The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9)

by Various

B.

• Bacon, Lord,
  • commendation of tobacco, by, [149].
• Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de,
  • his adventures in South America, [176-183]
  • his execution, [184].
• Baltimore, Lord,
  • his grant of Maryland, &c., [483], &c. See Maryland.
• Bank of the United States,
  • report of the Committee of Ways and Means on, and the President's Message in relation to, [246], &c.
  • President Jackson's course in relation to, [247], [248]
  • propositions involved in his Message examined, [249], &c.
  • on the constitutionality of, [249-258]
  • whether the influence it exercises is dangerous, [258-261]
  • whether it creates discontent with the people, and collision with the states, [261-266]
  • whether the proposed bank is free from these objections, [266-282].
• Bastides, Rodrigo de,
  • his voyage to America, [169].
• Bates, Professor,
  • in the New-York Convention for founding a University, [285-287].
• Beaumont, M. E. de,
  • his researches on the geological age of mountains, [109-112].
• Beaumont, Elie de, and M. Dufrenoy,
  • their Voyage Metallurgique en Angleterre, notice of, [352]. See Iron.
• Bible, the,
  • oration on the advantages of, as a school-book, &c., by Thomas S. Grimké, notice of, [283].
• Bolingbroke, Lord,
  • character of, [ 49], [ 50].
• Bollman, Dr. Erick,
  • his arrest by General Wilkinson for a participation in Burr's plot, [216].
• Boré, Etienne,
  • his cultivation of the sugar cane, [198].
• Bruce, the traveller,
  • a prey to ennui at the fountain head of the Nile, [ 38].
• Brun, Malte,
  • his Universal Geography, [ 82], &c.
  • his arrangement of mountains into connected systems, [ 90].
• Bonaparte, N.,
  • remarkable instance of ennui in, [ 48].
• Burke, Edmund,
  • notice of, [323-326].
• Burr, Aaron,
  • proceedings at New-Orleans in relation to his plot, [216-218].
• Byron, Lord,
  • his description of ennui, [ 34].

C.

• Calvert, Cecilius,
  • his part in the settlement of Maryland, [490].
• Calvert, Leonard,
  • colony of Maryland established by, [490].
• Carondelet, Baron de,
  • his miscalculations respecting the western people of the United States, [211].
• Casimir the Great, King of Poland,
  • events in the reign of, [461], &c. See Poland.
• Casimir, John,
  • his resignation of the Polish crown, [467].
• Catacombs of Santa Maria della Vita, [515].
• Catechism of Education, by William Lyon Mackenzie,
  • notice of, [283].
• Catharine of Russia,
  • her part in the dismemberment of Poland, [476], &c.
• Chamberet, M.,
  • his opinion of the use of tobacco, [152].
• Champollion, Jr. M.,
  • his System of Egyptian Hieroglyphics, by J. G. H. Greppo, translated by Isaac Stuart, reviewed, [339], &c. See Hieroglyphic System.
• China,
  • residence in, &c., [ 52]. See Dobell, Peter, his Travels.
• Cibber, Colley,
  • epigram on, by Pope, and by self, [127], note.
• Clarke, Dr. Adam,
  • a dissertation on the use and abuse of tobacco, by, [136], &c.
  • anecdote of, [155].
• Clayborne, William,
  • his disturbances in the early settlement of Maryland, [486]
  • Clayborne and Ingle's rebellion, [491].
• College-Instruction and Discipline, [283], &c.
  • education must be suited to the country, [284]
  • universities in France, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, and the United States, [ib.]
  • proceedings of a Convention of literary and scientific gentlemen at New-York, [285], &c.
  • organization of Harvard and other colleges, [287]
  • appointment of professors, [ib.]
  • Mr. Sparks on this subject, [288]
  • their remuneration, [289], [290]
  • Dr. Leiber's opinion, [290]
  • powers of the president, [291]
  • University of Virginia, [292]
  • salutary rules the best safeguards of universities, [293]
  • existing and proposed modes of punishment, [294-296]
  • should one university refuse admission to students dismissed from another? [297]
  • gaming and drinking, [298]
  • regulations in regard to students' funds, [299], [300]
  • uniform dress, &c., [301]
  • practical instruction, [301], [302],
  • age of admission, and period and plan of study, [303-306]
  • ought students to be confined to their classes, or allowed to receive degrees when found prepared on examination? [306]
  • should the title Bachelor of Arts be retained? [307]
  • study of languages and mathematics, [307], [308]
  • mode of conveying instruction, [309], [313]
  • necessity of a department of English language, [313].
• Columbus, C.,
  • Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of, [163]. See Irving, Washington.
• Cosa, Juan de la,
  • his participation in the discoveries of South America, [166], &c.
• Croly, Rev. George, A. M.,
  • his Life of George the Fourth, reviewed, [314], &c. See George IV.
• Cullen, Dr.,
  • his opinion on the use of tobacco, [153].
• Culman, F. I.,
  • his translation of Karsten's Manuel de la Metallurgie de fer, notice of, [352], &c. See Iron.

D.

