city of cisterns', ib.; our traveller's re- turn to Mount Sinai, 13; character of the present work, ib. Latrobe's rambler in Mexico, 122; the ar- riero, or carrier ant, 123; route through the Canada, 124; ruins of Indian temples and towns, 125; the mines of Regla, ib.; Real del Monte, 126; ap- proach to the capital, 127; description of an earthquake, 128; the religion of Mexico, 128, 129; natural antiquities of that country, 130; the comparative mountain formations of Europe and the New World, ib.; state of political affairs, 132; affairs of the Texas, 133; speech of John Quincy Adams concerning the same, 134-136; important nature of the contest, 137.
Lawrence's (Mrs.) last autumn at a fa- vourite residence, with other poems, and recollections of mrs. Hemans, 31; mrs. Hemans's early love of poetry, 33; her childish effusions subjected to the bitter- ness of criticism, 34; the homage sub- sequently offered to her, ib.; her attach- ment to capt. Hemans, ib.; her marriage and separation from him, ib.; professor Norton secures her the copyright of her poems in America, 37; fragments of letters written during her visit to Scot- land, 38; her dying moments, 41; cha- racter of the present volume, 45. Le Bas's life of archbishop Laud, 148; his biographers faithless, 151; character of Laud, 152; the author's defence of him, 153; his elevation to the see of St. David's, ib. et seq.; his ingratitude to the lord keeper Williams, 155; author's apo- logy for Laud's threat of the rack to Felton, ib.; case of Leighton unfairly stated, 156; opinion of the present work, 157.
L. E. L.'s drawing-room scrap-book, 438; elegant verses to lord Melbourne, 446; picturesque ballad, 447; the delectable mountains', ib.
Little scholar learning to talk, 261; object of the volume, 262.
Lives of the most eminent foreign states- men, 148; the inquisition, 149; charac- ter of cardinal Ximenes, 150; why has mr. Crowe omitted to notice the car- dinal's appointment as inquisitor-general? ib.; opinion of the work, 150. Loudon's Arboretum et Fruticetum Bri-
tannicum, 537; nature of the work, 543. Love of money, 248; the desire of ac- quiring is not a sinful propensity, ib.; the best age of Christianity recognized the idea of trust and stewardship for Christ, 249; delusions now opposed to this idea, 250; the tendencies of wealth, 251.
Maund's (and Henslow's) Botanist, 537. Mexico, Latrobe's rambler in, 122; see Latrobe and Texas.
North American Review, No. XCII., art. 'Texas', 236; occurrences in Mexico since the revolution in 1810, 236; the first abortive attempt to establish inde- pendence in the Texas, 237; description of the theatre of those operations, 238; the origin of the recently flourishing co- lonies of Texas ascribed to col. S. T. Austin, 239; causes of the rupture with the government of Mexico, 240; arrest of Austin for treason, 241; declaration of independence by the Texians, ib.; flagrant misrepresentation contained in that document, ib.; the other enumerated grievances frivolous and audacious, 242; suppression of secret societies in Mexico, 243; election of a president, ib.; Santa Anna first began to take a distinguished part in public affairs, ib.; narrative of events until 1835, 244; character of Santa Anna, 245; the pretended war for Texian independence is a mere struggle of the land jobbers and slave jobbers of the United States, 246; annexation of the province to the United States dis- cussed, 246, 47; result of the struggle, 248.
Nursery book, 261; object of the, 262.
Pastoral epistle from his holiness the pope to some members of the university of Oxford, 45; papistical tenets of the high church party, ib.
Peru, journey in; see Smyth. Physical theory of another life, 85; singular dissimilarity between this work and the author's Spiritual Despotism', 86; re- formation of the church, 87; requisite qualifications of the missionary, 88; the agitation of the times is in furtherance of the gospel, 89; catholic emancipation, ib.; the reform bill and abolition of slavery, 90; grievances of the dissenters, 91; the great change in the relative po- sition of religious parties, 92; church and state in permanent collision, 93; the spirit of piety among dissenters has not suffered deterioration, ib.; their political spirit is fed from moral sources, 94; the extant spirit of the Establishment de- scribed, 95; maxims of the church essen- tially despotic, ib.; church reform en- trusted to the episcopacy, 96; the church in captivity to the establishment, 97;
physical theory of a future life, 98; analysis of the theory proposed, 100; power to originate motion inherent in the mind, 101; as also perception, ib.; the memory set free from physical in- firmities, 102; prerogatives of the future corporeity, 103; the probability of im- mortal happiness or misery involved in this theory, 104 et seq.; the future life, as analogous to the natural transform- ations of the animated world, a natural event, 107; the physical and moral na- ture being independent of each other, the greatest revolution of the former leaves the latter as it was, ib.; present and future employment of the active prin- ciples, 108; conjectures of the author not less magnificent than bold, 109; Hooker's description of the future cor- poreity, 110; the strongest evidence of a future life is in the moral constitution of our nature, ib.
