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CONTENTS

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No. CXXXII.

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I. WHEWELL'S ELEMENTS OF MORALITY

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The Elements of Morality, including Polity. By

WILLIAM WHEWELL, D. D., Master of Trinity Col-

lege, and Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Uni-

versity of Cambridge, Author of the History and the

Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences.

II. THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMATISTS

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1. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who

lived about the Time of Shakspeare. With Notes.

By CHARLES LAMB.

2. Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age

of Elizabeth. By William Hazlitt.

III. INSTINCT AND INTELLECT

91

An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the

Natural History of Insects; comprising an Account

of Noxious and Useful Insects, of their Metamorpho-

ses, Food, Stratagems, Habitations, Societies, Mo-

tions, Noises, Hybernation, Instinct, &c. With Plates.

By WILLIAM KIRBY and William SPENCE.

IV. Mahon's LIFE OF THE PRINCE OF CONDÉ .

118

The Life of Louis, Prince of Condé, surnamed the

Great. By LORD MAHON.

V. MUNFORD'S HOMER'S ILIAD

149

Homer's Iliad ; translated by William MUNFORD.

VI. THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

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The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

Chesterfield; including numerous Letters now first

published from the Original Manuscripts. Edited,

with Notes, by LORD MAHON.

VII. Noyes's TRANSLATIONS OF HEBREW POETRY 201

A New Translation of the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,

and the Canticles, with Introductions, and Notes,

chiefly explanatory. By GEORGE R. NOYES, D.D.,

Hancock Professor of Hebrew, etc., and Dexter Lec-

turer in Harvard University.

VIII. SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION 211

1. The Zoöphytes ; by JAMES D. DANA, A. M.,

Geologist of the Expedition.

2. Ethnography and Philology; by HORATIO HALE,

A. M., Philologist of the Expedition.

IX. Young's CHRONICLES OF MASSACHUSETTS

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Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of

Massachusetts Bay, in New England, from 1623 to

1635. Now first collected from Original Records

and Contemporaneous Manuscripts, and illustrated

with Notes. By ALEXANDER YOUNG.

·X. CRITICAL NOTICES.

1. Adams's Arithmetic

260

2. Bethune's Sermons

262

3. Palfrey's Tables of Bearings, Distances, &c. 263

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