THE

AMERICAN QUARTERLY

REVIEW.

SEPTEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1837.

VOL. XXII.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ADAM WALDIE.

1837.

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I. WAR AND DUELLING.

Dissertation on the subject of a Congress of Nations, for an ad-

justment of international disputes without recourse to arms. By a

Friend of Peace. “Force to brutes—to men reason.” 12mo. pp.

156. New York, 1837.

II. Miss MARTINEAU ON AMERICA.

Society in America. By Harriet Martineau. 2 vols. New

York, 1837.

III. OUR POLITICAL ERRORS.

Farewell Address of Andrew Jackson to the People of the United

States. March 4, 1837.

IV. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT.

1. Executive Messages, Reports from the Department of War,

and Reports of the Committees of the House of Representatives

since 1790, relative to the Academy. Congressional Documents.

2. Reports of the last fifteen Boards of Visitors of the Academy.

Ibid.

3. Letter to the Hon. Mr. M. C., in Reply to his Strictures

on the Graduates of the Military Academy. By a Graduate, late an

officer in the United States Army. New York, 1836.

4. Report of the Select Committee (Hon. F. O. J. Smith, of Maine,

chairman) of the House of Representatives, to which the subject of

the Military Academy at West Point had been referred ; March 1,

1837. Congres. Doc. 24th Cong. 2d session.

5. Remarks on the Report to the House of Representatives of the

Select Committee of Nine, appointed to investigate the condition of

the United States Military Academy at West Point. Pamph. June,

1837.

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V. THE YOUNG LADIES' FRIEND.

The Young Ladies' Friend. Boston, 1837.

VI. LIGHT AND VISION.

Discoveries in Light and Vision. With a short Memoir contain-

ing Discoveries in the Mental Faculties. New York, 1836.

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