THE

FOREIGN

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XXVII.

PUBLISHED IN

APRIL, M. DCCC. XLI.

AND

JULY, M. DCCC. XLI.

LONDON:

BLACK AND ARMSTRONG,
Foreign Booksellers to Her Majesty, to the Queen Dowager,
and to H. R. H. Prince Albert,

8, WELLINGTON STREET NORTH.

1841.

LONDON:

C. ROWORTH AND SONS, BELL YARD,

FLEET STREET.

CONTENTS

OF

No. LIII.

ART. I.—Italian Drama

II.—Inedited Memoirs of Admiral Chichagoff, a Russian

Minister of State....

III.-Rabel-ber Life and Writings

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1

38

57

IV.-Engraving-Ancient and Modern.--Part II..........

74

V.-Tezcuco, or ancient Mexico

102

VI.-Rousseau, and the modern Littérature Extravagante.... 118

CRITICAL SKETCHES of recent Continental Publications.

X.-1. Reimer, Mittheilungen von und über Goethe, aus mund-

lichen und schriftlichen Quellen (Communications of

and concerning Goethe).

2. Johann Heinrich Merck, ein Denkmal von D. A. Stahr

(Memoirs of J. H. Merck)

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200