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LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

113

VOLUME CXIII.

JANUARY-APRIL, 1863.,

AMERICAN EDITION.

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A.

ALFORD'S Greek Testament, 50; boldness in recon-
struction of the text, 52.

Alma, position of the armies at the battle of the,
288; description of the battle, 290; losses of the
Allies, 297.

Alpaca, its introduction into New South Wales, 10;
importation of its wool, ib.; cross with the
llama, 11; its habits, ib.

American war, 166; classification of errors in the
English view of American affairs, 167; resources
of the South as to clothing, food, and arms, 168,
169; original great want of arms, 169; peculiar
strength and weakness of the South, 170; its
general rush to arms, ib.; composition of the
Northern armies, ib; contrasted with Southern
troops, 170, 171; want of organisation among
the Federalists, 171; Southern military schools,
172; seizure of the Southern forts, ib.; Northern
design of sacrificing its garrison in Fort Sumter
to excite enthusiasm, 173; the 'Anaconda'
scheme a fatal blunder, 173, 174; its first deve-
lopment in the invasion of Virginia, 174; supe-
riority of Southern tactics, 175; fatal defect in
the constitution of the Northern forces, ib.; bat-
tle of Bull Run described, 175, 176; wise orga-
nisation of the Southern army, 176; enthusiasm
of the South, 176, 177; depredations of the
“Nashville' and 'Sumter' on Northern com-
merce, 177; barbarous attempt to destroy the
port of Charleston, ib.; seizure of the Southern
Commissioners on board the 'Trent,' ib.; singu-
lar circumstances of the surrender of Fort Don-
nelson, 178; its disastrous consequences to the
South, 174; fall of New Orleans, ib.; the 'Mer-
rimac' and Monitor,' 179, 180; tide of Federal
successes turned, 180; defeats of M'Clellan and
Pope, 180, 181; Harper's Ferry seized by the
South, 181; battle of Antietam Creek, ib.; de-
feat of General Burnside, 182; the Federalists
submerge vast regions by cutting the banks of
the Mississippi, 183; probable results of the war,
ib.

Andes, table-lands of the, 5; cities on great eleva-
tions of, ib.; geological formation, ib.; passes,
6; aborigines, 7.

Ashworth's magnificent salmon fisheries, 208.
Assam tea plantations, 151.

Aurora Floyd' reviewed, 257.

B.

Bayle's Critical Dictionary,' 189.
Biographical dictionaries, necessity of including
living persons in, 198.

Birkbeck (Dr.), originator of Mechanics' Institu-
tions, 19.

'Black wood's Magazine,' origin of 117.
Brown's Natural History of the Salmon,' 207.
(Sir G.), 287; Mr. Kinglake's attack on,

294.

Burke's (Edmund) Memorandum on his public ser-
vices, 125, 126.

C.

Cambridge (Duke of) at the battle of the Alma, 295.
Campbell (Sir Colin) at the battle of the Alma, 296.
Chalmers's, the earliest biographical dictionary, 192.
Charles Edward (Prince), poetical remains of, 124.
Chatham (Lord) enigma by, 130.
Chili, Republic of, 18.

Chincha Islands, guano of, 10.
Chirimoya, an exquisite Peruvian fruit, 8.
Chunchos of Peru, the, 7; never eat their female
prisoners, ib.

Church, the constant victim of Liberal Ministers,
134; anti-Church pledges readily taken by can-
didates, 135.

education, Mr. Lowe's attacks on, 137.

Cinchona, or quinine, discovery of, 6; diminution
of mortality effected by, ib.

Coca, the solace of the Peruvian Indian, 16.
Codrington (General) at the battle of the Alma,

293.

Colenso and Davidson on the Old Testament, 220;
Bishop Colenso should have waited to determine
his promised substitute for the religion of the
Bible, 221; confuses two classes of evidence,
222; Elohistic and Jehovistic theory, 223; illo-
gical statement in answer to Dr. McCaul, ib.;
insufficient induction of the Partitionists, 224;
the unity of Daniel acknowledged, notwith-
standing the promiscuous use of the two names,
225; Dr. Davidson's absurd examples to prove
diversity of authorship in Genesis, ib. ; examina-
tion of phrases said to be peculiar to each
writer, 226; refutation of pretended inconsisten-
cies, ib.; assertion that the name Jehovah did
not exist till the time of Saul, 228; Colenso's
blundering from haste, ib.; insufficient reasons
for chronology of the Psalms, 229; discussion of
Psalm lxviii., 230; internal unity of the Penta-
teuch undisturbed by the partition system, 231;
variation of the names Jehovah and Elohim ac-
counted for, 231, 232; the Elohistic theory a
speculative dream, 232; reflections on Bishop
Colenso's position in the Church, 233.

Coleridge's poetry, Jeffrey's opinion of, 115.
Convict management in Ireland, 84; four princi-
ples of the system, 84, 85; test of self-control,
86; voluntary emigration encouraged, ib.; esta-
blishment at Lusk, ib.; approach to freedom by
exertion and good behaviour, 87; the mark sys-
tem, 88; supervision of discharged convicts, ib.;
only 7 per cent. of tickets of leave recalled, 89;
English and Irish systems contrasted, 90. See
Ticket of Leave'

Corneille's Dictionary,' singular circumstances
originating, 185.

Coronelli's Biblioteca Universale,' 191; author of
111 printed volumes in various languages, ib.
Cotton-plant, great value of the Peruvian, 11, 12.
question, the, 154, 155.
Radicals, 133.

Coup d'état of 2nd December, 272, 273.
Crimea, invasion of the, 268; Russian breach of
international law, 272; account of the origin of
the war, 276; Vienna Note, 278; injurious de-
lay in landing the British troops, 285. See
Kinglake.'

Cuzco, the ancient capital of Peru, 5.
Cyclopædias, history of, 183; Chambers's Cyclo-

pædia,' the origin of the Encyclopédie,' 184;
Harris's Lexicon Technicum,' ib.; Corneille's
and Furetière's rival dictionaries, 185, 186; Gold-
smith's project of a cyclopædia, 187; the Encyclo-
pædia Britannica,' 187, 188; Historical dictionary
of Moréri, 188; Bayle's Critical Dictionary,'
189; supposed encyclopædia by Acquaviva, ib.;
Alsted's Encyclopædia' the first work of mag-
nitude bearing the name, 190; the title origi-
nated by Acquaviva, or by Ringelburgius, ib.;
Hofman's Lexicon Universale,' 191; Coronelli's
'Biblioteca Universale,' ib.; Zedler's Universal
Lexicon,' in 64 folio volumes, ib.; Chalmers's
the earliest biographical dictionary, 192; the
great work of Ersch and Grüber still advancing,
192, 193; 'Krünitz's Encyclopädie,' in 242 vo-
lumes, 193; Conversations-Lexicon,' ib.; Ge-
lehrten-Lexicon, or Biographical Dictionary of
Authors,' ib.; Brockhaus's Lexicon,' ib.; other
foreign encyclopædias, 193, 194; translations of
the Conversations Lexikon,' 194, 195; Robert
Chambers's Cyclopædia,' 195; suggestion for a
European cyclopædia, ib; recent English ency-

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