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Graauated Series if Englislt Reading-Lesson Books.
on nc~ount of their comhination of simplicity nnd substantialinterest.
The' V1'ose lessons occasionally take a didactic t1Jrn, but without detri~
ment, it is believed, to their entertaining features, and without em·
barrassing the learner with suhtleties of thou~ht or expression. The
Descriptive Travel of the third volume, being' introductory to the
corresponding department in Dooks IV. and V., has reference to
North Europe only. A few technical or scientific expressions, the
usc of which could not well be dispensed ,,,ith, and which rather lie
out of what may be sUPIlosed to be the average rlln~c of tho- pupil'13
knowledge, arc explaiu£:u in brief notes. Th~ Natural History
tonches chiefly on that portion of nnhuateu nature with Which, in
.this country, ,ye are uUin more Of less frequent and familiar contact.
To certain descriptions which nre furnished of the most marvellous
displays of instinct, the Editor attaches, in nn educational point of
view, n high importance. Under the head of History will be found
a series of sketches, freell as much as possible from nIl detail that is
not graphic. These sketches are intended to present a general, fwlimcntnryt
and, as it were, a panoramic view of the more important or
entertaining features of English history, up to the date of the Battle
of Waterloo.
TIOOK the FOURTII, which wus published first on- account of the
more pressin~ demands for such n volume, carries the series a step
in advance in the snme direction, nnd is dcsig-ned for the hi~hest class
of small rural schools. "The contents of the Fourth 13.ook,"
observed a criticnl writer in the Inquirer newspaper, " nre gathered
" from the richest and most varied fields of literature. In the first
(r .:1Iiscellalleous section, we harp, among mnny others, ·the works of
n Herschel, Channin!{, Rusldn, Leigh Hunt, Irving-, Sterne, Charle!)
H Lamb, Gnizot, Scott, and Emerson, bid undcr contribution. In
" the part which treats of Descriptive Travel, we have some of the
"finest word-painting from the works of ParIq'us, 'Varburtont
"Kin~lakc,Hettner, W. Ware, GaUenga, Laing, and Wills. The
" NaturGlllistol'Y is written hy'Yaterton; I{irby, Spence, A. Ran',
" nUcldnnd, Lewes, GonIon Cumming, Livin~stone,and other·natu­
"ralists i whilst the HistoJ'y is gathered from the finest passages in
H the works of Arnold, Macaulay, Hallam, Froutle, Cayendis]l,
" Stanley, H.ussell, Bancroft, Carlyle, and D'lsraeli. The Biography
" and Natural Science and Pltysics arc equally attractive and excel..
" lent. •.. For children of ten years old and upwards there is not a
U selection that is not full of interest, and that is not &Ure to com­
"mand their sympathiN!. The book is onc of the cheapest, as well
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