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Massachusetts quarterly review

J.R. Lowell's review of Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is in v. 3, p. 40-51 (Dec. 1849)
Journal, Magazine, English, [1848-1850]
[Coolidge & Wiley], [Boston], [1848-1850]
Periodicals
3 volumes ; 23 cm
1756840
March, 1848. Art. 1. Has slavery in the United States a legal basis? pt. 1. The unconstitutionality of slavery / Lysander Spooner ; pt. 2. Review of Lysander Spooner's essay on the unconstitutionality of slavery / Wendell Phillips
Art. 2. A system of logic, ratiocinative and inductive; being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investivation / John Stuart Mill
Art. 3. pt. 1. City document no. 40. Reports of the annual visiting committees of the public schools of the City of Boston, 1847. pt. 2. Eleventh annual report of the board of education; together with the eleventh annual report of the secretary of the board, Boston 1848
Art. 4. A history of the Hebrew monarchy from the administration of Samuel to the Babylonish captivity
Art. 5. The pictorical book of ballads, traditional and romantic; with introductory notices, glossary and notes / edited by J.S. Moore. (Cont.) Art. 6. Short reviews. "The Princess" by Alfred Tennyson ; Traitement moral, hygiene, et education des idiots et des autres enfants arrieres, &c. / Edouard Seguin ; De l'idiotie chez les enfants, &c. / Felix Voisin ; Briefe ueber den Abendberg und Heilanstalt fur Cretinismus / Dr. Guggenbuhl ; General principles of the philosophy of nature; with an outline of some of its recent developments among the Germans, embracing the philosophical systems of Schelling and Hegel, and Oken's system of nature / J.B. Stallo ; Desultory notes on the government and people of China, and on the Chinese language, &c. / Thomas Taylor Meadows. (Reviews cont.) Theodore Parker's neu-unitarischen Predigers zu Boston, Untersuchungen uber Religion; aus dem Englischen ubersetzt und mit einem Vorwort begleitet / Heinrich Wolf ; An American dictionary of the English language, &c. / Noah Webster ; Revolutionary services and civil life of General William Hull, prepared from his manuscripts by his daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell; together with the history of the campaign of 1812 and surrender of the Port of Detroit / James Freeman Clarke
A letter to the people of the United States, touching the matter of slavery / Theodore Parker ; Essays, lectures, and orations / Ralph Waldo Emerson. June, 1848. Art. 1. Has slavery in the United States a legal basis?
Art. 2. Swedenborg [James, Henry] as a theologian
De la Misere des Classes Laorieuses en Angleterre et en France / Eugene Buret ; Report of the Massachusetts commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition of idiots in the commonwealth / S.G. Howe
Art. 4. A discourse occasioned by the death of John Quincy Adams, delivered at the Melodeon, in Boston, March 5th, 1848 / Theodore Parker. (Cont.) Art . 6. Short reviews. Historie de la philosophie Allemande depuis Kant jusqu'a Hegel / J. Willm ; Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en France, au XVII siecle / M. Ph. Damiron ; Geschichte der Naturphilosophie von Baco von Verulam bis auf unsere Zeit / Julius Schaller ; Rest in the church / author of "From Oxford to Rome" ; Der Socinianismus nach seiner Stellung in der gesammtentwickelung des christlichen Geistes ; nach seinem historicschen Verlauf und nach seinem Lehrbegriff dargestellt von Otto Fock, &c. ; Twenty-four years in the Argentine Republic, &c. / Q. Anthony King ; Legal bibliography, or a thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch law-books / J.G. Marvin. Sept. 1848. Art. 1 The philosophy of the ancient Hindoos
Art. 2. Memoir of William Ellery Channing; with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts
Art. 3. Principles of zoology: with numerous illustrations. For the use of schools and colleges / Louis Agassiz and Augustus A. Gould
Art. 4. Constitutionality of slavery
Art. 5. Apologetical and explanatory. (Cont.) Art. 6. Short reviews and notices. A plea for peasant proprietors, & ct. / Wm. Thomas Thornton ; Essays and tales by John Sterling; with a memoir of his life / Julius Charles Hare ; The artist's married life, being that of Albert Durer / Mrs. J.R. Stoddart ; New translation of Dante
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