THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

JANUARY, 1863. . . . APRIL, 1863.

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN, LONDON;

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK,

EDINBURGH.

1863.

CONTENTS OF No. 239.

ART. I.—1. Minute by the Marquis of Dalhousie, dated Feb.

28, 1856, reviewing his administration in India,

from Jan. 1848 to March 1856.

2. Essays, Military and Political.

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By Sir H. M.

. 1

Lawrence, 1859,

II.-Aus dem Nachlass Varnhagen's von Ense. Tage-

bücher von Friedrich von Gentz. Mit einem Vor-

und Nach-Worte von Varnhagen von Ense. Leip-

zig: 1861, .

III.—1. Papers relating to the present Condition and Pros-

pects of the Goldfields in Victoria. Presented to

both Houses of Parliament, April, 1862.

2. Papers relating to the Discovery of Gold in British

Columbia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament,

April, 1862.

3. Geological Observations in South Australia. By

the Rev. Julian E. Woods. 8vo. 1862,

IV.-1. Original unpublished Papers, illustrative of the

Life of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, preserved in Her

Majesty's State Paper Office: with an Appendix.

Collected and edited by W. Noël Sainsbury, of Her

Majesty's State Paper Office. London: 1859.

2. Lettres inédites de Pierre Paul Rubens, publiées

d'après ses Autographes. Par Emile Gachet.

Bruxelles: 1840.

3. Catalogue du Musée d'Anvers. 2nd Edition.

Publié par

le Conseil d'Administration de l'Académie

Royale des Beaux Arts. 1857,

V. 1. Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. Par M. A.

Thiers. Tome vingtième. Paris: 1862.

2. Histoire de la Campagne de 1815. Par Edgar

Quinet. Paris: 1862.

3. Histoire de la Campagne de 1815. Par le

Lieutenant-Colonel Charras. Brussels: 1858.

4. Waterloo: the Downfall of the First Napoleon.

By George Hooper. London: 1862,

VI. 1. Histoire des Institutions de Moïse et du Peuple

hébreu. Par Joseph Salvador. Troisième édition,

revue et augmentée d'une introduction sur l'avenir

de la question religieuse. Deux tomes.

1862.

Paris:

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147

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2. Jésus-Christ et sa Doctrine. Histoire de la

Naissance de l'Eglise, de son Organisation et de

ses Progrès pendant le premier Siècle. Par

Joseph Salvador. Deux tomes. Paris: 1838.

3. Histoire de la Domination Romaine en Judée, et de

la Ruine de Jérusalem. Par Joseph Salvador.

Deux tomes. Paris: 1846.

4. Paris, Rome, Jérusalem; ou la Question Religieuse

au XIX Siècle. Par Joseph Salvador. Deux

tomes. Paris: 1860.

5. Les Juifs en France, en Italie, et en Espagne.

Recherches sur leur Etat depuis leur Dispersion

jusqu'à nos Jours, sous le rapport de la Législation,

de la Littérature et du Commerce. Par J. Bédar-

ride, Bâtonnier de l'Ordre des Avocats à la Cour

Impériale de Montpellier. Paris: 1859.

6. Jüdisch Mosaischer Religionsunterricht für die

Israelitische Jugend. Von Salomon Plessner,

Religions-lehrer. Berlin: 5599 (1838).

7. Gebetbuch für Jüdische Reformgemeinden. Berlin:

1859.

8. Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old

Testament, with a New Translation. - Genesis.

By M. M. Kalisch, Ph. D., M.A. London: 1858.

VII.-Les Misérables. Par Victor Hugo. 10 vols. 8vo.

Bruxelles: 1862,

VIII.-1. The Prison Chaplain : A Memoir of the Rev. John

Clay, B.D., late Chaplain of Preston Gaol; with

selections from his Reports and Correspondence, and

a Sketch of Prison Discipline in England.
By his

Son, the Rev. Walter Lowe Claye, M.A. London:

1861.

2. Female Life in Prison. By a Prison Matron.

Second Edition, in 2 vols. London: 1862.

3. Observations on the Treatment of Convicts in

Ireland; with some Remarks on the same in

England. By Four Visiting Justices of the West

Riding Prison at Wakefield. London: 1862.

4. Report of Committees of both Houses of Parliament

on Transportation and Penal Servitude. 1856.

5. Reports of the Directors of Convict Prisons, En-

gland. 1861.

6. Reports of the Directors of Convict Prisons, Ire-

land. 1861,

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. 208

IX.-Executive Power. By B. R. Curtis, late Judge of

the Supreme Court of the United States. Boston:

1862,

241

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ART. I.-The Invasion of the Crimea: its Origin and an

Account of its progress down to the Death of Lord

Raglan. By Alexander William Kinglake. Vols. I.

and II. Edinburgh: 1863,

II.

The Odyssey of Homer, translated into English

Verse in the Spenserian Stanza. By Philip Stan-

hope Worsley, M.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi

College, Oxford. Two vols. Edinburgh and London:

1861-2, .

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307

353

III.-1. Report of the Tithe Redemption Trust for the

Church in England and Wales for the year 1863.

2. Report from the Select Committee of the House of

Lords appointed to inquire into the Deficiency of

Means of Spiritual Instruction in the Metropolis,

and in other Populous Districts in England and

Wales, especially in the Mining and Manufacturing

Districts; and to consider the fittest Means of

Meeting the Difficulties of the Case. 1858, . . 360

IV. Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers,

relating to the Negotiations between England and

Spain, preserved in the Archives of Simancas and

elsewhere. Vol. I. Henry VII. 1485-1509.

Edited by G. A. Bergenroth. Published by the

Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury,

under the direction of the Master of the Rolls.

London: 1862,

V.-1. Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines to Her

Majesty's Secretary of State for the year 1860.

2. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's

Secretary of State for the year 1861.

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3. Report of the Commissioner appointed under the

Provisions of the Act 5 & 6 Vict. c. 99. to inquire

into the Operations of that Act, and into the State

of the Population of the Mining Districts. 1859.

4. A Voice from the Mines and Furnaces. By the

Rev. William Ford Vance, M.A., Incumbent of

Cozeley, Staffordshire. Wolverhampton and London:

1853,

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