CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. ART. I. STATE OF PARTIES AND THE COUNTRY. - - - 1 1. Inaugural Speech of Pres-ident Pierce, Washington; 4th March, 1853. 2. Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention; held at Baltimore, June, 1853. 3. Speech of Mr. Douglass, of Illinois, on the Monroe Doctrine. Februa ry 14, 1853. 4. Speech of Mr. Soul6, of Louisiana, on Colonization in North America; and on the Political Conditior of Cuba. Jan. 25, 1853. ART. II. COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN AMERICA. - - 53 Five years in an English University,-By Charles Astor Bristed. New York: Putnam & Co. 1852. AR. -III. ABORIGINAL RACES OF AZMERICA. -59 1. Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. 1. 2. Notes on the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America; By Albert Gailatin. 3. Aaecent Monuments of the Mississippi Valley; By E. G. Squier, A. M. and E H. Davis, M. D. 4. Catalogue of Sculls of Man and the Inferior Animalq, &c. By George M,rton, author of -Crania Americana," "Crania ]Egyptica," &c. Philadelphia; 1849. —.~ 46ART. IV. SECONDARY CO,,IBATS OF THE MEXICAN WAR -. 92 '~:!i~ ~ 1. The various Histories of the Mexican War. Ripley, Semmes, Carleton, !~~*:~~ -Doniphan, and other Nat atives. ', 2. The DLocumnents on the same Subject-printed by order of Congress. Wasltingten. D. C. ART. V. TRENCH O.N PROVERBS. 131 On the Lbessons in Piove, bhs: being the Substance of Lectures delivered to Young Men's, Societies, at Poirtsmouth and elsewhere. By Richard Chenevix Tench, B. D., author of the "Study of Words," &c. New York: Redfield, 1852. ART. VI. -HE IROQUOIS BOURBON. -. 141 1. -le B tourbon Prince. The History of the Royal Dauphin, Louis XVI[., France. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 2. e a Bourlhon-among us? Aitiqle in Putnam's Monthly. New .YO t: Feb. 1853 ART. VII. 1 _DENT. LOVE OF STUDY..- - - - 1 The'( ~ffPhi,lology. Annual Oration delivered before the Lite Societies of the South Carolina Co,lege, in the College Chapel. lu,bia, December 7, 1852. By Rev. J. W. Mi les, Prol esso r of History of Philosophy and the History of Gieek Liieratuie, in C x Charle-ton. Publi-hed by the Societies. Charleston: Jo Russdl[;' 853. ART. VIII. STOWE's KEY TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. - - - - 21 A Key to Un)cle'I'orn's Cati,il, p,e~e,iti,,g tile originil facts and document upon which the story is fo,in(led: t,gether with co)toborative state nients, verifying thie truth of the work. By Ha, iet Beecher Stowe, author of'U,cle T'om's Cabin." Boston. Jeweit & Co., 1853. ART. IX. CRITICAL NOTICES. 255 The postage on thile SOUTHEltN QUART'IERLY lEzvIEW, is, by the new postage law, 6 cents per number, to regular subsciibers, if paid in advance, and 12 cents, if not pie-paid. T he Office of the SOUTRIIERN QUARTEILY REVII:W is in the new brick building(, No. 8 Bioad street, up stairs.