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and observance of the Christian sabbath, 281; character of the work, 310. Materialism, examination of, 168. Methodism, national importance of, 97. Milner's history of the seven churches of Asia, 510; Thyatira, 511.

Missionaries, treatment of those in Jamaica, 253.

Modern sabbath examined, 281; silence of the author on previously published works, 283; the moral tendency of a doctrine an element of the internal evidence of its truth, 284; value of a periodical day of rest, 285; inconsistency of the author, 286; consequences of his reasoning, 288; his notions of social rights, 290; the political question, 291; the right of the legislature to enforce the sabbath, 294; animadversions, 307. Morea, the, state of, 507.

Morison's Christian pastor visiting his flock, 276.

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New books, 96. 552. 280. 368. 460. 188.
Newspapers, character of, 139.
Niger, the. See Lander.
Nonconformity. See Vevers.

North American review, 32; inequality of condition in America, ib.; consequence of the extension of suffrage, and the adoption of the ballot in America, 34; difference in the bases of the English and American constitutions, 35.

on reform, 481; character of the reform bill, 483; principle of the house of commons, 484; gradual formation of parliaments, 485; the right of governing, a trust, 487; the principle of prescription, ib.; reasons for disfranchisement, 489; instructed and pledged representatives, 491; guide of the representatives' conduct, 492; results of the reform bill, 493. See Park.

O'Connell, Daniel, portrait of, 73.

Park's, professor J. J., dogmas of the con

stitution, 471; definitions of the British constitution, 472; character of the author, 474; parliamentary corruption, 475; the reform bill, 476; reformers not theorists, 477; Burke's character of the house of commons, 478; reasons for reform, 479; character of this work, 494. Sec North American Review. Parliaments, gradual formation of, 485. Pestilential cholera. See Copland. Pitcairn islanders, the, 278. Pledges for representatives, 491. Poland, Homer, and other Poems, 444; Poland, 445; appeal to France and Britain, 446.

Political economy. See Cooper and Whately.

Prison discipline, eighth report of the committee of the society for the improvement of, 313; number of criminal offenders, ib.; increase of crime, 314; causes of the increase, 316; magisterial incapacity, 317; proportion of crime in different counties, 318; remedies for moral and political disorder, 320; inefficiency of the criminal law, 321; state of gaols, 323. Pritchard on the eastern origin of the Celtic nations, 145; result of philological researches in determining the origin of the human race, 146; relative position of the European races, 148; the Celta, 150; relations between various languages, 151; affinity between the Celtic dialects and the Sanscrit, 153.

Reform, reasons and results of. See Park.

Religion the bond of society, 228. Religious instruction, means of, 115. Report of the general union (New York) for promoting the observance of the Christian sabbath, 281.

Representatives, obligation, &c. of, 492.

Sabbath question, the, a question of civil and religious liberty, 282. See modern sabbath examined; Davies; Burder; Wardlaw; Wilson; Gurney. Sacred offering, the, a poetical annual, 89; the condemned, ib. ; public executions, 92. Saturday evening, by the author of the natural history of enthusiasm, 172; design and contents of the work, ib.; vastness of the material universe no ground for irreligious scepticism, 174; decrepitude of the leading superstitions of the nations, 177; aspect of society in regard to religim, 180; the other writings of the author, 186. Sclavonian women compared with the Irish,

73.

Scripturel education in Ireland, 363.
Scriptures, circulation of, in Greece, 501.
Sibree's expostulatory letter to the bishop

of Lichfield and Coventry, 87.
Simeon's four sermons on the offices of the
Holy Spirit, 36; errors and heresies in
the church for the purpose of moral dis-
cipline, 37; character of the present
times, 38; inquiries as to the primitive
heresies, 39; character of those now ex-
isting, 40; variation in the difficulties of
religion, 41; the work of the Spirit a
stumbling-block, 42; modern pretensions
to the gift of miracles and tongues, ib.
Sin, its existence under the divine govern-
ment, 213.

Sismondi's history of the Italian republics
(Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia), 276.
Spain and Portugal, history of, (Lardner's
Cabinet Cyclopædia,) 441; difficulties
altending such a history, ib.; social effects
of Christianity, 442; character of Abder-
rahman III, 443.

Starling's family cabinet atlas, 157; biblical
series of, ib.

Swan's idolatry, 355; general distaste for
poetry, ib; character of this work, 356;
extracts, ib.

