THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XCII.

PUBLISHED IN

DECEMBER, 1852, & MARCH, 1853.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1853.

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS,

Stamford Street.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXXXIII.

ART.

I.-Special Report by the Directors to the Proprietors of

Price's Patent Candle Company. April 5, 1852

II.-Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice

of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Dane

Professor of Law at Harvard University. Edited by

his Son, W. W. Story

III.-1. British Colonial Library East India Company's

Possessions. By R. Montgomery Martin, F.R.S.

2. History of British India. By Charles Mac Farlane.

3. Modern India and its Government. By George Camp-

bell, Bengal Civil Service.

4. Remarks on the Affairs of India. By The Friend of

India

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IV.-1. Recherches sur les Etoiles Filantes. Par MM.

Coulvier-Gravier et Saigey.

2. Catalogue of Observations of Luminous Meteors. By

the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S., Savilian Pro-

fessor of Geometry, Oxford.

Page

1

18

46

V. The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V. By

W. Stirling, M.P.

Comte de Montalembert

VI.-Des Intérêts Catholiques au XIX Siècle.

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77

107

ART.

VII. 1. Observations on the British Museum, National Gal-

lery, and National Record Office, with Suggestions for

their Improvement. By James Fergusson, M.R.B.A.

2. Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum;

being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian,

Egyptian, and Etruscan Art preserved there.

W. I. Vaux, M.A., F.S.A.

By

3. Copy of all COMMUNICATIONS made by the Architect

and Officers of the BRITISH MUSEUM to the Trustees,

respecting the Enlargement of the Building, and of all

Communications between the Trustees and the Trea-

sury, subsequent to the period when the Commissioners

presented their Report. Ordered by the House of

Commons to be printed, 30th June, 1852 -

VIII. 1. Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate,

D.C.L. By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Canon

of Westminster.

2. Memoirs of William Wordsworth, compiled from

authentic Sources. By January Searle

Page

157

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IX.-The Financial Statement of the Right Hon. Benjamin

Disraeli, M.P., delivered in the House of Commons on

Friday, 3rd of December, 1852

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CONTENTS

OF

No. CLXXXIV.

ART.

I.-History of the Ancient Barony of Castle Combe in the

County of Wilts; with Memoirs of the Families of

Dunstanville, Badlesmere, Tiptoft, Scrope, Fastolf,

&c. By G. P. Scrope, M.P.

Páge

. 275

II.-1. Diseases of the Human Hair. From the French of

M. Cazenave, Physician to the Hospital of St. Louis,

Paris. By T. H. Burgess, M.D.

2. Hygiène Complète des Cheveux et de la Barbe.

Indiquant les meilleures formules pour conserver la

chevelure, arrêter la chute, retarder le grisonnement,

régénérer les cheveux perdus depuis long-temps, et

combattre enfin toutes les affections du cuir chevelu.

Par A. Debay

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III.-1. An Inquiry into the Person and Age of the long-lived

Countess of Desmond. By the Hon. H. Walpole.

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2. Notes and Queries -

IV. 1. My Life and Acts in Hungary, in the years 1848-49.
By Arthur Görgei. From the German.

305

2. Der Winter Feldzug 1848-49 in Ungarn unter dem

Obercommando des Feld-Marshall's Fürsten zu Win-

disch-Grätz.

3. Der Feldzug in Ungarn und Siebenbürgen.

4. Bericht über die Kriegs-Operationen der Russischen

Truppen

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V.-1. Narrative of an Expedition to the Arctic Sea. By

John Rae.

2. Journal of a Boat Voyage. By Sir John Richardson.

b