THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. XCV.

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

BOSTON:

CROSBY AND NICHOLS,

117 WASHINGTON STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by

CROSBY AND NICHOLS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,

CAMBRIDge.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CXCVI.

ART.

I. INTERNATIONAL LAW.

1. Correspondence relative to the Case of Messrs. Ma-

son and Slidell.

2. Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, accompanying

the President's Message to Congress at the Opening of

its Session in December, 1861.

3. Speech of SENATOR SUMNER, delivered in the Sen-

ate, January 9, 1862.

4. The Trent Affair. The remaining Despatches.

5. Additional Despatches on the Trent Case.

6. Opinion of M. D'HAUTEFEUIlle.

II. ORNAMENT IN NATURE AND ART.

The Art Journal.

III. THE BETTER AMERICAN OPINION: DR. HOLLAND.

1. History of Western Massachusetts; the Counties of

Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire; embra-

cing an Outline, or General History, of the Section, an

Account of its Scientific Aspects and Leading Interests,

and Separate Histories of its One Hundred Towns.

2. The Bay-Path: a Tale of New England Colonial

Life.

3. Timothy Titcomb's Letters to Young People: Sin-

gle and Married.

4. Bitter-Sweet: a Poem.

5. Gold-Foil, hammered from Popular Proverbs.

6. Miss Gilbert's Career: an American Story.

7. Lessons in Life: a Series of Familiar Essays.

IV. MORAL TYPES OF MANKIND. .

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