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THE
SOUTHERN QUARTERLY
REVIEW.
VOL. I.
NEW ORLEANS:
PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETORS, AT 166 ROYAL STREET.
1842.
THE NEW YORK PUBLICLIBRARY
ASTOR, LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
NEW ORLEANS : PRINTED BY BENJAMIN JENKINS. 166 ROYAL-STREET.
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1. The North American Review, No. CXIII., October, 1841.
Boston: Published by James Munroe & Co.
2. The New-York Review, No. XVIII. October, 1841.
New-York: Published for the Proprietor, by Alexander V.
Blake.
3. The United States' Magazine and Democratic Review,
No. XLII. December, 1841. New-York: J. & H. G.
Langley.
4. The Charleston Courier, No. 11,954. December, 1841..
Charleston, S. C.
5. The Richmond Enquirer, No. 62. December, 1841.
Richmond, Va.
II. CURRENCY AND EXCHANGES,
1. Message of the President of the United States, returning
to the Senate, with his objections, the Bill entitled "An act
to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Fiscal Bank of the
United States," August 16, 1841.
2. Message of the President, returning to the House of
Representatives, with his objections, the bill entitled, "An
Act to provide for the better collection, safe keeping, and dis-
bursement of the Public Revenue, by means of a Corporation,
to be styled the Fiscal Corporation of the United States."
September 9, 1841.
III. HILLHOUSE'S HADAD,
Dramas, Discourses, and other Pieces, by James A.
Hillhouse in 2 vols. 12mo. Boston: Little & Brown. 1840.
IV. HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLICS,
1. Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen âge, par
J. C. L. Sismonde de Sismondi. Nouvelle edition. Paris:
Treuttel et Würtz. 1826. 6 vols. 8vo.
2. History of the Italian Republics, by J. C. L. Sismonde
de Sismondi; in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia. 1 vol. 12mo.
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ART.
V. MISS SEDGWICK'S LETTERS FROM ABROAD.
PAGE.
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home. By Miss
Sedgwick; in 2 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers.
VI. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,
1. Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United
States. By James Bayard. Philadelphia: 1838.
2. Speeches in the Senate of the United States, on
Mr. Calhoun's Resolutions. 1833.
VII. BUCKINGHAM'S AMERICA,
America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive. By
J. S. Buckingham, Esq. In 2 vols. New York: Harper
& Brothers, 82 Cliff-street. 1841.
VIII. STEPHENS'S CENTRAL AMERICA,
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and
Yucatan. By John L. Stephens. In 2 vols. 8vo. New-
York: Harper & Brothers. 1841.
IX. CRITICAL NOTICES,
1. Lieber on International Copyright,
2. Walter's Life and Times of Sir Thomas More,
3. Cunningham's Life and Land of Burns,
4. Park's Pantology,
5. Palmer's Treatise on the Church,
6. School Books,
7. Fenelon's Lives of the Ancient Philosophers,
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8. Buck's Anecdotes: Religious, Moral and Entertaining, 267
9. Cubi's Spanish Grammar and Spanish Translator, . 267
10. Geology of Louisiana,
19. Edinburgh Review for October, 1841,
20. The Foreign Quarterly Review, for October, 1841, . 287
21. The London Quarterly, for October, 1841,
22. The Westminster Review, for October, 1841,
23. Blackwood's Magazine, for December, 1841,
LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS,
QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,
ATIONS,
OF
No. II.
I. TAYLOR'S NATURAL HISTORY OF SOCIETY
The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and
Civilized State: An Essay towards discovering the Origin and Course of Human Improvement: By W. COOKE TAYLOR, Esq., L.L.D., M.R.A.S., of Trinity College, Dublin.
II. EDUCATION
1. A System of Latin Prosody and Metre, from the best
Authorities, Ancient and Modern, by CHAS. ANTHON, L.L.D.
2. The Traveller's Companion, for Conversation, being a
selection of such expressions as occur frequently in travel-
ling, and in the different situations of life, by Madame de
GENLIS, in six languages,-English, German, French, Ital-
ian, Polish and Russian.
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3. Corderii Colloquiorum Centuria Selecta: in usum
Tironum, Editio Portsmuthiensis, Edita Carolo Tappan,
Portsmuthie, in Republica Neo-Hantonia.
III. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND
Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Con-
quest, with Anecdotes of their Courts, now first published,
from Official Records, and other Authentic Documents,
private as well as public. By AGNES STRICKLAND.
IV. STATE OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN CUBA
1. Informe sobre el estado de la enseñanza primaria en
la isla de Cuba en 1836, su costa y mejoras de que es sus-
ceptible; extendido de orden de la seccion de Educacion
de la Sociedad Patriotica de la Habana para eleverlo al su-
premo gobierno de S. M. en cumplimiento de lo provenido
en su Real Orden de 21 octubre de 1834. Leido en la
junta de la Sociedad de 30 de marzo, en que fue aprobado
unanimamente:-por D. Domingo del Monte: M. S.
[Report upon the state of elementary education in the
Island of Cuba, in 1836, and upon the improvements of
which it is susceptible, prepared by order of the Section for
Education of the Patriotic Society of the Havana, for the
information of Her Majesty's Government, in pursuance of
the Royal Order of October 21, 1834, and read at a meeting
of the Society: By Don Domingo del Monte.]
2. Informe presentado á la Real Junta de fomento de
agricultura y comercio de la isla de Cuba, en sesion de 11
de deciembre de 1833, en el expediente sobre traslacion,
reforma y ampliacion de la escuela nautica, establecida en
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