- ries have told us most about, 267
results of missionary labor in, 268 merits of this work on, 269 - peculiar civilization of, 270- why its people have been station- ary, 271-lack of general ideas in, 272-utilitarian and selfish mo. rality of the people of, 273 — diffi- culties in the language of, 275 theory of government in, 276 power of the emperor in, 278. decree for destroying locusts in, 280-responsibility of public offi- cers in, 283-literary examina- tions and decrees in, 284 - animal food used in, 285 kinds of tea produced in, 287-surgical prac- tice in, 290.
Clarke, Dr. Adam, writes to Lord Sidmouth, 434.
Claris, Barthélemi, examination of, 452.
Cochlæus denounces Tyndale, 326. Colebrooke, Sir W., governor of New Brunswick, 10.
Coleridge as a critic of Shakspeare,
Colonies, the British North Ameri- can, 1 probable separation of, from England, 2-politics of Can- - fail- ada, 3 of Nova Scotia, 5 ure of coalitions in, 7 offices in, to be held by the popular will, 8. politics of New Brunswick, 9 responsible government of, 13- the commerce of, no longer con- trolled by England, 14 - the same doctrines which the Whigs of 1776 avowed now held in, 14, 19, 22—
administration of, onerous to the ministry, 15 - reception of dele- gates from, 16 . disabilities of the inhabitants of, 17 - high preten- sions of, 18. representation in Parliament of, 19-difficulties in this scheme, 21- freedom of trade and manufactures in, 22 - scheme of a union of, 23-mode of se- lecting the governors of, 24 perplexities of the governors of, - annexation of, not desirable,
26. Common Schools in Rhode Island, 240.
Communism in regard to property refuted, 377.
Connecticut, need of improving the schools in, 255. Copyright, G. T. Curtis on the Law of, reviewed, 161-among the an- cients, 162 - foundation in equity of, 167-properly limited by law, 168 present law of, in England and America, 172 - transmission of, ib.- infringed by abridgments, 173.
Coquerel, Charles, History of Prot-
estantism in France by, reviewed, 445. See Protestants. Cordelia, Hudson on the character of, 107.
Courier Français on Louis Blanc's scheme, 237.
Court, Antoine, organizes the French Protestants, 449 - founds a Prot- estant seminary at Lausanne,
Canada, 3 - tries to form a coali- tion cabinet, 4-is unsuccessful, 5. England, probable separation of her American colonies from, 2 - laws of, respecting the succession to property, 128 - frightful inequal- ity of wealth in, 130 - income- tax returns in, 131 - number of proletaries and persons of great wealth in, 132 - small number of landed proprietors in, 133 - desti- tution and misery in, 137 - extent of pauperism in, 138 - wages of agricultural labor in, 139-state of the indigent classes in, 140- unparalleled extent of misery in, 151- the true source of discon- tent in, ib. .interest of the land- lords in, 154 – working classes in, compared with American slaves, 155 - effect of the abolition of the corn-laws in, 156 - history of the Reformation in, 322-translation of the Bible prohibited in, 327 — proceedings against the Reformers in, 338, 342- the laboring and the wealthy classes in, 384-im- proper division of the people of, 402- diminution of the agricul- tural class in, 404 - the aristocra cy of, supported by the laws of entail and primogeniture, 408- deadening influence of hereditary succession in, 410.
Falcon Family, The, reviewed, 354, 362.
