EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

NOVEMBER 1849-FEBRUARY 1850.

VOL. XII.

EDINBURGH:

W. P. KENNEDY, SOUTH ST. ANDREW STREET;
LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.;

DUBLIN: JAMES M'GLASHAN.

MDCCCL.

CONTENTS OF No. XXIII.

ART.

I. What is Life Assurance? Explained by Practical Illus-

trations of its Principles; with Observations on each

description of Assurance, and on the Rates of Premium

charged by the different Offices. By Jenkin Jones,

Actuary to the National Mercantile Life Assurance

Society, Author of a "Series of Assurance Tables,

calculated from a New Rate of Mortality," &c. &c.

London, 1847,

II. 1. Draft Report by Lord Monteagle on the Irish Poor-

Law. 1849.

2. Sixth Report of the Lords on the Irish Poor-Law.

1849.

3. Second Annual Report of Irish Poor-Law Commis-

III. 1. Bibliothèque Choisie. Tom. VI. 1716.

2. Oxford and Locke. By Lord Grenville. London,

1829.

3. Life of John Locke. By Lord King.

Second

4. Original Letters of John Locke, Algernon Sidney, and

Lord Shaftesbury. Edited by T. Forster.

Edition. London, privately printed, 1847.

5. Ward's Lives of the Professors of Gresham College.

6. Thomæ Sydenham, M.D., Opera omnia. Edidit G. A.

Greenhill, M.D. Londini, impensis Societatis Syden-

hamianæ, 1844.

7. The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.; with a Life

of the Author. By R. G. Latham, M.D. Vol. I.

Printed for the Sydenham Society,

IV. 1. The Promethean or Communitarian Apostle, a

Monthly Magazine of Societarian Science, Domestics,

Ecclesiastics, Politics, and Literature. Edited by

Goodwyn Barmby. London, 1842.

Page

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2. The Spirit of the Times, a Journal of Education,

Colonization, Politics, and Social Progress. 1849.

3. The Book of the New Moral World, containing the

Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable

Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Hu-

man Nature and of Society. By Robert Owen.

1841-1844.

4. Robert Owen's Reply to the Question, "What would

you do if you were Prime Minister of England ?”

Second Edition. Undated,

V. 1. Notes and Lectures upon Shakespere and some of the

Old Poets and Dramatists, with other Literary Re-

mains of S. T. Coleridge. Edited by Mrs. H. N.

Coleridge. 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1849.

86

2. An Inquiry into the Philosophy and Religion of

Shakespere. By W. J. Birch. London, 1848. 12mo, 115

VI. Pouvoir du Pape au Moyen Age, ou Recherches His-
toriques sur l'origine de la Souveraineté Temporelle
du Saint Siège, et sur le Droit Public du Moyen Age
relativement à la déposition des Souverains. Par M.
**, Directeur au Séminaire de Saint Sulpice, (Abbé

Gosselin.) Paris, 1845,

VII. Memoirs and Correspondence (official and familiar) of Sir

Robert Murray Keith, K.B., Envoy extraordinary and

minister plenipotentiary at the Courts of Dresden,

Copenhagen, and Vienna, from 1769 to 1792. With

a Memoir of Queen Carolina Matilda of Denmark, and

an Account of the Revolution there in 1772. Edited

by Mrs Gillespie Smith. 2 vols. London, 1849,

VIII. 1. Papers relating to the Punjab. 1849.

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169

2. Leaves from the Journal of a Subaltern, during the

Campaign in the Punjab. Edinburgh, 1849, . 193

IX. Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different

Climates, with Scientific Elucidations. By Alexander

von Humboldt. Translated by Mrs. Sabine. In 2

vols. 12mo. Pp. 650,

X. 1. Report made to His Majesty by a Royal Commission

of Inquiry into the State of the Universities of Scot-

land. Ordered by the House of Commons to be

printed, 7th October 1831. Additional Report, 1838,

1839.

2. On Subscription to Articles of Faith: a Plea for the

Liberties of the Scottish Universities, &c. By John

Stuart Blackie, Professor of Humanity in Marischal

College, Aberdeen. 1843, .

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