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CONTENTS OF No. LXVIII.

p. 271

ART. I. The Comedies of Aristophanes. ' By T. Mitchell,

A. M. late Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, Cam-

bridge. Vol. I.

II. 1. Whitelaw's History of the City of Dublin.

2. Observations on the State of Ireland, principally

directed to its Agriculture and Rural Population;

in a Series of Letters, written on a Tour through

that Country. In 2 Vols. By J. C. Curwen, Esq.

M. P.

3. Gamble's Views of Society in Ireland

320

III. An Account of Experiments for Determining the Va-

riation in the Length of the Pendulum vibrating

Seconds at the principal Stations of the Trigonome-

trical Survey of Great Britain. By Captain H.

Kater, F.R.S.

338

v
IV. Poems. By Bernard Barton

348

V. The Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Lon-

don. 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-

zarine, et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'Accroisse-

ment successif du Nombre des Livres. Par L. C.

F. Petit Radel, Membre de l'Institut de France,

&c. &c.

383

VIII. Journals of two Expeditions into the Interior of New

South Wales, undertaken by Order of the British

Government in the Years 1817–18. By John Ox-

ley, Surveyor-General of the Territory

422