Farms, question about large or small, 152-productiveness of, 157. Flora of North America, by Drs. Torrey and Gray, reviewed, 174– standard merits of, 193. Foster, Thomas C., on the condition of Ireland, reviewed, 119 — quot- ed, 141. Foxe, the martyrologist, mention of Tyndale by, 324, 349-cited, 327. France, succession to property in, 128-land in, not too much di- vided, 130 statistics of the di- vision of land in, 134, 146 - well- being of the people of, 147- thorities cited on this point, 148
History of, under Louis Phi- lippe, by Louis Blanc, reviewed, 194-woful political experience of, 196- warlike and aggressive spir- it of, 197 character of Louis Philippe's government of, 201- no cause for a revolution in, 203
freedom of the press in, 204- general prosperity of, 206 - fickle and restless revolutionists of, 208
no wrongs to be redressed in, 209 the republicans in a small minority in, 210 their union with the dynastic opposition in, 211-revolt of 1839 in, 214 question about electoral reform in, 215-revolution of February in, fall of royalty in, 220 provisional government created in, 221-its policy, 222-successive revolts in, 224, 234 — National As- sembly called in, 227-power of the bourgeoisie in, 229- the peo- ple neither loyal nor republican in, 233 Coquerel's History of Protestantism in, 445 — injured by
the banishment of the Huguenots, 447 the Protestants in the south of, 448. Freedom, political, not aided by the efforts of foreigners, 320-slow growth and establishment of, 321. Frith, John, the English Reformer, 322 - a friend and fellow-laborer of Tyndale, 324 - residence of, in Germany, 334-returns to Eng- land and is imprisoned, 345 strengthened by Tyndale, 347- martyrdom of, ib.
Fullerton, Lady G., Grantley Manor by, reviewed, 354, 366.
George III., Lord_Sidmouth a fa- vorite of, 429. Brougham's char- acter of, 430. Georgia, W. B. Stevens's History of, reviewed, 291-sources of in- formation respecting, 308- plan for the settlement of, 309- Ogle- thorpe obtains a charter for, 310 object for which it was founded, 311 extravagant hopes enter- tained of, 312-African slavery prohibited in, 316 — mode of hold- ing lands in, 317.
Germany, good effects of the recent revolutions in, 198 probable union of the states of, 200- abuse of royal authority in, 203 - F. H. Hedge's Prose Writers of, re- viewed, 464-no field for execu. tive talent in, 465-consequent abundance of writers in, 466 straints on the expression of opin- ion in, ib. — state of the literature of fiction in, 467-intellectual energy in, turned to abstractions, 468 influence of the Reforma- tion in, 469 - fondness for ab- stract thought in, 470-influence of the language on the literature of, 471 peculiarities of the lan- guage of, 472-cosmopolitan lit-
Hackett, the English envoy in the Low Countries, 328- causes Har- man to be arrested, 334. Haliburton, Judge, his “Old Judge " quoted, 25, note.
Hall, the English chronicler, cited, 336.
Hamlet, Hudson on the character of, 109.
Harold, by Sir Bulwer Lytton, re-
viewed, 354-heterogeneous con- tents of, 363-moral tone of, 365.
Harvey, Sir John, governor of Nova Scotia, 6.
Hawkstone, a novel, reviewed, 354 - bigotry and dogmatism shown in, 360-presumption and silliness of the writer of, 361.
Hazlitt as a critic of Shakspeare,
the moral character of Goethe, 479 merits of his work, 485. Henry VII., attachment of, to the Romish Church, 323.
History, American, ample materials for, 291 mode of preserving them, 292.
Howe, Joseph, letters of, reviewed, 1-political activity of, 6- on the disabilities of Colonists, 17 - on Colonial representation in Parlia- ment, 20- on the appointment of governors, 24.
Hudson, H. N., Lectures on Shak- speare by, reviewed, 84- rivals the former critics, 90-general merits of, 96 peculiarities of, 97- gent and racy style of, 98-often extravagant, 99-tends to repeti- tion, 100 - fond of digressions, analytic power of, 102- realizes and adopts Shakspeare's characters, 103-describes the he- roines with great delicacy, 104 – his remarks on Perdita, 105- on Rosalind, 106-on Cordelia, 107 -on the four great tragedies, 108 -on Hamlet, 109 -on Polonius, 110 on Macbeth, 112 Weird Sisters, 113
on Othello, 115 on Desdemo- na, 117-general merits of, 118. Humanity a guide to research and observation, 265.
Huntingford, Dr., a friend of Lord Sidmouth, 423.
Inheritance, Mill on the right of, 389.
Ireland, T. C. Foster on the condi- tion of the people of, 119-divis- ion of landed property in, 134 misery and starvation in, 141. the people of, compared with American slaves, 155 - capable of supporting a much larger popula- tion, 158, 399-mode of putting an end to misery in, 159, 385 inequality of wealth creates all the woes of, 400-no field for the me- chanic arts in, 417.
Italy, progress of freedom in, 199 - probable union of the different states of, 200-evils of despotism in, 203.
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