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A.

Alexander the Great, Edrisi's story of the destruction
of a dragon by, 159.

Alfieri, character of his writings, and their effects,
4-6.

Anleitung zur Kupferstichkunde, by Adam Bartsch, 40.
Aperçu général sur l'Egypte, par A. B. Clot-Bey,
201; the author practises as a physician in Egypt,
201, 202; works hitherto published on Egypt, 203;
rains, geological structure, of Egypt, 203, 204;
treatment by Europeans of their slaves, 204;
Egyptian servants, 204, 205; superstitious ideas,
205, 206; anecdote of Mehemet Ali and a female
magician, 206; literature of the Arab race, ib.;
anecdote of a French lady carried off by the chief
of a Bedouin tribe, 207; dislike and contempt of
the Turks for the Europeans, 207, 203; arrogance
of the Mamelukes, 208, 209; European adven-
turers and project dealers, 209; civilisation in the
East, 210; character and objects of Mehemet Ali,
210, 211; parallel between him and Peter the
Great, 211, 212; administration, financial and
executive, 212, 213; fellahs in Egypt, 213, 214;
population of Egypt, 214; navy, schools, and
manufactures, 214, 215; diet and maladies, 215,
216; extract from Volney on state of Egypt in his
time, 217; present security for life and property,
ib.

Arabs, inconsistency of their intellectual attainments,
150; disadvantage of their imitation of the Greeks,
150, 151; unsafe authority of their geography,
151; their division of the globe into climates, 151,
152; their knowledge of the countries washed by
the Mediterranean, and ignorance of more northern
ones, 152; extracts from Edrisi's work on their
geography, 153, 154; their literature and romances,
206.

Archivio Storico Italiano, ossia Raccolta di Opere e
Documenti finori inediti e divenuti rarissimi,
riguardante la Storia d'Italia, compilata da una
Società di Amici e Cultori della Medesima.
(Italian Historical Archives, or Collection of
Works and Documents at present unpublished or
in relation to Italian History; compiled by
a Society of Friends and Students of the same), 250.

scarce,

B.

Balzac, his profligate works, 75.

Bancroft (George), History of the United States,
183,

Berbers of Africa, some account of, 151,155.

Berengario (Augusto), e Cecilia di Baone, Tragedie
di Carlo Marenco de Ceva, 1.
Bermudez (D. Cean), quotation from Diccionario
dellas Bellas Artes, 43.

Bettina von Arnim, the heroiue of Goethe's corres-
pondence with a child, 109; her correspondence
with Goethe, 111.

Briano, his tragedy of Pier delle Vigne, 18.
Britanny, how little known to the English in gene-
ral, 76; notices of her history, 76-82; composition
of the language, 83, 84; specimen of the poetry in
the sixteenth century, 84; extract from, with trans-
lation, ib.; her monuments of antiquity, the Roche
aux Fées, 85; remarkable remains in Department
of Morbihan, ib.; Mr. Deaue's account of the stones
of Carnac, ib.; different opinions of their origin and
design, 86.

Burns, singular passage in one of his letters respect-
ing his predilection for blackguards, 34.

C.

Callot, anecdote of his patriotism, 41.
Caraites, Jewish sect supposed to be a remnant of
the primitive Jews, 146.

Carnac, account of the stones of, in Britanny, 85;
various hypotheses as to their origin and design,
86.

Catherine II., of Russia, her character and internal
policy, 21, 22; nature of her laws, 23, 24; her
policy with respect to Turkey, 24; and Poland,
25; her share in the deposition of Peter the Third,
27; treatment of her son Paul, 27, 28; her person-
al appearance, 28; state of her court, ib. ; benefit
of her reign to Russia, 24.

Celtic and Cymraig dialect, account of, 83.
Ceremonies, Rites, and Customs of the Jews, by
Hyman Isaacs, a converted Jew, 137.
Charles Albert, king of Sardinia, character of, 174.
Chichagoff (Admiral), inedited memoirs of, 20.
China, Edrisi's account of the manner of administer-
ing justice, 156, 157.

Clot-bey, Aperçu general sur l'Egypte, 201.
Colonization, benefit of, to modern states, 168.
Cortez. [Vide Cruautés horribles des Conquérants du
Mexique.]

Crevelli (Professor), his imitation of Oriental blades,

96.

Cruautés horribles des Conquérants du Mexique et des
Indiens qui les aidèrent à soumettre cet Empire à
la Couronne d'Espagne. Mémoire de Don Fer-
nando d'Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Supplément à l'Histoire
du Père Sahagun; publié et dedié au gouverne.

