THE

AMERICAN

QUARTERLY REGISTER.

CONDUCTED BY

B. B. EDWARDS AND S. H. RIDDEL.

VOL. XIV.

PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

BOSTON:

PRESS OF T. R. MARVIN, 24 CONGRESS STREET.

1842.

ADVERTISEMENT.

We now close the fourteenth volume, and the fifteenth year of our labors. Through the favor of Providence, we are permitted to believe that our work has not been altogether in vain. Occupying a department which is filled by no other publication, we have hoped that it would acquire some permanent value, as a repository of minute and authentic facts, methodically arranged, on a great variety of important subjects. On this very account, however, it is less popular in its character, and is less certain of an adequate patronage. Good wishes are sometimes regarded as a substitute for substantial support.

We commence the fifteenth volume with the earnest hope, that the friends of the work, and the patrons of the American Education Society, will extend a generous patronage to it; so that its conductors may be able to make it still more worthy of the confidence of a discerning public.

BOSTON, MAY 1, 1842.