THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. CVIII.

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

BOSTON:

FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co.
1869.

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STANFORD

JUNIOR

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF No. CCXXII.

ART.

I. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNITZ.

1. Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibnitz. Eine

Biographie. Von G. E. GUHRAUER.

2. Des Freiherrn von Leibnitz Kleinere Philosophische

Schriften, mit einer Vorrede HERRN CHRISTIAN WOLFFS.

3. Monadologie. Deutsch mit einer Abhandlung über

Leibnitz' und Herbart's Theorieen des wirklichen Ge-

schehens. Von DR. R. ZIMMERMANN.

4. Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Von

DR. JOHANN EDUARD ERDMANN.

5. FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI'S Werke.

6. LEIBNITZII, G. W. v., Opera Philosophica quæ

exstant Latina, Gallica, Germanica omnia. Edita recog-

novit J. E. ERDMANN.

II. THE MENTAL FACULTIES OF BRUTES

III. THE TARIFF OF THE UNITED STATES: SHALL IT BE

AUGMENTED OR DIMINISHED AT THE COMING SES-

SION OF CONGRESS?

IV. SIR RICHARD STEELE

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Richard Steele,

Soldier, Dramatist, Essayist, and Patriot, with his Corre-

spondence, and Notices of his Contemporaries, the Wits

and Statesmen of Queen Anne's Time. By HENRY R.

MONTGOMERY.

V. THE NEW CATALOGUE OF HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

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VI. RAILROAD INFLATION

VII. KARL OTTO VON BISMARCK-SCHÖNHAUSEN

1. Unsere Zeit. Alte und Neue Folge.

2. The Prussian Monieur, 1862 – 1868.

3. Official Reports of the Debates of the Prussian

Landtag, North-German Reichstag, and Customs-Parlia-

ment.

4. Official History of the Campaigns of 1866. By the

Staff of the Prussian Army.

5. Austria's Struggles in 1866. Official Account. By

the Staff of the Austrian Armies.

VIII. THE REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND

IX. A LOOK BEFORE AND AFTER

X. CRITICAL NOTICES

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Wallis's Writings of Cyprian, 274. Seaman's Essays on the Progress

of Nations, 276. - Porter's Human Intellect, 280. Mariano's Philo-

sophie Contemporaire en Italie, 286. - Dingelstedt's Amazon, 287.

Harkness's Practical Introduction to Latin Composition, 289.- Wake's

Chapters on Man, 290. — Chalmers's Origin of the Chinese, and Pau-

thier sur l'Antiquité de l'Histoire et de la Civilisation Chinoises, 291.

- Sainte-Beuve's Nouveaux Lundis, 296.- Fambri's Free Press and

Duelling in Italy, 299.- - Erckmann-Chatrian's Madame Thérèse, 302.

- The Ermine in the Ring, and The Erie Railroad Row, 305. - Cox's

Manual of Mythology, 310. — Baring-Gould's Book of Were-Wolves,

318. Bridges's France under Richelieu and Colbert, 322. — Haw-

thorne's American Note-Books, 323. — Howells's No Love Lost, 325.

Lecture on the Uses of the Study of History, 326.- Life and Letters

of Wilder Dwight, 327.- New Gift Books, 328. Greg's Literary and

Social Judgments, 331.

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LIST OF SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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