L

ment suprême de la Conféderation Mexicaine.
Par Charles Marie de Bustamante, 55; notice upon
Ixtlilxochitl, ib.; occupation of Mexico by Cortez,
56; insurrection of the Mexicans upon his tempo-
rary absence, ib.; he withdraws his troops at night
from Mexico, 57; returns and invests the town, ib.;
number of his Spaniards and allies, 58; storms
part of the town, 58, 59; carries the remaining
quarters of the town with dreadful slaughter, 59, 60;
his barbarous treatment of the emperor, 60; and
of his other prisoners, 60, 61; ceremony of bap-
tizing the natives, 61; expedition of Cortez into
the interior, 61, 62; his systematic cruelty to the
individuals of the Mexican dynasty, 62.

D.

De Pradt, criticism on, by Rahel, 39.
De Stael (Madame), Rahel's criticism upon, 38, 39.
Die Christliche Glaubenslehre in ihrer Geschichtlichen
Entwickelung, und im Kampfe mit der modernen
Wissenschaft dargestellt, von Dr. David Friedrich
Strauss. (The Christian Doctrines illustrated in
their Historical Development, and in opposition
with modern Science, by Dr. D. F. Strauss), 218;
singular arrangement of the heads of his subject,
219, 220; injurious attempt to disprove the Mo-
saic account of the creation, 220, 221; Newton's
notion of the creation; extract from Strauss upon
the incorporation of matter and God, 222, 223; re-
view of his chapter upon the Reason and Aim of the
Creation, 223, 224; arguments of Schelling and
Böhme, 224; God and All proved not to be equal
ideas, 226; Strauss's reasoning upon angels, 227,
228; upon the first created pair, 228; the Autochtho-
nic theory of the author, 229, 230; refuted, 230, 231.
Die Günderode, Zwey Theile. (Gunderode, two
volumes), 111.

Drama, state of, and works illustrative of, in Italy,
2, 3; decline of, in England and Germany, 19, 20.
Du Catholicism, du Protestantisme, et de la Philoso-
phie, en France, par Francisque Bouvet, en ré-
ponse à M. Guizot, 99; difference of the three
Christian communions, Greek, Roman, and Pro-
testant, ib.; state of the Greek Church, ib.; extent
to which the infallibility of a church can be carried,
100; anecdote of a controversy between a Protes-
tant and a Roman Catholic divine upon the au-
thority of the Roman Church, 100, 101; tendency
of the measures of the Oxford Tract men, 101;
anecdote concerning their practices, ib.; their ill-
judged depreciation of Luther, ib.; Carlyle's de.
scription of Luther's controversy with Tetzel, 102;
of his burning the Papal Bull at Wittenberg, ib.;
of his proceeding to the Diet at Worms, 102, 103;
injudicious system of building too rapidly self-sup-
porting churches, 103; extension of episcopacy
through the British dominions, 104; growing
power of the true Church, 105; improbability of
the revival of the Papal power, ib.; character and
influence of Romanism, 105, 106.
Dumas (Alexandre), dramas of, 72.

E.

Edrisi, geography of the Arabs translated, 150; ex-
tract from, 153, 154; his description of Africa,
155. [Vide Geographie d'Edrisi.]
Education, importance and influence of, 167, 168;
necessity of a sound and moral system of, 171.
Egypt. [Vide Aperçu Géneral sur l'Egypte.]
Egyptians, ancient, their probable knowledge of
steam, chemistry and anatomy, 88, 89
Engraving, by etching and the burin, as practised
in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turies, 40, 41; artists of Flanders, 41, 42; French
school of etching, 42, 43; Spanish engravers, 43;

English masters in engraving, 43-46; method of
engraving termed opus mallei, 46; invention and
process of mezzotinto, 46, 47; masters in, 47;
introduction of, into England, ib.; chalk engrav-
ing, 48; process of aquatinta engraving, 49; in-
troduced into England by Paul Sandby, 49, 50:
invention of lithography by Senefelder, 50; pro-
cess of, 51; modern masters of engraving, 52;
fac-simile views from the Daguerréotype, 53;
probable effects of upon art, 54; agrography, or
relief engraving, ib.

Excursions Daguerriennes, Collection de 50 Planches
représentant les Vues et les Monumens les plus
remarquables du Globe, 40.

Exposition de Paris, state of under Napoleon and
the Bourbons, 91; engines exhibited in 1839, 91-
94.
F.

