and applied to the history of cri-
minal law, ib.; Brissot's views on-
ly an extension of those of Becca-
ria on the same subject, ib.; man's
right to give society the power to
take life, ib.; the doctrine consi-
dered, ib.; irreconcilable with the
maxim which forbids suicide, 395;
if man has not a right to take away
his own life, he cannot surrender
it to society, ib.; objection how an-
swered, ib; futility of the answer,
ib.; Mosaic ordinances superseded
by Christianity, ib.; the Mosaic
law, its probable intention, ib.; the
idea of punishment personal, 397;
inefficacy of the punishment of
death as an example, 398; capital
punishments in the State of Ala-
bama private, ib.; arguments of
those who defend capital punish-
ments considered and answered,
399, 401; cases of Dr. Dodd and
Colt cited on the question of ex-
ample, 401-2; useful statistics of
capital punishment in the reign of
Henry VIII., 403; practice of al-
lowing the State's advocate to
conclude the argument in criminal
eases, examined and condemned,
403-3; disregard of the comfort of
men placed in prison preparatory
to their trial, a matter of serious
consideration, 405; striking case
of a girl imprisoned on suspicion
of a felony, cited at length, 405-6;
imprisonment of witnesses in cri-
minal cases-examples of great
cruelty mentioned, 406.

D.

Day on Cooper River, by John B. Ir-
ving, 256; first published in the
Charleston Courier, ib.; character
of the work, ib.; migratory dispo-
sition and habits of Americans, ib.;
local attachments defended, ib.;
history of old family residences
full of interest, 258; example fur-
nished by the author deserving of
imitation.

Dickens Charles, his novels, 431; sin-
gular opinion of Voltaire quoted,
ib.; too many literary men for the
wants of society, ib.; the Duke of
Orleans' views on the subject,432;
2

France deluged with authors, ib.;
literary merit falsely appreciated
in England, 433: reasons assigned
for this state of things, ib.; the ca-
ses of Scott, Bulwer, Byron and
D'Israeli, cited in proof, ib.; study
of social principles impeded by
ambition, 434; Dickens-subject
matter of his fictions, 435; their
tendency beneficial, ib.; the com-
munity predisposed to receive
them favorably, 436; his 'Sketches
of every-day Life,'-character of
the work, ib.; secret of his suc-
cess-what it is, ib.; remarkable
resemblance between the leading
comic characters in his different
novels noted, 437-8; 'Pickwick
Papers' their character, 438; de-
sign of the work, 439; 'Oliver
Twist'-a tale of social and indi-
vidual suffering of the highest or-
der, 440; arrangement of the char-
acters and the parts they respec-
tively perform, b; 'Nicholas Nic-
kleby,'-object of the work identi-
cal with 'Oliver Twist,' 441; 'Old
Curiosity Shop'-the work injured
by issuing it piecemeal, before the
author had matured his plan, 442;
'Little Nell'-one of the finest cre-
ations of the author's genius, ib.;
striking scenes grouped together,
442-3; interest felt in the denoue-
ment of the work on this side the
Atlantic, 443; episode of the char-
ity scholar quoted, 444-5; very
high estimate of this production
expressed, 446; 'Barnaby Rudge,'
compared with the last work,-a
failure, ib.; the historical not a
ground for the author's genius, ib.;
the social abuses of the times bet-
ter fitted to his talents, 447; sen-
timental novelists the school of,
commented on, ib.; the ideal, some
speculations on the subject, 447-8;
Dickens' novels-the evils they
portray subjects of reform in Eng-
land, of warning in America, 448.
Davy Sir Humphrey, his opinion of

the true objects of an agriculturist
quoted, 467.

Dorchester, S. C., people of, emigra-
ted to Georgia-when, 75.
Du Pré Mrs., her Female Academy,
advantages of the institution set
forth, 533; under the control of la-

dies, ib.; recommended to the sup-
port of Southern parents, 534.
Debts State, 142.

E.

Every Day Life and Every Day Peo-
ple, Sketches of, 435; their charac-
ter, ib.

F.

Farmer's Muck Manual, Dana's, 184;
as odd a work in its character, as
in its title, ib.; its defects pointed
out, 185.

Facts in Mesmerism, Townsend's, re-
viewed, 467.

G.

Geology, Johnstone's Lectures on
182; read before a society of agri-
culturists, 184; what portion of
agricultural chemistry it includes,
ib.; work of very high character,
ib.; three more volumes to appear,
ib.; model of a scientific style, ib.
Georgia Historical Society, Collections
of, 40.

