THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. LXXXV.

PUBLISHED IN

JUNE & SEPTEMBER, 1849.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1849.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

LONDON:
Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS,
Stamford Street.

ART.

I. Results of Astronomical Observations made during the

Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8 at the Cape of Good Hope;

being the completion of a Telescopic Survey of the

whole Surface of the Visible Heavens, commenced in

1825. By Sir John Herschel, Bart.

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II. Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell. By William

Beattie, M.D., one of his Executors -

III-1. The Chess-Player's Handbook. By Howard Staunton,

Esq.

2. Maxims and Hints for the Angler and Chess-Player.

By Richard Penn, Esq., F.R.S.

3. Le Palamède: Revue Mensuelle.

4. The Chess-Player's Chronicle -

IV. 1. The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scot-

land, illustrated by Robert William Billings and

William Burn.

2. Descriptive Notices of some of the Ancient Parochial

and Collegiate Churches of Scotland.

3. Ecclesiological Notes on the Isle of Man, Ross, Suther-

land, and the Orkneys.

4. On the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Argyllshire. By

John Saul Howson, M.A., Trin. Coll., Cam.

V.-1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into

the State and Operation of the Law of Marriage, as

relating to the Prohibited Degrees of Affinity; and to

Marriages solemnized abroad or in British Colonies.

Presented to both Houses by command of Her Majesty.

1848.

2. The Report examined, in a Letter to Sir Robert

Inglis. By Alex. J. Beresford Hope, M.P.

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