Pike's Christian liberality in the distribu- tion of property, 190; opinion of the work, 205.
Popery. See Young's lectures. Price's history of Protestant nonconformity
in England, 298; a history of noncon- formity is a desideratum in our litera- ture, 299; cause of modern dissenters identical with that of the Lollards and Puritans, 300; summary of the reign of queen Elizabeth, 301; the puritan party at this period, ib.; letter of Burleigh, disapproving of the severities of Whit- gift, 302; character of the queen, 303 et seq.; accession of James, and his refusal to redress the grievances of the puritans, 305; progress of nonconformity, 306; ludicrous panegyric on James, by bishop Williams, ib.; candour and impartiality of the author, 307; opinion of the work, 308.
slavery in America, 158; opinion of the work, 161. Psalms and hymns, 265; notice of the se- lections published, 281; injustice of sup- pressing the authors' names, 282; ex- cuses alleged for the suppression, 283; the excuse alleged by dr. Urwick is used by mr. Bickersteth as a reason for giving the authors' names, ib.; specimen of the effect of dr. Urwick's alterations, 284; instance of a favourite but indifferent hymn, 285; imperfect rhymes of former versions, 286; the worst specimens of sacred verse are often preferred to the most finished productions of art, 287; instances of hymns wanting sense and metre, 288; editorial alterations in ex- isting works of this class, 289; in those of Watts, ib.; in the hymns of Dod- dridge, 290; extract, ib.; the Olney
hymns, 291; Willcock's collection, ib.; Pratt's selection, 292; version of the Psalms by rev. Wm. Goode, 292; ver- sion of the Psalms by Wrangham, 293; extract, ib. et seq.; a revised edition of Watts remains a desideratum, 295; the division of the Psalms, 296; selections supplemental to Watts, ib.; true design and use of psalmody, 298. See also Allen's psalms and hymns for public worship; Bulmer's hymns, original and select; and Farr's new version of the psalms of David.
Real grievance of the Irish peasantry, 353; What is Irish poverty? 361; influence of the system of letting land to the la- bourers upon the national character, ib. ; dairy ground system, and its conse- quences, 362 et seq.; the miscalled farmer in Ireland, 364; the Irish peasant an outcast at his own door, 366; remarks on an Act relating to the letting of small parcels of ground, 367; labour is not valued in Ireland, 368; the 'iniquitous' tithe agistment bill, 369; its operation as a tax upon industry, ib. et seq.; ex- aggeration of the author's views in this matter, 371; influence of the corn law, ib.
Reid's history of the Presbyterian church in Ireland, 516; Presbyterianism in Eng- land, Ireland, and Scotland, ib.; it is the natural antagonist of prelacy, 518; causes of the limited progress of the re- formation in Ireland, 519; origin and course of the rebellion during the reign of Charles I., 520 et seq.; the body of Presbyterians suffered less than other parties, 523; vindication of the solemn league and covenant, 524.
Ritchie's Ireland, picturesque and roman- tic, 544.
Roberts's cruel nature and injurious effects of the foreign slave-trade, 158; carried on by British capital, ib.; defect in the law making a capital felony, 160; ex- tent to which it is carried on, 161. Roscoe's tourist in Spain, 544; its illus- trations, ib.; the present is the best of the author's works, 545.
Sibthorp's book of Genesis, 61; object of this exposition, 62; paraphrastic com- mentary on the fourth chapter of Genesis, 63.
Smyth's journey from Lima to Para, 206; Lieut. Maw's previous journey from Truxillo to Para, ib.; the town of Cerro Pasco, 207; interior of the mines, ib.; the episcopal city of Huanuco, 208; de- parture from Panao, 209; arrival at the
Ucayale, 210; difficulties of the expe- dition, 211; state of education among the Indians, ib.; arrival at Para, 212; brief criticism on the work, ib. Specimens of the theological teaching of certain members of the Corpus com- mittee at Oxford, 45; papistical tenets of the high-church party, ib.; glowing ascription of celestial honours to the Vir- gin, 46.
Stanley's Ireland and her evils, 353; the object of its misrule is the maintenance of the church establishment in that coun- try, 354; state of Ireland in former days exposed by Spenser, 355; his opinion of the success which would attend a differ- ent system of planting religion, 356; indolence of the church establishment acknowledged, 357; palpable injustice of the system, ib.; the Bible kept from the common people of Ireland by Protestant and papist, 358; argument against the church establishment in Ireland attributed to lord Mahon, ib.; why are three-fourths of the Irish people papists? 359; causes of their ignorance and pauperism, ib.; arguments usually advanced against mea- sures of political amelioration, disal- lowed, 360; the bounties on corn pro- duce one source of the evils under which Ireland is suffering, 372; want of divi- sion of labour one of the master-evils, 373; population has become a sub- stitute for capital, ib.; causes of its in- crease, 374; poor-laws in Ireland not a panacea for her evils, 375; nor is emi- gration, ib.