Gilmer Governor, his message to the
Legislature of Virginia, 318; re-
viewed, ib.

Government Federal, character of,
407.

Guizot, his General History of Ci-
vilization in Europe.

H.

Harris, Thadeus Mason, D. D., his
Life of Oglethorpe, 85; character
of the work, 86; evinces diligent
labor, patient investigation, exten-
sive research, and a just apprecia-
tion of the character of his sub-
ject.

Historical Society of Georgia, Collec-
tions of, 40; Lecture before, 537.
Hamilton James, Letter of, to John C.
Calhoun, 142.

Heeren A. H. L., his Researches into
the Politics, Intercourse and Trade
of the principal nations of antiqui-
ty,-Indians, 199.

I.

Inda and other Poems, Thomas', no-
ticed, 260; reviewed, 367; char-
acterized by sweet grace and poet-
ic beauty, ib.; one of the first pro-
ductions of the Western Muse,
368; motives which led to the pub-
lication assigned by the author,
369; speculations on vanity, 370;
the parent of many virtues, ib.;
Quintilian quoted, ib.; source of
the author's inspiration, what, 371;
the present age hostile to the poet-
ic spirit, ib.; its poetical flux, how
accounted for, ib.; good poets rare,
appear in clusters, 373; grounds
of approbation stated, 373-4; poe-
try by its constitution mimetic,374;
the greater poets imitate nature-
the inferior, the greater, ib.; class
which this poem occupies, 375; its
character controlled by the spirit
of the age, ib.; exhibits rare abili-
ty, ib.; decline of the poetic spirit
in England, 376; second rate char-
acter of poetry in America, ib.;
what has been accomplished here,
376; compliments paid to Bryant,
Halleck, Percival, Willis, Simms
and Longfellow, ib.; Thomas en-
titled to take rank among these
high names, ib.; compared with
them, ib.; his poem 'Inda' critical-
ly examined, and particular excel-
lences and defects pointed out, and
passages quoted, 377, 388.
Inquiry, Bachman's, into the nature

and benefits of an agricultural
survey of South-Carolina, 449.
Inglesby, his Address on Free Ma-
sonry, 244; an excellent model of
an occasional discourse, ib.; anti-
quity of the Masonic fraternity
considered, ib.; secret societies,
the feelings with which they are
viewed by the community, 245;
objection to them stated and an-
swered, ib.; passages from the ad-
dress quoted, 245-6-7; ultra views
of the age on the subject of asso-
ciations, 247.

Irving David, L.L. D., his introduc-
tion to the study of the civil law,
94.

Irving, John B., M. D., his Day on
Cooper River, 256.

J.

Johnstone, J. F. W., his Lectures on
Agricultural Chemistry and Geol-
ogy, 182.

Johnson, W. Cost, Letter of, Oct. 1,
1842, 109.

K.

Keene, Percival, Marryatt's, 236; au-
thor thrown into the shade of late,
ib.; reasons assigned for it, ib.; his
Diary unpopular, ib.; should be
responsible for its own sins, ib.;
present novel inferior to its prede-
cessors, ib.; a farrago of shreds
and patches, 237; his general char-
acter as a novelist indifferent, ib.;
no arrangement, no deliberate pur-
pose or moral aim in his novels,
ib.; touches on moral and political
questions only incidentally, ib.;
his suggestions in regard to naval
reform valuable, ib.; his novels
devoid of sentimentalism, and a
cure for it, ib.; but characterised
by genuine, racy humor, 238; su-
perior to Fielding in this respect-
humor of the broadest stamp the
ulterior aim with him, ib.; with
what sort of characters laughter is
a sin, ib.; in general, wittiest men
declared to be the wisest, ib.; Per-
cival Keene story of, 239; the tale
has no moral to it, ib.; defects in
the denouement pointed out, ib.;
school-boy scenes admirable, 240;
striking one quoted, 241, 244.
Ker, Leander Rev., his treatise on
slavery consistent with Christian-
ity, 252; attributes fanaticism on
the subject to ignorance, 254; this
ignorance wilful, ib.; false philan-
thropy of the abolitionists, 255;
similarity of his argument to one
previously employed in this Re-
view, 255.

L.

should not be called to its merits,
ib.; a work superior to Ainsworth's
Dictionary-ought to be substitu-
ted for it in academies and colle-
ges, ib.; indifference prevalent in
the United States as to the charac-
ter of text-books, ib.; philology
and lexicography not the most in-
viting subjects to the generality of
readers, 249; memorandum made
of a few omissions and emenda-
tions in this work, 249, 252.
Law of New-York, passed in 1840,
prescribing the proceedings for
the recovery of fugitive slaves in
that State, 318.

