THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

OCT. 1809....... JAN. 1810.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITur.

PUBLIUS SYRUS,

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. XV.

Edinburgh:

Printed by D. Willison,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH; AND

CONSTABLE, HUNTER, PARK, AND HUNTER,

LONDON.

ART. I. Discours sur le Progrès des Sciences, Lettres et Arts,

depuis 1789 jusqu'à ce jour (1808); ou, Compte

rendu par l'Institut de France à S. M. l'Empereur

et Roi

II. The Columbiad: a Poem. By Joel Barlow

III. Essays on Professional Education. By R. L. Edge-

worth, Esq. F. R. S. &c.

IV. A View of Spain; comprising a descriptive Itinerary

of each Province, and a general Statistical Account

of the Country. Translated from the French of

Alexander de Laborde

V. The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, with some of

the Letters of her Correspondents. Part the First;

containing her Letters from an early Age to the Age

of Twenty-three. Published by her Nephew and
Executor Mathew Montagu, Esq. M. P. -

VI. Application de la Theorie de la Legislation Penale,

ou Code de la Sureté Publique et Particuliere, fondé

sur les Regles de la Morale Universelle, sur le Droit

des Gens ou Primitif des Societés, et sur leur Droit

Particulier, dans l'Etat actuel de la Civilization, &c.

Par Scipion Bexon, ancien Avocat, &c. &c. &c.

VII. The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan. Translated

from the Greek into English Verse, by C. Abraham

Elton

P. 1

24.

40

58

75

88

109

142

VIII. An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical

Botany. By J. E. Smith, M. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. 118

IX. Memoires de Physique et Chimie de la Societé d'Ar-

cueil. Tom. I.

X. Eschyli Tragœdiæ, ex Editione Thoma Stanleii. Ac-

cedunt Notæ VV. DD. quibus suas intertexuit Sa-

muel Butler, A. M. Tom. I. 4to. Tom. I. & II.

8vo.

XI. Parliamentary Logic: to which are subjoined Two

Speeches, and other Pieces. By the Right Hon.

W. Gerard Hamilton

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