CONTENTS OF NO. XXI.

ART.

I. THE CELTIC DRUIDS...

1. Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions, and Language of

the Ancient Britons.

By EDWARD DAVIES, Curate of

Olveston, Gloucestershire.

2. Histoire des Gaulois. Par AMEDEE THIERRY.

3. The Celtic Druids. By

4. La Religion des Gaulois.

5. Commentatio de Druidis.

GODFREY HIGGINS, Esq., F. S. A.

Par D. MARTIN.

J. G. FRIKIUS.

6. Ueber die Druiden del Kelten. VON KARL BARTH.

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7. The Eccles astical Antiquities of the Cymry. By J. WILLIAMS.

8. Les Fées du Moyen Age. Par ALFRED MAURY.

II. WALLENSTEIN...

1. History of the Thirty Years' War. Translated from the

German of FREDERICK SCHILLER. By the Rev. A. J. W.

MORRISON, M. A.

2. The Life of Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland. By Lieut.-Col.

J. MITCHELL, H. P.

3. The Piccolomini: A Drama in two parts.

the German of FREDERICK SCHILLER.

RIDGE. (Coleridge's Dramatic Works.)

Translated from

By S. T. COLE-

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III. UNITED STATES BANKING SYSTEM, PAST AND PRESENT........ 51

State Bank System of the United States, 1865.

IV. THE NEW YORK BAR-CHARLES O'CONOR...

1. Cowen's Reports. Vol. vii.

2. Wendell's Reports. Vols. ii. and xiv.

3. New York Reports. Vols. XV., XX., xxiii., xxiv., XXV.

4. Howard's Reports. Vol. x.

5. Howard's Reports. Vol. xix.

6. Debates, New York State Convention.

73

7. Forrest Divorce Case. 2 vols.

V. PHASES OF ENGLISH STATESMANSHIP.

Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain, from 1782 to

1830. Contributed to the Edinburgh Review. By the

Right Hon. Sir GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, Bart.

VI. MODERN CORRECTORS OF THE BIBLE..

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: the

Common English Version corrected. By the Final Com-

mittee of the American Bible Union.

96

119

VII. ANCIENT AND MODERN DISCOVERIES IN MEDICAL SCIENCE..... 131

1. Principles of Human Physiology, with their chief application

to Psychology, Pathology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and

Forensic Medicine. By WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, M. D..

F. R. S., &c.

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2. Clinical Lectures on the principles and practice of Medicine. By JOHN HUGHES BENNETT, M. D., F. R. S.. Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh.

3. Histoire de la Medecine. Par DANIEL LECLERC.

4. Histoire de la Medecine depuis son origine jusqu'au dix-neuvieme siècle.

5. Institutions Historic Medicina.

VIII. THE LESSONS AND RESULTS OF THE REBELLION..

Official Despatches and other Public Documents.

IX. NOTICES AND CRITICISMS.

Education and Science.

Art...

History.

Miscellaneous.

157

169

169

177

183

195

ART.

CONTENTS OF NO. XXII.

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I. LORD DERBY'S TRANSLATION OF HOMER..

1. The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English Blank Verse. By EDWARD

EARL OF DERBY.

2. 'OMHPOг α пανтα: H. E. HOMERI Opera Omnia, ex

Recensione et cum notis SAMUELIS CLARKII, S.T.P.

II. WILLIAM VON HUMBOLDT AS A COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGIST.

1. Erinnerungen an Wilhelm von Humboldt. Von GUSTAV SCHLESIER.

2. Wilhelm von Humboldt: Lebensbild und Charakteristik. Von R.

HAYM.

3. Withelm von Humboldt's gesammelte Werke.

BRANDES.

Herausg. von CARL

Von WILHELM VON

4. Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java.

HUMBOLDT. Herausg. von CARL BUSCHMANN.

III. THE WITS OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.

1. English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century. By W. M. THACKERAY.

2. Life and Works of Jonathan Swift.

By SIR WALTER SCOTT.

3. Lives of the Poets. By SAMUEL JOHNSON.

4. Life of Joseph Addison. By MISS LUCY AIKIN.

5. Lectures on English Literature. By HENRY REED.

6. Biography of William Congreve. By LEIGH HUNT.

IV. AMERICAN FEMALE CRIMINALS

1. Reports of various Trials in the principal Cities of the United States,

from 1855 to 1865.

2. Women as they are, or the Manners of the Day. By Mrs. GORE.

3. Privileges of Women. By JONAH S. MARSTON.

4. The Poisoners of the Seventeenth Century.

5. Remarkable Female Criminals.

6. Des Femmes avant le mariage, pendant le mariage et apres le mariage.

V. THE NEGATIVE CHARACTER OF CICERO....

1. M. T. Ciceronis Opera Omnia.

2. B. G. Niebuhr's Lectures on the History of Rome. Edited by L.

SCHMITZ.

3. T. Mommsen: Römische Geschichte.

4. Merivale's History of the Romans under the Empire.

5. Cicero's Letters to several of his Friends; translated by W. MELMOTH.

Letters to Allicus; translated by Dr. HEBERDEN. Life, by Dr.

MIDDLETON.

6. Cicero. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY.

7. Life and Times of Cicero. By W. FORSYTH.

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228

251

268

297

VI. THE NATIONAL DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES..

1. How our National Debt may be a National Blessing, &c. By SAMUEL

WILKESON.

2. An Inquiry concerning the Rise and Progress, the Redemption and

Present State, and the Management of the National Debt of Great

Britain. By ROBERT HAMILTON, LL.D., F.R.S.E.

3. Elements of a Plan for the Liquidation of the National Debt of Great

Britain, &c. By RICHARD HEATHFIELD.

4. Histoire financière de France.-Histoire financière d'Angleterre.

Par M. BAILLY.

5. Du Systeme financier.

VII. CIVILIZATON OF THE ANCIENT PERSIANS.

1. The Works of Sir William Jones.

2. Institutiones Linguæ Persicæ cum sanscrita et Zendica comparatæ. J.

A. VILLIERS.

3. Grammatik der lebenden Persischen Sprache.

4. A Grammar of the Persian Language. By DUNCAN FORBES.

VIII. COMMENCEMENTS OF COLLEGES AND SEMINARIES.

Annual Catalogues of various Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, &c.,

&c.,
1865.

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340

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THE

NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. XXI.

JUNE, 1865.

ART I.-1.Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions, and Language of the Ancient Britons, with some Introductory Sketches of Primitive Society. By EDWARD DAVIES, Curate of Olveston, Gloucestershire. London, 1804.

2. Histoire des Gaulois. Par AMEDEE THIERRY. Paris, 1845. 3. The Celtic Druids. By GODFREY HIGGINS, Esq., F. S. A, of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster, Yorkshire. London, 1827. 4. La Religion des Gaulois. Par D. MARTIN. Paris, 1727.

5. Commentatio de Druidis. J. G. FRIKIUS. Ulm, 1744.

6. Ueber die Druiden der Kelten. VON KARL BARTH. Irlangen, 1826.

7. The Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry. By J. WILLIAMS. London, 1844.

8. Les Fées du Moyen Age. Par ALFRED MAURY. Paris, 1842.

It is impossible to estimate the amount of valuable knowledge the world has lost by the unwillingness of certain sects of philosophers to commit the results of their researches to writing. And if this fact be admitted, it must follow that no argument can justify such a course. Few, if any, will dispute that those who avoid recording their discoveries, lest the public at large might have the benefit of them in common with themselves, are guilty of a most reprehensible selfishness; and yet it is to be feared that this has been the prevailing motive. That some have been influenced only by

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