THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

EDITED BY

EDWARD I. SEARS, LL. D.

VOL. XV. Nos. FOR JUNE AND SEPTEMBER, 1867.

"Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est."'

NEW YORK:

NEW YOR

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

61 BROADWAY.

1867.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867,

BY EDWARD I. SEARS,

In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the Southern

District of New York.

This volume has been rebound with funds provided by a grant from

the National Endowment for the Humanities

CONTENTS OF NO. XXIX.

ART.

I. THE ANCIENT PHOENICIANS, AND THEIR CIVILIZATION.

1. Sanchuniathonis Historiarum Phænicia libros novem, Græce ver-

808 a PHILONE BYBLIO, edidit Latinaque versione donavit

F. WAGENFELD. (The Nine Books of Sanchoniatho's His

tory of Phenicia, translated into Greek by PHILO-BIBLIUS:

revised and accompanied with a Latin version by F. Wagen

feld.)

2. Geschichte der Karthager, nach den Quellen bearbeitet. (History

of the Carthaginians, from the Original Authorities.) Von

DR. W. BÖTTICHER.

3. Scripturæ Linguæque Phænicia Monumenta quotquot supersunt

edita et edita ad autographorum optimorum que Exemplarum

fidem, edidit, additisque de Scriptura et Lingua Phonicum

Commentariis illustravit. (Monuments of the Literature and

Language of Phoenicia, &c, with Commentaries.) GUIL.

GESENIUS. 4to. Lipsiæ.

3. Reflections sur quelques Monumens Pheniciens et sur les Alpha-

bets qui en résultent. Mémoires de l'Academie des Inscrip-

tions. Par M. BARTHELEMY. Tom. xxx. p. 405. Paris.

5. Religion der Karthager. (Religion of the Carthaginians.) Von

DR. F. MUNTER. 4to. Copenhagen: 1821.

II. ORNITHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA...

1. American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of

the United States. By ALEXANDER WILSON.

2. Birds of America: Ornithological Biography. By J. J. AUDU-

BON.

3. A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada.

By THOMAS NUTTALL, A. M., F. L. S.

4. The Architecture of Birds. By JAMES RENNIE, A. M, A. L. S.

III. ORIGIN OF ALPHABETIC WRITING.

1. Essay on the Hieroglyphic System of M. Champollion, &c.

Translated by J. STUART.

2. Origin and Progress of Writing.

ASTLE.

3. De prima scribendi origine. HERMAN HUGO.

4. Essai sur le Systême hieroglyphique de Champollion.

IV. VIRGIL AND HIS NEW TRANSLATOR...

1. The Eneid of Virgil, translated into English Verse. By JOHN

CONINGTON, M. A.

2. The Enesis of Virgil. Translated by CHARLES SYMMONS,

D. D.

3. Virgil. The Eclogues translated by WRANGHAM, the Geor

gics by SOUTHEBY, and the Eneid by DRYDEN.

4. The Eneid, by C. PÍTT, and The Bucolics and Georgics, by

JOSEPH WARTON.

5. P. Virgilii Maronis Opera. Interpretatione et Notis, illustravit

C. G. HEYNE.

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