THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. LXXI.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN,

No. 112 WASHINGTON STREET.

RHODE

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by CHARLES C. LITTLE, JAMES BROWN, AND AUGUSTUS FLAGG, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED BY BOLLES AND HOUGHTON.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CXLVIII.

ART.

I.

SIR T. F. BUXTON'S LABORS AS AN OPPONENT OF

SLAVERY.

Memoirs of SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON, BArt.

Edited by his Son, CHARLES BUXTON, ESQ., B. A.

II. TRUMBULL'S PUBLIC RECORDS OF CONNECTICUT

The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut,

prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, May,

1665. By J. HAMMOND TRUMbull.

III. THOMPSON AND KAEMPTZ ON METEOROLOGY

1. Introduction to Meteorology. By DAVID PUR-

DIE THOMPSON, M. D., Grad. Univ. Edin.

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1

2. A Complete Course of Meteorology. By L. F.

KAEMPTZ, Professor of Physics at the University of

Halle. With Notes, by CH. MARTINS. Translated,

with Notes and Additions, by C. V. Walker.

IV. LODGE'S TRANSLATION OF WINCKELMANN ON AN-
CIENT ART

The History of Ancient Art. Translated from the

German of JOHN WINCKELMANN, by G. HENRY

LODGE.

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51

99

V. COOPER'S WAYS OF THE HOUR: THE TRIAL BY JURY. 121

The Ways of the Hour; a Tale. By J. FENNI-

MORE COOPER, Author of "The Spy."

VI. HAWTHORNE's Scarlet Letter

135

The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. By NATHANIEL

HAWTHORNE.

VII. ALLSTON'S POEMS AND LECTURES ON ART

149

Lectures on Art, and Poems. By WASHINGTON

ALLSTON. Edited by RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR.