CONTENTS OF NO. XXXIX.

ART.

I. SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

Report made in the Senate of the United States, on the

subject of an Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean

and South Seas. By Mr. Southard, Chairman of the Com-

mittee: March 21, 1836.

View of the Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian

Nation, demonstrating their ancient discovery and pro-

gressive settlement of the Continent of America. By John

Dunmore Lang, D. D., Principal of the Australian College,

Sydney, &c.: London, 1834.

Miscellaneous Works of William Marsden, F. R. S.

&c. &c.; On the Polynesian or East-Insular Languages;

On a Conventional Roman Alphabet, applicable to Orien-

tal Languages: London, 1834.

Ke Kumu Hawaii, or the Hawaiian Teacher; for De-

cember, 1834. Published in the language of the Sandwich

Islands, at Honolulu, in Oahu (Woahoo).

Ka Lama Hawaii, or The Hawaiian Luminary; for the

months of February, March, April, September, and De-

cember, 1834. Published in the language of the Sandwich

Islands, at Lahainaluna, in the island of Maui (Mowee).

De Lingua Othomitorum Dissertatio; auctore Emmanu-

ele Naxera, Mexicano, Academiæ Litteraria Zacatecarum

Socio. Communicated to the American Philosophical

Society, March 6, 1835.

A Narrative of the Shipwreck and Captivity of Horace

Holden and Benjamin F. Nute, on the Pelew Islands, and

on Lord North's Island, with a Vocabulary of the Lan-

guage of the latter Island. Boston, 1836.

II. BIBLICAL COMMENTARY.

Commentar zum Evangelio Johannis. Von Dr. A. Tho-

luck, Consistorialrath und ord. Professor der Theologie an

der Universitat zu Halle. Vierte verbesserte Ausgabe:

Hamburg, 1833.

A Commentary on the Gospel of St. John. By A. Tho-

luck, D. D., Professor of Theology in the University of

Halle. Translated from the German by Rev. A. Kaufman.

Boston and Philadelphia, 1836.

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