THE

NEW YORK REVIEW.

VOL. IX.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDER V. BLAKE,

54 GOLD STREET, CORNER OF FULTON.

1841.

CONTENTS OF NUMBER XVIII.

1.

ART.

I. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOHN JAY,

1. The Life of John Jay, with Selections from his

Correspondence, etc. By his Son, WILLIAM JAY.

2. Life of John Jay. By HENRY B. RENWICK.

II. RELATION OF PLATONISM TO CHRISTIANITY,

Das Christliche im Plato und in der Platonischen

Philosophie, entwickelt und hervorgehoben von D.

C. ACKERMANN.

III. ANGLO-SAXON AND EARLIEST ENGLISH POETRY,

1. The Anglo-Saxon Poem Beowulf-The Tra-

veller's Song, and the Battle of Finnes-burh. Edited

by J. M. KEMBLE.

2. A History of English Rhythms. By EDWIN

GUEST, Esq.

3. Rask's Anglo-Saxon Grammar. Part V. Of

Versification.

4. Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Grammar. Part IV.

Prosody.

IV. YOUNG'S CHRONICLES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS,

Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony

of Plymouth from 1602 to 1625.

V. TASSO AND THE ALBERTI MANUSCRIPTS,

1. Opere di Torquato Tasso, illustrate dal Profes-

sore Gio. Rossini.

2 Saggio sugli Amori di T. Tasso, da Gio. Rosini.

3. Lettre di T. Tasso a Luca Scalabrino.

4. Cavedoniane di Gio. Rosini.

5. Lettera di Gio. Rosini al Sig. Defendente Sac-

chi, etc. Del Signor Marchesa Gaetano Capponi.

6. Risposta di Rosini alla lettera del Signor Cap-

poni.

7. Trattato della Dignità ed altri inediti scritti di

T. Tasso; premessa una notizia, etc., del Cavaliere

Costanzo Gazzera.

8. Manoscritti inediti di T. Tasso, posseduti dal

Conte Alberti.

9. Sulla causa finora ignota delle sventure di T.

Tasso. Saggio del Marchese Gaetano Capponi.

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VI. DISTINGUISHED ASTRONOMERS, THE PREDECESSORS

AND CONTEMPORARIES OF GALILEO,

The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo,

Tycho Brahe, and Kepler. By Sir DAVID BREWSTER.

VII. SYSTEM OF NATIONAL Defence,

1. Report of the Secretary of War, April 7, 1836.

2. Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting a

System of National Defence, May 12, 1840.

VIII. MISS SEDGWICK'S LETTERS FROM ABROAD,

Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home. By the

Author of "Hope Leslie."

IX. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RED JACKET,

The Life and Times of Red Jacket, or Sa-go-ye-

wat-ha. By W. L. STONE.

X. CRITICAL NOTICES.

1. Plain Sermons. By Contributors to the Tracts

for the Times

2. Curtis's Treatise on Merchant Seamen,

3. Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L.

4. Remarks upon Usury, and its Effects,

5. Trumbull's Autobiography,

6. Taylor's Spiritual Christianity,

7. Olmsted's Whaling Voyage,

8. President Everett's Address,

9. Ellis's Bunker Hill Oration,

10. The Deerslayer, or the First War-Path,

11. Meek's Jack Cadeism, and the Fine Arts,

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CONTENTS OF NUMBER XVII.

ART.

I. DEMOSTHENES, THE MAN, THE STATESMAN, AND THE

ORATOR.

1. Demosthenes als Staatsbürger, Redner und

Schriffsteller. Von ALBERT Gerard Becker, Pastor

zu St. Aegidii in Quedlingburg. Erste Abtheilung

Literatur des Demosthenes.

Zweite Abtheilung. Nachträge und Fortsetzung

der Literatur vom J. 1830 bis zum Schlusse des J. 1833.

2. Quæstionum Demosthenicarum Particula tertia.

De Litibus quas Demosthenes oravit ipse. Scripsit

ANTONIUS WESTERMANN, in Academiâ Lips. Prof. Ord.

Accedit epimetrum de repetitis locis in orationibus

Demosthenis.

3. A Dissertation on the Eloquence of the Ancients,

with an Appendix, by LORD BROUGHAM, in Lord

Brougham's Speeches.

II. PLITT'S REPORT ON THE POST-OFFICE.

Report of George Plitt, Special Agent of the Post-

Office Department, February 3, 1841.

III. LATIN LEXICOGRAPHY.-LEVERETT'S LATIN LEXICON.

1. A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Lan-

guage; compiled chiefly from the Magnum Totius.

Latinitatis Lexicon of Facciolati and Forcellini, and

the German works of Scheller and Lünemann. Edited

by F. P. LEVErett.

2. An Abridgment of Leverett's Latin Lexicon ;

particularly adapted to the Classics usually studied

preparatory to a Collegiate course. By FRANCIS

GARDNER, A. M.

3. An English-Latin Lexicon, prepared to accom-

pany Leverett's Latin-English Lexicon.

IV. THE PROFESSION OF LAW AT ROME BEFORE THE EM-

PIRE.

1. Histoire du Droit Romain. Par GUSTAVE HUGO.

2. Philological Museum, Vol. 2, on the Roman Coloni.

V. OUR NAVY.

Communication of the Secretary of the Navy,

June, 1841.

VI. TEN THOUSAND A YEAR.

Ten Thousand a Year. A Novel. Originally pub-

lished in Blackwood's Magazine.

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