THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

JULY, 1845 . . .. OCTOBER, 1845.

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TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR,

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. LXXXII.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES,

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

AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1845.

CONTENTS of No. CLXV.

Page

Art. I. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,

1

II. The Child of the Islands. A Poem. By the Hon.

Mrs Norton,

86

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III. Dr Martin Luther's Briefe, Sendschreiben und Beden

ken vollständig aus den verschiedenen Ausgaben

Stiaan. Werke und Briefe, aus andern Büchern und

noch unberra

und Historisch beHandschrifter gesammelt, Kritisch

tin Leberecht De Wette. Von Dr Wilhelm Mar-

Entire Correspondence, carefully cutin Luther's

the various editions of his Works and Lettore

from other Books, and from Manuscripts as yet

Edited, with Critical and Historical

Notes, by Dr Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De

Wette,)

private.

93

IV. The Bokhara Victims. By Captain Grover, Unat-

tached, F.R.S.,

132

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V. Recit de la Cérémonie de l'Inauguration de la Fon-

taine Molière. 15 Janvier 1844,

172

VI. Commercial Statistics. A Digest of the Productive

Resources, Commercial Legislation, Customs,

Tariffs, Navigation, Port and Quarantine Laws

and Charges, Shipping, Imports and Exports, and

the Monies, Weights, and Measures of all Nations,

including all British Commercial Treaties with

Foreign States; collected from Authentic Records,

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and consolidated with especial reference to British

and Foreign Products, Trade, and Navigation.

By John Macgregor, one of the Joint Secretaries

of the Board of Trade,

204

ART. VII. Leaves from a Journal, and other Fragments, in Verse.

By Lord Robertson.

229

VIII. 1. Report from the Committee on the Hudson's Bay

Company, April 24, 1749. Reprinted in Reports

from Committees of the House of Commons. 1803.

2. Hudson's Bay Company Charters and Correspon-

dence. House of Commons, Aug. 8, 1842. No.

547.

3. American State Papers. Presented at different

times to Congress, in 1826, 1828, and 1838.

4. Travels in the Oregon Territory. By T.J. Farn-

ham.

5. The Oregon Territory. By John Dunn.

6. On the Discovery of the Mississippi, and the South-

western Oregon, and North-western Doundary of

the United States. By Tralconer.

7. The Hist- v of Oregon and California. By R.

rucnhow,

8. Narrative of the United States' Exploring Expedi-

tion. By Charles Wilkes.

9. The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson. By A.

Simpson.

10. The Oregon Question. By T. Falconer,

238

Note to the Article in No. 164, on Prescott's Conquest
of Mexico,

265

CONTENTS OF No. CLXVI.

Page

ART. I. The Heimskringla ; or, Chronicle of the Kings of

Norway. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro

Sturleson, with a Preliminary Dissertation, by

Samuel Laing, Esq.,

267

II, 1. Actenmassige Darstellung Merkwürdiger Verbre-

chen. Von Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach. (Nar-

ratives of Remarkable Crimes, compiled from the

Official Records. By Anselm von Feuerbach.)

2. Strafgesezbuch fŭr das Königreich Bayern. (Penal

Code of the Kingdom of Bavaria,)

318

III. A Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence

of Taxation, and the Funding System. By J. R.

M Culloch, Esq.,

367

IV. 1. Essais sur l'Histoire de France. Par M. Guizot,

Professeur d'Histoire Moderne à l'Académie de

Paris. Pour seryir de complément aux Observa-

tions sur Histoire de France de Abbé de Mably.

2. Cours d'Histoire Moderne. Containing, 1. His-

toire Générale de la Civilisation en Europe, depuis

la chute de l'Empire Romain jusqu'à la Révolution

Française. 2. Histoire de la Civilisation en France,

depuis la chute de l'Empire Romain jusqu'en 1789.

Par M. Guizot,

381

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V. The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

Chesterfield ; including Numerous Letters now first

published from the Original Manuscripts. Edited,

with Notes, by Lord Mahon,

421