Tahiti and the Pitcairn islanders, 278.
Taylor's records of a good man's life, 345;
difficulty of reviewing sermons and tales,
ib.; character of the writer, 346; sketch
of the hero's early life, 346; a college
recollection, 348, defect in the religious
character of the present day, 349; de-
fence of poetry or fiction as a vehicle of
truth, 350.

Taylor's may you like it, 345.

Taylor's (Emily) tales of the Saxons, 550.
Theological library, 528.
Thyatira, description of, 511.

Tiptaft's letter to the bishop of Salisbury,

97.

Tongues, gift of. See Beverley.
Trinitarian bible society. See Bible So-
ciety.

Unitarianism, characteristics of, 206.

Vevers's essay on the national importance
of methodism, 97; progression of me-
thodism, ib.; era of nonconformity, 98;
decline of the presbyterians, ib.; seces-
sions from the dissenters in the reign of
George II.; 99; state of religion among
the dissenters at the beginning of the
eighteenth century, 100; origin of the
Homerton institution, 101; state of the
establishment at the era of methodism,
104; increase of dissenting congrega-

tions, 105; dissenting academies, 106;
incomes of dissenting ministers, 107;
analogy between the established clergy
and the dissenting ministry now, com-
pared with that of the possessioned
church and the mendicant orders in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 110; re-
lative position of the established and non-
established churches, 114; proportion of
the means of religious instruction to the
British population, 115; national im-
portance of methodism, 119; the volun-
tary system of religious teaching ex-
amined, 125, 126; church property,
128; the tithe system, 129; the utility of
religious establishments, 130; tendency to
division in voluntary churches, 133;—
evils of these divisions, 134; present as-
pect of the religious world, 135; position
of the congregational dissenters, 137;
literary character of dissenters, 138; the
public press, 139; religious newspapers,
140; character of dissenting preachers,
141; public labours of the dissenters,
142.

Vestry library, 527.

Village preaching, Robert Hall's defence of,
411.

Voluntary system, the. See Vevers.

Wales, mountain region of, 70.
Wardlaw's discourses on the sabbath, 281;
perpetuity of the sabbath, 299; political
obligation of the sabbath, 301; province
and duty of the legislature, 303; charac-
ter of the work, 309.
Whately's (archbishop) tract on the sab-
bath, 282.

lectures on political economy,
1; nature and objects of political eco-
nomy, ib.; denomination of the science,
2; fallacies by which its progress has
been retarded, 3; Paine's definitions of
society and government, 6; Buonaparte's
antipathy to political economy, 7; pre-
tenders to knowledge, 8; fallacies of Mr.
Ricardo, 9; Dr. Whately and Mr. Se-
nior, 10; character of Dr. Whately's
lectures, 11; the existence of natural evil,
12; origin of civilization, ib.; the influ-
ence of wealth and knowledge on national
morals, 13; checks to national prosperity,
15; evils of a minute division of labour,
ib.; value of education in domestic eco-
nomy, 17; importance of universal edu-
cation, 18.

Wilks's letters on the Bible society question,
451; tactics of the Sackville-street party,

452.
Williams's art in nature, and science antici-
pated, 542.

Wilson's (Rev. D.) evidences of Christianity, 48; agents of evil productive of good, ib.; advantages resulting from the opposition offered to Christianity, 49; character of this work, 50; imperfect character of works on the evidences of Christianity, 52; remarks on the à priori mode of treating the evidences, 58; remarks on natural religion, 54; ancient and modern deists, 55; causes of their difference, ib.; the question of supernatural communication, 56; proper subject of examination in reference to the evidences of Christianity, ib.; mode of inquiry prescribed, 57; authenticity of the New Testament, ib.; preservation of the Jews a proof of Christ's predictions, 59; nature and tendencies of Christianity strong proofs of its divine origin, 61; hinderances that impede the full effects of the Christian religion, 62; secular alliances injurious to Christianity, 63; trial of Christianity from experience, 65; un

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reasonaveness if ijin interpretation of the same. Wilson's (Rev. D.) divine authority and perpetual obligation of the Lord's day asserted, 281; character of the work, 309. evidences of Christianity, stated in a popular and practical manner, 361. Woodrooffe's (Mrs.) shades of character, 345; character of the work, 352; extract, ib.

Woods's (Dr.) letters to the rev. N. W. Taylor, on the divine permission of sin, 213; nature of the controversy, 212; the existence of sin, under the divine government, 216; character of these letters, 224.

Working man's companion, 1; true science founded on observation, 5; a valuable popular work, 21; capital and labour, ib.; evils of ignorance, 24. Wye, the, scenery of, 76.

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