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A New and Improved Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Spanish Language. By Emanuel Del Mar, Teacher of the Spanish Language. New York. Bliss & White. 12mo.

The Child's Arithmetic. By William B. Fowle, Instructer of the Monitorial School. Second Edition. Boston. Thomas Wells. 18mo. Pp. 104.

The Pestalozzian Primer, or First Step in Teaching Children the Art of Reading and Thinking. By John M. Keagg, M. D. Harrisburg. 12mo. pp. 126.

The True English Grammar, being an Attempt to Form a Grammar of the English Language not modelled upon those of the Latin, Greek, and other Foreign Languages. By William B. Fowle. Boston. Munroe & Francis. 18mo. pp. 180.

A History of the United States, on a Plan adapted to the Capacity of Youth, and designed to Aid the Memory by Systematic Arrangement and Interesting Associations. By the Rev. C. A. Goodrich. Bellows Falls, Vt. Tenth Edition. James J. Cullen & Co. 18mo.

MATHEMATICS.

Elements of Descriptive Geometry, with their Application to Spherical Trigonometry, Spherical Projections, and Warped Surfaces. By Charles Davis, Professor of Mathematics in the Military Academy, West Point. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. 8vo.

MEDICINE.

A Toxicological Table, showing the Symptoms, Treatment, and Methods of Detecting the Various Mineral and Animal Poisons. New York. H. Stevenson.

The Philosophy of the Human Voice, embracing its Physiological History. By James Rush, M. D. Philadelphia. R. H. Small. 8vo.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Remarks on the Practicability and Expediency of establishing a Rail Road on one or more Routes from Boston to Connecticut River. By the Editor of the "Boston Daily Advertiser." Boston. 8vo. pp. 71. Christian Visitant. No. I. Vol. I. Boston. N. S. Simpkins & Co. Contributions of the Maclaurin Lyceum to the Arts and Sciences. No. I. Vol. I. Philadelphia. Judah Dobson.

Letter on the Use and Abuse of Incorporations, addressed to the Delegation from the City of New York in the State Legislature. By one of their Constituents. New York. G. & C. Carvill.

Letters from the Bahama Islands, written in the Years 1823-4. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. 12mo. pp. 205.

Remarks upon Mr. Carter's Outline of an Institution for the Education of Teachers. From the "United States Review." Boston. Bowles & Dearborn. 8vo.

The Harvard Register. No. I. Cambridge. Hilliard & Brown.

A Glance at the Times, containing an Epistle for Greece, an Eulogium on Jefferson, &c. in a Poetical Address to De Witt Clinton. By a Yankee. Philadelphia. R. H. Small.

Annual Report of the Acting Superintendent of Common Schools, made to the Legislature of the State of New York, January 23, 1827: Albany. 4to. pp. 62.

Illustrations of Masonry. By one of the Fraternity, who has devoted Thirty Years to the Subject. Third Edition. Rochester. 12mo. pp. 93. View of Holliston in its First Century; a Century Sermon, delivered in Holliston, December 4, 1826. By Charles Fitch, Pastor of the Congregational Church and Society in Holliston. Dedham. H. & W. H. Mann. 8vo. pp. 36.

A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship, designed to be Used with Watts. Keene, N. H. John Prentiss. 18mo. pp. 72.

The Lady's Elegant Pocket Diary for 1827. Philadelphia. A. R. Poole.

The Debates, Resolutions, and other Proceedings in Convention on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, on the 17th of September, 1787, with the Yeas and Nays on the Decision of the Main Questions. Collected and revised from Contempory Publications. By Jonathan Elliot. Vol. I. Washington. 8vo. Price $3.

NOVELS.

The Rivals of Acadia, an Old Story of the New World. Boston. Wells & Lilly. 12mo. pp. 270.

ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES.

Eulogy on the Hon. William Crafts, delivered before the Palmetto Society, in the Second Independent Church. By E. S. Courtenay. Charleston. 8vo.

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Introductory Lecture to the Course of Anatomy and Physiology in Rutgers Medical College, New York. By John D. Godman, M. D. New York.

An Inaugural Discourse delivered at the Opening of Rutgers Medical College in the City of New York. By David Hosack, M. D. F. R. S.. New York. 8vo. pp. 176.

An Obituary Memoir of Robert F. Mott, read before Two Literary Societies to which he belonged, and published at their joint Request. By Goold Brown. New York. S. Wood & Sons.

Address delivered before the Worcester Agricultural Society, October 11, 1826. By Emory Washburn, Esq. Worcester. 8vo. pp 16.

A Discourse delivered before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on New Year's Day, 1827. By Roberts Vaux. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. 8vo.

Mr. Clay's late Speech before the American Colonization Society. Washington. Columbian Star Office. 8vo. pp. 24.

