THE

LONDON QUARTERLY

REVIEW.

VOL. XIX.

PUBLISHED IN

OCTOBER, 1862, AND JANUARY, 1863.

LONDON:

HENRY JAMES TRESIDDER,

17, AVE MARIA LANE.

MDCCCLXIII.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICHOLS,

HOXTON SQUARE.

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CONTENTS OF NO. XXXVII.

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I. 1. A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End; and a Trip

to the Scilly Isles. By Walter White. London:

Chapman and Hall.

2. Rambles beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall

taken a-foot. By W. Wilkie Collins. Second

Edition. London: R. Bentley.

3. The Route-Book of Cornwall: A Guide for the

Stranger, Tourist, &c. With Maps and Embellish-

ments. Exeter: H. Besley.

4. Cornwall: Its Mines and Miners. With Sketches of

Scenery. By the Author of Our Coal and our Coal-

Pits,' &c. (Mr. Leifchild.) London: Longmans.

5. The Insalubrity of the Deep Cornish Mines, and, as a

Consequence, the Physical Degeneracy and Early

Deaths of the Mining Population. By Mr. John

Roberton. Reprinted from the Transactions of the

Manchester Statistical Society for 1859.

6. The Minutes of the Wesleyan Conference for 1862.

London: Mason.

II. On the Elizabethan Age, and some of its less-known

Poets.........

III. 1. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification

of the Higher Cryptogamia; and on the Fructifica-

tion of the Coniferæ. By Dr. Wilhelm Hofmeister.

Translated by Frederick Currey, M.A., F.R.S., Sec.

L.S. One Vol. 8vo. The Ray Society. 1862.

2. Ferns: British and Exotic. By E. J. Lowe, Esq.,

F.R.A.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. Eight Vols.

8vo. Groombridge and Sons. 1860.

3. A priced (and partially descriptive) Catalogue of

Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy Exotic and British

Ferns, Selaginellas, and Lycopods, offered for sale

by Abraham Stansfield and Sons, Vale Nurseries,

Todmorden. December, 1860.

4. A Catalogue of Ferns, Exotic and Indigenous, offered

for sale by Robert Kennedy, Conservatories, Covent

Garden, W. C. 1860......

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IV. 1. The Oxonian in Iceland; or, Notes of Travel in that

Island in the Summer of 1860, with Glances at Ice-

landic Folk Lore and Sagas. By the Rev. Fre-

derick Metcalfe, M.A. London: 1861.

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2. Iceland its Volcanoes, Geysers, and Glaciers. By

Charles Forbes, Commander R.N. London:

1861.

3. A Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1861. By E.

T. Holland, B.A. (One of the Chapters in Peaks,

Passes, and Glaciers: being Excursions by Mem-

bers of the Alpine Club. Second Series. Lon-

don: 1862)..

V. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. Being

the First Part of a Series of Lectures on Juris-

121

prudence, or the Philosophy of Positive Law.

Second Edition. By the late John Austin, Esq. ... 146

VI. The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National

Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by his Jour-

nals and Correspondence. By Mrs. Oliphant. In

Two Vols. London: Hurst and Blackett. 1862... 165

VII. Hid Treasures, and the Search for them being the

Substance of Lectures delivered to Bible-Classes.

By John Hartley. Mason.

VIII. North America. By Anthony Trollope. Two Vols.

London: Chapman and Hall

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234

Sir Henry Holland's Essays on Scientific and other Subjects 272

Brown's Exposition of the Epistle of St. Paul to the

Hebrews

275

De Pressensé's Religions before Christ.

276

Miss Bunnett's Louisa Juliane, Electress Palatine, and her

Times

277

Neale's Sunsets and Sunshine

279