THE

AMERICAN

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XVII.

MARCH & JUNE, 1885.

PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED BY LYDIA R. BAILEY,

NO. 26 NORTH FIFTH STREET.

1835.

CONTENTS OF No. XXXIII.

ART.

I. CLASSICAL LEARNING,

An Address delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of

Harvard University, 28th August, 1834, on Classical Learning

and Eloquence. By William Howard Gardiner, Counsellor at

Law.

A Discourse on the Studies of the University. By Adam

Sedgwick, M. A., F. R. S., &c. Woodwardian Professor and Fel-

low of Trinity College, Cambridge.

A Discourse pronounced at the Inauguration of the Author as

Eliot Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University. Au-

gust 26th, 1834. By Cornelius C. Felton, A. M.

Oration on the Comparativ Elements and Dutys of Grecian

and American Eloquence: Deliverd before the Erodelphian So-

ciety of Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio; on the 23d Septem-

ber, 1834: being their ninth annual celebration; with notes. By

Thomas Smith Grimké, of Charleston, S. C.

An Address delivered on Monday, December 22d, 1834, by

Rev. John Ludlow, D. D., on the occasion of his Inauguration as

Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

II. POEMS OF LAMARTINE,

Euvres d'Alphonse de Lamartine.

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Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses, par A. de Lamartine.

III. THREE YEARS IN THE PACIFIC,

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Three Years in the Pacific; including Notices of Brazil, Chile,

Bolivia, and Peru. By an Officer in the United States Navy.

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The Writings of Gcorge Washington, &c. By Jared Sparks.

Vols. IV. and V.

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IV. WRITINGS OF WASHINGTON,

V. GUTZLAFF'S CHINA,

A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern: compris-

ing a retrospect of the Foreign Intercourse and Trade with China.

Illustrated by a new and corrected Map of the Empire. By the

Rev. Charles Gutzlaff, now, and for many years past, resident in

that Country.

VI. AMERICAN PAINTERS,

History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the

United States. By William Dunlap, Vice-President of the Na-

tional Academy of Design, Author of the History of the American

Theatre, Biography of G. F. Cooke, &c.

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