EDINBURGH REVIEW, OR CRITICAL JOURNAL: FOR AUG. 1820..... NOV. 1820. TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR. PUBLIUS SYRUS. VOL. XXXIV. EDINBURGH: Printed by David Willison, LONDON. CONTENTS OF No. LXVIII. p. 271 Arr. I. The Comedies of Aristophanes. ' By T. Mitchell, A. M. late Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, Cam bridge. Vol. I. directed to its Agriculture and Rural Population; M. P. 320 HII. An Account of Experiments for Determining the Va riation in the Length of the Pendulum vibrating 338 V IV. Poems. By Bernard Barton 348 V. The Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. Vols. I. II. & III. 357 VI. Mademoiselle de Tournon, par l'Auteur d'Adèle de Sénange 372 VII. Recherches sur les Bibliotheques Anciennes et Mo dernes jusqu'à la Fondation de la Bibliotheque Ma- 383 VIII. Journals of two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by Order of the British 422 p. 431 ART.IX. The Bakerian Lecture. On the Composition and Analysis of the Inflammable Gaseous Compounds Esq., Sec. R. S. Prof. Chem. R. I. Elizabeth. Delivered at the Surrey Institution. By 438 XI. Marcian Colonna, an Italian Tale, with Three Dra matic Scenes, and other Poems. By Barry Corn- 449 XII. Speech of Lord John Russell in the House of Com mons, on the 14th December 1819, for transferring 461 Quarterly List of New Publications 502 Index 514 CONTENTS OF No. LXVII. ART. I. 1. Recherches sur les Causes qui ont empeché les Fran çois de devenir libres et sur les Moyens qui leur restent pour le devenir. Par Mr Mounier. Jacques Peuchet. un de ses Membres sur l'Etat des Hopitaux et des que des secours à domicile, du ler cours à domicile, enfans trouvés, &c. au 31 Mars, 1819. Salubrité pour 1819. le nombre et la division des taxes de la contribution Gaeta. Conseils Generaux de Departemens et les Conseils d'Arrondissemens. Par Mr Duvergier de Hauranne. stances actuelles. Mr de Pradt 39 III. Plan for a Commutation of Tithes 61 IV. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds; with some Observations on his Talents and Character. 79 V. Travels in Nubia. By the late John Lewis Burckhardt 109 VI. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq.-Begun by Himself, and concluded by his Daughter Maria 121 P. I |