AMERICAN REVIEW: A WHIG JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE, ART AND SCIENCE. "TO STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION." VOL. II. Pulchrum est bene facere Reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est. NEW-YORK: GEORGE H. COLTON, 118 NASSAU STREET. WILEY AND PUTNAM, 6 WATERLOO PLACE, Regent st., London. 1845. H INDEX TO VOL. II. Adventures on the Frontier of Texas and Mexico. No. II, (Charles Winterfield,) 365 No. III., 505-No. IV., 599. Alfieri, Autobiography of, translated, notice American Drama, the, 117-Has the Drama declined? 117-Sheridan Knowles, 119 -Tortesa, the Usurer, ib.-Synopsis of the Play, 119-20-Intrigue-Plot, 121- Analysis of the Play, 122-3-Spanish Student, (Longfellow's,) 124-Extracts, 125-Originality, 126-Synopsis of the Plot, 127-Deficiency of the author's American Enterprise in Steam Navigation, 75-First Oceanic Steamship, ib.-Let- ter respecting John Fitch, 77. American Institute, Eighteenth Annual An American Lady, Mrs. Grant's memoirs Ancient Tear, the, a Poem, (Author of "Angels and Ministers of Grace," (Il Sec- Anti-Rent Movement and Outbreak in New York, 677-General Survey of the Times, Public Licentiousness and its dangerous Tendencies, 575-Terms of the Early Settlement of the Van Rensselaer Estate, 579-Origin of the Concerted Repudia- tion of the Rents, 580-First Anti-Rent Outbreak, Helderberg War, 581-Repu diation defined, 582-Murder of Sheriff Steele by the "Indians," ib.-True Re- lations between Tenants and Landlords, 583-Nature of the estates held by the Tenants of Albany and Rensselaer, ib.- Shown not to be "Feudal Tenures," 584 -Title of Stephen Van Rensselaer, 587- Rent paid for County and City Property on the same Principle, 588-City and County Tenants on the same Footing, 591-Objections to Paying Rent on Ac- count of Particular Provisions in the Contracts met, 591-Reservation of Quar- ter Sales along with the Right of Pre- emption, 592-Tenants might at any time have relieved themselves from Rent on fair terms, 593-Terms published by Blennerhassett, Biographical Sketch of, (by W. Wallace,) 133-Origin, ib.-Arrival at New York, 134-Letter from Aaron Burr, 135-Intrigues and Speculations of Col. Burr, 135-6-His abandonment by Wilkinson, ib.-His visit to Blenner- hassett, 137-Blennerhassett induced to join in his enterprises, ib.-Blennerhas- sett involved in the odium attached to Burr, and his property destroyed, 138- Arrested in Lexington, Ky., on charge of high treason, ib.-Blennerhassett's Brief, 139-Conclusions with regard to designs of Burr and Blennerhassett, 146 Carlyle's Life of Schiller, notice of, 668. Cases of Conscience-Political Abolition- ism, (Prof. Tayler Lewis,) 3-Tribunal established to interpret the Constitution, ib. First serious injury inflicted upon the Constitution, ib.-Jackson's assump- tion of Executive interpretation, 4-Bir- ney's position in relation to the Consti- tution, ib.-Garrison Abolitionists, ib. -Birney's Letter to Shapter, 6-Ana- Crabbe's Synonyms, notice of, 666. Coleridge, 41. Colton's Life and Times of Clay, review Commercial, Tariff and Finances, 105. 349. -Chaunt of Life and other Poems, Part D. Domestic Economy, Treatise on, Catherine Dream, the, Sonnet, (Laurens,) 162." E. Elf-Land, a Poem, 457. Elliot, Ebenezer, 57. Elements of Reading and Oratory, H. Vau- Eulalie, a Song, (Edgar A. Poe,) 79. F. Facts of M. Valdemar's Case, (Edgar A. Fairies, The, from the German, 258. Farmer's and Emigrant's Hand-Book, no- Fevers of Zanzibar, 230. Flight of Helle, a Poem, 365. Hall, Bishop, selections from the writings Headley's Letters from Italy, 100. Hindoo Doctrine of Immortality, (E. B. Hoyt, Rev. Ralph, Chaunt of Life and other Human Rights according to Modern Philo- I. Italy, Headley's Letters, 100. J. Jay, Life and Character of, (William H. Y. |