Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by LEA & BLANCHARD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

NOX LIBRARY

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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE. (Edinburgh Review for 1836.).

THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. (Monthly Chronicle for 1838.)...

LETTERS BY AN ENGLISH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT TO M. DE
-, OF THE CHAMBRE DES DEPUTES. No. 1.-ON PUB-

LIC OPINION. (Monthly Chronicle for June, 1838.)..

ON POLITICAL COALITIONS. (Monthly Chronicle for 1839.)....

UPON THE SPIRIT OF TRUE CRITICISM. (New Monthly Maga-

zine, Vol. XXXIV.)..

AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. (New Monthly Magazine, Vol.

XXXV.)....

118

PROPOSALS FOR A LITERARY UNION. (New Monthly Magazine,

Vol. XXXV.)....

130

LITERATURE CONSIDERED AS A PROFESSION. (New Monthly

Magazine, Vol. XXXV.)

136

INTERNATIONAL LAW OF COPYRIGHT.

(Monthly Chronicle,

No. 1.)........

145

THE MODERN PLATONIST. (New Monthly Magazine, Vol.
XXXVII.)..

156

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD IN MEN AND BOOKS. (New

Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXII.).

167

ON ENGLISH NOTIONS OF MORALITY. (New Monthly Magazine,

Vol. XXXIV.).

176

THE WILFUL MISSTATEMENTS OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.

(New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXIV.)..

193

ON THE INFLUENCE AND EDUCATION OF WOMEN. (New Monthly
Magazine, Vol. XXXIV.)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. (New
Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXIV.).

204

213

THE NEW YEAR. (New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXIV.)... 221

THE POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. (Monthly

Chronicle for March, 1838.)..

229

THE POLITICIAN. The real Strength of the Ministers Consi-

dered.-Probable Divisions in the Cabinet.-Mr. Stanley's

Faults and Merits.-A View of the Position of the House of

Lords, and the Necessity of avoiding a Collision between

the two Assemblies.-The probable Tactics of the Tory

Peers. (New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXVII.)..

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