THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. XXXIV.

Boston,

GRAY & BOWEN, 141 WASHINGTON STREET.

1832.

ART.

CONTENTS

OF

No. LXXIV.

PAGE.

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I. ANDERSON'S OBSERVATIONS IN GREECE

Observations upon the Peloponnesus and the Greek

Islands, made in 1829. By RUFUS ANDERSON, one

of the Secretaries of the American Board of Commis-

sioners for Foreign Missions.

II. REFORM IN ENGLAND

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The Debate in the House of Commons on the Re-

form Bill.

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III. DEFENCE OF POETRY

The Defence of Poesy. By Sir PHILIP SIDNEY.

Republished in the Library of the Old English Prose

Writers.

IV. SILLIMAN'S CHEMISTRY

Elements of Chemistry in the order of the Lectures

given in Yale College. By BENJAMIN SILLIMAN,

Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Mineralogy, and

Geology.

V. CROKER'S BOSWELL

The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D. Including

a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. By JAMES

BOSWELL, Esq. A New Edition. With numerous

Additions and Notes. By JOHN WILSON CROKER,

L.L. D. F. R. S.

VI. GRIFFIN'S REMAINS

Remains of the Rev. Edmund D. Griffin.

Com-

piled by FRANCIS GRIFFIN. With a Biographical

Memoir of the Deceased, by the Rev. JOHN MCVI-

CAR, Professor of Moral Philosophy, &c. in Colum-
bia College.

VIL MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

The Life of Mary Queen of Scots. By HENRY

GLASFORD BELL, Esq. Family Library, Vols. XXI.

and XXII.

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VIII. THE Two CONVENTIONS

1. Address to the People of the United States, by

a Convention of Delegates from several Parts of the

Union, assembled at Philadelphia. 1831.

2. Address of the Friends of Domestic Industry,

assembled in Convention at New York, October 31,

1831, to the People of the United States. Balti-

more. 1831.

3. A Letter to Colonel William Drayton, of South

Carolina, in assertion of the Constitutional Power

of Congress to impose Protecting Duties. By GULIAN

C. VERPLANCK, one of the Representatives in Con-

gress from the State of New York. New York. 1831.

4. Address Delivered before the American Insti-

tute of the City of New York, at their Fourth An-

nual Fair, October 14, 1831. BY EDWARD EVERETT.

New York. 1831.

IX. POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS

Lectures on Witchcraft, comprising a History of

the Delusion in Salem in 1692. By CHALES W. Up-

HAM, Junior Pastor of the First Church in Salem.

An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Appari-

tions, and Popular Superstitions. Also, an Account

of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1692. By

JAMES THACHER, M. D., A. A. S.

X. EFFECTS OF MACHINERY

The Working Man's Companion, No. 1. The

Results of Machinery, being an Address to the

Working Men of the United Kingdom.

XI. MILITARY ACADEMY

Reports of the Boards of Visitors of the Military

Academy at West Point, in June, 1830, and June,

1831.

XII. ENCYCLOPÆDIA AMERICANA

Encyclopædia Americana. A Popular Dictionary

of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and

Biography; brought down to the present time; in-

cluding a copious Collection of original Articles in

American Biography; on the basis of the seventh

Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon. Ed-

ited by FRANCIS LIEBER, assisted by E. WIGGLES-

WORTH and T. G. BRADFORD.

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1. Obras de Gonzalo de Berceo. (Coleccion de

Poesias Castellanas anteriores al siglo XV. Por T.

A. SANCHEZ. Tom. II.)

2. Rimas Sacras y Doctrinales. (Floresta de

Rimas Antiguas Castellanas, ordenada por J. N. BÖHL

DE FABER.)

II. AUTHORShip of Junius

1. Memoirs of JOHN HORNE TOOKE, together with

his valuable Speeches and Writings; also, containing

Proof, identifying him as the AUTHOR of the cele-

brated Letters of Junius. By JOHN A. GRAHAM,

LL. D.

2. The Posthumous Works of JUNIUS, to which is

prefixed an Inquiry respecting the Author, and a

Sketch of the Life of John Horne Tooke.

3. Junius Unmasked, or LORD George SackviLLE

proved to be JUNIUS, with an Appendix showing that

the Author of the Letters of Junius was also the Au-

thor of the History of the Reign of George III., and

Author of the North Briton, ascribed to Mr. Wilkes.

4. An Essay on Junius and his Letters, embracing

a Sketch of the Life and Character of WILLIAM PITT,

Earl of Chatham, and Memoirs of certain other dis-

tinguished Individuals, with Reflections, Historical,

Personal, and Political, relating to the Affairs of

Great Britain and America, from 1763 to 1785. By

BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE, Member of several Medi-

cal, Philosophical, and Literary Societies in Europe

and America.

5. Letters of Junius, addressed to John Pickering,

Esq. showing that the Author of that celebrated Work

was EARL TEMPLE. BY ISAAC NEWHALL.

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