THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

JULY, 1858. . . . OCTOBER, 1858.

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS, LONDON;

AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK,
EDINBURGH.

1858.

CONTENTS OF No. 219.

ART.I.-1. The Cruise of the Betsey, or a Summer Ramble

among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides,

with Rambles of a Geologist. By Hugh Miller.

Edinburgh: 1858.

2. The Old Red Sandstone, or New Walks in an Old

Field. By Hugh Miller. 9th edition, 1858.

3. First Impressions of England and its People. By

Hugh Miller. 6th edition, 1857.

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4. Footprints of the Creator, or the Asterolepis of

Stromness. By Hugh Miller. London: 1849.

5. My Schools and Schoolmasters, or the Story of my

Education. By Nugh Millet Edinburgh: 1854.

6. The Testimony of the Rocks, or Geology in its

Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Re-

vealed. By Hugh Miller. Edinburgh: 1857, . 1

II. Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, faisant suite à

l'Histoire de la Révolution Française. Par M. A.

Thiers. 17 vols. Paris: 1845-58. (Part the

Second),

III.

-1. Essays on the Spirit of the Inductive Philosophy,

the Unity of Worlds, and the Philosophy of Creation.

By the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S., &c.,

Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University

of Oxford. London: 1855.

2. The Correlation of Physical Forces. By W. R.

Grove, Q.C., M.A., F.R.S., &c. 3rd edition.

London: 1855.

3. On the Conservation of Force. By Professor Fara-

day, D.C L., F.R.S., &c. &c.

4. Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews,

with Addresses and other Pieces. By Sir John

F. W. Herschel, Bart., K.H. London: 1857.

5. The Soul in Nature. By the late Professor Oersted.

Translated by the Misses Horner. London: 1852.

6. Nomos. An Attempt to demonstrate a Central

Physical Law in Nature. London : 1856,

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IV. - Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated

Political and Satirical Poems, Parodies, and Jeux-

d'esprit of the Right Hon. George Canning, the

Earl of Carlisle, Marquis Wellesley, the Right

Hon. J. H. Frere, W. Gifford, Esq., the Right Hon.

W. Pitt, G. Ellis, Esq., and others. With Expla-

natory Notes, by Charles Edmonds. 2nd edition,

considerably enlarged. With Six Etchings by the

famous caricaturist James Gillray. London: 1854, 104

V.-1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire

into the Regulations affecting the Sanitary Condition

of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals,

and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded, with

Evidence and Appendix. Presented to both Houses

of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1858.

2. Report to the Right Honourable Lord Panmure,

G.C.B., &c., of the Proceedings of the Sanitary

Commission dispatched to the Seat of War in the

East, 1855-6. Presented to both Houses of Par-

liament by command of Her Majesty, 1857,

[And other works.]

VI. 1. Kelten und Germanen, eine historische Unter-

suchung. Von Adolf Holtzmann. Stuttgart: 1855.

One vol. 8vo.

VII.

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2. Das ethnographische Verhältniss der Kelten und

Germanen, nach den Ansichten der Alten und den

sprachlichen Ueberresten dargelegt von Dr. H. B. C.

Brandes. Leipzig: 1857. One vol. 8vo.,

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- 1. Dernières Chansons de 1834 à 1851. Par P. J. de

Béranger. Avec une lettre et une préface. Paris:

1857.

2. Ma Biographie. Ouvrage posthume de P. J. de

Béranger, avec un appendice. Paris: 1858,

[And other works.]

VIII.-Lites ac Res Gestæ inter Polonos Ordinemque Cruci-

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175

ferorum. Three vols. 4to. Posnaniæ: 1855-56, 197

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the

Death of Elizabeth. By James Antony Froude,

M.A., late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Vols.

I.-IV. London: 1858,

Sakoontalá, or the Lost Ring; an Indian Drama.

Translated into English Prose and Verse from the

Sanskrit of Kálidásá. By Monier Williams, M.A.

Professor of Sanskrit at Haileybury. Hertford:

1855,

Parliamentary Government considered with reference

to a Reform of Parliament. An Essay by Earl

Grey. London: 1858,

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CONTENTS OF No. 220. -

ART. I.-Memoirs of the Court of England during the Re-

gency, 1811-1820. From Original Family Docu-

ments. By the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,

K.G. 2 vols. 8vo.: 1856, .

II.-1. Report of the Trial of Madeleine Smith, before the

High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, June 30th

to July 9th, 1857. By Alexander Forbes Irvine,

Advocate. Edinburgh: 1858.

2. Report from the Select Committee of the House of

Commons on Public Prosecutors. May, 1856,

III.- History of Ancient Pottery. By Samuel Birch, F.S.A.

2 vols. 8vo. London: 1858,

IV.-1. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de mon temps. Par

M. Guizot. Vol. I. Paris: 1858.

2. Memoirs to illustrate the History of my Time. By

F. Guizot. Vol. I. London: 1858.

3. M. de Châteaubriand, sa Vie, ses écrits, son in-

fluence littéraire et politique sur non temps (La

Tribune Moderne, Première partie). Par M. Ville-

main. Paris: 1858.

4. Histoire du Gouvernement Parlementaire en France.

1814-1848. Précédée d'une Introduction. Par M.

Duvergier de Hauranne. Vols. I. and II.

1857,

V.-1. Contributions to the Physiology of Vision.

Paris:

Part I.

On some remarkable and hitherto unobserved Phe-

nomena of Binocular Vision. By Charles Wheat-

stone, F.R.S. Philos. Transact. 1838.

2. Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part II.

By Charles Wheatstone, F.R.S. Philos. Transact.

1852.

3. The Stereoscope: its History, Theory, and Construc-

tion, with its Application to the Fine and Useful

Arts, and to Education. By Sir David Brewster,

K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. London: 1856.

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