THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

FEBRUARY-MAY 1862.

VOL. XXXVI.

EDINBURGH:

T. AND T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET.

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.

DUBLIN: WILLIAM ROBERTSON.

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MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

CONTENTS OF No. LXXI.

ART. I.-THE WRITINGS OF MR RUSKIN,

1. Modern Painters. In Five Vols. Smith, Elder, and Co.

2. The Seven Lamps of Architecture.

3. The Stones of Venice.

In Three Vols.

4. Lectures on Architecture and Painting.

5. The Two Paths.

6. The Harbours of England.

7. The Political Economy of Art.

8. Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin, Master of

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Par Mme. la Princesse
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1. My Life, and What shall I do with it? By an Old

2. The Afternoon of Single Life. Longman.

3. Sisters of Charity and the Communion of Labour. By
Mrs Jameson. Longman.

4. Hospitals and Sisterhoods. Murray.

5. Thoughts on some Questions relating to Women. Eng-
lishwoman's Journal Office.

6. Transactions of the National Association for the Promo-
tion of Social Science.

Parker.

7. L'Ouvrière. Par Jules Simon.
Paris, 1861.

ART. IV.

Troisième Edition.

SIR WILLIAM LOCKHART OF LEE,

1. The Thurloe State Papers.

9. Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell.

10. Guizot's 'Histoire de Cromwell.'

11. Guizot's 'Histoire de Richard Cromwell.'

12. Vaughan's Protectorate of Cromwell, etc., etc.

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ART. V.—PEASANTS AND POETS OF AUSTRIA AND SCOT

Peasants and Poets of Upper Austria and Scotland-Burus
and Stelzhammer.

L'Eglise et La Société Chretiennes en 1861. Par M. Gui-
zot. Paris, 1861.

ART. VII.-SANITARY IMPROVEMENT IN THE ARMY—
LORD HERBERT,

1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into
the Regulations affecting the Sanitary Condition of the
Army. With Evidence and Appendix. Presented to Par-
liament by Command of Her Majesty. 1858. Pp. 607.
2. General Report of the Commission appointed for Im-
proving the Sanitary Condition of Barracks and Hospitals.
Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of
Her Majesty. 1861. Pp. 338.

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ART. VIII.-RECENT PROGRESS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART, 170
1. The Photographic Journal. Vols. i-vii. Lond. 1853-
1862.

2. Photography, in the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. xvii.,
p. 544.

3. Report on the Present State of Celestial Photography
in England. By Warren De La Rue, Ph.D., F.R.S. Sec.
R.A.S., in Report of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the
British Association for 1859, pp. 131-154. Lond. 1860.
4. Images Photographiques de la Lune. Par P. Secchi. In
the Comptes Rendus, Tom. xlvi., p. 199.

(And other Works.)

ART. IX.-MR MARTIN'S 'CATULLUS,'

The Poems of Catullus translated into English Verse, with
an Introduction and Notes. By Theodore Martin.
Parker, Son, and Bourn.

ART. X.-THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: RESURRECTION
THROUGH DISSOLUTION,

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The American Union: its Effect on National Character and
Policy. By James Spence. London, 1861.