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THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW

EDITED BY

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

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

NEW YORK:

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

1865.
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ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, 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.

This volume has been rebound with funds provided by a grant from

the National Endowment for the Humanities

CONTENTS OF NO. XXI.

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THE

NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. XXI.

JUNE, 1865.

ART I.-1.Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions, and Language of the Ancient Britons, with some Introductory Sketches of Primitive Society. By EDWARD DAVIES, Curate of Olveston, Gloucestershire. London, 1804.

2. Histoire des Gaulois. Par AMEDEE THIERRY. Paris, 1845. 3. The Celtic Druids. By GODFREY HIGGINS, Esq., F. S. A, of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster, Yorkshire. London, 1827. 4. La Religion des Gaulois. Par D. MARTIN. Paris, 1727.

5. Commentatio de Druidis. J. G. FRIKIUS. Ulm, 1744.

6. Ueber die Druiden der Kelten. VON KARL BARTH. Irlangen, 1826.

7. The Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry. By J. WILLIAMS. London, 1844.

8. Les Fees du Moyen Age. Par ALFRED MAURY. Paris, 1842.

Ir is impossible to estimate the amount of valuable knowledge the world has lost by the unwillingness of certain sects of philosophers to commit the results of their researches to writing. And if this fact be admitted, it must follow that no argument can justify such a course. Few, if any, will dispute that those who avoid recording their discoveries, lest the public at large might have the benefit of them in common with themselves, are guilty of a most reprehensible selfishness; and yet it is to be feared that this has been the prevailing motive. That some have been influenced only by VOL. XI. NO. XXI. L

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