1873, Jury 10. Gift of
Hon. Ger. P. Bigelow,
of Bostik. (15.26-1829.)
SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Annexation of Texas, 483—520; Mar- quette and La Salle's enterprizes on the Mississippi, 483; French settlement in Texas, 484; Conflict of French and Spanish claim, ib.; Cessions of Louisiana, Spanish claim beyond the Sabine and trea- ty of 1819, 485; Mexican confed- eration, 487; sovereignty of Texas, 488; usurpation of Santa Anna, and constitution of 1824, 489; Tex- as independent of Mexico, 491; Effects of enlarging the American Union, 492; opinions of Conven- tion as to new States, 493; French acquisition of Louisiana,494; Gou- verneur Morris' speech on the oc- casion, 495; purchase of Louisiana and Florida-proceedings of the Hartford Convention, 496; how American liberty endangered, 498; British policy in Texas, 499; Aber- deen's letter, 500; British residents abroad prohibited slave property, 501; fugitive slaves, Creole case- "world's convention," 502; cause of British interference with Afri- can slavery, 504; extracts from
Blackwood's Magazine, 505; Bri- tish and other colonial trade com- pared, 506; present condition of free blacks in Jamaica and Hayti, 508; extracts from Mr. Walker's speech, comparing the condition of free blacks at the North with Southern slaves and European po- pulation, 509; influence of aboli- tion doctrines upon slavery, 512; Calhoun's letter to Packenham, 513; possible amelioration of the slaves' condition, 514; position of the South, 515; influence of annex- ation on the institution of slavery, 517; true question involved in the annexation of Texas, 519-520. Anthon's Greek Prosody, largely in- debted to Professor Sandford, 247; Pindaric metres, 249. Alida; or Town and Country, 527.
Brande's Encyclopedia, 264. Brougham's Sketches of Statesmen, 95. C.
Characteristics of the Statesman, 95—
129; importance of the subject, 98; statesman related to government, 99; mutually act upon each other, 100; statesman in the earliest stage of society, 101; progress of civili- zation and society traced, 102; higher requisitions upon the states- man, 104; complexness of modern systems of law and government, 105; Montesquieu's views, ib; ex- amination of Dugald Stuart's max- im that legislation will be simpli- fied as society advances to perfec- tion, 106; statesman's intellectual endowments, 107; mistakes as to cause and effect in the political world, 108; great revolutions often from trivial causes, 109; the states- man's knowledge, 110; grossness of modern notions on this point, 111; exclusion of lawyers from public affairs, ib.; statesman ac- cording to Greeks, Romans-So- crates and Bacon's views, 113; virtue an essential characteristic, 114; the statesman's religion (note) ib.; corruption of statesmen, 115; their exposure to trial and tempta- tion, 116; Demosthenes consider- ed, ib.; American statesman, 117; deplorable state of public morals in our country, 118; prostitution of public men, ib.; political intol- erance, 119; Dr. Franklin's versi- fication of "Abraham and the Stranger," 120, corruption of the ballot box, 123; legislative corrup- tion, 121; instability of the public mind, 122; degrading acts of poli- ticians, 124; when political excite- ment needed, 125; when unnatural and ruinous, ib.; the vis medicatrix in government, 126; examples of eminent statesmen, 127. Carroll's Collections, 130. Cicero's Letters, 353-370; Cicero's character not understood, 353; his oratory, 355; his insincerity, ib.; guilt in the murder of Cæsar, 356; his ingratitude to Cæsar, 359; ex- tracts from his letters concerning Cæsar, ib.; motives for Cicero's conduct, 363; his prostitution of profession as a lawyer, 364; de- fends odious criminality, 365; Ci- cero's baseness in private life,366; conduct to his wife, 367; Cicero and Socrates, as men, 368; impor-
tance of virtue in public charac- ters, 370.
Calvin's Life, 256; blind defence of the reformers deprecated, 257; D'- Aubigné, 258; Calvin's ordination, ib.; his influence on republican- ism, 259.
Cranch's Poems, 259.
