THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. LXXIX.

PUBLISHED IN

DECEMBER, 1846, § MARCH, 1847.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1847.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and Sons,
Stamford Street.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CLVII.

ART.

I.-1. Montrose and the Covenanters: Illustrated from Private

Letters and other Original Documents hitherto unpub-

lished. By Mark Napier, Esq., Advocate.

2. The Life and Times of Montrose: Illustrated from

Original Manuscripts, including Family Papers, now

first published from the Montrose Charter-Chest, and

other Private Repositories. By Mark Napier, Esq.

II. Tales by a Barrister

Page

- 1

- 61

III. Experimental Researches in Electricity. By Michael

Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. &c. From the Phi-

losophical Transactions, Part I., for 1846.

Nineteenth Series-On the Magnetization of Light, and

the Illumination of Magnetic Lines of Force.

Twentieth and Twenty-first Series-On New Magnetic

Actions, and on the Magnetic Condition of all Matter

IV. The Second Annual Report of the Ragged School Union,

established for the Support of Schools for the Destitute

Poor

93

127

V.--La Spedizione di Carlo Odoardo Stuart negli anni

1743-6, descritta Latinamente nel 1751 dal Gesuita

Giulio Cordara, e ora fatta Italiana da Antonio Gussalli 141

VI.-1. Obras de Gil Vicente.

2. Um Auto de Gil Vicente. Por J. B. de Almeida Gar-

rett

168

VII. De l'Agriculture en France, d'après les Documens

officiels. Par M. L. Mounier, avec des Remarques par

M. Rubichon

202