• Davila, Pedro Arias,
  • his execution of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, whom he superseded, [184].
• Dobell, Peter,
  • his Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, with a narrative of a residence in China, reviewed, [ 52], &c.
  • his facilities for acquiring information, [ 52]
  • venality of the Chinese, [ 53]
  • opium smuggling, [ 54]
  • robbery of the government, [ 54], [ 55]
  • pirates, and fate of their leader Apo-Tsy, [ 55]
  • salt trade, [ ib.]
  • unblushing venality of the mandarins, [ 56], [ 57]
  • population of China overrated, [ 57]
  • productions of the climate, tea, [ 58], [ 59]
  • mechanic arts, [ 59]
  • character, mode of living, temperature, fops, amusements, [ 60], [ 61]
  • dinners of ceremony, [ 62]
  • religion, [ 62], [ 63]
  • Mr. Dobell's arrival at St. Peter's and St. Paul's, [ 63]
  • bay of Avatcha, and embankments on the river, [ ib.]
  • the Kamtchatdales poor but hospitable, [ 64]
  • their dwellings, [ 65]
  • hospitable reception at the cottage of Toyune of Sherrom, [ 66]
  • volcano of Klootchefsky, [ ib.]
  • town of Nijna Kamtchatsk, [ ib.]
  • winter store of a Kamtchadale family, [ 67]
  • perilous adventure of the Toyune of Malka, [ ib.]
  • sagacity, perseverance, and swiftness, of the Kamtchatdale dogs, [ 69]
  • in the country of the Tongusees, the author deserted by the native guides, and his dangerous adventures, [ 70-72]
  • town of Ochotsk, [ 72], [ 73]
  • journey thence to Yakutsk, [ 73]
  • dress and appearance of the Yakuts and Tongusees, [ 74]
  • water communications of Siberia, [ ib.]
  • colony of banished persons on the banks of the river Aldan, [ 75]
  • the Yakuts a pastoral people, [ 76]
  • arrival at Yakutsk, [ ib.]
  • Siberian wedding, [ 77]
  • town of Olekma, [ 78]
  • Irkutsk the capital of eastern Siberia, [ 79]
  • journey thence to St. Petersburg, [ 80], &c.
  • disinterestedness of the Siberians, [ ib.]
  • Tomsk, [ ib.]
  • Tobolsk, [ 81].
• Dufrenoy, MM. and Elie de Beaumont,
  • their Voyage Metallurgique en Angleterre, notice of, [352], &c. See Iron.
• Dyspepsia, Method of Curing, by O. Halsted,
  • reviewed, [233-246].

E.

• Egyptian Hieroglyphics. See Hieroglyphic System, [339], &c.
• Encisor, Martin Fernandez de,
  • his participation in the early adventures in South America, [171], &c.
• Ennui,
  • J. L. Alibert's chapter on, in his Physiology of the Passions, reviewed, [ 33], &c.
  • character of the work, [ ib.]
  • Lord Byron's description of ennui, [ 34]
  • literature of the day transient, with a feverish excitement for novelty, [ 34], [ 35]
  • nature of ennui, [ 36]
  • Solomon's delineation of it, [ 37]
  • illustration in Achilles, [ 38]
  • in Bruce the traveller, [ 38]
  • in Vergniaud, [ ib.]
  • ennui conjured up the ghost of Cæsar to Brutus on the eve of the battle of Phillippi, [ 39]
  • its extensive influence, [ 40]
  • its operation to be traced in the sanguinary amusements of ancient Rome, [ 41]
  • its power over Jean Jacques Rousseau, [ 42]
  • exemplified in Spinoza, [ 43]
  • Aristotle, [ ib.]
  • King Saul, [ 45]
  • causes the slander of the gossips, [ ib.]
  • influence on fashion, [ 46]
  • in the haunts of business, [ ib.]
  • peoples the mad house, and inhabits jails, [ ib.]
  • Pyrrhus an ennuyé, [ 47]
  • Napoleon, [ 48]
  • Leibnitz, [ ib.]
  • Lord Bolingbroke, [ 49], [ 50]
  • cure for it, [ 51].
• Erskine, Lord,
  • notice of, [324], [325].
• Europe and America, &c.,
  • translated from the German of Dr. C. F. Von Schmidt-Phiseldek, by Joseph Owen, reviewed, [398], &c.
  • features which distinguish the American from other revolutions, [399]
  • representations made to England in 1635 of disloyalty in Massachusetts, [400]
  • deductions from the North American revolution in regard to the south, [401]
  • the old governments of Europe, [401-403]
  • effects of the American revolution upon Europe, [404], [405]
  • discontents now agitating Europe, [406-408]
  • causes that will produce emigration to America, [408], [409]
  • Europe cannot do without America, [409], [410]
  • in seeking new markets for her surplus manufactures, North America will be an enterprising rival, [411]
  • the old world destined to receive its impulses in future from the new, [412]
  • consideration of events which have occurred in Europe since Von Schmidt-Phiseldek's work was published, [413], &c.
  • situation of France, [415]
  • England, [415], [416]
  • Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Prussia, [417]
  • South American states, [418].

F.

• Fendall, Josias,
  • trouble to the colony of Maryland from, [492], [493].
• Fowler, Dr.,
  • his opinion of the medicinal virtue of tobacco, [153].
• Fox, Charles,
  • notice of, [322], [325].
• France in 1829-30, by Lady Morgan,
  • reviewed. See Morgan, Lady, [1 ], &c.
• Francis, Sir Philip,
  • his claim to the authorship of Junius, [325].
• Franklin, Dr.,
  • anecdote of, [163].