THE

SELECT JOURNAL

OF

FOREIGN PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

VOLUME I.

JANUARY – APRIL, 1833.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CHARLES BOWEN.

1833.

(

CAMBRIDGE:

CHARLES .Orson,.PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.

Art.

PAGE.

I. LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN

1

Some Memorials of John Hampden, his Party, and his

Times. By Lord Nugent.

II. MIRABEAU AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

. 47

Souvenirs sur Mirabeau et sur les deux premières As-

semblées Législatives. Par ÉTIENNE DUMONT, de Genève,

(Recollections of Mirabeau and of the first two Legisla-

tive Assemblies. ]

III. ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

96

1. On Political Economy, in Connexion with the Moral

State and Moral Prospects of Society. By Thomas Chal-

MERS, D.D.

2. Illustrations of Political Economy. By HARRIET

MARTINEAU.

IV. ANCIENT French ROMANCES

125

A Letter to M. de Monmerqué upon the Romances of

the Twelve Peers of France; by M. Paulin Paris.

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.

The English Myrtyrs. By Mrs. Hemans

Let Her Depart! By Mrs. Hemans .

IMITATION OF THE PersiaN. By Sir John Malcolm

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CRITICAL NOTICES.

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I. THORVALDSEN The SCULPTOR

1

The Danish Sculptor THORVALDSEN, and his works.

By J. M. THIELE, Professor, Secretary to the Royal

Academy of the Fine Arts.

II. SKINNER'S EXCURSIONS IN INDIA ..

7

Excursions in India; including a Walk over the Hima-

laya Mountains, to the Sources of the Jumna and the Gan-

ges. By CAPTAIN Tuomas SKINNER.

III. BREWSTER'S LETTERS ON NATURAL Magic

14

Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter

Scott, Bart. By Sir David BREWSTER.