THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. XXX.

New Series.

VOL. XXI.

BOSTON,

GRAY AND BOWEN,-135 WASHINGTON STREET.

1830.

CAMBRIDGE,

E. W. METCALF AND COMPANY,

Printers to the University.

CONTENTS

OF

No. LXVI.

ART.

I. PITKIN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

A Political and Civil History of the United States

of America, from the Year 1763 to the Close of the

Administration of President Washington, in March,

1797. By Timothy Pitkin.

II. BOLIVAR AND THE BOLIVIAN CONSTITUTION

1. Observaciones sobre las Reformas Políticas de

Colombia. Por J. M. Salazar.

2. Ensayo sobre la Conducta del General Bolivar.

3. Proyecto de Constitucion para la República de

Bolivia y Discurso del Libertador.

4. Ojeada al Proyecto de Constitucion que el

Libertador ha presentado á la República Bolivar.

Por A. L. G. [Antonio Leocadio Guzman.]

5. Exposicion de los Sentimientos de los Fun-

cionarios Públicos, y demas Habitantes de la Ciudad

de Bogotá, hecha para ser presentada al Libertador

Presidente de la República.

III. REMOVAL OF THE INDIANS

PAGE

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26

Documents and Proceedings relating to the For-

mation and Progress of a Board in the City of New

York, for the Emigration, Preservation, and Im-

provement of the Aborigines of America.

62

An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova-

Scotia. By Thomas C. Haliburton.

Legal Outlines, being the Substance of a Course

of Lectures now delivering in the University of

Maryland. By David Hoffman.

VI. BRITISH OPINIONS ON THE PROTECTING SYSTEM

1. Debate in the British House of Commons on

the American Tariff, July 18, 1828.

2. 'The American Tariff'; an Article in the Edin-

burgh Review for December, 1828.

3. Commerce of the United States and West In-

dies;' an Article in the London Quarterly Review

for January, 1829.

VII. LAFAYETTE IN AMERICA

Lafayette en Amérique en 1824 et 1825; ou

Journal d'un Voyage aux Etats-Unis.

vasseur.

Par A. Le-

VIII. A YEAR IN SPAIN

237

A Year in Spain. By a Young American.

IX. POPULAR ELOQUENCE OF THE ROMANS

259

Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum Liber Primus et

Selecta quædam Capita.

Curavit Notulisque in-

struxit Carolus Folsom.

X. DANA'S THOUGHTS ON THE SOUL

274

A Poem delivered before the Porter Rhetorical

Society, in the Theological Seminary, Andover. By

Richard H. Dana.

XI. The AmeRICAN ALMANAC

280

The American Almanac and Repository of Use-

ful Knowledge for the Year 1830.

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

285

ART.

CONTENTS

OF

No. LXVII.

PAGE

I. DIFFUSION Of Knowledge

1. Library of Useful Knowledge.

2. Library of Entertaining Knowledge.

II. SPRAGUE'S POEMS

Curiosity; a Poem delivered at Cambridge be-

fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society, August 27, 1829.

By Charles Sprague.

313

III. SUGGESTIONS ON EDUCATION

323

Suggestions respecting Improvements in Educa-

tion. By Catharine E. Beecher.

337

IV. BIGELOW'S ELEMENTS of TechnoloGY

Elements of Technology, taken chiefly from a

Course of Lectures delivered at Cambridge, on the

Application of the Sciences to the Useful Arts.

By Jacob Bigelow.

Report of the Secretary of the Navy to the Presi-

dent of the United States, December 1, 1829.

VI. WALKER'S Elements of GEOMETRY

360

389

Elements of Geometry, with Practical Applica-

tions for the Use of Schools. By T. Walker.