THE

SOUTHERN REVIEW,

VOL. V.

BALTIMORE:

ALBERT TAYLOR BLEDSOE, LL. D.

1869.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

ALBERT TAYLOR BLEDSOE, LL. D.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maryland.

INNES & COMPANY, Book Printers and Binders,
BALTIMORE, MD.

ART.

CONTENTS OF No. IX.

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I. THE GREAT ERROR OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

The Old Regime. By Alexis De Tocqueville.

II. THE NATURE AND LAWS OF LIGHT.

1. Répertoire d'Optique Moderne.

Moigno.

2. Euvres de François Arago.

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Par l'Abbe

3. Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects. By

Sir John F. W. Herschel.

4. Faraday as a Discoverer. By John Tyndall.

III. WATERLOO - NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON.

History of the Life of Arthur, Duke of Welling-

ton. By M. Brialmont.

IV. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOHN WILSON.

'Christopher North'; a Memoir of John Wilson.

By Mrs. Gordon.

V. THE STUDY OF SANSKRIT.

1. Lexicon Comparativum Linquavum Indoger-

manicarum. Von L. Diefenbach.

2. Garnett's Linguistic Essays. By his Son.

3. Charakteristik der Hauptsächlichsten Typen.

des Sprachbaues. Von H. Steinthal.

4. Hebräisches und Chaldäisches Handwörter-

buch über das alte Testament. Von J. Fürst.

5. Deutsche Grammatik. Von J. Grimm.

VI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF MARYLAND.

1. An Historical View of the Government of

Maryland from its Colonization to the Present Day.

By John V. L. McMahon.

2. The History of Maryland from its first Settle-

ment in 1633 to the Restoration in 1660. By John

Leeds Bozman.

3. The Landholder's Assistant. By John Kilty.

4. A History of Maryland, from 1634 to 1848. By

James McSherry.

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5. The Day-Star of American Freedom, or the

Birth and Early Growth of Toleration in the Prov-

ince of Maryland. By George Lynn-Lachlan Davis.

6. Terra Mariæ, or Threads of Maryland Colonial

History. By Edward D. Neill.

VII. THE PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY.

1. History of the Inductive Sciences. By Wil-

liam Whewell, D. D.

2. Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne.

3. Histoire de l'Astronomie au Moyen Age. By

J. B. J. Delambre.

4. Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne. By J. B. J.

Delambre.

5. Histoire de l'Astronomie on dix-huitième Siecle.

By J. B. J Delambre.

6. Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne, depuis son

origin jusqu'à l'establissment de l'ecole d'Alexandrie.

By Jean Sylv. Bailly.

7. Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne, depuis la

foundation de l'ecole d'Alexandrie jusqu'à l'epoque

1782. By Jean Sylv. Bailly.

8. An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the

Ancients. By Sir George Cornwall Lewis.

9. The Recent Progress of Astronomy; especially

in the United States.

VIII. THE SEVEN WEEKS' WAR.

The Seven Weeks' War; its Antecedents and its

Incidents. By H. M. Hozier.

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IX. THE SUMTER AND ALABAMA-ADMIRAL SEMMES. . 208

The Sumter and the Alabama; or Memoirs of his

Services Afloat during the War between the States.

By Admiral Raphael Semmes.

X. NORTHERN GEOGRAPHIES.

1. A Comprehensive Geography, combining Math-

ematical, Physical, and Political Geography, with

Important Historical Facts, designed to promote the

Moral Growth of the Intellect. By Benj. F. Shaw

and Fordyce A. Allen.

2. The Common-School Geography: an Elementary

Treatise on Mathematics, Physical, and Political

Geography. By D. M. Worren.

XI.-NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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238

Man and Woman, 238.-A New Practical Hebrew Grammar, 240.-A History of

Maryland upon the Basis of McSherry, 240.-Richmond during the War, 240.-

Davies' Arithmetical Series, Ray's Arithmetical Series, Venable's Arithmetical

Series, Felter's Arithmetical Series, Robinson's Arithmetical Series, 242.-Cash

and Credit, 245.