THE

AMERICAN ECLECTIC:

OR

Selections from the Periodical Literature of all
Foreign Countries.

CONDUCTED

BY JOHN HOLMES AGNEW,

Editor of the American Biblical Repository,

AIDED BY A NUMBER OF LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN.

VOLUME IV.

JULY, SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER, 1842.

UNIV. OF

NEW-YORK:

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1842.

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