and frequent changes and modifications. It is probable that as politics chiefly engross the attention of the nation, the critical notices on new works inserted in the newspapers, which are notoriously dictated by unworthy motives, sordid, party, or personal, satisfy the mass of readers. The Revue Encyclopédique, established by M. Julien de Paris, succeeded during several years, but eventually fell when its creator passed it to other hands. M. Guizot and the Duke de Broglie tried a fair experiment in 1829: they established the Revue Française, in which their political, critical, and philosophical doctrines were developed and applied with remarkable ability; but it did not last long; it sunk for want of support, and a recent attempt to revive it received so little encouragement, that it has again ceased to appear. The Revue Trimestrielle was also well conducted, but soon ceased. We are justified in affirming that the only reviews which possess the recommendation of long standing and general popularity, are the Deux Mondes and the Revue de Paris, and they are published more in the form of the English magazines than of the great reviews. And yet scarcely a year passes but painful efforts to establish new critical periodicals are witnessed, which invariably prove abortive: the puny productions perish for lack of sustenance after the the most ephemeral of existences. One exception, however, must be noted in favour of the Revue de Progrès, which is edited with powerful energy by M. Louis Blanc; it has drawn the attention of the French public by the strong democratic principles it upholds, the bold tenets it has avowed in the face of the world, and the host of superior men who co-operate in its publication. The Revue de Paris is a weekly journal, containing critical notices, light tales, and worldly chitchat, always elegant and sprightly in tone and matter, and especially calculated to beguile the leisure hours of the boudoir. The Revue de Deux Mondes frequently gives masterly pieces of criticism; such are the articles of De Carné, Saint-Beuve, Mignet, Marmier, Lerminier, Chasles,Charles Magnin, and others.* With respect to reviews, we have specified the only two that have any standing and permanency of merit. As to the monthly review called Journal des Savants, it would be a gross error to rank it among the ordinary periodicals of any country. It is, in fact, a review of the highest order, but at once private and national; it only notices works of the finest merit and utility; it is printed by the royal press, and the committee of authors who prepare its articles, is composed of sixteen members belonging to the various sections of the Roval Institute. It is in the Journal des Savants that the admirable classical dissertations of Letronne and Burnouf, the valuable scientific investigations of Biot and Libri, the philosophical literary analyses of Cousin and Villemain, are to be found." LONDON PRINTED BY G. LILLEY, QUEEN'S HEAD PASSAGE, PATERNOSTER BOW. INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, FOR 1842. A, Abuses of Marriage, remarks on the, 395 Adam Clarke, Life and Labours of, 436 Anglo-Indian, disposable force of the, 470 Augustus Viscount Keppel, Life of, 323 Balder, the Mythos of, 452 Banks and Bankers, Hardcastle's, 213 Bible, nature of the contents of the, 9 Bowyer on the English Constitution, 23 C. Campaign in China, Narrative of the Candler's Notices of Hayti, 531 Charles the Wise, Character of, 519 China, Narrative of the Second Campaign Chouannerie, Rio's La Petite, 541 Claessen, Dr., his Account of the Cold Classic Mythology, remarks on, 91 Coal Mines, Report on Labour in the, 171 Constitutional Law, what meant by the Continental Notions about England, 39 Copenhagen, Nelson at, 382 Copyright, Raumer on, 41 Corbet on Wealth of Individuals, 213 Girls in coal-mines, employment of, 177 Griffin's Tales of the Jury Room, 249 Hahnemann's Disciples, account of Ho- Hardcastle's Banks and Bankers, 213 Henry VIII. in his youth, 61 Heraldic bearings, history of, 332 Hindley's Inferno of Dante, 574 Hints to Students on the Use of the History of Arabic literature, 197; of Homœopathy, by a Disciple of the sys- How was America peopled? 153 Hurrying in coal-mines, nature of the Hydropathy, notices of the system, 239 Ibrahim Pacha as an agriculturist, 222 Indus, notices of the commerce on the, Inspiration, Gaussen on, 1 International Law, remarks on, 115 Irish informers, character of, 454 I Watched the Heavens; a poem, by V. 49 Lady Londonderry's visit to the Sultan, Language a key to history, 146 Leigh, Lord, his Poems, 436 Legend of Frithiof, the, 437 Leper, superstitious abjuration of a, 522 Light and the eyes, how to be regulated, Lions in Africa, notices of, 203 Lives of the Queens of England, 57 Love story of old times, the, 472 Mabinogion, the, Part IV., 284 Madame D'Arblay's Diary and Letters, Madden's United Irishmen, 453 Mother, the Manoeuvring, a novel, 494 N. Napoleon, shameful desertion by his Naturalist's Library, the, 293 New Zealand, Ritter's Colonization of, Ney, remarks on the execution of, 425 Nizib, notices of the battle of, 315 0. Palestine, Peel's Poem of, 476 Palfrey, the, by Leigh Hunt, 472 Paris, notices of prostitution in, 392 Poems, written chiefly Abroad, by M. 140 225 Researches in Asia Minor, &c., 312 Rio's History of the Breton College, 541 Robert Nicoll, biographical sketch of, 251 S. Sadler, Memoirs of M. T., 18 Scottish coal-mines, horrors of, 179 Shameful desertion, instances of, 423 Softness, a novel, 245 Spanish Poetry, progress of, 427 Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Symbols of names, piscatory, 338 T. Tales of the Red Indians, characteristics Taylor's Edwin the Fair, 410 Tertulian, remarks on a passage in, 397 Teutonic Nations, Notices of, 444 Theodore Körner's Lyre and Sword, 47 Tory Notions, Raumer on, 38 Théopneustia, meaning of the word,5, 133 Trappers in Coal Mines, their Employ- Treasonable Attempts, remarks on, 549 Trevor Hastings, a novel, 81 Trial by Ordeal, Notices of, 25 Turnbull, John, his Autobiography, 441 Tytler's History of Scotland, 291 |