THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

JULY, 1848 . . . . OCTOBER, 1848.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. LXXXVIII.

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, LONDON;

AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK,

EDINBURGH.

1848.

CONTENTS OF No. CLXXVII.

ART. I.—1. Histoire de la Poésie Provençale. Cours fait à la

Faculté des Lettres de Paris. Par M. Fauriel. Paris:

1846. 3 vols.

II.

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2. Essais Historiques sur les Bardes, les Jougleurs et

les Trouvères Normands et Anglo-Normands. Par

M. l'Abbé De La Rue. Caen : 1834. 3 vols.

3. Les Trouvères Cambresiens. Par M. Arthur

Dinaux. Paris: 1837. 1 vol.

4. Observations sur la Littérature Provençale: Essais

Littéraires et Historiques. Par A. W. Von Schlegel.

Bonn: 1842.

1 vol.

5. Leben und Werke der Troubadours.

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Ein Bey-

Von

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trag zur näherer Kenntnisse des Mittelalters.

Frederick Diez. Zwickau: 1829. 1 vol., .

The History of Egypt from the Earliest Times till

the Conquest by the Arabs, A. D. 640. By Samuel

Sharpe. London, 1846,

III.-1. Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down

to the Occupation of Labuan; from the Journals of

James Brooke, Esq., Rajah of Sarawak and Gover-

nor of Labuan. Together with a Narrative of the

Operations of H. M. S. Iris. By Captain Rodney

Mundy, R. N. London: Murray, 1848.

2. Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. Samarang,

during the Years 1843-6, employed surveying the

Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied

by a brief Vocabulary of the Principal Languages.

Published under the Authority of the Lords Com-

missioners of the Admiralty. By Captain Sir Ed-

ward Belcher, R. N., C. B., F. R. A. S., F. G. S.,

Commander of the Expedition. With Notes on the

Natural History of the Islands. By Arthur Adams,

Assistant Surgeon. London: Reeve, Benham, and

Reeve, 1848,

IV. Der Romantiker auf dem Throne der Cäsaren, oder

Julian der Abtrünnige. Ein Vortrag von David

Friedrich Strauss. Mannheim: 1847,

V. Results of Astronomical Observations made during

the Years 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, and 1838, at the

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