THE

NATIONAL REVIEW.

VOL. VI.

JANUARY AND APRIL 1858.

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THE NATIONAL REVIEW.

CONTENTS OF No. XI.- JANUARY 1858.

ART. I.-PRINCIPLES OF INDIAN GOVERNMENT

An Address to Parliament on the Duties of Great Britain to India.

By Charles Hay Cameron. London, 1853.

Letters of Indophilus to the "Times." London, 1857.

Despatch to the Governor of India on the subject of General Edu-

cation in India. Parliamentary Paper, 393. 1854.

Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official. By Lieut.-Colonel

Sleeman. London, 1844.

A Selection of Articles and Letters on various Indian Questions,

including Remarks on European Parties in Bengal, Social Policy

and Missions in India, and the Use of the Bible in Government

Schools. Contributed to the English Press by Hodgson Pratt,

Bengal Civil Service; late Inspector-General of Schools in South

Bengal. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857.

Les Anglais et l'Inde. Par E. de Valbezen.

ART. II.-GEORGE SAND

Paris, 1857.

Histoire de ma Vie. Par George Sand. Paris, 1855.

Euvres de George Sand. Paris, 1857.

ART. III.-COLONEL MURE AND THE ATTIC HISTORIANS

A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient

Greece. By William Mure of Caldwell. Vol. V. London, 1857.

ART. IV.—HASHISH

The Chemistry of Common Life. By J. F. W. Johnston. 1856. 8vo.

Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain; or, the Lands

of the Saracen. By Bayard Taylor. London, 1855. 8vo.

Thèse pour le Doctorat en Médecine: Du Haschisch, son Histoire,

ses Effets physiologiques et thérapeutiques. Par J. M. E. Ber-

thault. Paris, 1854. 4to.

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By J. Pereira.

Fourth Edition. London, 1855. 8vo.

The Travels of Marco Polo. Edited by H. Murray. New York,

1845. 8vo.

Du Haschisch, et de l'Aliénation mentale. Par J. Moreau. Paris,

1845.

8vo.

ART. V.-BEN JONSON.

Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell. London :

John W. Parker and Son, 1856.

The Works of Ben Jonson. With Notes, &c. By W. Gifford, Esq.

1816.

ART. VI.—THE CZAR NICHOLAS

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