Students' cabinet library of useful tracts, 162.
Temple's Christian daily treasury, 259; on continual dependence on God, 260; on the instrument of regeneration, ib. Texas (the); see North American review,
and Latrobe's rambler.
Treffry's Covetousness, 189; the influence allowed to wealth affords added energy to covetousness, 203; the charge of covetousness, in the sense of avarice, cannot be truly brought against the church of Christ, 204.
Triglott evangelists, interlinear, 55; cha- racter of the work, 56.
Twiss's epitome of Niebuhr's history of Rome, 137; advantages afforded by the volume, 142.
Universities of Germany, 162, 63; of Prussia, 164; university of Berlin, ib.; of Halle, 165; of Bonn, 166; of Breslau, 168; distinguished men con- nected with other German universities, ib.; errors corrected in this article, 262.
Walford's manner of prayer, 212; circum- stances connected with the appearance of the book, ib.; on public prayer in dis- senting congregations, 213; purposes of religious meetings, 214; most be- coming manner to conduct public and social prayer, 215 et seq.; importance of public worship, 217; comparative merits of liturgical forms and free prayer, 218; a combination of both modes of devotion advocated, 219; im- portant improvement in extemporary prayer suggested, 220; prayers of con- fession considered, 221; of thanksgiving and praise, 222; necessity of antece- dent preparation of prayers enforced, 223; use of Scriptural phraseology in prayer, 224; opinion of the present work, ib.
Walsh's residence at Constantinople, 346; author's opportunities of seeing the East under different aspects, ib.; his feelings on setting out for the Levant, ib.; extraordinary privileges of the head of the Turkish government, 347; Otto- man despotism has a close resemblance to the theory of the royal prerogative in the English constitution, ib.; import- ant changes effected at Constantinople between author's first and second visit, 348; establishment of the Ottoman ga- zette, 349; first appearance of a printed newspaper, 350; speedily followed by the publication of other journals, 351; moral regeneration of the sultan, 352; illus- trations of his character, 385; first step towards the abolition of slavery in Turkey, 386; former avarice of the sultan contrasted with his conduct to- wards the Sciotes, ib.; condition of the Greeks under his sway, 387; his internal political reforms, 388; ancient laws of the empire, 389; the most difficult body to contend with was the Ulema, 390; military reforms, 391; characteristics and personal habits of the sultan, ib.; sultan's reception at Constantinople on returning from a tour, 393; the Mo- hammedan religion expected to yield to the Christian faith, 394; Turkish pro- phecies foretelling the disappearance of the koran, ib.; earthquake at Zante, 395; opinion of the work, 396.
Watson, life of the rev. Richard; see Jackson's memoirs.
Westminster confession, objections to, 584. Williams's seven ages of England, 477;
results of the Norman conquest, 478; the court of queen Elizabeth, 479; scarcity of wood, and commencement of sea-coal fires, ib.; the age of progress, 480; opinion of the work, ib.
Wordsworth's Athens and Attica, 339; character of the author and of the work, 340; ruins of an Hellenic city, ib.; the town of Rhamnus described, 342; plain of Marathon, ib.; actual condition of Athens, 343; temple of Theseus, ib.; present book is not improved by author's political opinions, 344.
Yarrell's history of British fishes, 235; character of the work, ib.; peculiarities of the Great Weever, ib.; account of white-
Young's lectures on the chief points in con- troversy between Protestants and Catho- lics, 13; the quarrel between the church- of-England men and the Roman-catho- lic religion only a territorial quarrel, ib.; popery cannot be tested by its effects in Ireland, 14; popery losing its hold in Ireland as a religion, 15; the spread of popery in England, 16; extraordinary efforts now made by Roman-catholics to increase the number of their votaries, 17; these lectures serve to counteract them, ib.; the persecuting spirit of the Romish church by no means peculiar to that
church, 18; these lectures calculated to exhibit a true character of the Romish tenets, ib.; the subject of indulgences, 19 et seq.; auricular confession, 20; authority of the apostle James, as stated in the Rhemish translation in its favour, dishonestly stated, 21; remarks on mu- tual confession, ib.; extract from "letter- writing" by Charlotte Elizabeth, on that subject, ib. et seq.; compulsory confession the fertile source of evil, 24; the au- thority of the church, ib.; sources of error upon this subject, 25; the vulgate, 26; the power of popery traced to the innate bias of the human heart, ib.; par- tial agreement of Roman-catholics and Protestants on the subject of sanctification, 27; objections against the Protestant doc- trine of justification, 28; the claim of the pope, derived from the apostle Peter's supremacy, is untenable, 29; the denial that the church of Christ is a visible as- sociation, ib.; the headship of the pope not more opposed to the declarations of scripture than the headship of the king, 30; on the dogma of transubstantiation, ib.; character of these lectures, 31.
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