THE

UNITED STATES MAGAZINE

AND

DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.

THE BEST GOVERNMENT IS THAT WHICH GOVERNS LEAST.

VOLUME VIII.

CONTAINING THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY PORTIONS OF
THE NUMBERS PUBLISHED IN JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEM-
BER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER, 1840.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

PUBLISHED BY S. D. LANGTREE.

I. GUIZOT'S ESSAY ON WASHINGTON.

Essay on the Character and Influence of Washington in the Revolu-

tion of the United States of America. By M. Guizot. Trans-

lated from the French. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1840.

II. CARLYLE'S CHARTISM.

Chartism. By Thomas Carlyle. Boston: Charles C. Little &

James Brown, 1840.

III. THE MINERAL LANDS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Report of a Geological Exploration of part of Iowa, Wisconsin, and

Illinois, made under instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury

of the United States, by David Dale Owen, M. D., Principal Agent

to explore the Mineral Lands of the United States, in the autumn

of the year 1839. Printed by order of the Senate of the United

States.*

IV. POLITICAL PORTRAITS WITH PEN AND PENCIL. No. XIX.-Benjamin

Tappan, Senator from Ohio. Concluded.

V. ON THE ELEVATION OF THE LABORING PORTION OF SOCIETY. Second

Notice.

Lectures on the Elevation of the Laboring Portion of the Community.

By William E. Channing. Boston: Published by William D.

Ticknor, 1840.

VII. WHO GOVERNS, THEN?-A Tale of the Court of Louis XV. From

VI. THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY.

the German of Zschokke.

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THIS NUMBER CONTAINS SIX SHEETS, OR NINETY-SIX PAGES.

* This document has been presented to Congress, but the printing has not been
ordered, as was anticipated, when this number went to press.