st scholar, fill a want
which has long been felt. Most of the works previously published are
too diffuse and elaborate for the purposes of schools, or too
contracted to give any thing more than a skeleton of the tongue. Mr.
Robinson has adopted a system eminently practical, and made two books
which entitle him to the thanks of pupil and teacher. As he states,
grammatical legislation is abandoned and example substituted for
rules. Extensive tables of verbs, prepositions and idioms, have been
prepared, which do away with almost all of the difficulties connected
with the study of that tongue a monarch called the language of the
gods. The paradigms of the verbs have been prepared evidently with the
greatest care, and a new form given to what grammarians call the
conditional and subjunctive moods, so as to adapt the Castilian to the
English language. Tables of dialogues are also added, which are pure
and classical in both English and Spanish.

Mr. Robinson has, in editing the English Grammar of Urcullu, made
great improvements by the addition of what he modestly calls
"_notillas_," (little notes,) but which greatly add to the perfectness
of the book. The important table of the verbs of the language by
Hernandez and the officers of the Spanish academy, and the chapter on
terms of courtesy in the United States, are most valuable additions.
This book is most valuable as a supplement to the Spanish Grammar, and
the moderate price at which the two are sold, renders it most
desirable and convenient to purchase them together.

Though we detect some typographical inaccuracies they are merely
literal accidents, and the books reflect credit on author, publishers,
and stereotyper. We most cordially recommend them.

_History of the French Revolution of 1789. By Louis
Blanc. Translated from the French. Phila.: Lea &
Blanchard._

The popularity acquired by M. Blanc from his "History of Ten Years,"
as well as the fact of his having been for a time a member of the
Provisional Government of the French Republic, will doubtless cause
this book to be widely read. It is always interesting, but seldom
impartial.

Transcriber's Note:

Certain unusual instances of spelling and grammar have been retained.
Errors in punctuation and obvious printer's errors have been corrected
without remark.

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August 1848, by Various

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