THE National Quarterly Review. TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. A SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY AND CRITICAL JOURNAL; EACH NUMBER CONTAINING 240 PAGES; PUBLISHED IN JANUARY, APRIL, JULY AND OCTOBER. DAVID A. GORTON, M. D. AND CHARLES H. WOODMAN, EDITORS. WITH the Twenty-first year of its existence, the NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW enters upon a new career of prosperity and usefulness. Such changes have occurred in the Proprietorship and Business Management of the WORK as will enable the Editors to place before a far wider circle of readers than heretofore the best efforts, in the most important departments of learning, of the most authoritative writers-Scientists, Scholars, Statesmen, Jurists, and Critics. While great names are often represented in the REVIEW, the mere eminence of a name is not permitted to influence the choice of contributions. 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