THE

MONTHLY REVIEW,

FROM

JANUARY TO APRIL INCLUSIVE.

1841.

NEW AND IMPROVED SERIES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

G. HENDERSON, 2, OLD BAILEY,

LUDGATE HILL.

1841.

P277.6

LONDON:

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CONTENTS

TO THE

MONTHLY REVIEW FOR JANUARY.

Vol. I. (1840.) No. I.

ART. 1.-1. The Certainties of Geology. By William Sydney

Gibson, F.G.S.

2. Scriptural Geology, or an Essay on the High Antiquity

ascribed to the Organic Remains, Imbedded in Stratified

Rocks. By the Rev. George Young, D.D....

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127

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II.-The Hour and the Man. By Harriet Martineau..

III.-The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Vol. VI. 17

IV. The Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel

Pepys, Esq., F.R.S. &c.; including a Narrative of his

Voyage to Tangier. By the Rev. J. Smith, A.M....

V.-Narrative of a Three Months' March in India; and a

Residence in the Dooab. By the Wife of an Officer

in the 16th Foot. With Plates, from Drawings made

on the Spot...

VI.-1. The Cherwell Water-Lily, and other Poems. By the

Rev. F. W. Faber, M.A.

2. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie.

3. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, collected by

Himself. Vol. II.

VII.-Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839, By Mrs.

Hamilton Gray. With Numerous Illustrations......

VIII.-The Secret History of Dissent, illustrated in the Life of

the Rev. Josiah Thompson, a Secession Minister.

By Nathan Oliver, Esq. 2nd Edition.

IX.-1. Money; a Comedy, in Five Acts. By the Author of

"The Lady of Lyons," &c.

....

2. The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles...

X.-The Great Civil War of Charles the First and the Parlia-

ment. By the Rev. Richard Cattermole, B.D. With

fifteen highly finished Engravings, from Drawings by

George Cattermole, Esq..

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XI. The Idler in Italy. By the Countess of Blessington

Vol. III. ...

98

XII. The Christian Ministry as a Vocation in reference to the

wants of the Present Times..

105

XIII-1. The History of Banbury. By Alfred Beesley. Part I.

2. The History and Antiquities of Leath Ward, in the

County of Cumberland. By Samuel Jefferson.