THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

MAY-AUGUST 1852.

VOL. XVII.

EDINBURGH:

W. P. KENNEDY, SOUTH ST. ANDREW STREET; LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.;

DUBLIN: JAMES M'GLASHAN.

MDCCCLII.

CONTENTS OF NO. XXXIII.

ART.

I. 1. History of the Whig Administration of 1830. By J.

A. Roebuck. London, 1852.

2. Latter-Day Pamphlets, III., IV., V., and VI. By

Thomas Carlyle. London, 1850.

3. The Statesman. By Henry Taylor. London, 1836,

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II. The Constitution of Man considered in Relation to Exter-

nal Objects. By George Combe. Edinburgh, 1851,

III. 1. Passages in the Life of Gilbert Arnold; or, the Tale

of the Four Sermons. By Sullivan Earle. London,

1852.

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2. Companions of my Solitude. By the Author of

"Friends in Council." London, 1851,

IV. Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their Effects

on the Civilisation of Europe. By the Rev. J. Balmez.

Translated from the Spanish by C. J. Handford and

R. Kershaw. London, J. Burns,

V. The Human Body and its connexion with Man, illustrated

by the Principal Organs. By James John Garth Wil-

kinson. London, 1851,

VI. 1. König Alfred, und seine Stelle in der Geschichte Eng-

land. Von Dr. Reinhold Pauli. Berlin, 1851.

2. The Life and Times of Alfred the Great. By the Rev.

J. A. Giles, D.C.L. London, 1848,

VII. 1. On some remarkable and hitherto unobserved Pheno-

mena of Binocular Vision. By Charles Wheatstone,

Esq., F.R.S. Philosophical Transactions, 1838.

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By Sir David Brewster, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S. and

V.P.R.S., Edinburgh. Edinburgh Transactions, vol.

xv., Part ii., 1843. Reprinted in Philosophical Maga-

zine, May and June 1844, vol. xxiv.

3. On the Knowledge of Distance given by Binocular

Vision. By Sir David Brewster, Edinburgh Transac-

tions, vol. xv., Part iv., 1844. Reprinted in Philoso-

phical Magazine, May 1847, vol. xxx. pp. 305.

4. On the Conversion of Relief in Inverted Vision. By

Sir David Brewster, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S. and

V.P.R.S., Edinburgh. Reprinted in Philosophical

Magazine, June 1847, vol. xxx., pp. 432.

5. Description of Several New and Simple Stereoscopes

for Exhibiting as Solids, one or more Representations

of them on a Plane. By Sir David Brewster, K.H.,

D.C.L., F.R.S., and V.P.R.S., Edinburgh. Transac-

tions of Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 1849. Re-

printed in Philosophical Magazine, January 1852.

6. Account of a Binocular Camera, and of a Method of

obtaining Drawings of Full Length and Colossal Sta-

tues, and of Living Bodies, which can be exhibited as

Solids by the Stereoscope. By Sir David Brewster,

K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., and V.P.R.S., Edinburgh.

Transactions of Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 1849.

Reprinted in Philosophical Magazine, January 1852.

7. Notice of a Chromatic Stereoscope. By the Same,

&c., &c.

8. Le Stéréoscope, Bulletin du Monde Scientifique. Par

M. L'Abbé Moigno, Aumônier du Lycée Louis le

Grand. Feuilleton de La Presse, du 28 Décembre 1850.

9. Binocular Perspective. By James Hall, Esq. Art-

Journal, March 1852, pp. 89, 90, .

VIII. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers,

D.D., LL.D. By his Son-in-law, the Rev. William

Hanna, LL.D. Four volumes 8vo, 1850-52,

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CONTENTS OF NO. XXXIV.

ART.

I. Life of Lord Jeffrey: with a Selection from his Corre-

spondence. By Lord Cockburn, one of the Judges of

the Court of Session in Scotland. 2 vols. Edinburgh,

1852,

II. 1. The Birds of Australia. By John Gould, F.R.S., &c.

7 vols. imp. folio. London, 1848.

2. An Introduction to the Birds of Australia. By the

Same. 1 vol. 8vo. London, 1848.

3. The Natural History of Ireland: Birds. By William

Thompson, Esq., President of the Natural History and

Philosophical Society of Belfast. 3 vols. 8vo. Lon-

don, 1849-51,

III. Scriptural Revision of the Liturgy, a Remedy for Angli-

can Assumption and Papal Aggression. A Letter to

the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P. By

a Member of the Middle Temple. London, 1851,

IV. 1. Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic. By Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow; with an Introductory Essay, by George

Gilfillan. Liverpool, 1848.

2. Poems. By Thomas Buchanan Read. Illustrated by

Kenny Meadows. 12mo. London, 1852.

3. Poems. By Edgar Allan Poe. Edited, with an

Essay on his Life and Genius, by James Hannay. 8vo.

London, 1852.

4. The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. 3 vols.

London, 1850,

V. The Life and Letters of Barthold George Niebuhr; with

Essays on his Character and Influence. By the Che-

valier Bunsen and Professors Brandis and Loebell. 2

vols. London, 1852,

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