Conquest of Mexico, 163–227; early Spain, 163; romance of Moorish wars and influence upon Spanish character, 164; Columbus, 165; eminent captains of that age, 168; Hernando Cortes compared with Alexander the Great, 170; his birth, education and early exploits, 174; sails for Hispaniola, 176; turns farmer, 178; his avarice,180; Cortes' character defended, 181; his religion, 184; Columbus' dis- coveries, 185; expedition against Yucatan, 186; Cortes assumes .command, 187; his armament, 188; wars with the savages, 189; Cor- tes hears of Mexico, 190; deter- mines upon its conquest, 191; builds Villa Rica, 192; marches for Mexico, 194; wars with the Tlascalans, 195; Montezuma's a- larm, ib.; makes proposals to Cor- tes, 196; arrives in sight of Mexi- co, 198; its magnificent appear- ance, 199; character of Montezu- ma, 200; surrenders himself to Cortes, 201; endeavors to remove Cortes from command of the ar- my, 202; Mexicans and Spaniards engage, 205; Montezuma killed by his subjects, 206; Spaniards seize the grand te calli, 207; retreat from Mexico, 208; Cortes seizes the consecrated banner of the Mexicans, 210; builds a fleet, ib.; joined by disaffected natives, 211; Guatemozin, 212; blockade of Mexico, 216; attack by the land forces, 217; efforts to treat with Guatemozin, 220; dreadful suffer- ings of the Mexicans, 221; des- perate struggle, 222; female bra- very, 223; Guatemozin taken pri- soner, 224; imprisoned by Cortes, tortured,-dies, 225; Cortes' re- morse, ib.; conquest completed, 226; Cortes returns to Spain-is distrusted and treated with cold- ness, ib.; dies on his return to Mexico, 227.
Demosthenes, by H. S. Legaré, 95. Democratic Review, 524.
German Novelists, 428-445; Ludwig Tieck, 428; extracts from his works, 429; character of Zschokke, 432; his "Vicar in Wiltshire," 433; other works, 435; Spindler and his works, 437; his Jew, 438; Trom- litz as a writer, 439; Hoffman, 440; Hauff, 442; extract from his "Jew Sutz," ib.; Sternberg, 444; Countess Hahn-Hahn, 445.
Hernando Cortes, letters to the king of Spain, 163.
Heretic of Lajetchnikoff, 343-352; Russian writers, 343; Russian ro- mance, 344; plot of the Heretic, 345; character of Ivan, 350; of Anastasia, 351.
Horne's Spirit of the Age, 524.
Ireland in 1834, 1-31; early Irish, 1; tyranny of the English admin- istrations, 2; massacre of Droghe- da, 3; ingratitude of Charles II., 4; Irish devotion to the English crown, 5; religious intoleration, 5; doctrines of the Romish church, 6; extenuation of Irish Catholic re- sistance, 7; national grievances, 8; Queen Elizabeth's treatment of the Irish, 9; mildness of James, 10; tyranny of the Prince of Orange, 11; influence of the American Re- volution upon the Irish, ib.; of the French Revolution, 13; Ireland armed in defence of Britain, 14; desperate condition of England, and consequent leniency to the Irish, 15; Convention of 1782, 17; Grattan's defence of Ireland, ib.; Declaration of Independence, 18; English deception, 19; English vi- olate the treaty of pacification, 20; Rebellion of '98, 21; Union of Ire- land with England, 22: agricultu- ral resources of Ireland, 23; effects of the Union, 24; absenteeism, 25;
fisheries and mines, 26; commerce, 27; manufactures, 28; English pro- hibition upon Irish industry, 29; comparative prospects of England and Ireland, 30; present efforts for legislative reform, 31.
