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LAND. By the Rev. JAMES WHITE. (The Twenty-second Thousand.) "We hold this to be a pattern volume of cheap literature. It is so written that it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant; yet it is a book that may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished scholar. In a word, excellent gifts are applied to the advantage of the people--a poetical instinct and a full knowledge of English History. It has nothing about it of common-place compilation. It is the work of a man of remarkable ability, having as such a style of its own, and a grace that cannot fail to exercise its refining influence upon uneducated people. The amount of solid information it compresses in a small compass excites in the reader's mind repeated surprise."--_The Examiner._ [asterism] Is placed on the list of School Books of the Educational Committee of the Privy Council. In fcap. 8vo, price =1=s. =6=d., or =2=s. cloth gilt. LANDMARKS OF THE HISTORY OF GREECE. By the Rev. JAMES WHITE. "This book, with its companion volume, deserves to have a place in every house where there are young readers, and in many a house where there are none but elder ones, able to appreciate the genial writings of a man, who having taste and knowledge at command, sits down to write in the simplest way the story of a people for a people's reading."--_Examiner._ In fcap. 8vo, price =2=s. cloth, or =2=s. =6=d. roan lettered. GOLDSMITH'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. A New Edition, with Continuation to the Death of Wellington. With Portraits of all the Sovereigns. "In this edition, the editor has added some facts which had been overlooked by the author, and preceded the original work by a short notice of the earlier history, gathered from the old chroniclers, and continued to the present time. To each chapter is appended a series of questions, by means of which the tutor will readily be enabled to examine the pupil as to the impressions the facts have made on his memory." [asterism] Is placed on the list of School Books of the Educational Committee of the Privy Council. BIOGRAPHY. In 4 vols. crown 8vo, price =10=s., or in 2 vols. cloth gilt, =10=s. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON, with numerous Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources. "Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of
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