THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1862.

VOL. XXXVII.

EDINBURGH:

T. AND T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET.

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.

DUBLIN: WILLIAM ROBERTSON.

1862.

MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

CONTENTS OF No. LXXIII.

ART. I.-HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, AND MR GOLDWIN

SMITH, .

1. Lectures on Modern History, delivered in Oxford,

1859-61. By Goldwin Smith, M.A., Regius Professor of

Modern History in the University of Oxford. Parkers,

Oxford and London. 1861.

2. Irish History and Irish. Character. By Goldwin Smith.

Parkers Oxford and London. 1861.

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3. Rational Religion, and the Rationalistic Objections of

the Bampton Lectures for 1858. By Goldwin Smith.

Parkers: Oxford and London. 1861.

4. Oxford Essays, 1856 and 1858.

5. Articles by Mr Goldwin Smith, in various Encyclopædias,

Reviews, Magazines, and Newspapers.

6. A Letter to Professor Goldwin Smith. By H. L. Mansel,

B.D., Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical

Philosophy. Oxford: Hammans. 1861.

7. A Second Letter to Professor Goldwin Smith. By

H. L. Mansel, B.D. Oxford: Hammans. 1862.

ART. II.-ANGLO-SAXON AND ANGLO-NORMAN CHRIS-

Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury. By Walter

Farquhar Hook, D.D., Dean of Chichester. Vols. I. and

II. Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Periods. Lon-

don: Bentley. 1860-62.

ART. III. BRITISH ALPINE BOTANY,

1. On the Connection between the Distribution of the Existing

Fauna and Flora of the British Isles, and the Geological

Changes which have affected their Area, especially during

the Epoch of the Northern Drift. By Professor Edward

Forbes, F.R.S., etc. (From the Memoirs of the Geolo-

gical Survey of Great Britain. Vol. I. London, 1846.)

2. Cybele Britannica; or, British Plants and their Geogra-

phical Relations. By Hewett Cottrell Watson. Long-

man and Co. 1847.

3. The Botanist's Guide to the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff,

and Kincardine. By G. Dickie, A.M., M.D. Aberdeen,

1860.

(And other Works.)

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ART. IV.-EDWARD IRVING,

1. The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the Scotch

National Church, London; illustrated by his Journals

and Correspondence. By Mrs Oliphant. 2 Vols. Lon-

don: Hurst and Blackett. 1862.

2. Memoir of the Life of the Rev. Robert Story, late

Minister of Roseneath. By R. H. Story. London:

M'Millan. 1862.

3. Narrative of Facts characterizing the Supernatural Mani-

festations in Members of Mr Irving's Congregation, etc.

By Robert Baxter. London: James Nisbet, Berners

Street. 1833.

4. The Unknown Tongues discovered to be English,

Spanish, and Latin. By George Pilkington. London:

Field and Bull. 1831.

(And other Works.)

ART. V.-ESSAYISTS, OLD AND New,

1. Essays from The Quarterly Review.' By James

Hannay. London: Hurst and Blackett. 1861.

2. Nugæ Critica: Occasional Papers written at the Seaside.

By Shirley. Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh. 1862.

3. The Recreations of a Country Parson. (A.K.H.B.)

London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1859.

4. Leisure Hours in Town. By the Author of 'Recreations

of a Country Parson. London: John W. Parker and

Son, West Strand. 1862.

5. Essays in History and Art. By R. H. Patterson. William

Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. 1862.

6. Essays, Historical and Critical. By Hugh Miller. A.

and C. Black, Edinburgh. 1862.

ART. VI.-LORD STANHOPE'S LIFE OF PITT,

Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt. By Earl

Stanhope, Author of the History of England from the

Peace of Utrecht.' 4 vols. London, 1861-62.

ART. VII. MR ST JOHN'S BORNEO,

Life in the Forests of the Far East. By Spenser St John,

F.R.G.S., F.E.S., late H.M.'s Consul-General in Borneo,

now H.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires to the Republic of Hayti.

ART. VIII.-LORD CANNING,

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1. Papers relating to the Mutinies in the East Indies.

2. The Mutiny in the Bengal Army. By one who has

Served under Sir Charles Napier. London, 1857.

(And other Works.)

CONTENTS OF No. LXXIV.

ART. I.-CHRISTIAN INDIVIDUALITY,

1. The Life and Letters of John Angell James; including

an Unfinished Autobiography. Edited by R. W. Dale,

M.A. London, 1861.

2. Memorials of the Rev. Joseph Sortain, B.A., of Trinity

College, Dublin. By B. M. Sortain. London, 1861.

3. The Successful Merchant: Memoirs of the Life of Samuel

Budgett of Bristol. By Rev. W. Arthur. London,

1860.

4. Memoirs of George Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E., Regius

Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh,

etc. By his Sister, Jessie Aitken Wilson. Edinburgh,

1860.

5. Memoir of Captain Sir Edward Parry, R.N. London,

1859.

6. Memorials of the Life of Captain Hedley Vicars. Lon-

don, 1856.

ART. II.-THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE IN 1862,

1. Statistical Handbook for the Austrian Monarchy. By

Carl Baron Czoering. Vienna, 1861.

2. Mit oder ohne Estereich?

Vienna and Pesth, 1862.

3. Die wahre Richtung der National Politik (in German

and Hungarian). Vienna, 1862.

4. Debates in the Reichs Rath. Weiner Zeitung, 1861-2.

ART. III.-POEMS BY A. H. CLOUGH,

Poems by Arthur Hugh Clough, sometime Fellow of Oriel

College, Oxford. With a Memoir. Macmillan and Co.,

Cambridge, 1862.

ART. IV.-ASSIMILATION Of Law,

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1. Second Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire

and ascertain how far the Mercantile Laws of the dif-

ferent parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Ireland may be advantageously assimilated; and also

whether any and what alterations and amendments should

be made in the Law of Partnership as regards the ques-

tions of the Limited or Unlimited Responsibility of Part-

ners. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by com-

mand of her Majesty. 1855.

2. Proceedings of the National Association for the Pro-

motion of Social Science. Department of Jurisprudence.

1859-62.

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