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INDEX TO VOLUME IV.

A

ADVICE to young ladies on the im-

DVICE to young ladies on the im-
provement of the mind, by Mr. Broad-
hurst, reviewed, 1. Capacities of the
sexes, equal, ib. Importance of educa-
ting women, 2. Objections to it consi-
dered, 2. et seq. Follies in the educa-
tion of women, 8. Usefulness of know-
ledge, 9.

Advice to a young reviewer, 269. Speci-
men of reviewing, 274.
Air balloon, 67.

Alcohol [see Societé D'Arcueil]
Aleppo, account of, 42.

Alfieri, Victor, memoirs of the life and
writings of, 13. Born at Asti, 14. Sent
to Turin, 15. contempt for dancing, ib.
His passion for horses, 16. His idleness,
dissipation, & ennui, 16. Goes to Ve-
nice, to Marseilles & Paris, 17. To En-
gland, 18. To Holland, ib. To Italy, 19.
To Vienna, ib. To Prussia, ib. To Den-
mark, ib. To St. Petersburg, ib. To
Gottingen, 20. Return to England, ib.
To Holland, ib. To France, ib. To
Spain, ib. His impetuosity, ib. To Por-
tugal, 21. To Turin, ib. His extrava-
gance, and firmness in love, ib. His pas-
sion for literature, 22. His trage
dies, 23. His attachment to the countess
of Albany, ib. Follows her to Rome,
ib. Goes to England to purchase horses,
24. Goes to Baden, ib. Rejoins the
countess of Albany at Alsace, ib. Goes
to Paris, ib. Publishes his works, 25.
Goes to England, ib. Returns to Paris,
ib. Driven by the revolution to Florence,
ib. Acts his own plays, ib. His satirical
productions and translations, ib. Stu-
dies Greek, ib. His comedies, 26 His
death, ib.

America, travels in, by Thomas Ashe,
reviewed, 108.
America, South, travels in, by Hum-
boldt, 217. Climate of, 227.
-, by don

Felix de Azara, 289.
Angora Wool, account of, 69.
Ashe's travels in America, reviewed, 108.
Pittsburgh, ib. Wheeling, 112. Marietta,
ib. Indian remains, ib. Chilicothe, 113.
Kentucky, 114. Louisville, 115: St.

Louis, ib. St. Genevieve, ib. Natchez,
116. New-Orleans, ib.
Assassin of Glenroy, a novel, by A. F.
Holstein, 258.

Autumnal Evenings, by Mlle. G. Bertho.
let, 407.

Azara, Don Felix de; his travels in South
America, 289. Mode of travelling, 291.

B

Babel, tower of, account of, 44.
Bagdad, account of, ib.
Barton, Benjamin Smith, on the torpidity
of animals, 126.

Bass's Straits [see Dentrecasteaux]
Bertholet [see Autumnal Evenings]
Bohon Upas, account of, 280.
Buonaparte, Secret History of the Cabinet
of, by Lewis Goldsmith, 397. Treaty
of Tilsit, 404.

Bookstealer, a conscientious, 211.
Broadhurst Mr. his advice to young ladies
on the improvement of the mind, re-
viewed, 1.

Bruce, James, defence of, 130.
Burghut; or Banian Tree of India, ac-
count of, 282.

Burgundy, duke of, mode of educating
him by Fenelon, 51.
Burnet, widow, account of, 138.
Brass vessels, mode of preserving them
from contracting verdigris, 68.
Bushear, account of, 46.
Busora, account of, 46.

C

Calcutta [see East-India vade-mecum]
Carteret Bay [see Dentrecasteaux]
Charles 2d. account of his escape from
the battle of Worcester, 409.
Chatelet, travels of the duke de, in Por-
tugal, 167.

Chilicothe [see Ashe.]

Clarke, E. Daniel, his travels in various
countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa,
373. Emperour Paul, 375. Moscow, 377.
Siberia, 379. Character and manners of
the Russians, 378 et seq. The Crimea,
388. Don Cossacks, Kuban Tartars, Cir-
cassians, and Crim Tartars, 393.
Conscriptions, in France, account of, 163.
Copenhagen, battle of, 101.
Corpulence, instance of, 63.

Cotin, Madame, her novel of Theodore Hatt, Richard [see Hermit}

and Blanche, 116.
Crows, pairing of, 286.

D

Dentrecasteaux, voyage of, in search of
La Peyrouse, 146. History of the work,
148. Sails from Brest, 149. Cape of
Good Hope, 150. St. Paul, 151. Van
Diemen's Land, 152. Island of Pines,
153. Carteret Bay, 155. New Guinea,
ib. Bass's Straits, 156. Tongataboo,
157. Death of Dentrecasteaux, 159.
Java, 160. Character of the work, ib.
Devils who catch men, a Tale, 427.
Dimond, William, his play of the Donbt-
ful Son, 353

Doubtful Son, a Play, by Mr. Dimond,

355.

Duke's Feast, a tale, 428.

E

East-India vade-mecum, by captain Willi-
amson, reviewed, 33. Calcutta, 34.
Mode of passing the time in India, ib.
Diet, 35. Annual inundation, 36.
Elton, C. A. Poetry by, 427.
Erskine, Thomas, his speeches reviewed,
295. Defence of lord George Gordon,
297. Of Stockdale, 299. Of Perry, 306.
Of Frost, 307. Of Baillie, 310.
Estevan de Xeres, story of, 264.
Eugene, Prince of Savoy, memoirs of the
life of, 336.

Euphrates, account of the river, 45.
Euston, a novel, reviewed, 48.

Evans, sir Hugh, suggestions on Shakes-
peare's character of, 57.

F

Falstaff, sir John, character of, 408.
Fatal Revenge, or the family of Monto-
rio, by Dennis Jasper Murphy, review-
ed, 323. Plan of the story, 326.

Fejee Islands, account of, 350.

Hernia, cure of, 68.

Hermit, with other poems, by Richard
Hatt, 407.

Hias-Taa-Tomchon, a Chinese plant, 348.
Holstein, A. F. his "Assassin of Glenroy,'
Hogarth, anecdote of, 62.

258.

Humboldt [see Jorulla]
Horse Chestnuts, paints from, 68.
Humboldt, his Tableau Phisique des Re-
gions Equatoriales, 217. Account of his
travels, 217 to 223. Difference between
the Old and New World, 223. Climate
of America, 227. Vegetable produc-
tions, 231. Animal productions, 235.
Constitution and hahits of the Indians,
238.

Hydrostatick Balance, 67.

I

Ink, recipe for making, for marking linen,
68.

Indian remains in America [see Ashe]
Indians, Constitution and habits of the, 238.
Irish persecution prevented, 212.
Ismail, siege of, by Souwarof, 244.

J

Jeu d'esprit of Dr. John Wallis, 60.
Jorullo, on the Volcanos of, by Hum-
boldt, 343.

K

King's Evil, superstition of the Royal
Kentucky [see Ashe]
Touch for the cure of, 353.

L

Lady of the Lake, a poem by Walter Scott,
reviewed, 312. Plan of the story, 313.
L'Allegro, ironical review of, 274.
La Peyrouse, voyage in search of, 146.

Fenelon, his mode of educating the duke Laverne, L. M. P. de, his Memoirs of Su-

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Madness and melancholy, observations on,
by Haslem, 253. Symptoms, 255. Causes,
255. Hereditary disposition, 256.

Haslam, John, his observations on mad- Magnetism, mode of communicating it, 67.

ness and melancholy, 353.

Mohamedan forbearance, 212.

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