THE

NATIONAL REVIEW.

VOL. II.

JANUARY AND APRIL 1856.

NEW YORK

LONDON:

ROBERT THEOBALD, 26 PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLVI.

THE NATIONAL REVIEW.

CONTENTS OF NO. IV.-APRIL 1856.

ART. I.-CHARACTERISTICS OF GOETHE

The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of his Age and

Contemporaries, from published and unpublished sources. By

G. H. Lewes. 2 vols. Nutt, 1855.

Freundschaftliche Briefe von Goethe und seiner Frau an Nico-

laus Meyer, aus den Jahren 1800-1831. Leipzig, Hartung,

1856. [Friendly Letters from Goethe and his Wife to Nicolas

Meyer, between the years 1800 and 1831. Leipzic, 1856.]

ART. II.-EARLY ENGLISH EXPLORERS

The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt., in his Voyage

into the South Sea in 1593. Reprinted from the Edition of

1622, and edited by Captain C. B. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.,

C.B.

Select Letters of Columbus; with Original Documents relating to

the Discovery of the New World. Translated and edited by

R. H. Major, Esq., of the British Museum.

The Discoverie of the Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh,

Knt. Edited, with copious Explanatory Notes, and a Biogra-

phical Memoir, by Sir Robert H. Schomburgh, Phil. D., &c.

Sir Francis Drake his Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde; toge-

ther with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto

Rico. Edited, from the original Ms., by W. D. Cooley, Esq.

Narratives of Early Voyages undertaken for the Discovery of a

Passage to Cathaia and India, by the North-west; with Selec-

tions from the Records of the Worshipful Fellowship of the

Merchants of London, trading into the East Indies; and from

Mss. in the Library of the British Museum. Now first pub-

lished, by Thomas Rundall, Esq.

The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, expressing the

Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country; together with

the Manners and Customs of the People, gathered and observed

as well by those who first went thither as collected by William

Strachey, Gent., the First Secretary of the Colony. Now first

edited, from the original Manuscript in the British Museum, by

R. H. Major, Esq., of the British Museum.

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