Ferrara (Andrew), composition of his blades, 96.
France, state of religious feeling in, 232, 233; her
unchristian conduct in Africa, 233; supposed
personal dislike of Lord Palmerston to France,
234; unpopularity of the Whig cabinet in France,
235; duty of France and the European sovereigns
to concur in the formation of a firm government
in Spain, 236; relative situation of France and
England with respect to Spain, 236, 237; French
aggression in Algiers, 237; English vilified to the
Spaniards by the French, 238; security afforded
by the accession to office of M. Guizot, 238, 239;
oblique policy necessary to French statesmen in
dealing with their nation, 239; character of the
partisans of Louis Philip, 240; his conduct in the
affair of the heritage of the Duke of Bourbon, 241;
his moral influence upon the French nation, 242;
small worth of the security arising from his per-
sonal existence, 243; situation of France with re-
gard to the European powers upon points of
Eastern policy, 244, 245.

Frankists, modern Jewish sect founded by Jacob
Frank, 146.

French philosophers of the eighteenth century, 64;
character of Rousseau, 65.

G.

Gaelic dialect, difference between the Irish and
Scotch, 83.

Galerie von Bildnissen aus Rahel's Umgang und
Briefwechsel, herausgegeben von K. A. Varnhagen
von Ense, 30.

Geographie d'Edrisi, traduite de l'Arabe en Français
d'après deux Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du
Roi, et accompagnée de Notes, par M. Amedée
Jaubert. Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires
publié par la Société de Géographie, 150; extract
from, 153, 154; description of Africa, 155; of the
source of the Nile, 156; manner of administering
justice in China, 156, 157; description of the idol
of Moultan, 157; account of the invasion of
Egypt by a Frank king. ib.; specimen of Edrisi's
geography of England, 157, 158; account of
phenomena of the sea, 158; story of the destruc-
tion of a dragon by Alexander the Great, 159; ex-
traordinary animals in the seas of China and
India, ib.

Goethe, memoirs of, by Dr. Reimer, 107; his present
reputation in Germany, 108; his disinterested
character, 110.

Goldoni, character of his comedies, 3.
Greeks, ancient, their industry questioned by M. Jo-
bard, 87; modern inventions unknown to them,
88; their knowledge of steam, balloons, and the
compass, ib.

Guida dell' Educatore e Letture per i fanciulli, foglio
mensuale compilato da Raffaelo Lambruschini,

167; composition of, and writers that contribute
to, 182.

H.

Hassids, a Jewish sect founded in Poland by Rabbi
Israel Bashlem, 144, 145; their modern state, doc-
trines and mode of worship, 145.
Histoire des Rois et des Durs de Bretagne, par M. de
Roujoux, 76; their independence of the French,
ib.; union entered into with the French in the
reign of Clovis, 77; dissensions between the sons
of Hoel in the sixth century, ib.; growing power
of the churchmen in the thirteenth century, 77, 78;
Duke of Britanny excommunicated and forced to
yield to prelatic supremacy, 78; dukedom passes
at the close of the fourteenth century into the
family of Jean de Montfort, ib.; ceremony of the
investiture of his son, John V., ib.; quarrels be-
tween Francis I. and his younger brother Gilles,
79; Gilles calumniated to the king of France, 79,
80; who sends him prisoner to Dinan, 80; the
duke causes a charge of treason to be brought
him, 80, 81; administers poison to him, 81; release
of Giles demanded in a forged letter, purporting to
be from Heury VI. of England, ib.; project to
starve him to death frustrated by an old woman,
82; he is smothered by his keepers, ib.; remarka-
ble death of his brother the duke, 82, 83; language
of Britanny derived from the Celtic, 83; Breton
ballad of the sixteenth century, 84; extract from,
with translation, ib.; monuments of antiquity of
Britanny, Roche aux Fées, 85; remarkable an-
tique remains in the department of Morbihan, ib.;
account of the stones at Carnac, by Mr. Deane,
85, 86; various hypotheses with respect to their
origin and design, 86.

History and Practice of Photogenic Drawing, on the
true Principles of Daguerréotype, with a new
method of Dioramic Painting; secrets purchased
by the French government, and, by command,
published for the benefit of arts and manufactures
by the inventor, L. G. Daguerre, Officer of the
Legion of Honour, and member of various acade-
mies, 40.

History of the United States, from the Discovery
of the American Continent, by George Bancroft,
183; early voyages to the shores of America, 184;
discoveries of the French, ib.; career of Champlain,
185; expedition of the Spaniards to Florida, ib.;
conflict with the Chickasaws, 185, 186; settlement |
founded by the French Calvinists in Florida, 186;
Virginia colonized by the English, 187; charter
granted by King James, ib.; romantic adventures
of John Smith, 188; government of Virginia by
Lord Delaware, 189; slavery in Virginia, ib.; emi-
gration of the Puritans, 189-191; their constitu-
tion and growing prosperity, 191; state of the
colonies during the Commonwealth and at the
Restoration, 192, 193; population of New Eng-
land, 194; Indian wars, ib.; disturbances in Vir-
ginia, 195; Quakers founded by George Fox, 195,
196; their principles, 196; life of William Penn-
his treaty with the Algonquins, 197; effect of the
revolution of 1688 upon Virginia, 198; witchcraft
in Massachusetts, 198, 199; Jesuit missionaries in
French America, 199; Walpole's policy with re-
gard to the taxation of the colonies, 200; emigra-
tion of Moravians to the Savannah, 201.
Hollar, the engraver, account of his life, 44.
Hugo (Victor), tendency of his works, 72.

I.

Il Conde Giovanni Anguissola e Beatrice Tenda,
Drammi di Felice Tenotti, 1.

Industrie Français. Rapports sur l'Exposition de

1839. (French Manufactures. Reports on the Ex-
hibition of 1839), by J. B. A. M. Jobard, 87; indus-
try of the Greeks, 87, 88; modern inventions un-
known to them, 88; knowledge of the ancients in
chemistry, anatomy, algebra, &c., 88, 89; of elec-
tricity, 9; impossibility of checking modern
civilisation, 90; commercial improvement under
Colbert, ib.; expositions under the Consulate and
the Bourbons, 91; evils produced by large capi-
talists, ib; policy of extending the period of
patents for inventions, ib.; observations of Jobard
upon the effects and power of invention, 91, 92;
dates of the laws of patents among different na
tions, 92; review of the steam-engines of the Ex-
position, ib.; flame-engines, 93; character and in-
ventions of Baron Seguier, 93, 94 spinning ma-
chines, amount of flax spun in England and
France, 94; inability of the French to keep our
engines in repair, ib.; manufacture of paper, cop-
per and steel in France, 94, 95; method of tem-
pering steel, 95, 96; the tempering by air of Da-
mascus blades, 96; Professor Crevelli's imitation
of oriental sabres, ib.; Andrew Ferrara's blades,
ib; French and Belgian mines of lead, 97; zinc
and boring apparatus, 97, 98; anticipated effects
from deep excavations of the earth, 98.
Inedited Memoirs of Admiral Chichagoff, a Russian
Minister of State, 20; unsuccessful in defending
the passage of the Berezina against Napoleon, 21;
character of Catherine the Great, 21, 22; present
internal condition of Russia, 22, 23; government
of women preferable to that of men in arbitrary
monarchies, 23; nature of Catherine's laws and
regulations, 23, 24; poverty of the Russian lan-
guage, 24; policy of Catherine with respect to Tur-
key, 24, 25; and Poland, 25, 26; personal qualities
of the Poles and political disposition of that nation,
26; deposition of Peter III., 27; education of Paul
the Empress's son, 27, 28; personal appearance of
Catherine, 28; state of her court, ib.; defect in
Russian military system, 29; tendency of Russian
conquests, 29, 30; benefit to Russia of Catherine's
reign, 30.

Italian Drama, present state of, 2, 3; comedies of
Goldoni, 3; different schools of Italian comedy,
3, 4; character and effect of Alfieri's tragedies,
4-6; writings of Manzoni, 6, 7; chorus in the
third act of his " Aldelchi," 8, 9; literary feeling and
style in Italy, 10; "Francesca da Rimini," by S.
Pellico, 11, 12; extract from, 12; his " Eufemio,"
and other tragedies, 13, 14; dramatic works of Nic-
colini, 14, 15; extracts from "Giovanni da Proci-
da," 16; defects of "La Rosmonda," and extracts
from, 16-18; literary productions of Marenco and
Briano, 18; new style of Italian dramatic works,
18, 19; decline of the drama in Germany and
England, 19, 20.

Italy, General Views of its History and Literature in
reference to its present State, by L. Mariotti, 250;
his beautiful description of Venice, 251; of Flo-
rence and Rome, 251, 252; rise of the power of
the Church and monachism, 252; sketch of the
poets who preceeded Dante, ib.; character of
Machiavelli, 253.

Italy, disadvantage to her arising from non-emigra-
tion, 168, 169; state of the Italian peasant, 169,
170; universities in Italy, 170-172; attempt of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany to transfer the university
of Sienna to Pisa, 172, 173; character of Charles
Albert, King of Sardinia, 174; Students of Sardinia,
ib.; influence of the Jesuits, 175, 176; pious exer-
cises in Italian seminaries, 176; neglected observ
ance of the seventh day, 176, 177; purity and inno-
cence of the inhabitants of many villages in the Lom-
bard plain, 177, 178; Roman Catholic priests inef-
ficient instruments of moral instruction, 179;
schools established in the Austro-Italian provinces,