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THE

AMERICAN ECLECTIC:

OR

Selections from the Periodical Literature of all
Foreign Countries.

CONDUCTED

BY ABSALOM PETERS, D.D., AND J. HOLMES AGNEW,
Editors of the American Biblical Repository,

AIDED BY A NUMBER OF LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN.

VOLUME III.

JANUARY, MARCH, AND MAY, 1842.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY PLATT & PETERS, BRICK-CHURCH CHAPEL, 36 PARK ROW,
FRONTING THE CITY HALL.

BOSTON:

WHIPPLE & DAMRELL, No. 9 CORNHILL.

LONDON: WILEY & PUTNAM, 35 PATERNOSTER ROW.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by

PLATT & PETERS,

in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

PIERCY & REED, PRINTERS, 9 SPRUCE-STREET.

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Aboriginal Inhabitants of America, 242.
Adams, John, Letters of, noticed, 380.
Adams, Mrs. John, Letters of, 177.
Esthetics, or Philos. of Art, noticed, 581.
Ages of Faith, the, noticed, 161.
Agriculture in France, noticed, 404.
Animal Magnetism, history, noticed, 198.
Antiquarian works on Eng. dialects, 566.
Antique Gems, noticed, 582.
Anti-Strauss, noticed, 605.
Archæological Discoveries, 393.
Arnold's Sermons, noticed, 163.

B

Baillie, the Covenanter, review of, 282.
Ballads, National, 195.

Baltic, letters from the, noticed, 177.
Belgian Literature, 146.
Bible, right of all to read, 609.
Bibliographical Notices, 192. 397. 601.
Bird of Paradise, habits of the, 181.
Blind Soldier's Daughter, noticed, 404.
Books of Sonnets, noticed, 601.
British Ministry, intentions of, 591.
British Empire, history of, noticed, 196.
British Critic, reviewed, 161.
Buckingham's Travels, noticed, 175.
Burgundy, the Dukes of, noticed, 385.
C

Carlyle on Chartism, .reviewed, 206.
Carnac, a legend of, 396.

Catholic tone of recent poems, 1.

Catlin on N. Am. Indians, noticed, 391.
Chili and Peru, sixteen years in, noticed,
195.

China, Illustrations of men and things, 49.
66 books in noticed, 609.
"popular notions in, 49.
Chinese literature, 271. 595.
Mythology, 279.

Chronicon Mirabile, noticed, 397.
Church and State, noticed, 179.
Church in Desert, noticed, 607.
Combe, George, works of, noticed, 175.
Combustion of Coal, etc., noticed, 604.
Convention of July, 1841, noticed, 172.
Copyright Question, noticed, 376.
Cosmopolitism and Nationality, 78.
Crusade, the first, Sibel's history of, 340.
D

Daughters of England, 602.

Deism, English, history of, noticed, 197.
De Dionysü Halicar, vita et ingen. 605.
D'Israli's Amenities of lit. reviewed, 127.
Dialects, English, works on, 566.
Dramatic literature, noticed, 391.
E

Education, a system of, noticed, 199.
Egyptian hieroglyphics, noticed, 385.
Electricity, atmospheric, 190.

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Influence of, on vegetation, 191.
Electro-Metalurgy, elements of, 398.
England, considerations on, noticed, 387.
Pictorial history, noticed, 591.

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Hall, Basil, Patchwork, noticed, 175.
Handloom-Weavers' report, 586.
Hastings, Warren, Life of, reviewed, 409.
Herculaneum, Papyrus, Mss. in, 592.
Hours with the Muses, 601.
Hügels Travels in Cashmere, 168.
Humboldt, W. Von, Works of, 385.
Humming-bird, food of the, 182.
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Ice Period, the, 307. concluded, 521.
I. H. S. origin of, 395.

India, history of, noticed, 176.
India, mounds of ashes in, 593.
Indians, N. American, noticed, 591.
Ireland, state of, noticed, 591.

Irish peasantry, sketches of, noticed, 176.
Irving's remains of Miss Davidson, 367.
Italy and the Italian Islands, noticed, 194.
letters from, noticed, 194,

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