The North American Review Volume 51 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...ourselves. We hope, that our author will be too wise to continue in the menacing tone of the conclusion of his present letter; and that he will cease to play the ghost for the future, or warn us of "Philippi." To say nothing of the taste of this, it is not so alarming as it sounds. We acquit ourselves of any wish to turn him into a spirit, though he seems to think, that we have dealt at him a few rather sharp passes. But, if the worst should come to the worst, and the fate of the younger Brutus be meted out to us, we shall hope, at least, to enjoy the credit, with the world, of enduring it like him, though in a far more humble walk, in the defence of the same general principles of liberty. QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. AGRICULTURE. Third Report on the Agriculture of Massachusetts; on Wheat and Silk. By Henry Colman, Commissioner for the Agricultural Survey of the State. Boston: Dutton & Wentworth. 8vo. pp. 252. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS. Life of George Washington. By Jared Sparks. Abridged by the Author. Boston: Ferdinand Andrews. 16mo. 2 volumes, pp. 330 and 344. A Tribute to the Memory of Fitzhugh Smith, Son of Gerritt Smith. By the Author of " Thoughts on a New Order of Missionaries." New York: Wiley and Putnam. 12mo. pp. 284. Memoir of Sophronia M. Lawrence, who died at Cobasset, Mass., Nov. 2d, 1839, aged 26 years. By Martin Moore, A. M. Boston: C. C. Dean. Memoirs of the most eminent Mechanics; together with a Collection of Anecdotes, Descriptions, &c., relating to the Mechanic Arts. By Henry Howe. New York: 12mo. pp. 482. EDUCATION. An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, in Theory and Practice, with Attempts to simplify some of the more difficult Parts of thnt Science, particularly the Solution of Cubic Equations, and of the...