I. The Government of India.

1. Commercial Tariffs and Regulations, Resources and Trade of
the several States of Europe and America. Part 23. India,
Ceylon, and other Oriental Countries. By John Macgregor.
2. The Cotton and Commerce of India considered in Relation
to the Interests of Great Britain. By John Chapman, Founder
and late Manager of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Company.

3. The Culture and Commerce of Cotton in India and elsewhere,
with an Account of the Experiments made by the Hon. East
India Company up to the Present Time. By J. Forbes
Royle, M.D., F.R.S.

4. History of the War in Affghanistan, from the unpublished
Letters and Journals of Political and Military Officers em-
ployed throughout the entire Period of British Connection
with that Country. By John William Kaye.

5. A Year on the Punjaub Frontier in 1848-49. By Major
Herbert B. Edwardes, C.B., H.E.I.C.S.

6. History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of
Scinde, and Campaign on the Cutchee Hills. By Lieut-Gen.
Sir William Napier, K. C.B.

7. Scinde; or, the Unhappy Valley. By Richard F. Burton,
Lieut. Bombay Army.

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8. Modern India; a Sketch of the System of Civil Government;
to which is prefixed some Account of the Natives and Native
Institutions. By George Campbell, Bengal Civil Service.
9. An Analytical Digest of all the Reported Cases decided in
the Supreme Courts of Judicature in India, in the Courts of
the Hon. East India Company, and an Appeal from India, by
Her Majesty in Council; together with an Introduction,
Notes illustrative and explanatory, and an Appendix. By
William H. Morley, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law 357

II. Physical Puritanism.

1. Lectures on the Science of Human Life. By Sylvester Graham.
2. Fruits and Farinacea the Proper Food of Man, &c. By John
Smith.

3. Homœopathy in 1851. Edited by R. Russell, M.D.

4. Memorials from Benrhydding, &c.

5. The Zöist for 1851.

6. Pamphlets by the Scottish Society for the Suppression of
Drunkenness.

III. Europe: its Condition and Prospects.

Correspondence respecting the Foreign Refugees in London IV. A Theory of Population, deduced from the General Law of Animal Fertility.

1. Principles of Physiology, General and Comparative. By
William B. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.

2. Outlines of Comparative Physiology, &c. By Louis Agassiz
and A. A. Gould.

3. On Parthenogenesis; or, the Successive Production of Pro-
creating Individuals from a Single Ovum. By Richard Owen,
F.R.S., &c.

4. On the Alternation of Generations. By Joh. Japetus Sm.
Steenstrup. Translated by George Busk.

5. The True Law of Population shown to be connected with the
Food of the People. By Thomas Doubleday, Esq.

[6. The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology. Edited by
Robert B. Todd, M.D., F.R.S.

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V. Shelley and the Letters of Poets.

An Introductory Essay to the [supposed] Letters of Percy

Bysshe Shelley. By Robert Browne

VI. The Commerce of Literature.

1. The Struggles of a Book against Excessive Taxation. By

Charles Knight.

2. A Letter addressed to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell,

showing the evil Effects and Injustice of the Excise Laws,

and the Loss to the Community by such a Mode of Raising

Revenue. By James Baldwin.

3. A Letter to Lord John Russell from a Paper Maker.

4. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.

5. Reports of the Association for the Abolition of the Taxes

on Knowledge.

6. Report from the Select Committee on Newspaper Stamps;

together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes

of Evidence, Appendix, and Index.

7. The Question of unreciprocated Foreign Copyright in Great

Britain. A Report of the Speeches and Proceedings at a

Public Meeting held at the Hanover Square Rooms.

8. Booksellers' Monopoly. Address to the Trade and to the

Public. By William Pickering.

9. Cases showing the arbitrary and oppressive Conduct of the

Committee of Booksellers.

10. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. By Charles

Babbage, Esq., A.M.

11. The Case of the Authors, as regards the Paper Duty. By

Charles Knight.

12. Is the Glasgow Booksellers' Protection Association a lawful

Association, or is it an illegal Conspiracy?

13. Trade Regulations and Declarations of the Booksellers' As-

sociation

VII. Lord Palmerston and his Policy.

1. Lord Palmerston, l'Angleterre, et le Continent. Par le Comte

de Ficquelmont.

2. Opinions and Policy of the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston,

as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman. With a Memoir,

by G. H. Francis, Esq.

VIII. The early Quakers, and Quakerism. (Independent

Contribution.)

1. Quakerism; or, the Story of my Life.

2. Revue des Deux Mondes.

3. The Kingdom of Christ; or, Hints to a Quaker. By F. D.

Maurice, M.A.

IX. Contemporary Literature of England

X. Contemporary Literature of America

XI. Contemporary Literature of Germany

XII. Contemporary Literature of France

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Page 400. Instead of the paragraph beginning at line 31, read-
"2nd. An Assembly, whose members should be as follows:-
"The President and Executive Council."

I. REPRESENTATIVE REFORM.

Histoire des Origines du Gouvernement Représentative en Europe. Par M. Guizot. Paris. 1851.

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ance.

WHAT is meant by Representation and Representative Government? To what extent, and in what manner, is either one or the other identified with the English Constitution? What are the evils and imperfections of that identification? How is a remedy to be sought and applied? These are questions to which considerable interest must always attach; but which assume, at the present time, great practical importWe are on the eve of discussions in which some opinion upon them will be continually involved. The promise of the Prime Minister to produce a new Reform Bill will soon be fulfilled. Its provisions will bring into play a variety of theories, interests, intellects, passions, and prejudices. A stormy period is before us. There will be fears in some quarters, hopes in others, gratified expectations, and bitter disappointments. Fierce will be the collision of debates in Parliament, of leading articles in newspapers, and of partisans in public meetings. We have the prospect of a long legislative struggle, of popular agitation, perhaps of the downfall of a ministry, an appeal to the people, and the turmoil of a general election, aggravated by the urgency of what multitudes regard as the most momentous of all political questions. A short interval, and we must face the fray. It cannot be employed to a better or more appro

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