1. Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Lafayette College for the year 1873-174, with the Courses of Study. 2. An Address at the Dedication of Pardee Hall, Lafayette College, October 21, 1873. By ROSSITER W. RAYMOND, Ph. D., Lecturer upon Mining Engineering in Lafayette College, 3. Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Muhlenberg College, Allen- town, Pa., for the Collegiate year ending June, 1874. 4. Catalogue of Dickinson College for the Academical year 1873–74. 5. Register of the Trustees, Officers, and Students of the Lehigh Uni- versity, South Bethlehem, Pa., for the year 1873-74, with the Plan of Organization and the Course of Instruction. 6. Catalogue of Wesleyan University, 1873-74. 1. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 1. Historia Critica Philosophie (Critical History of Phi- 2. Manuel de l'Histoire de la Philosophie, de M. TINNEMANN, traduit de l'allemand par V. COUSIN. 1. History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Mon- archy by Ruric to the Accession of Catherine II. By Traduit par MM. ST. THERON et JAUFFRET. 11 vols. 3. History of the Russian Empire. By POLEWOY. 4. Insurrection in Poland. By GNOROWSKI. 5. Travels in Various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. By E. D. CLARKE. 11 vols., 8vo. 6. Pien Ukrainskie wydane. Pwer P. MAXYMOWICZA V MOSKWIE. 1834. (Songs of Ukraine, published by 1. Some Curious Experiments and Researches into the Na- 2. Memoirs and Analyses of Meat Extracts and other Valua- 3. Essays on Metaline as a Lubricator. By Prof. C. F. CHANDLER, PH. D., Dean of the Faculty, School of Mines, Columbia College; President of the Board of Health, etc., etc., etc. Assisted by several mem- bers of the American Institute, said to be conspirators 3. The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the 1. On the Structure of the Simple Tissues of the Human 2. Uber die Nerven und das Blut in ihrem gesunden und Krank-haften Zustande. (On the Nerves and the Blood in their sound and diseased conditions.) 3. Protoplasm; or, Life, Force, and Matter. By LIONEL S. 4. Icones Histologice. Von KÖLLIKER. 5. Vom Bau des thierischen Körpers. (Of the Fabric of 6. Über die Übereinstimmung in der Structur der Thiere 1. The Works of Confucius, containing the original text with a translation. By J. MARSHMAN. 2. The Chinese Classics, containing the Confucian Analects, 4. Memoires Historiques sur Confucius et Zoroastre. De 5. Abrégé Historique des principaux traits de la Vie de Con- 6. Yu le Grand et Confucius. M. CLERC. 7. The Middle Kingdom. A Survey of the Geography, Government, Social Life, Arts, Religion, etc., of the Chinese. By S. WELLS WILLIAMS, LL. D. VII. NOTES CRITICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ON EDUCATION. 351 1. Reports, by VICTOR COUSIN, MATHEW ARNOLD, and others, on the Educational Systems of Germany, THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. LIX. DECEMBER, 1874. ART. I.-1. La Génie de l'Architecture. Par CouSIN. 4to. Paris. 1822. 2. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. By JOHN L. STEPHENS. 2 vols., 8vo. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1841. 3. Greece-Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D. D. 1853. D. D. 8vo. By London. 4. Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839. By Mrs. HAMILTON GRAY. 1842. 5. Memorials of Oxford. By Rev. JAMES INGRAHAM, D. D., President of Trinity College. Illustrated. 2 vols., 8vo. Oxford. 1834. ARCHITECTURE is at once the most historical and the most popular of the arts. It is historical, not only from the chronological indices it holds forth, but because it marks at every period the character, intellectual and political, of the nations to whom it belongs; and it is popular, for no other art more strongly appeals to the feelings, or is more instrumental in developing and cultivating the minds of the masses. The influence of painting and sculpture, its cognate arts, is VOL. XXX.-NO. LIX. 1 necessarily limited, not only by the degree of cultivation which their enjoyment presupposes, and without which they present but a blank to the mind of the observer, but by the comparatively restricted opportunities which they possess of exercising their influence even on the most cultivated. The picture or the statue is seen and studied; but where has it the means of producing the effect, more potent because more unconscious, which the most unlettered person experiences from his daily and hourly association with the architectural features of the city of his abode? The man, whose daily walk confronted him with edifices beautiful in material, elegant in design, graceful in outline, or grand and imposing in dimensions, was living in an atmosphere of beauty, and his mind insensibly adapted itself to its surroundings. The temple, on its elevated platform, enshrining the divinity of his heathen worship, or the heaven-pointing spire of the Christian church, imbued his mind with veneration; the triumphal arches and monuments awakened his pride and intensified his attachment to the place of his birth; the public halls in which the rulers of his country assembled, and the palaces in which they abode increased his sense of subordination and rendered him a better and more law-abiding citizen. Nay, more—the daily contemplation of objects of symmetry and beauty has in itself a refining and ennobling tendency upon the mind; and for that reason, if for no other, a nation which has produced good architects has made great progress in the formation of good citizens. The architecture of a nation is, moreover, one of the truest indicators of its civilization and advancement. In the massive pyramids, monolithic temples, and structures imposing from their colossal proportions, which rise among the sands of Egypt, we recognize a formal and stationary nation, a despotic sovereignty and vast population, where labor was cheap and the life of the subject of little account; a civilization wonderful but low, where the mental culture bore no proportion to the material advancement; and a race devoid of progress, whose development was arrested at a compara |