THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. LXVII.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY OTIS, BROADERS, AND CO.,

No. 154 WASHINGTON STREET.

1848.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CXL.

PAGE

.

Art.

I. BRITISH COLONIAL POLITICS

1

1. Letters of Hon. Joseph Howe to Lord John

Russell ; October, 1846.

2. Despatch of Earl Grey, Colonial Secretary, to

Earl Elgin, Governor-General of British America ;

December 31, 1846.

3. Despatches of Earl Grey to Sir John Harvey,

Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia ; March 2 and

March 31, 1847.

4. Address of Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau to the

Electors of the Counties of Huntingdon and St. Mau-

rice; December, 1847,

5. Speech of Hon. Lemuel A. Wilmot, in the

House of Assembly of New Brunswick; Feb., 1848.

II. NIEBOSKA KOMEDYIA

26

III. VERPLANCK AND HUDSON : SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS 84

1. Shakspeare's Plays, with his Life. Edited by

GULIAN C. VERPLANCK, LL. D., with Critical Intro-

ductions, Notes, &c.

2. Lectures on Shakspeare. By H. N. HUDSON.

IV. THE DISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY

119

1. A Plea for Peasant Proprietors, with the Out-

lines of a Plan for their Establishment in Ireland.

By WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON.

2. Letters on the Condition of the People of Ire-

land. By THOMAS CAMPBELL FOSTER, Esq.

3. Past and Present. Chartism. By THOMAS

CARLYLE.

V. CURTIS ON LITERARY PROPERTY

161

A Treatise on the Law of Copyright, with some

Notices of the History of Literary Property. By

GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS.