THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. LIX.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY OTIS, BROADERS, AND CO.,
No. 120, WASHINGTON STReet.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CXXIV.

ART.

I. THE MORALs, Manners, anD POETRY OF ENGLAND

The Poets and Poetry of America; an Article in

the Foreign Quarterly Review, for January, 1844.

II. DANIEL WEBSTER AS AN AUTHOR

Speeches and Forensic Arguments. By DANIEL

WEBSTER.

III. BARROW'S LIFE AND VOYAGES OF SIR FRANCIS

DRAKE

The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Admiral Sir

Francis Drake, Knt., with numerous original Letters

from him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen

and great Officers of State: compiled from MSS. in

the State Paper Office, British Museum, and the Ar-

chives of Madrid, never before published. By JOHN

BARROW, Esq.

IV. SPARKS'S AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY

The Library of American Biography. Conducted

by JARED SPARKS. Second Series.

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70

96

Volume I.

V. SYDNEY SMITH'S WORKS .

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104

The Works of the REV. SYDNEY SMITH. Second

Edition.

VI. H. R. CLEVELAND'S LIFE AND WRITINGS

128

A Selection from the Writings of Henry R. Cleve-

land. With a Memoir by GEORGE S. HILLARD.

VII. NORTON ON THE GENUINENESS OF THE GOSPELS

The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels.

By ANDREWS NORTON. Vols. II. and III.

142

VIII. THE LONGEVITY OF TREES

1. The North American Sylva; or a Description

of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada,

and Nova Scotia; to which is added a Description of

the most useful of the European Forest Trees ; illus-

trated by 156 colored Engravings: translated from

the French of F. ANDREW MICHAUX.

2. The North American Sylva; or a Description

of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada,

and Nova Scotia, not described in the Work of F.

Andrew Michaux; illustrated by 122 fine Plates.

BY THOMAS NUTTALL, F. L. S., &c. Vol. I.

3. Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; or the

Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign,

Hardy and Half-hardy, pictorially and botanically

delineated, and scientifically and popularly described.

By J. C. LOUDON, F. L. & H. S., &c.

4. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs; being

the Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum abridged;

with Figures of nearly all the Species. By J. C.

LOUDON, F. L. S., &c.

5. Notice sur la Longévité des Arbres. Par AUG.

PYR. DE CANDOLLE; in the Bibliothèque Universelle.

IX. CRITICAL NOTICES.

1. Clark's Literary Remains

2. Alger's Treatise on Mineralogy

3. Ingemann's Waldemar, surnamed Seir

4. Sophocles's Catalogue of Greek Verbs

5. Kühner's Greek Grammar

NOTE TO ARTICLE I. . .

LETTER FROM DR. ROBINSON

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