An Annual Discourse before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, delivered at the Hall of the Musical Fund Society, on the 29th of November, 1826. By Henry D. Gilpin. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. An Address. delivered at the Opening of the Boston Mechanics' Institution, February 7, 1827. By George B. Emerson. Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins. 8vo. pp. 24.

POETRY.

Boston.

Excursions on the River Connecticut during a Short Recess. Reported by Amicus Curiæ. Boston. Cottons & Barnard. 12mo. pp. 48. The Cities of the Plain; a Religious Poem. By Sumner L. Fairfield. Boston. Charles G. Greene. 12mo.

THEOLOGY.

An Essay on the Lord's Supper. By F. W. P. Greenwood. Second Edition. Boston. Bowles & Dearborn. 12mo. pp. 60.

Five Sermons against Popery. By Thomas Secker, LL. D. Windsor. Simeon Ide. 12mo. pp. 118.

The Doctrine of Incest stated, with an Examination of the Question, Whether a Man may marry his deceased Wife's Sister? By Domesticus. Second Edition. New York. G. & C. Carvill. 8vo. pp. 48. A Sermon delivered at the Dedication of the Union Meeting-House in Groton, Massachusetts, January 3, 1827. By John Todd. Cambridge. Hilliard & Brown.

Universal Damnation and Salvation clearly proved by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. To which are added, a few Preliminary Observations. Boston. T. Bedlington. 8vo. pp. 100.

A Sermon, preached, December 13, 1826, at the Installation of the Rev. Calvin Park, D. D. in the First Congregational Church in Stoughton. By Nathanael Emmons, D. D. Boston. 8vo. pp. 22.

Dissertations on the Importance and Best Method of Studying the Original Languages of the Bible. By Jahn and Others. Translated from the Original, and accompanied with Notes, by M. Stuart. Andover, Flagg & Gould. 8vo. pp. 96.

A Catechism on the principal Parables of the New Testament. By William F. Lloyd. Philadelphia. 18mo. pp. 90.

AMERICAN EDITIONS OF FOREIGN WORKS.

Three Hundred and Fifty-two Religious Letters, written between 1636 and 1661, by the late Samuel Ruthford, Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews. To which is prefixed, a Life of the Author. First American Edition, from the Twelfth Glasgow Edition. New York. The Young Rifleman's Comrade; a Narrative of his Military Adventures, Captivity, and Shipwreck. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. 12mo. pp. 308.

A Grammar of Chemistry. By the Rev. David Blair. Corrected and revised by Benjamin Tucker, and improved and adapted to the present state of the Science. Philadelphia. Towar and Hogan. 18mo.

Tales by the O'Hara Family. Second Series. Containing The Nowlands, and Peter of the Castle. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. 2 Vols. 12mo.

Almacks; a Novel. New York. J. & J. Harper and Others. 12mo. pp. 295 and 304.

Wesley's Sermons. New York. J. & J. Harper. Vol. VI. 8vo. An Essay on the Morbid Sensibility of the Stomach and Bowels. By James Johnson, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians. Philadelphia. B. & T. Kite.

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Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, by Hilliard, Metcalf. & Co.

INDEX TO VOL. I.

A.

Absorption, cutaneous, a mode of intro-
ducing Medicine, 234.
Academy of Medicine, French, 234.
Adams, John, his birth and education,
32-anecdote of, 33, 34.

Adams and Jefferson, Eulogies on, re-
viewed, 31.

Address delivered at Plymouth, by James
G. Carter, reviewed, 118. See Dis-
courses.-Samuel L. Knapp's, on the
death of Adams and Jefferson, review-
ed, 31-Edward Everett's, reviewed,
31. See Eulogies.
Adhesion of glue, 396.
Adventures of a Young Rifleman, review-

ed, 178-fictitious narrative, its chang-
es, 178-artificial order of a novel,
its advantages, 179-Gil Blas, 180-
Robinson Crusoe, 181-Anastasius,
181-Campbell's Overland Journey
to India, 181-Travels of Damberger,
181-Recollections of the Peninsula,
181-Adventures of a French Ser-
geant, 181-military hardship, 183-
effect of a military life upon morals,
186-mode of threshing in Spain, 190
-Adventures of a French Sergeant,
reviewed, 321. See Sergeant-Con-
tinental, noticed, 389.
Alamanni, 269.

Alexander, Archibald, Canon of the Old
and New Testaments ascertained, re-
viewed, 327. See Canon.
America and Spain, wars of, 343.
America, South, the enslaved condition
of its provinces, 420.

American in Europe, letter from, 135,
271.

Anastasius, 181.

Anatomy and Physiology, the Impor-
tance of, as Branches of General Edu-
cation, reviewed, 88-ignorance of, 88
—causes of it, 90—advantages of lec-
tures on, 90 et seq.

60

Anecdote, Turkish, 395.

Angell's Treatise on Property in Tide
Waters, noticed, 225-Hale's treatise,
De Jure Maris, 225.
Animals, longevity of, 153.