Law, Criminal, 388.
Life of Calhoun, 496.
Law, Civil, 94.

Life of Robert, Lord Clive, 199.
Lectures, Smyth's, on Apostolical
Succession, 534.

M.

Massillon, Euvres De, 18.
Memorials Biographical of Oglethorpe,

40.

Mesmerism, Facts in, by Rev. Chaun-

cey Hare Townsend, 467; subject
of mesmerism attracted much at-
tention of late in Europe and Ame-
rica-its phenomena unaccounta-
ble, 468; mesmerism not of modern
origin, ib.; opinions upon of Pom-
ponatius of Mantua, so far back
as 1462, ib.; the authority of Agrip-
pa of Cologne, of Paracelsus, Car-
danus, Bacon and Van Helmont,
cited, ib.; experiments performed
with the loadstone early in the 18th
century, 469; Zenoble, in 1754,
constructed magnets used in the
cure of diseases, ib.; Father Hill's
experiments and opinions commu-
municated to Mesmer, in 1774, ib.;
what Mesmer does in consequence,
ib.: his theory on the subject sta-
ted, 469-70; Gassner, his opinions
and practice stated, 470; Mesmer
expelled from his own country, as
a quack, in 1778, and goes to Pa-
ris, ib.; in 1779, published a paper
on the subject, in which he main-
tained twenty-seven different pro-
positions, ib.; mode in which his
experiments were performed in
Paris described, 471; their effects,

ib.; subject referred to commis-
sioners appointed by the French
Academy, ib.; their conclusion-
phenomena wholly dependent on
the influence of imagination, ib.;
Dr. Franklin, a member of this
commission, prevented from per-
forming his duties as such by ill
health, ib.; all the essential facts
of mesmerism admitted by the
commissioners, ib.; the influence
of this report, on the whole, unfa-
vorable to mesmerism, ib.; inqui-
ries on the subject dormant for
near half a century, ib.; increased
interest in the subject of late, ib.;
some superior minds directed their
attention to it, ib.; Dr. John Elliot-
son, of London, a distinguished
member of the Faculty-and Rev.
C. H. Townsend, of England, a
clergyman of the Established
Church, indefatigable in their in-
quiries into the subject, ib; work
of the latter entitled Facts in Mes-
merism, particularly examined,
472; division of the subject, and
general character of the work, ib.;
works about to be published by
Dr. Elliotson and Dr. Caldwell of
Louisville, (Kentucky,) on the
subject, 473; various experiments
in mesmerism, by Dr. M. Estes, of
Columbus, (Miss.) given at length,
473, 492; conclusions to be drawn
as established truths of the sci-
ence, enumerated, 492-3; process
employed in producing the mes-
meric sleep, given, 493-4; cir-
circumstances most favorable to
mesmeric experiments stated, 494-
5; advantages of mesmerism in-
sisted on, 495; what they are, ib.;
Dr. Joseph R. Buchanan's experi-
ments in mesmerism and phrenolo-
gy, 496; have introduced precision
into those scienced, ib.; theories of
Townsend, Caldwell and others,
accounting for the mesmeric phe-
nomena, not free from serious and
overwhelming objections, ib.

N.

Nicholas Nickleby, the Life and Ad-
ventures of, 431.

0.

Euvres de Massillon, Evigrer de Cler-
mont, 18; Louis XIV., when born,
ib.; name given him by the French
people, ib.; condition of France on
his accession to the throne, ib.; his
mind, manners and morals com-
mented on, 18, 19; a sagacious mo-
narch, ib.; his control of the Galli-
can Church, ib.; freedom and elo-
quence of the French divines dur-
ing his reign, 20; character of the
French pulpit during the dark ages,
20, 21; Jean Baptiste Massillon,
his birth, parentage and education,
22; influence on his youthful ima-
gination of a pair of beautiful blue
eyes, 23; contest in his heart be-
tween the fair Maid of Provence
and the Virgin Mary, ib.; his re-
moval to Sept Fond, ib.; his resto-
ration to the oratory, ib.; successive
posts which he filled as professor
mentioned, ib.; his maiden effort,
at what age and on what occasion
made, ib.; its influence on his fu-
ture fame described, ib.; removed
to the metropolis, ib.; his Confer-
ences Ecclesiastiques in the Semi-
nary of St. Magloire, their charac-
ter, ib.; passages from them quoted,
24; Bossuet and Bourdaloue at the
height of their fame, when, in 1699,
he made his first appearance as a
public orator in the capitol, ib.;
strikes out an original style and
course of preaching for himself,
ib.; moral condition of the French
metropolis, at the time, described,
25-6-7; the principal aims of his
preaching stated, 27; the style and
mode of his warfare in assailing
the scepticism and infidelity of the
age described, ib.; his sermon on
"Doubts in Religion," its charac-
ter, ib.; Massillon's qualifications
as an orator-his person, voice,
style, manner, intellectual gifts
dwelt upon, 28; compared with
President Edwards and Bishop
Butler, ib.; his perfect knowledge
of human nature and his sympa-
thy for it-the great characteristic
of his eloquence, 29; other ele-
ments of his power stated, 29, 30;
influence of his discourse on "the
small number of the saved," on

