THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

EDITED BY

EDWARD I. SEARS, A. M., LL. D.

DECEMBER, 1864, AND MARCH, 1865.

VOL. X.

"Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est."

NEW YORK:

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

1865.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

E. I. SEARS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS OF NO. XIX.

ΑΕΤ.

I. PERICLES AND HIS TIMES.

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1. Vita Periclis ex ipsis fontibus, maxime Plutarcho, petita.

2. Disputatio historico-literaria de Pericle ejusque reipublicæ

Atheniensium administratione. CLARISSE.

3. The Life of Pericles. By PLUTARCH.

4. History of Greece. By GROTE.

5. Pericles der Olympier, biographische Darstellung. KUFF-

NER.

6. The History of the Peloponnesian War. By THUCYDIDES.

7. Economie politique des Athéniens. Par M. BOECKH.

II. THE CIVILIZING FORCES.

1. History of Civilization in Europe. By M. GUIZOT.

2. History of Civilization in England. By HENRY THOMAS

BUCKLE.

3. The Man of the North and the Man of the South. By

CHARLES VICTOR DE BONSTILLEN.

III. CHIEF-JUSTICE TANEY

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1. Reports of the Supreme Court, and other Public Documents,

&c.

IV. SPANISH LITERATURE: LOPE DE VEGA

1. Fama Posthuma a la vida y muerte del doctor Frey Lope

Felix de Vega-Carpio. Por MONTALVAN.

2. Bibliotheca Hispana Nova. Por NICOLAS ANTONIO.

3. Notice sur Lope de Vega in tète de sa traduction. Par M. LA

BEAUMELLE.

4. Some account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega-

Carpio. By HENRY RICHARD, LORD HOLLAND.

5. Planto funebre en la muerte de Lope Felix de Vega-Carpio.

Por LARRAMENDI.

6. History of Spanish Literature. By GEORGE TICKNOR.

V. CURRENCY-CAUSES OF DEPRECIATION

1. Acts of Congress and other Public Documents.

VI. LEO X. AND HIS TIMES...

1. Life and Pontificate of Leo X. By WM. ROSCOE.

2. Literature of the South of Europe. By SISMONDI.

3. History of Italy. By GUICCIARDINI.

4. Historical Dictionary. By BAYLE.

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