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Beaumarchais, article on, 122 his early
life, 124 his introduction to the French
court, 125 his title of nobility, 126
his first appearance as an author, 128
his lawsuit with Count de la Blache,
129 his entanglement with the Goëz-
mans, 130- his employment as secret
emissary in England, 131 - his part in
American affairs, 135 et seq. his wan-
ing fortunes, 143- - his death, 145.
Belcher, Sir Edward, his Arctic Voyage,
reviewed, 95-his inefficiency, 99.
Biography, article on, 406 - its conditions,
407 its abuse, 411.

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Blake, John L., his Biographical Diction-
ary, noticed, 575.
Bodenstedt, Friedrich, his works on the
East, reviewed, 291- his Persian pil-
grimage, 292 - his acquaintance with
Mirtsa-Schaffy, 294 et seq.

Bodmer's cultivation of English literature,

314.

Boker, George H., his Plays and Poems,
noticed, 268.

British Essayists, article on, 502 - consti-
tuting a peculiar phasis of literature, 503

their agency in the formation of style,
505 in the diffusion of knowledge and
taste, 509 in the reformation of morals,

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510 in the revival of religious faith and
reverence, 511 Chalmers's editions of
them, 513 Little, Brown, & Co.'s re-
publication of Chalmers, 514.

Burton, Richard F., his Pilgrimage to Me-
dinah and Meccah, noticed, 256.

Cayley, C. B., his translation of Dante, no-
ticed, 275.
Channing, Edward T., his Lectures, re-
viewed, 34 his early life, 35 -- - his
character as a teacher, 36- his social
character, 39- his literary merit, 40-
his Lectures, quoted, 43 et seq.
Channing, Walter, his Physician's Vaca-
tion, noticed, 265.

Charicles, noticed, 263.

Child, Professor, his merits as an editor of
the British Poets, 245.

Christmas, its worth as a holiday, 344.
Cleaveland, Backus, and Backus, their Vil-
lage and Farm Cottages, reviewed, 146
- commended, 179.

Collier's Emendations of Shakespeare from
the lately discovered Folio of 1632, their
worth estimated, 186.

Convention for the Adjustment of Claims
between the United States and Great
Britain, Proceedings of, noticed, 277.
Curtis, George William, his Prue and I,
noticed, 566.

Flagg, Wilson, his Studies in the Field and
Forest, noticed, 267.

Florence Betrayed, by D'Azeglio, transla-
tion of, noticed, 254.

Franklin's imaginative character and influ-
ence, 548.

Fulton, Robert, Tuckerman's sketch of him
quoted, 418, 420.

Gardiner, Frederic, his Commentary on
Jude, noticed, 274.

Gerlach and Bachofen, their Roman His-
tory, reviewed, 227.

German literature, article on its indebted-
ness to English literature, 311.
Goethe's reverence for Shakespeare, 327.
Gordon, William R., his Threefold Test of
Spiritualism, noticed, 258.

Goucourt, Edmond and Jules de, popularity
of their La Lorette, 224.

Guizot, Guillaume, his Alfred le Grand,
characterized and quoted, 208.
Gutch, Matthew, his edition of the Robin
Hood Ballads, reviewed, 1.

Hall, Charles H., his Notes on the Gospels,
noticed, 274.

Hart, J. Coleman, his Designs for Parish
Churches, noticed, 574.

Henri IV. of France, Michelet's portrait of,

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500- his Noble Numbers, 501 — his
countenance, ib.

Hickok, Laurens P., his Empirical Psychol-
ogy, reviewed, 364 his division and
treatment of the intellect, ib. of the
susceptibilities, 368 of the will, 371-
his too technical style, 378.
Hitchcock, Edward, his Religious Truth il-
lustrated from Science, noticed, 574.
Holidays, article on, 334-indicative of
national character, 336- their conser-
vative power, 340 - - their indigenous
origin and growth, 342-commemorated
by Lamb, 345- - their utilitarian char-
acter in America, ib. - those of various
nations celebrated in New York, 349-
why lacking zest in America, 357.
Hooker, Rev. Thomas, his death-scene by
Cotton Mather, quoted, 478.

Hudson, H. N., his edition of Shakespeare,
reviewed, 183-his annotations quoted,
195 et seq.
- his biography of Shake-
speare quoted and commended, 201.
Hunter's Tract on Robin Hood, reviewed, 1.