Parisian morals, 30; his Advent
Sermons referred to, ib.; boldness
of his address to the king, 31;
compliment paid to him by Louis
on one of these occasions, ib.; the
Sainte Chapelle at Paris descri-
bed, ib.; Massillon's funeral ora-
tion on the death of the king, 31,
32; striking exordium, 32; honor-
ed with the mitre, ib.; his discour
ses known as the Petit Carême-
their character, ib.; his labors as
Bishop described, ib.; greatly be-
loved by the clergy and people of
his diocese, 33; died, Sept. 18,
1743, of apoplexy, 34; his tomb
bedewed with the tears of a hun-
dred thousand mourners, ib.; af
fecting anecdote, related by D'Al-
embert, ib.; Massillon, as a preach-
er, characterized by originality of
thought and depth of feeling, ib.;
compared with Bossuet, Flechier,
Saurin, Bourdaloue and Whitfield,
35; the greatest orator of modern
times, if Whitfield be excepted, ib.;
one of the earliest friends of con-
stitutional liberty in France, ib.;
the law superior to the monarch-
the people the creators of the king,
his sentiments on these subjects,
36; their influence on the mind of
Louis and his courtiers slight, but
responded to by a coming genera-
tion, ib.; reflections on the French
Revolution and the causes which
led to it, 37-8; one hundred years
elapsed since the death of Massil-
lon-propriety of paying a centen-
nial tribute to his memory, 39.
Orion, by Mr. Richards, noticed, 261.
Oliver Twist, by Dickens, character
of the novel, 440.

P.

Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick
Club, 439.

Progress of Civilization, 1; Guizot's
General History of the, in Europe,
ib.; important omission in the work
noticed, viz. the influence of the
American Revolution on the pro-
gress of civilization in Europe and
elsewhere, ib.; progress of civili-
zation with what compared, 2; its
sources traced from its commence-
ment in Egypt, ib.; striking differ-

ence between the civilization of
ancient and modern times, ib.;
consequences of this difference
what, 3; the influence of Egypt on
civilization earliest and most un-
doubted, ib.; China, her knowledge
of the arts confined to her own do-
main, 4; little known of India,
Assyria or Persia, ib.; society first
assumed its form and onward di-
rection in Egypt, ib.; history of
Egypt veiled with mystery by the
writers of antiquity, ib.; the veil
removed by the labors of learned
moderns, ib.; a debt of gratitude
due to the younger Champollion,
to Wilkinson and Rossellini for
their researches into Egyptian an-
tiquities, ib.; various useful disco-
veries of the Egyptians in science
and art enumerated, 5; what has
been discovered of this people by
the labors of Rossellini, 6; domes-
mestic manners and customs of
the Egyptians, ib.; description of
a convivial party among them, by
Sir J. G. Wilkinson, ib.; remarka-
ble for invention and genius, but
without correct taste or extensive
knowledge, 7; causes which ex-
isted in forming the Grecian cha-
racter stated, 8, 9; Sparta, specu-
lations on its constitution, 9; causes
of its downfall, ib.; opinion of Nie-
buhr quoted on this subject, 10;
character of government formed
by Solon for the Athenians, 10, 11;
their superiority over all the other
States of Greece in the elements
of civilization, 11; causes of her
decline assigned, ib.; constitution
of the Roman republic, 12; less
the result of design, than of acci-
dent and the necessity of the times,
ib.; its character and results, ib.;
gradual progress of liberty, 13;
strife of the different classes, ib.;
plebeians and patricians, their
characteristic mental traits, ib.;
Roman colonies, their privileges,
ib.; difference between those of
Greece and Rome, ib.; Rome in-
ferior to Greece in the arts, 14;
her roads, bridges, aqueducts and
works of internal improvement,
evidences of the originality and
magnificence of her genius, ib.;
results to literature from the ex-