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THE
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
REPOSITORY,
AND
CRITICAL REVIEW.
No. I.
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY.
NEW-YORK:
WILEY & HALSTED.
CLAYTON & KINGSLAND, PRINTERS.
JULY, 1820.
P267.5
CONTENTS
OF
ORIGINAL.
ART. I. Memoirs of my own Times; by General James Wil-
kinson. (Review.)
ART. II. Sketch of the Life of the late Hon. Alfred Moore;
From the pen of a high judicial character of North-
Carolina.
ART. III. Two Letters, on the Lands, Settlements, &c. of the
Western States and Territories. (Written from that
country, to a friend.)
SELECT.
Page.
1
24
28
ABT. I. Examination of the first principles of Geology; by
G. B. Greenough, President of the Geological So-
ciety, Lond. &c. (From the Monthly Review.)
On the same work. (From the Edinburgh Review.) 44
ART. II. Euvres de Demosthene et d'Eschine, en Grec et en
Francais: nouvelle edition, par J. Planche, Pro-
fesseur de Retorique, &c. (From the Edinburgh
Review.)
ART. III. Speeches of Lord Grenville, the Rt. Hon. W. C.
Plunket, and the Rt. Hon. George Canning, in
the British Parliament. [Recent alarms in Eng-
land.] (From the Edinburgh Review.)
37
51
68
On the same subject. (From the Quarterly Review.) 93
On the article in the Edinburgh Review. (From
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.)
128
ART. IV. INTRODUCTION to the Retrospective Review, No. 1. 130
The Tragedies of the last age considered and examined, by
Mr. Rymer, &c. 1692.
A short view of Tragedy; with some reflections on Shake-
spear, and other practitioners for the stage; by Mr. Rymer, 136
ART. V. On the Genius and Influence of Woman. (From the
New Monthly Magazine.)
ART. VI. Thesaurus Græcæ Linguæ ab H. Stephano con-
structus: in ædibus Valpianis. (From the Quarter-
ly Review.)
148
163
ART. VII. Statistical Annals of the United States of America;
by Adam Seybert. (From the Edinburgh Review.) 177
ART. VIII. On the Writings of Charles Brockden Brown and
Washington Irving. (From Blackwood's Edin-
burgh Magazine.)
187
On the Sketch Book. (From the Eclectic Review.)192
ART. IX. "T'other side of the Ohio," and Paulding's Back-
woodsman. (From the New Monthly Magazine.) 196
ART. X. Emigrant's Directory to the Western States of North
America; by A. Amphlet, now resident on the
banks of the Ohio, &c. (From the Monthly Review.) 211
ART. XI. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain re-
specting the United States, &c.; by Robert Walsh,
Esq. (From the British Critic.)
ART. XII. Brutus, or the fall of Tarquin, an Historical Tra-
gedy; by John Howard Payne. (From the Quar-
terly Review.)
ART. XIII. 1. Laon and Cythna, &c. a Vision of the nine-
teenth century; by Percy B. Shelly. 2. The Re-
volt of Islam; a poem; by Percy B. Shelly.
(From the Quarterly Review.)
214
219
223
3. Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, and other
Poems; by Percy Bysshe Shelly. (From Black-
wood's Edinburgh Magazine.)
231
4. The Cenci; a Tragedy, in five acts; by Percy
B. Shelly. (From the New Monthly Magazine) 240
ART. XIV. A Sicilian Story, with other Poems; by Barry
Cornwall. (From the Edinburgh Review.)
243
List of American, and important European, late Publications. 256