Description: Hard to find, either in this condition, or at this price, this is a 547-page bound volume of the London Quarterly Review for September and December 1836. Published in London by John Murray. All sorts of great content in this volume. Bound in 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Some light wear and rubbing to boards, otherwise a nice, tight, clean volume and text. No foxing. See photos for complete contents and some sample pages. Highlights include: Poet Laureate Robert Southey's long (29 pages) opening essay on "Expeditions on the Amazon [River]." This following South American adventures and exploration published in works by Lt. W. Smyth and Mr. H. Lowe and by Lt. Henry Lister Maw. See more detail in photo. English historian and later Dean of St. Paul's, H.H. Milman's exceptional (39 pages) essay on the early years of Christianity and the persistence of the pagan world and thought (into the 6th century) following the publication of German theologian H.G. Tschirner's (sometimes spelt "Tzschirner") "Der Fall des Heidenthums" ("The Fall of Heathenism"). Tschirner's volume was published in Leipsig in 1829 and is now almost impossible to find. Milman also reviews here French writer A. Beugnot's Paris-issued volume on the eventual collapse of paganism after the fall of the Roman Empire. This is a fascinating essay! Abraham Hayward's essay in review of a new 3-volume set called "Tales of the Woods and Fields." Richard Garnett's long (30 pages) essay on the origins of the "Celtic Language" following the publication of James Cowles Prichard's "The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations Proved by a Comparison of Their Dialects with the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages." J.W. Croker on British naval Captain Basil Hall's "Schloss Hainfeld." 21 pages. This on a winter in southeastern Austria. Basil Hall on the 2-volume fourth edition, published in Paris and London, of Alexis de Toqueville's famous "Democracy in America." 29 pages. J.G. Lockhart on Joseph Downes' "The Mountain Decameron." J.G. Lockhart on the life and the works (2-volumes--by James Prior) of Oliver Goldsmith. William Henry Smith on the "Poetical Works" of Scottish poet Thomas Campbell. J.W. Croker on the "Memoirs" of Lucien Buonaparte. Numerous other essays, reviews, etc. See photos for complete contents. Author identifications above are from the Wellesley Index, I, 718.
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Features: 1st Edition
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Publication Frequency: Quarterly
Topic: Religion, Geography, Literature, Poetry
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Language: English
Publication Year: 1836
Publication Name: The Quarterly Review (London)
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