Excerpt from The Monthly Review, Vol. 5: From May to August Inclusive, 1827 IN consequence of representations which have been received from time to time, from several of the most respectable subscribers to this journal, it has been determined that the Appendix to the monthly review shall be discontinued. As it was published only three times in the course of the year, many unavoidable irregularities occurred with respect to its transmission to the country, which caused much inconvenience to those who pre served their sets for the purpose of being bound in successive volumes. This inconvenience was the more material, as the Index, on which great care is bestowed, and which forms an essential. Ingredient in a work so miscellaneous in its character, was uni formly inserted in the Appendix alone, as well as the Title-page and Table of Contents, which are equally indispensible to the uplcteness of the series. Another disadvantage arising out of the distant intervals at which the Appendix was published, and which the modern fertility (if the Foreign presses rendered too conspicuous to be neglected. In this - that as the best French; Italian, and German works were necessarily reserved for that part of the journal, six, and often twelve months elapsed, before those productions could pos Olbly be introduced to the notice of our readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.