BROWNSON'S REVIEW.

VOL. VII.

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOLUME VII,

(THIRD SERIES.)

LONDON:

Catholic Publishing and Bookselling Company, Limited,

CHARLES DOLMAN, MANAGER,

61, NEW BOND STREET, & 6, QUEEN'S HEAD PASSAGE,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1859.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY COX AND WYMAN, GREAT QUEEN STREET,

LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS.

CONTENTS.

ART.

I. USURY LAWS

No. I.

1. Governor's Biennial Messages to the General Assembly of

the State of Virginia, December 7, 1857. "Message II., specially

on the subject of the Legal Rate of Interest, and the Usury Laws

of Virginia, against their Repeal." Free Trade in Money; or

Note-shaving the great Cause of Fraud, Poverty, and Ruin. Strin-

gent Usury Laws, the best Defence of the People against Hard

Times. An Answer to Jeremy Bentham, by the Hon. JOHN

WHIPPLE, of Rhode Island.

2. Usury, Funds, Banking, &c. By Rev. JEREMIAH O'CAL-

LAHAN, Catholic Priest. New York: 1856.

3. Opinion of Chief Justice Taney on Usury and Usury Laws,

in the November Term, 1854, U. S. Circuit Court for Maryland

District, in Dell v. the Ellicotts.

II. CATHOLICITY AND CIVILIZATION

Catholicity and Modern Civilization.

III. THE HUMANISTS

The Humanists-A Chapter from History.

IV. PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT

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Études Philosophiques: Ontologie ou Étude des Lois de la Pensée.

Par M. l'ABBÉ F. HUGONIN. Paris. Tomes I. et II. 8vo. Tome I.

1856; Tome II. 1857.

V. CONVERSATIONS ON THEOCRACY

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Conversations of Our Club. New Series. Reported for the

Review by a Member.

I. THE CHURCH AND THE REVOLUTION

Conversations of our Club. New Series. Reported for the

Review by a Member.

II. POLITICS AT HOME AND ABROAD

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Politics, Foreign and Domestic, European and American.