THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

MAY 1844-AUGUST 1844.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

W. P. KENNEDY, SOUTH ST. ANDREW STREET;

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.

DUBLIN: W. CURRY, JUN., AND CO.

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CONTENTS OF No. I.

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I. Eloge Historique de G. Cuvier. Par M. Flourens, Secré-

taire Perpétuel de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de

l'Institut de France. (Mémoires de l'Acad. Roy. des Sc.,

tom. xiv., p. 1.),

II. The Highlands of Ethiopia. By Major W. Cornwallis

Harris, of the Hon. East India Company's Engineers.

Author of "Wild Sports in Southern Africa," "Portraits

of African Game Animals," &c.

III. Jacob's Tracts on the Corn Trade. 1828, &c.

Influences of the Corn Laws, as affecting all Classes of the

Community, and the Landed Interests. By James Wil-

son, Esq. 1839.

Statements illustrative of the Policy and Probable Conse-

quences of the proposed Repeal of the existing Corn Laws,

and the imposition, in their stead, of a Moderate Fixed

Duty on Foreign Corn when entered for Consumption.

By J. R. M'Culloch, Esq. 1841.

Great League Meeting in Edinburgh, January 11, 1844,

IV. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan,

Author of "Letters from the Mountains," "Memoirs of

an American Lady," &c. Edited by her Son, J. P. Grant,

Esq.,

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V. Histoire des Croisades. Par M. Michaud, de l'Académie

Française, et de Celle des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 114

VI. The Cherwell Water-Lily, and other Poems. By the Rev.

Frederick William Faber, M.A., Fellow of University

College, Oxford.

The Styrian Lake, and other Poems. By the Rev. Frede-

rick William Faber, M.A., Fellow of University College,

Oxford.

England's Trust, and other Poems. By Lord John Man-

ners.

The Cathedral, or the Catholic and Apostolic Church in

England,

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