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Littell's Museum of Foreign Literature, (which was favor of the condition and changes of foreign cour
ably received by the public for twenty years,) but as it is this not only because of their nearer connecti
twice as large, and appears so often, we not only give selves, but because the nations seem to be
spirit and freshness to it by many things which were through a rapid process of change, to some i
excluded by a month's delay, but while thus extending our things, which the merely political prophet can
scope and gathering a greater and more attractive variety, or foresee.
are able so to increase the solid and substantial part of Geographical Discoveries, the progress of C
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from the new growth of the British colonies.

chaff,” by providing abundantly for the imag The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and Africa, by a large collection of Biography, Voyages into our neighborhood ; and will greatly multiply our con- History, and more solid matter, we may pro nections, as Merchants, Travellers, and Politicians, with which shall be popular, while at the same all parts of the world'; so that much more than ever it I aspire to raise the standard of public taste.

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ART. I. ANONYMOUS.

II. FREDERIC HOWES.
III. MAJOR PELT. (Leipsic.)
IV. JOHN WEISS.
V. THEODORE PARKER.

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riage.) Pozen, 1842. 1 vol. 8vo.

5. Mystini ozyli Caloksrtall Loiki Narodowe of Thinking, or System of National Logic. By thu Pozen, 1844. 2 vols.

6. Urywki Polityorne. [Political Fragments.] Pa 1845. 1 vol. 8vo.

The Polish nation possessed, during a thousand years, a larger country than modern France, between the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Carpathian Mountains. There civilization and learning flourished brighter than elsewhere, in the 15th and 16th centuries, under the free institutions and wise government of the Jagellon dynasty. They sheltered, by their protective shield, numerous families which were persecuted, on account of religious and political freedom, in the rest of Europe. They served as a bulwark against the frequent encroachments of the Asiatic hordes, while Europe wanted to organize herself and develop her civilization and military power. This Polish nation exists no more as a body politic.

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ARTICLE I. - ON THE NEW TENDENCY OF THE

POLISH-SLAVONIAN PHILOSOPHY. 1. Grundlage der Universellen Philosophie. [Principles of the Universal Philosophy. By Bronislas Ferdinand.] Karlsruhe, 1837. 1 vol. 8vo.

2. Norstudien zur Wissenchaft der Natur. Von Trentowski. [Introduction to the Studies of Natural Sciences.] Leipzig, 1840. 2 vols. 8vo.

3. Chowanna czyli System Pedagogiki Narodowej. [Education, or System of National Pedagogy. By the same.] Pozen, 1842. 4 vols. 8vo.

4. Aforyzmy o Matzeristwie. [Aphorisms about Marriage.] Pozen, 1842. 1 vol. 8vo.

5. Mystini ozyli Caloksrtall Loiki Narodowej. [Art of Thinking, or System of National Logic. By the game.] Pozen, 1844. 2 vols.

6. Urywki Polityorne. [Political Fragments.] Paris, 1845. 1 vol. 8vo.

The Polish nation possessed, during a thousand years, a larger country than modern France, between the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Carpathian Mountains. There civilization and learning flourished brighter than elsewhere, in the 15th and 16th centuries, under the free institutions and wise government of the Jagellon dynasty. They sheltered, by their protective shield, numerous families which were persecuted, on account of religious and political freedom, in the rest of Europe. They served as a bulwark against the frequent encroachments of the Asiatic hordes, while Europe wanted to organize herself and develop her civilization and military power. This Polish nation exists no more as a body politic.

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