Apocryphal books, how to be used, 329.
Arts, fine, at Rome, 464.
Asparagus, 169.
Augustine, St. 295.
Auricular organs, 73.

Aurora Borealis, sound attending, 309.

B.

Banking, thoughts on, Edinburgh Re-
view, 190-overtrading, evils of, 191
-derangement in the currency, reme-
dy for, 191-banks incorporated in
the United States, how, 192-business
of banking, 192-remedy for evils
suggested, 194 et seq.

Banks incorporated in the United States,
how, 192.

Beattie's Minstrel translated into Italian,
233..

Bequest, singular, 467.
Berlin decree, 6.
Bird, singular, 313.

Births, proportion of male to female, 153.
Blair, his Universal Preceptor, noticed,
298.

Воссассіо, 233.

Bogotá, description of, 430.
Bolivar, 426.

Bones of extinct races, 73.

Book of Nature, by John Mason Good,
reviewed, 407.

Books printed in Russia, 153-number
of new, at the last Leipsic fair, 395.
Border Tradition, 40.

Boring the Earth for Water, Essay on,
461.
Botany, 69.

Boves, anecdote of, 428.

Boyne Water, a Tale by the O'Hara
Family, noticed, 300.

Breakwaters, English, 203.
Brooks's Anniversary Poem, noticed,
303.

Burmese cannon, 396.

C.

Cabrera, island of, French prisoners'
mode of life there, 322 et seq.
Calculating machine, 72.

Campbell's Overland Journey to India,

181.

Canals in England, capital invested in,

311.

Cannon, Burmese, 396.

Canon of the Old and New Testaments
ascertained, by Archibald Alexander,
reviewed, 827-biblical literature, at-
tention to in this country, 327-
apocryphal books, how to be used,
329-meaning of the word canonical,
330-authority of the scripture rests
on the testimony of history, 332-
canon of Lardner, 333.
Canonical, meaning of the word, 330.
Cappello, 270.

Caracas, description of, 424.

Carter, James G., his Address delivered at
Plymouth, reviewed, 118. See Dis-
courses.-Essays on Popular Educa-
tion, reviewed, 346-institution for the
education of teachers, 357 et seq.-
its advantages, 363 et seq.
Chigre or Nigua, account of, 430.
Children, lies told to, 107.

Chinese advertisement, 73.

their present character, 421-La

Guayra, 422-the Silla of Caracas,
422-earthquake of 1812, its destruc-
tive effects, 423 provisions sent to
Venezuela by the Congress of the
United States, 423-Caracas, descrip-
tion of, 424-the inhabitants, number
of, 425-Bolivar, parallel between,
and Washington, 426-a negro offi-
cer, 427-account of Valencia, 427
-anecdote of Boves, 428, account of
Paez, 428-account of the Nigua or
Chigre, 430-description of Bogotá,
430-the Colombian tariff, 432.
Combustion of lamp-black, 467.
Compte du Nord, anecdote of, 7.
Conveyancing, English system of, 262.
Cortes, character of, 343.

Cotton cloths exported from England,
amount of, 312.

Cowper, Jane Taylor compared to, 12.
Crusades, the History of by Charles
Mills, noticed, 501.
Crusoe, Robinson, 181.
Curiosity, Natural, 314.

Currency, derangement in, remedy for,

191.

Cushing, Caleb, Eulogy on Adams and
Jefferson, reviewed, 31. See Eulo-
gies.

D.

Damberger, Travels of, 181.

Deaf and dumb in the canton of Vaud,

396.

Chivalry, the History of, by Charles Mills, Death of infants in Russia, 72.

noticed, 302.

Classical learning, 39, 120, 121.
Code, Napoleon, letter on, 125.
Coin, ancient, 154-Polish, 312.

Coins, gold, first struck in England by
Edward III, 154.

Clover mixed with straw, advantage of,

154.

Colombia, Notes on, reviewed, 418—an
extraordinary character, 418-the Par-
amas, 418-the haciendas, 419-its
various inhabitants, 419-the Indians,
the Creoles, the Goahiros, 419-the
Caribs and the Guayecas, 420-influ-
ence of the revolution upon these races,
420-former enslaved condition of the
South American provinces, 420,-

De Kay's Address before the New York
Lyceum, 56, 57.

Denmark, schools of mutual instruction
in, 396.

Diary of an Ennuyée, noticed, 394.
Dictionary, French, 469.

Diet, Paris's Treatise on, 460.
Diplomacy of the United States, review.
ed, 1-value of the work, 3-treaties
with European states considered, 3-
foreign ministers how received, 3, 4—
Monroe, how received by the National
Convention, 4-influence of the Am.
revolution on Europe, 5-Voltaire and
Franklin, 5-Franklin in France, 6-
the continental system, 6-Berlin de-
cree, 6-Sweden, conduct of, 7-

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