Law and Lawyers, 370-426; profes- sional prejudices, 371; character of Law and Lawyers, as a work, 373; of "Eminent British Law- yers," ib.; .of "The Lawyer," ib.; Law defined, 374; natural and re- vealed law, 375; influence of Re- velation upon law, 376; Jewish, Egyptian and Persian law, 377; law at Sparta and Athens, 378; Roman law, 379; growth of inter- national law, 380; English law, 381; common law, ib.; chancery, 382; trial by jury, 383; writ of at- taint, 384; question of intent in li- bel, 385; American law, 386; im- portance of lawyers, 387; legal honors, 388; American and Eng- lish lawyers compared, 389; pre- paratory studies in South-Caroli- na, 390; English and American law students, 391; counsellors, at- torneys, special pleaders and con- veyancers, 392; character of law- yers, 393; the term "lawyer" in Scripture misapplied, 394; satires upon the profession, 395; elevated tributes paid to it, 396; law com- pared with other professions, 397; evils of indiscriminate advocacy at the bar, 398; arguments in its favour, 399; practice condemned, 400; authorities for and against it, 401; early struggles of great law- yers, 403; incorruptible integrity of the English bench, 405; Chan- cellors More, Ellesmere, Bacon, Williams, 406; Clarendon, Guil- ford, Nottingham, Jefferies, 407; Somers and Hardwicke, 408; Er- skine and Eldon, 409; Coke, 410; Hale, Thurlow, Romily, 411; Mansfield and Sir Wm. Jones,412; Foster, Holt and Kenyon, 413; Buller, Ellenborough, etc., 414; corruption of early Judges, ib.; judicial independence, 415; legal subtlety, 415; technicalities and fictions, 416; fines and recoveries,
Martin Chuzzlewit, 261.
Malan's Rule of Faith, 268.
Michelet, Hist. de la Rep. Rom. 269.
Michelet, Int. á l'Hist. Univ., 269.
street, 336; American caricature, ib.; the West, the natural source of our national literature, 337; American character, 339–342. Mormon Faith and People, 525. Mysteries of the Heaths, 527.
Niebuhr's History of Rome, 521. Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races, 525.
New Jerusalem in the U. States, 525.
Milton's Genius, 31-75; indebted- Prescott's Mexico, 163. ness of Paradise Lost to Ramsay's Poemata Sacra, 31; rough sketch- es of "Paradise Lost," a tragedy, 35; the Adamus Exul of Grotius, 38; imitated by Milton, ib.; resem- blances between the two poems, 39-59; Milton indebted to St.Avi- tus, according to Guizot, 59; Avi- tus' picture of Satan, 64; indebted to Adreini, according to Voltaire and Haley, 67; indebtedness to other Italian poets, 68; Channing's view of Milton, 70; his estimate of poetry compared with Macaulay's 72; Wordsworth's view, 73; char- acter of Milton's poetry, 74. Mathews' Works, 307-343; early es- says of genius, 308; characteristics of an American author, 309; Ma- thews' character as a writer, 311; his 'Behemoth,' 312; 'Politicians,' 314; error in the nomenclature of characters, ib.; 'Puffer Hopkins,' 318; contributions to 'Arcturus,' ib.; extract from the 'Unrest of the Age,' 320; defects of publishing by periodical issues, 322; objections to 'Puffer Hopkins,' 323; Mr. Ma- thews fails as a humorist, 325; is a good representative of the Ame- rican mind, 328; compared with Dickens, 329; fails in producing a national work, 330; English and American defect in humor, 331; Norman and Saxon influence up- on letters, 333; Goldsmith, Lamb and Fielding, 334; Judge Long-
Reynolds' Trial by Jury, 251-255; complimentary notices, 251; its Prefatio-Introductio-De jurato- rum origine-De judicii juratorum natura et indole, 254.
Rome and the Romans, 269-306; rise and fall of the Roman power, 270; national character marked in the individual Roman, 274; his selfish- ness, 275; his religion subservient to State policy, 276; formed a con- servative element at Rome, 278; the priesthood, 279; conflict be- tween plebeians and patricians, 281; causes of the martial spirit of the Romans, 282; military pre- eminence, 284; populus and plebs, 285; noble and generous traits not discovered in the Roman, 286; his religion syncretistic, 287; mytho- logical systems of Greece and Rome, 288; agricultural life of the Romans, 292; Roman art, 293; Roman law, 294; absence of en- thusiasm and ideal creation at Rome, 296; no national literature, 297; language, 298; mission of Rome, 300; her power, 301; pride and corruption, ib.; breaks down all religious systems and prepares the way for Christianity, 304; in- fluence of Rome upon modern ci- vilization, 305; the Roman Catho- lic Church, 306.
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