NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. CV.

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

BOSTON:

TICK NOR AND FIELDS.
1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.
CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF No. CCXVII.

ART.

I. GEORGE THE THIRD AND LORD NORTH

1. Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George

the Third. By G. HENEAGE Jesse.

2. The Correspondence of King George the Third

with Lord North from 1768 to 1783. Edited from the

Originals at Windsor, with an Introduction and Notes.

By W. BODHAM Donne.

II. THE UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY

Astronomical Observations made at the United States

Naval Observatory, Washington, during the Years 1845

to 1852, and 1861 to 1864.

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III. THE BANK OF ENGLAND RESTRICTION. 1797-1821. 393

Letters and Remains of ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH,

sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. For Private

Circulation only.

V. CIVIL SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES

1. Civil Service of the United States. Report pre-

sented by MR. JENCKES, from the Joint Select Committee

of the two Houses of Congress appointed July 19, 1866.

2. Speech of HON. THOMAS A. JENCKES, of Rhode

Island, on the Bill to Regulate the Civil Service of the

United States and to promote the Efficiency thereof, de-

livered in the House of Representatives, January 29,

1867.

VI. OUR NATIONAL SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE.

1. Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, entitled

"An Act donating Public Lands to the several States

and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Bene-

fit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts"; with the ex-

planatory Speeches of HON. JUSTIN S. MORRILL, M. C.

2. Circular addressed by HENRY BARNARD, U. S.

Commissioner of Education, to the Authorities in Charge

of the Colleges and Schools established or aided by the

Congressional Appropriation "for the Benefit of Agricul-

ture and the Mechanic Arts."

3. Report of the Committee on Organization in the

Cornell University. By HoN. A. D. WHITE.

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