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Lamartine's Entretiens Familiers, eloquence
of the tenth number, 225.

Lamb, Charles, his relish for holidays, 345.
Landscape, article on, 146 -arts included
in its improvement, 150- unformed no-
tions concerning it, 153 falsities in its
treatment, 158 et seq. relation of art to
it, 169 what may be done for its im-
provement in America, 173-Ruskin's
theory of it, 382-sources of pleasure
in it, 383-different attitude of the an-
cients and the moderns with regard to
it. 384.

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Latimer's mention of Robin Hood, 573.
Lays of a Lifetime, noticed, 573.
Lee, Harriet, her Canterbury Tales, no-
ticed, 577.

Literary festivals in America, 355.
Loménie's Beaumarchais et son Temps, re-
viewed, 122.

Oliver, Peter, his Puritan Commonwealth,
reviewed, 426- purpose of his book,
429 his ancestry, 431 - his biases, 433
-his charges against the settlers of Mas-
sachusetts Bay, 437 his view of the
purport of their charter, 438- of its
transfer, 441-of its perversion, 447-
of the Puritan laws and their adminis-
tration, 449 of their ecclesiastical pol-
icy, 451 of their intolerance, 455-
their treatment of the Indians, 465.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, his Journey
through Texas, noticed, 565.

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Ossian, admired and imitated in Germany,

321.

Payson, Rev. Seth, sketch of him by Rev.
Dr. Robinson, quoted, 476.
Pearson, Rev. Eliphalet, sketch of him by
Rev. Daniel Waldo, quoted, 475.
Peter, Carl, his Roman History, reviewed,

231.

Poetry, defined, 240-its historical office and
value, 242- especially in England, 243.
Poets, British, Little, Brown, & Co.'s edi-
tion, reviewed, 240-its contents and
merits, 253.

Reade, Charles, his It is Never Too Late to
Mend, noticed, 280.

Robertson's Charles the Fifth, new edition
of it, noticed, 281.

Robin Hood, article on, 1-his life as gath-
ered from the ballads, 3 his death, 14

- popular commemoration of him, 17 —
notices of him in old English literature,
18-Thierry's theory concerning him,
20his probable history, 21 et seq.
Rosse, J. Willoughby, his edition of Blair's
Chronological Tables, noticed, 262.
Ruskin, John, his third volume of Modern
Painters, reviewed, 379 his theory of
landscape stated, 382-discussed, 383 et
seq.

Southey, Tuckerman's sketch of him, quoted,
421, 422.

Sprague, William B., his Annals of the
American Pulpit, noticed, 272-reviewed,
469vast labor bestowed on the work,
470-its promiscuous authorship and
skilful editorship, 472-affluence of its
notes, 479- its historical worth, 482.
Sterne's influence in German literature, 323.
Stewart, C. S., his Brazil and La Plata,
noticed, 264.

Stone, Edwin M., his Life of John How-
land, noticed, 575.

Storrs, Richard S., Jr., his Lectures on the
Human Soul, noticed, 562.

Surrey, Earl of, his poetry characterized
and quoted, 249.

Switzerland, popularity of English litera-
ture in, 315.

Thierry, Amédée, merits of his History of
Attila, 206.

Thiers, his Consulat et Empire, considered
as a military history, of great value, 214
- deficient in the dramatic element, 215.
Trench, Richard Chenevix, his Calderon,
noticed, 569.

Tuckerman, Henry T., his Biographical
Essays, reviewed, 406- described and
characterized, 416-quoted, 418 et seq.
Turner, Samuel H., on the Epistle to the
Galatians, noticed, 273.

Washington's birthday, it

as the great national ho
Wayland, Francis, his Pri
tices of Baptist Church
Whitehead, William A.,
Perth Amboy, noticed,
Wieland's studies and me
lish literature, 324.
Worcester, J. E., his Hist
ticed, 276.

Words for the Hour, notice

reviewed, 70.

Veron's Quatre Ans de Regne, reviewed,

531.

Ville main's Souvenirs Contemporains, no-
ticed, 563.

Walton, Izaac, the model biographer, 414.

should govern biography
acter open to biographica
411 his sonnet to Izaa
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, his p
ized and quoted, 250.

Young's Night Thoughts,
Germany, 320.